The following video is a snippet taken out from our Long Tail University Course. Here we share a follow up to our on-page SEO tactics and dive a bit deeper with a two part video on how to create good content titles and a few good content examples to boot.
If you have a hard time writing on a particular subject, don’t fret. There are plenty of writers out there that have a hobby or are passionate about the subject you need content for.
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And here are a few additional examples on how to create great content worth viewing. Get a better idea on how to craft your articles:
The Number One Rule On How To Create Good Content.
Answer the question the searcher is probably asking!
This is by far the most important. If you don’t answer their question quickly and thoroughly, you’ll lose them. Here’s an example:
Suppose someone is searching for “best hunting knife.” What’s that searcher want?
- To see a bunch of different hunting knives
- Information on the actual products
- Tips, detailed recommendations, and other information for buying
- What choice you personally made when looking for a hunting knife
- Where they can buy
Kind of see what I mean? If you ACTUALLY answer the question, readers will stay on the page longer, scroll down further, and take action. If you’re really doing your job well, they may even give you their email, become a fan, or buy something from you. Obviously, to find good keywords, you’ll want to use a keyword research tool like Long Tail Pro (we’re totally not biased).
Additional elements of good content:
Tone
No matter what kind of site you run, your default tone should almost always be that of the “friendly expert.”?
Here’s what that more or less looks like:
- Friendly and conversational
- But extremely informed and very knowledgeable
- Invested in readers getting their problems solved, like a friend would
This works in nearly every niche and market, with the possible exception of larger or super-niche B2B markets.
Style
Your style should have a couple key elements:
- Consistent across your whole site?
- Consistent with your industry (e.g. jargon, design elements, content platforms, content types)
- A+ grammar and punctuation
Virality
Even the most boring articles can get some shares. The best way to write content that both targets a keyword and can get shares is to simply create different meta data for each platform.
Plugins like SEO by Yoast make this super easy. Make sure your “boring” keyword is in your H1 tags, URL and search meta data, so Google likes your article. Then, make sure your social metadata contains an awesome shareable title?.
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Thanks for the tips guys! I started adding more content to some of my older blog posts to model what you’ve shown in the videos. Using LTP, I dug up low competition keywords and used them as subheadings. It’s about 5500 words so I also added a table of contents. Still need to add more images and links tho.
Nice Lauren! That’s exactly the right approach. Sometimes, short articles can bring a decent traffic, once you invest a bit more into that old article with refreshed content and rich content that traffic will become very significant!
gracias.
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Really an awesome watch ! is using focused keyword in title and meta data is a best practice ?
Great! Been using LTP for awhile, make me more easy for collecting more keywords and producing more RIGHT content. And with these tips above, It will make my RIGHT contents GREATER! Thank!
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I have a question about keywords, we sound not use stop word like ‘for’ ‘and’… but if we find the good keyword and found the keyword with stop word, how we to do? thanks for answers.