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About the content
Now that you have the key words and phrases you would need
itstime to plan about the general thrust of the content, on whatthe
content should be like.
Generally, the main idea of writing content is for it to beable
to provide useful information for visitors in your site.You are
primarily writing for the readers, the human visitors ofyour site,
and about the products and services that you have tooffer.
Secondary to that idea is to provide the search enginesinformation
so they could properly and accurately index yoursite according to
its proper category, so anyone who wants tolook for something in
particular, through the use of searchengines, would eventually find
what he needs. In other words,your content should be both
customer-oriented and search enginefriendly.
In order to do that, you need to plan properly on how to doyour
copywriting. The whole text should be able to give themwhat they
need and want to know about the products and servicesyou have.
Hence, it is highly advisable that you read a lot ofinformation
about the subject product or service before youwrite the actual
copy. The goal is to become extremelyknowledgeable about the
product, so you can explore all thepossibilities and play with its
strengths and weaknesses andwrite everything that is needed.
One important thing to remember is to write content that
isunique. Copying content is not only plagiarism and cheating butis
also a serious offense that could cause painful penaltiesunder
existing Copyright laws. More and more IntellectualProperty Rights
watch dogs are reporting cases of contentstealing and have gained
some grounds over the years. Majorsearch engines are now penalizing
sites which illegally acquirecontent from other sources. Penalties
include permanentlyputting sites under a blacklist, sort of a
"permanent not tocontact sites" for crawlers. Lawsuits and cases
about webcontent writing are now increasing day by day, with
morecountries enacting laws on Intellectual Property Rights.
Therisks are just too great if you plagiarize and copy content.
Somake sure that you quote or place endnotes when you choose touse
parts of other's content.
And lastly, your content should be written in plain, simple,and
natural language so as not to destroy the natural flow ofwords as
you write. Highly technical words and terms should bereserved for
highly technical discussions, and should bediscouraged for everyday
internet use.
About the mood
You might be wondering what a section about mood is doing in
aseo copywriting article, well, it certainly has a LOT to doabout
content writing. The mood of the reader would certainlyaffect the
way he views a certain product or service. If you didnot properly
take care of the emotional side of your customerwith your writing,
consider him gone. Individual moods areaffected by a lot of
factors; although primarily it is internal,external factors could
also affect his mood significantly andluckily what that individual
reads is one of them.
First of all, you should be 'in the mood' for writing.
Goodcopies are mostly written by writers who are either inspired
orenlightened with what they are about to write. Content
writersshould make sure that they are in this special mood because
theconsequence of the opposite would be a very bad copy. A readeris
also likely to be 'drawn' by an emphatic copy writtensuperbly which
would eventually end up making the reader getwhat you are
offering.
One thing you could do to achieve that is to utilize
emotionalappeal to the reader. Try to integrate personal articles
like"you", "we", and "us" more often; try to get your visitors
asinvolved as possible. Avoid being too passive as it wouldprevent
you from establishing a connection or a relationshipwith your
target reader.
Keep your readers or customers engaged with your site. Makethem
think and interact by asking questions, giving riddles ortrivia.
All these create an air of friendliness for potentialcustomers, and
once you've made them comfortable reading, theyare more likely to
respond positively to you. As much aspossible make them do all
their transactions within your site,give out all the details about
what you are offering so that canknow everything they need to know.
Trying to get online visitorsask questions and product or service
information offline will betoo cumbersome for them so be as
accessible as possible.
Duplicate content must be avoided in web pages. In most
instances it has negative impact and penalization by search
engines.
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