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How To Keep Your Website’s Content Fresh

Nick Stamoulis | April 18th, 2012
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In November 2011, Google announced that they updating the algorithm to provide more up-to-date information for searches based on freshness needs

Recent (or fresh) content would populate more of the search results for various search queries because users are always looking for the most current information. For instance, when someone searches for Olympics right now, chances are they are looking for information about the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, mot the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The freshness update was designed to give searchers the newest and most relevant content.

From an SEO standpoint, this freshness update was a big wake-up call to many companies that were having a hard time seeing the value of a strong and consistent content marketing campaign. Websites that are routinely publishing new and relevant content are giving the search spiders a reason to come back and revisit the site, improving their overall online brand exposure and enhancing their organic SEO.

For many sites, rewriting static pages every month to provide the search engines with fresh content doesn't make a lot of sense, but there are plenty of others ways you can publish new content to your site in order to keep the search spiders interested. Here are a few ideas:

Company Blog

Obviously a company blog is the easiest way to constantly publish new content on your site (just make sure your blog is on the same domain, i.e. mywebsite.com/blog), giving both the search engine spiders and your target audience a reason to visit your site and stay engaged with your brand.

Even if you can only manage one post a week its a good system to have in place. Blog posts can rank on their own in the search engines and help you target more long tail keywords, driving more qualified traffic to your site.

A company blog can also help position your brand as an industry thought leader.

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Press Releases

Online PR is a great link building strategy, but why not publish a slightly edited version of each press release to the News section of your website? Instead of driving traffic to the PR distributors website you'll be sending them to yours!

Also, having a News section on your site is a great way to let current and potential customers know what is going on with your company. Not just for press releases, you can also announce upcoming webinars or trade shows you'll be attending, job opportunities at your company, promotions and sales and more! Even one announcement each month is a good way to make your website fresh.

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White Papers

If you have a lot of white papers, why not create a resource center on your website and create unique landing pages for each one?

If you want to keep your white papers as locked content, you can also use them as a way to qualify lead. The landing pages can have a snippet of content describing the white paper and why your audience would be interested in it. In order to download the white paper a visitor would have to fill out a short lead form. Creating those landing pages allows you to get some SEO value from your locked content (which is hidden from the search engines and therefore cant be indexed) and give the search spiders new URLS to crawl.

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Videos

Videos and other forms of multi-media content are a great way to keep your website fresh.

Just like you can create landing pages for white paper downloads, each video can have its own URL. Since search spiders cant watch videos, you can write a short snippet explaining the video or even post a transcript so the search engines now what the video is about and can index it accordingly.

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Client Testimonials

You want to keep your website updated with recent client testimonials, especially if you date them. Visitors to your site might be a little wary of doing business with your company if they only see testimonials and reviews from three years ago. Have you had no happy customers since then? Even these little snippets of content give the search spiders a reason to revisit and read your website.

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Conclusion

Many marketers and website owners struggle with creating content, but it doesn't have to be that hard! You don't need to publish hundreds of pieces of content each day to create a successful content marketing campaign for your needs, you just need to be consistent with it. Create an editorial calendar for yourself and stick to it. Once you get in the swing of things it'll be much easy to create more unique content for your site.

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About the Author: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis is the President and Founder of Brick Marketing, a full service Boston-area SEO services firm and has over 13 years of SEO experience.

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5 thoughts on “How To Keep Your Website’s Content Fresh”

  1. Grant Brookes says:
    April 18, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    Nick, Indeed a great post! I think this is something all marketers, SEO guys should realize. Content marketing has been the only way of marketing that is still valid and valuable. I know not as much as it was before. But it surely is important. I never really got to know a great deal of SEO, though I wanted to but my job kept me pretty busy. But still I update my website with fresh content whenever I get time. I dont have any SEO consultant working for me, but pretty satisfied with little content marketing I am doing.

  2. Magnus says:
    April 19, 2012 at 12:29 am

    We’ve been working hard with content the last years, somewhere 120.000 articles published during 2011 if I remember correctly (it’s not so strange, We’re in the news business). There are actually a lot of problems with this as well, I’m thinking about the Panda that has been hitting some of our sites. My advice would actualy be to publish less content and make sure that all of it is the best in the segment.

  3. Sebastian says:
    April 20, 2012 at 6:09 am

    Content is king. Besides backlinking and stuff the best way to boost your ranking is by writing unique content for your site.
    Youtube is also a very nice traffic source if you do it the right way!

  4. Leo says:
    April 23, 2012 at 5:24 am

    Excellent post, extremely comprehensive and thorough Nick! Putting fresh, unique and quality content – especially that which is updated on a regular basis – is essential, especially from a SEO standpoint and particularly after the Panda! There’s lots that can be done to keep your website or blog ‘fresh’ and I’ve even done a few posts on it.

  5. Mark Thompson says:
    April 24, 2012 at 8:21 am

    Nice article, I also find encouraging people to comment on my posts and give me their views leads to more Ideas for posts.

    Generally I find i get ideas for at least 1 article every week from the comments to previous articles, what also helps is to have a regular posting schedule. So I’ll do Tips on monday, a video on wednesday and a light hearted article on a friday.

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