"If You Write It, They Will Come... Who Says?" Do the pages you write automatically go the Google top010 search results? If they do, then more power to you. However, for the rest of us hard workers, a HUGE amount of help is usually needed. Yes, of course, there WAS a time when Google would strongly SNATCH up almost any content or page that had keywords in the title and anchor text within the first or last paragraphs. But, with the newerest Panda, Penguin, and EMD updtes to its guidelines, Google is no longer the search engine support system of former days. Meaning, now you actually have to WORK for nearly any position of prominence on the web (or, just BUY your clicks at the highest rates ever presented). New pages on the web no longer "self-generate" interest, sales, readers, or traffic in the way to formerly did. In fact, a newly written page can just SIT online now, almost FOREVER, without any support from Google. Thus, if you want written content to produce income for you, at the very minimum, you should: Select one of several effective written story presentation approaches, like the "PAS" system, for example; Decide well in advance which promotional techniques you will apply to that particular written page; Perform ultimately creative keyword research analysis to catch competitors off guard. In fact, let's work together on a page, discuss its best approaches, and mutually promote it. What do you think?
i can say just keep the content more interesting and fun and you will not even need google . good luck
Personally, I find articles to be boring almost 80% of the time and videos more interesting. I think that there should sometimes be a mix of videos & articles depending on the website or either the article must be so good that it keeps people's attention. You can even write one article, upload a video, post it on WordPress and YouTube then you might have a better chance of getting more traffic to your website. Let us not forget Twitter and Fakebook. I guess that what I am trying to say is in order for them to come, promoting the website first and then writing interesting articles is often times the way to go. Most people get so busy on writing that they forget about promotion.
Promote the website first and then add in interesting content is not the way to do it. It's a complete waste of traffic to do it that way. You need to build the website, (not just one or two articles and a couple of videos), have something of interest there in the first place so when the visitors get to your site, they will want to stick around and see what you are offering them. Then, it is a balance between adding additional content and promotion of the site.
Yes, it goes without saying that some interesting content needs to go in there first but then promote it. I wasn't saying not to have anything valuable on the website before you promote the site. I just was reminding people that promotion is a big step that cannot be skipped.
If you have a pretty good PR on homepage, say pr4 and have a blog you can get blog posts ranked pretty easily #1 for certain terms. I used to do that all the time. My website had pr4, I had a blog in site.com/blog and with powerful keyword tools dig keywords with competition in the thousands only and rank blog posts high - put the keyword in blog post title and write a good 250 post.