What Kind of Content Should I Put Up?
January 15th, 2008Any kind you want, of course, since we’re talking about the internet. But seriously, you’ll want to give this topic some consideration, since there’s more interest in some topics than others.
You know the people who are your audience, since ideally you’re talking about something you know about. For instance, if you’re talking about Ultimate Frisbee, it’s because you play it. So you know what other Ultimate people are like, and what they want to know and what they find entertaining.
Once you know that, you can decide about which types of content will best serve their needs and how to go about finding or creating it. Here are some general categories to get you started with your brainstorming:
Editorials
Feature articles
Political opinion
News stories
Art galleries
A conglomeration of the best content
Reviews of movies, books, music
Interviews
Interactive features - polls, feedback, discussion groups, forums, chat
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What Kind of Blog Content is Google Looking For?
Since Google is the king of all search engines, they are dictating the exact keywords you need in your article or blog that will get you the thousands of hits per week required to really succeed in the world of the internet.
Google is constantly searching for blog content that contains not only the most popular keywords and keyword phrases that Google’s users are most interested in, but also the web pages that are linked to other content-heavy web sites.
A new SEO technique that you should start using today would be to start going to all of the various social bookmarking sites out there such as Digg, MySpace and Facebook and examine exactly what types of articles that the social bookmarking subscribers are linking to their own personal pages.
By analyzing the hottest articles and topics listed on the front pages of all of these popular websites, you are accomplishing ground breaking research into studying what kinds of subjects and topics that are compelling these millions of users to link certain kinds of articles to their friends. You can then write down the most popular article titles, study the fluid writing styles of the content writers who wrote them and examine the relevant subject matter. After compiling this information, you can then start writing down all of the most exiting subject topics that you would like to write about based on the most popular subject matter you have found on these bookmarking sites. Read More>
