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How to Schedule Your Web Content Writing

Your Web Content Writing is a Critical Piece of the Puzzle for SEO

Using an editorial calendar for your web content writing

If you’re creating web content for SEO then you likely already know you need to keep your content up-to-date and fresh for the best results. Search engines like Google want to see relevant and current content on your site before they will consider it worth linking to. It can be difficult to come up with ideas to write about every day, which is where an editorial calendar comes into play. Here are some tips on setting up your editorial calendar for success.

Look at the calendar

Before you plan anything else, you should look at a calendar and find topics that are related to times, holidays, seasons, or other dates. Almost every topic has some kind of seasonality to it, where certain parts of the year lend themselves to writing certain kinds of pieces. For example, you might focus on Christmas time and do the “Twelve Days of Whatever” focused on your topic. The benefit of planning out this kind of content is that you can usually write it in advance. Write it at your leisure and keep it in the queue for the day it’s going to be published. Keywords might change if you write it early, however, so it’s a good idea to do a bit of research before you publish the final post. The calendar approach doesn’t require writing in advance, however. You might plan out a day when you write about an event that’s going to happen. Obviously, you can’t write about something before it has happened, but you can plan for it on the calendar.

Focus on your business

It’s likely that your web content writing is to support a business of some kind or another. The next big area you want to focus on is the goings on at your business. If you know when a product is going to be launched, it’s time to put it on the editorial calendar as well. It doesn’t have to be just one day either. You can write a few days worth of content to go around the big announcement to build buzz and traffic. Important anniversaries are also great fodder for content. When was the company started? When did you launch a certain product or feature? Next, you can write about new employees or executives as they come into the company. If there’s something important going on at your company then you should definitely be writing about it.

Be flexible

Ideally, you will plan out every day in advance so you don’t have to scramble to find topics to cover. That said, you might not be able to find anything suitable for a day that’s a year in the future in a nondescript time. Try to fill up the calendar, but don’t spend so much time on it that it takes away from the actual writing. If you can’t find something, mark it as an open day and be sure to keep an eye out for interesting ideas. Likewise, plan on some of your plans falling through or changing based on breaking news in your industry and the like. Your calendar is a great tool, but if you’re too attached to it then your content will suffer.

If you don’t have an editorial calendar then now is the time to get started! And if you need help with your content, contact Hat Trick Associates to learn more about how their web content writing rates can create positive ROI for your buisness.

 

SEO for Blogs Part III – Post Early, And Often

The more often you post new blog entries, the more “food” you give to the spiders, or the programs that crawl the web and index content for the search engines. It’s hard to over-estimate the importance of having lots of new and updated content on your site, and often. Great SEO for blogs depends on it.

If you have enough new content, the spider may even react by splitting up its indexing into more than one visit, when you may even have more web content, and so on and on. At this point the search engine(s) may simply decide to visit your website and index more frequently – a very welcome development for SEO. So keeping LOTS of FRESH, new web content on your site is critical, not just blog posts but also new webpages, social content, recorded webinars and video, everything. The more updated, the better. More content basically means that your pages get indexed more often and new pages or other content will show up more quickly, and be deemed more important by the engines as well.

And while you don’t need to post multiple, long-form blog posts every single day, if you cannot keep up with a regular publishing schedule, then find some assistance to help you…because this is an absolutely vital element of top rankings in Google, Bing, Yahoo and others, behind only high ranking, one-way backlinks and also using the proper tagging for everything on your site.

The bottom line is, with the right strategy, and help from a professional in the right places when you need it, you can and will draw more attention to your blog, and thus your website…and with well written and persuasive copy, you can increase your conversion rate and your online revenues and profit. You can always contact us when you are ready to take the next step, to create a plan that will accomplish your goals for not only your blog, but for your entire online promotion strategy as well.

SEO For Blogs Part II – Length of Search Query

Part II of our discussion on SEO for blogs focuses on the phrases and keywords you should use to attract the most visitors to your site.

Recent research suggests that the highest conversion rates from search engine traffic actually comes from people who use a specific number of words in their search queries. The first question is: Do you know how many words you should be using? And the second more important question is, If you don’t know the answer to this question, how are optimizing your site for SEO?

The great thing is that your blog can become so well-indexed with the proper promotion that you have potential to show up for a large number of these phrases relevant to your industry with that knowledge.

Targeting your blog discussion to shorter phases is another strategy to potentially yield high traffic to your website and blog, once again by choosing appropriate keywords that may have less competition than others, and even less so since they aren’t what some consider the “optimal” length.

And think of it this way: Would you rather be the 20th result for a very competitive query, with loads of competition vying to win it, or be the 2nd or 3rd result for a relevant, but less common phrase or query?

Which do you think could generate more visits, and thus more attention, awareness and revenue for your company?

Also, some believe that since Google and other engines have been around for so long, and recognized the “big” players in most keyword and query categories, that competition is far too intense for any of the “good” keywords or phrases.

In one sense this is true for most general keywords and phrases, or the specific ones that are absolutely the most profitable – the ones that major corporations and other large institutions are willing to spend big money to “win” – or terms which many other larger organizations may simply be more relevant in regards to. They have spent large amounts of resources for lengthy periods of time with the engines to ensure they rank very highly for their target keywords and search phrases.

But many of the “most popular” queries currently conducted in search engines right now have come into existence in just the last couple of years…and of course as technology (and everything else!) continually advance, there will always be opportunities to “win” newer, profitable queries – if you know how to discover them. (This is one of the subjects that we focus on here at Hat Trick Associates.)

You can also set up your blog to repeat the keywords that you want to target just enough times to establish a theme that search engines can identify. You can take full advantage of this in your post titles, your category names, the pages URL names, or even a combination of Technorati tags and the text of your permanent links that appear after each post.

Up Next: The Importance of Timely Posting and Getting Linked with Your Blog

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