Are you writing for visitors or for search engines?

As an experienced SEO guy, I am taking a stance which might be controversial to a lot of you.

Are you writing for your visitors or for the search engines?

Let me tell you that too many people are writing specifically for the search engines.

They are stuffing their keywords into their content, into their titles, their meta tags, making all their posts 500 words long, focusing on keyword densities, etc.

While this worked early last year, it gives little to no benefit these days and here's why:

The search engines are looking more towards quality and theme than how many times you can squeeze your keywords into your content.

My advice it to write for your visitors, give them value in grammatically correct and interesting (not to mention easy to read!) content that draws your attention.

Not only will this give you a higher conversion rate but the search engines will notice the increased quality and positively influence your rankings.

It's time to stop being so technical about your onpage SEO and start improving quality and visitor satisfaction.

~Dave