Comments on: SEO Advice: Writing useful articles that readers will love

By: Andrew Mooers

Andrew Mooers — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:02:01 +0000

Providing information to engage, connect is simple if you think what do I know something about that I can contribute, blog post about. Fresh helpful content never goes out of style. And the old thought that its all about the largest audience forgets that total impressions are less important than quality ones in the target audience, the segment you want, need to tap on the shoulder. Writing the slang of the buyer, in terms they search to spotlight the content is a sport, talent to hone and sharpen.

By: Nestor Sulu

Nestor Sulu — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:51:33 +0000

“What you cannot find, is an opportunity”, as many here, I agree. I just started a blog for my web design company, and I started doing exactly the same. After searching for solutions to programming problems and couldn’t find, I started posting articles with the solutions and it has been worked well, now my website ranks well on words like websites, web programming, web design, etc.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:11:39 +0000

Great article.

Adding my two cents. I feel that I get more results when I provide valuable feedback that includes my personal insight and perspective. I know of quite a few SEO’s that go around looking for website to get link backs from (and I used to do this myself). The problem is that often times they comment with simple phrases like (above) great article or thanks for the advice without adding anything that would be of real value to the readers.

So with that said I would like to share my thoughts. Definitely seek out places to get your link backs and “advertise” yourself and/or your website, but do so with some integrity and share your own personal experiences. You will not only help contribute valuable content that website owners and readers will appreciate but you will also increase the chances that someone might want to visit your website and read more about what you have to say.

Anywho… nice site

By: Danut Pariuri

Danut Pariuri — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:13:24 +0000

Link Building… Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it’s still the trump card for higher rankings.

By: Singapore SEO Consultation

Singapore SEO Consultation — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:53:54 +0000

An acticle that was written in 2006 and pretty much relevant in today’s 2011 SEO context.

From the SEO prospective, while a quality article will get you backlinks or “votes” from other webmasters, the truth I found from experience is that such success really depends on your industry or topic that you are writing about.

For example, if you are in the digital media / finance industy and have good insights to share, you will probably earn more incoming links naturally as a result of your strong and good quality information.

On the other hand, if you are in a industry whereby the target audience are not so technologically savvy, you will find links hard to get. (For example, imagine yourself in the knitting / elderly care niche.)

Point being, if your target audience are more techologically savvy, (know how to blog, “like you” on Facebook etc) this probably works better. Links are ultimately created by people who knows how to create a link in the first place.

Not saying that we should not add value (quality) to the world wide web. Just that certain industrys require you to work slightly harder to get those links. And if you are in one of those nichces, basic seo activities also tend to reward you with better results.

By: Dan Puroclean

Dan Puroclean — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:11:16 +0000

Very clever article and extremely well written. The number one keyword here is “SEO”. It’s in the URL, it’s in both titles, heck it’s in the 6th paragraph 23 times – lol – nice…

By: Peter Nisbet

Peter Nisbet — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:39 +0000

I have found mostly that, those long-tailed keywords that have little competition or even entire niches that appear to leave room for dominance, also have very few people actually using the keywords or having an interest in the niche.

I say ‘mostly’ because occassionally you will come across a genuine opportunity, and if I compete against nobody in 19 niches in order to dominate just one, then that is time well spent for me.

Matt is therefore correct (he isn’t always – nobody is) in my view, and his approach mirrors mine although is far better expressed and likely far better executed.

Pete

By: Werner Wichmann

Werner Wichmann — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:59:23 +0000

I have been writing all of my personal articles without even thinking about keyword density and seem to almost always get it right anyway when I write the article in a natural manner for the reader.

By: SEO Web Design by David

SEO Web Design by David — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:00:01 +0000

If you don’t have good content, your visitors will leave. If you picked up a magazine at the barber shop and started scanning for something to read, you would look for something interesting by the headlines… Once an article is found and you start to read it, if it bores you, what do you do? Skip over it and find something else…. That is logically what bad content will do to your site. Either hold their attention or they will leave… Thanks for the post Matt….

By: indianGuy

indianGuy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:20:49 +0000

Its all great discussing articles. Matts Advice, as usual, is second to none. My question is, whats effective task you can do with the article, once it has been written? I know the generic answer is “submit is to places like goarticles.com” etc, however I’d like a more specific response, ideally from Matt himself as I’m sure its possible to do a lot more than simply submit and forget.