Can SEO Keep Your Website Interesting?
Posted by Sandy Fitzgerald on Fri, Feb 05, 2010
So you're working to build your website, and you're wondering why you just don't have that many visitors. That means it's time to consider your SEO website strategy - and it's funny how three little letters like SEO fill so many people with dread.
That's because they get a bad mental image of having to come up with about a million keywords that they'll have to include somewhere in their website and still be able to keep visitors interested, engaged and most importantly, coming back.
And suddenly, that fun site you've built around, let's say, the antics of your cats, has become a SEO website nightmare with the word cat, cat, CAT everywhere!
The good news is, it doesn't have to be that way. You can optimize your site so that people are able to find it, and so that people will hang around once they land there. Instead of plugging in all those keywords, which is not only boring for your visitors to see but for you to do, why not get creative with your SEO efforts?
You can hire the services of an SEO content company, or you can try these steps yourself:
Do you have a blog? If you don't, why not? It's a great way to get your word out there and also to converse with your site's visitors.
How is your content? It's okay if you're not a Hemingway, but everybody has something to say. Just make sure it's content that others can use or enjoy.
Do people know about your articles? You can have the greatest article in the world, but if nobody's seeing it, what good is it, anyway? If you have an article you want noticed, get busy with the social media sites like Twitter or Facebook and get the word out there.
What sites that are related to yours do you visit often? Building reciprocal links with some of those sites area a great way to build your own traffic. Blog about something you've seen on that other site and then send them the link so they can
mention it in their own news feed.
SEO website efforts are not always easy. However, it is work that can mean the difference between a site that people visit and one that people pass up.