How Writing for SEO Can Help Your Online Business

July 29, 2009

1.    Writing for SEO naturally creates niche keyword presence in your site
Writing with an SEO objective in mind gives structure to your many brilliant Internet marketing ideas. Your desire to improve your website’s ranking naturally drives you to get to know your niche like the back of your hand.

You will be presented with a list of keywords. Remember that it is your niche market that chooses which ones you should optimize for, not you. If you listen to your market better, you will also optimize for keywords better. Going for niche keywords automatically filters the visitors of your website and leaves you with good prospects and real customers.

2.    Writing for SEO makes your website carry ONLY relevant content
Search engines rank websites according to content quality and relevance. Although search engine spiders are primarily attracted to keywords, they also check whether or not your website is informative—meaning, your website must have the correct keywords and carry good content for it to qualify for ranking.

Your content is heavily dependent on your niche. Find out what they want and need to read from your website. Regularly updating your content gives your market a reason to come back and to recommend you to their peers. Interacting with your readers keeps your content in check, making sure that every word adds value to your website.

3.    Good writing with naturally integrated keywords will earn the respect of your niche
Information and keywords must be put together in a logical manner. You have to make sense to your niche. The primary goal of creating content should be to inform. If you keep this in mind, you will naturally integrate your niche keywords into your article. This is important so that your content won’t sound like an annoying sales pitch.

Aim to communicate with your market. This is why it is very important to understand them before you start writing. Learn how they speak and how they use words to refer to certain things. The tone of your content should reflect this understanding so as not to alienate your market.

Attention to spelling and grammar will earn you points for credibility and more importantly, the respect of readers and industry critics.

4.    Good content plus SEO makes it easier for your niche to come back
Good content and SEO know-how make a very powerful website. The SEO aspect makes your website easier to find while good content makes your niche stay and come back for more.

Always exceed what is expected from you. Your visitors should always get more than what they came for, so that you rise above your competition. Your brilliant content could be replicated tomorrow. However, the added value that you give to your market would be very hard to come by.

Make your website open to market interaction. Allow people to comment on your articles and allow them to post links. Hear them out and reply when necessary to let them know that you’re taking them seriously.