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The importance of Web Content
The Internet is basically a virtual information landscape
with communication, buying and selling services as its main
derivates. Information has been a key factor since the beginning
of the Internet (the Information Age) and with the ever increasing
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number of websites, the importance of the information-factor is growing even more. If you do some research on how to establish a successful website, phrases like Content is King and Information is Power will quickly cross your path.
The professional SEO-industry is aware of the value of content for its customers and content-creation is a key service in providing an adequate website optimization or internet marketing service. Where optimizing a website and obtaining sufficient relevant back links provides you with the necessary structure to compete in your online environment, unique and relevant content is necessary to give you the competitive edge to outperform your online competition.
So why is content so important for your website’s success? Some major reasons:
- Content ranks higher
Most visitors will find your website via a search engine. Roughly
said, the higher your ranking for a relevant keyword phrase is,
the more visitors you get. Search engines evaluate (and as such
rank) a site based largely on textual aspects. As such, more quality
content, if relevant and unique, leads to higher rankings in the
search engines and as such, more visitors
- Content ranks more
Search Engines will show a page of your site in their search results
for any search phrase of which the keyword(s) appear on that page.
More content means more pages and more possible keywords for which
your site can be found.
- Content keeps longer
Few internet uses are searching for a specific product of a specific
brand or type. Most people search for information (=content). Like
information on a certain product, service or hobby. If a visitor
enters your site and finds there what he or she is looking for (or
even more!), he or she is less likely to look somewhere else. The
importance of keeping the customer in the store and interested,
is as old as the field of Marketing studies itself.
- Content creates loyalty
The water of your backyard pond is troubled
and instead of building a bridge over it you decide to place your
bets on special water plants that might solve the situation. You
search the internet and after visiting flashy bannered sites offering
ready-made swimming pools, pond fish forums and free-of-shipping
cost oxygenerators, you find a site which gives you a complete overview
and evaluation of water plants that make your pond look like a Bermuda
lagoon. Besides the satisfaction of finding the information you
need, your eyeballs roll over related topics presented on the site
regarding gardening…
A large diversity of content on a specific topic will make your
site interesting for visitors and make them come back. People
like references where they know what to get and what to expect.
News-sites are a good example of visitor loyalty; although there
are plenty of other sites where you will find the same news, people
tend to stick to a specific site. If you want people to come back
to you, having adequate and sufficient content on your site is
a must.
- Content linkst.
Unique and relevant content gives your site an excellent base to
become referred to by other sites. Once your website is recognized
as a knowledge base on a certain topic, product or service, other
sites will tend to link to you (“for more information about
water plants, click here”).
Referral links from other related sites are called quality back
links and are considered highly valuable for a website. Search
engines like Google and Yahoo emphasize the importance of such
referral links by increasing a site’s evaluation (and as
such its ranking) when a site has an increasing number of referral
links from other sites.
Besides obtaining higher rankings in the search engine result
pages, referral links will also bring you more visitors directly;
being the ones that actually click on the referral link.
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