What are the benefits of "News" section in terms of SEO

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by fmirza, Feb 21, 2011.

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    Hi

    Just wondering, companies love to have "News" section in their website.

    Is there any advantages of having "News" section on your website, which update once in two days, or are there some other benefits then SEO?
     
    fmirza, Feb 21, 2011 IP
  2. sellerscentral

    sellerscentral Well-Known Member

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    News is good because it focus on current events or trends. Spiders have their eyes open for new news that is highly being searched
     
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    brucet Greenhorn

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    It's always an advantage to keep adding fresh content to your site, provided it's relevant. It does help with SEO, provided you use popular keywords in the titles and texts of your posts. It also helps build the reputation of your site in other ways. If the news is of sufficiently broad interest, and it's unique or adds a unique perspective, people may bookmark your news page and create links to it. If you create the page with a blogging tool such as Wordpress, it will generate an RSS feed which you can also send to sites like Facebook and Twitter.
     
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    The "news" section provides updated fresh content for users and search engines. It's also a great way to increase website visitor loyalty (return visits). As a note, content should be relevant and engaging focused on the user. Do that, and you will experience the SEO benefits.
     
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    I would also add that if you have a couple of snippets from your latest news articles on your homepage, this would also mean part of your homepage content gets refreshed quicker which is good for SEO and also gives your visitors another reason to come back to your site. The more your site is updated with new content, the more frequently spiders will crawl your site, index your content and the faster you will rank for the new content.
     
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