Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Why Your Content Is Important To Internet Marketing Success

First of, let me address what web content is, and why it determines your success level during internet marketing.

Web content involves any type of content you can see on your web browser. It could simply be a web page, an rss feed, a blog, a myspace post, to an online ebook. Content equals web; web equals content. With no content, there is no internet.

In this post, I will provide a free tips on increasing and driving high traffic into your website.

Why is Content Important

Before you start to think that this is another SEO technique that may or may not work depending on the current algorithms of the search engines, please reconsider.
Like I mentioned several times already, everything on the Internet is CONTENT.

The internet is based on a sea of veritable and coveted information. Good, bad, valuable, or anything in between; it's still providing information.

All smart internet marketers know that people want information from their websites - not just SEO enriched pages of advertising.

The loopholes that search engine optimizers have been trying to use for high
ranking in the search engine has created a enormous number of sites that boast
high keyword ratios, millions of irrelevant hyperlinks and sometimes even redirection.

These redirected websites try to create an optimized web page that the search
engines will rank high but actually redirect the viewer to a less search engine
friendly site.

Well, the search engines caught on. The websites that were getting the highest
placements weren't always providing quality information or useful content.
In fact, they not only lowered the ranking of these sites - they even removed
them from the listings completely.

This sent a shock wave through the internet community but the smart marketers
realized that there is only one sure way to convince the search engines that
they were meant to be at the top: Quality Content.

Not only do the search engines love content, but visitors do too. By providing
visitors with useful information and relevant links to other sites, they will return to your site again and again! What's more, they will regard your site as an authority site in your subject area. What's even better is that those aren't the only benefits.

Because website owners are now hungry for content, there is a huge market
for informative, quality articles that other website owners can use on their own sites.
By offering information to these sites in exchange for a hyperlink back to your
website, you get even more exposure, both to search engines AND traffic.

Another benefit to writing quality content is branding for your product or
service. Articles are a great way to show your clients and customers that you
know your stuff and know what you are talking about. Let's face it, there is
still some status in having your articles published on directories and other
websites. There can't be any more powerful testimonial than having a client do a search on your name and finding it all over the place. Content and article publishing
is definitely one of the most positive activities that you can do for your business.

Once you've created content that you want to share, you can outsource this process and take advantage of the powerful article submission services that are out there, so you can begin to make money on your articles.

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