Comments on: How to make your content work

By: Hazel

Hazel — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:43:53 +0000

Thank you for all your comments. Submitting content to social bookmarking sites is a very good point… thanks Jamie.

By: Jennifer @ Sacramento SEO

Jennifer @ Sacramento SEO — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:52:46 +0000

These are great points on how to have strong content on your site. I have been surprised by how many people put content on their blogs that is one HUGE paragraph, without any line breaks at all. Obviously, the headings are a big part of it as well.

The social bookmarking buttons are also a big plus…I’ve seen people’s traffic triple simply by adding them on their sites so that people could share the content.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:18:55 +0000

Great post you have here Hazel! Very strong points you have and it is really informative… Thanks for sharing Hazel…

By: Tanner Christensen

Tanner Christensen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:15:13 +0000

Great writeup here Hazel, you’ve made it seem simple enough to get content to “work,” so nice job.

One thing I want to reiterate in my comment is something I haven’t seen others promote enough: the value of personality. Adding your personality to your content is by far the easiest way to make it unique, duh! So when you say “Make your content your own by injecting your own thoughts and unique personality into your articles.” you are really making a powerful point.

Kudos!

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:02:11 +0000

In reply to Jamie Fairbairn.

Thanks Jamie!

By: Margaret Snodin

Margaret Snodin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:32:03 +0000

You make some very good points especially about including keywords in articles naturally. It is a real turn of when a perfectly good article is spoiled because the author tried to stuff in as many keywords as possible which don’t make any sense.

By: Jamie Fairbairn

Jamie Fairbairn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:20:03 +0000

Hi Ruud, I’ve been looking into this area recently and idigg.co.uk and abcbookmarks.com look like they might be useful and are both UK sites.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:12:33 +0000

In reply to Jamie Fairbairn.

Jamie, you mention StumbleUpon — any tips on specific UK/European social sites?

By: Jamie Fairbairn

Jamie Fairbairn — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:54:06 +0000

Hi Hazel, I agree with all your points. It’s particularly important to get your own personality across in your content. A lot of the small business owners I work with in the UK feel their blog articles should be written with a ‘more corporate’ tone.

Another good way to make your content work is to submit it to social bookmarking sites yourself such as StumbleUpon as this can help you reach a wider audience.