What do you consider valuable content?

Content that compelles people to take action, wether it be opting in, following you on social media, or becoming a true fan. Of course the content has to be unique as well, and great content will also be linked to from other sites.

Anything that somebody "WANTS" to know, and helps them get closer to their end goal. Tips, Tricks, Tools, Tactics, whatever helps them achieve what they want to achieve.

For me a good content is friendly to SEO purpose and attractive to our reader in the same time. Because when we too focus on SEO and repeating the keyword, the content may not that attractive to our readers.
Beside that a good content must be unique!

Anything that educates me

Lolz, you provided all the qualities of good content and still you ask other what is content.

Valuable content means to me something that I can learn from. And I consider quality content something with no grammar errors, easy to read and with a good flow. Does it make sense?

Valuable online content, as many of us are starting to realize, is content that adds to the internet and increases its worth rather than dragging it down. In many cases that also means it puts money directly or indirectly into the content owner's pocket, but even that's not always the case (many people create just because they love to create).

There are multiple ways you might see the value of content expressed...

It might make a sale.

It might help a reader explore a deep interest.

It might make people laugh.

Change an opinion.

Build a following.

Create a brand.

Hold a readership's trust.

Educate.

The moment you start to see the value in content only derived from its direct sales is the moment you know you have missed the point on what constitutes the good stuff. As long as it accomplishes a purpose and gives rather than takes, it's well worth the virtual space it takes up.

If it's inaccurate, lifeless filler that clogs up the search engines in a desperate hope to get a sale, it's only ruining the Internet in order to bring a payoff to its master. Fortunately, sales are best made by adding value, and valuable content can spread a message just as well or even better than clogging search engines.

There's hope yet.

I find content valuable if i find what i was looking for.

Good content = original content

For me it would be those content that will help to solve a problem in my niche..and makes them want to know more details about it

Make "how tos" videos or tutorials. Strategies that your market can use for their business.

For readers of content, the value lies in learning new information, or at least being entertained. For producers of content, the value lies in the effect that the content has on a reader - what it causes the reader to do.

Good content helps answer a question or solve a problem that a searcher in that niche has. It can be generally text based, but often well placed screen shots help explain an issue better. Video is also a very good form of content. Many of the best blog posts and webpages contain all three ingredients.

A site that keeps me coming back has new, fresh content that hasn't been repeated over and over on other sites.

Good content to me also has to have a nice flow to it from beginning to end like a good story. I like articles to have the unique 'voice' of the writer.

Good content. As 3000 said, it's one that keeps me coming back for more every time the site updates. It's one that answers my questions in a detailed manner. It's not boring, and it's interactive (encourages good discussions and debates).

content's that pass google manual review will be valuable enough..

Valuable content for me is what was created to give people something instead of just trying to take something away from them (by directing them to click on any link or buy a product). Useful is the information which is of help to the readers and gives them a feeling of satisfaction and gratitude.

In some cases, I consider valuable these materials which I want to read or watch more than once. Valuable is the information I choose to save and why not - share.

Any content that is educational and unbiased is what I consider value. Any kind of content that will help me reach my goals or achieve my objectives would be singled out as being more valuable than others to me.

Everything that make the surfers

• stay at your site for a long enough time;
• come back to your site again and again.

Valuable content to me is content that connects deeply with my readers without compromising who I am.

To me, great content is content that helps people and provides them exactly what they are looking for a need/want.

Content that is:

1. Informative
2. Persuasive
3. Entertaining

This goes for Web content and info products for all markets. If you've got stuff that does those three things consistently and are able to put it in front of targeted traffic you'll be outrageously successful.

I give my vote to content that helps solve a problem for someone or helps them reach a goal

Something that actually helps and educate the visitor.

James Scholes

I think valuable content is anything that offers your viewers/readers/subscribers/etc the thing(s) that they are looking for or solutions to their "problems".

As far as good content goes, anything that says something about something that people want!

Video, Audio, Image, Text, all are valuable content as long as they are providing good information that the user wants.

However, in IM, i'd say the best content is text! simply because it has more values in SE indexing, and that is the dominating method of search.

Anything that adds massive amounts of value is good content..anything else is just fluff

Average content -- tells me what species of gemstones I will find in a region.
Good content - will give me directions to get to locations with heavy occurrences of the crystals.

Great content will tell me what tools are best to have with me, and any hazards in the location, such as mountain lions, prevalence of rocks that will tear tires, and likelihood of any inclement weather that makes passage dangerous.

Optimal content (for the webmaster) is at least good content with a link to products, free or not, that contain more answers.

Ditto to what other have said. Great content can be shared in multiple formats including audio, video, interactive surveys, downloadable ebooks... anything that engages your audience to connect with what you offer. The key is fast transformational problem solving value that's quick and easy to implement and will make positive lasting changes that they'll want to share with their community!

I believe the best content are the reads that have applicable advice. Something that the reader can take RIGHT NOW and change their lives.

But all these other responses are awesome too, like adding value to people and solutions to problems.

-Jared

I would say something that informs, explains, entertains, piques interest, answers a question or solves a problem. Personally, I believe that that goes for any content that you want to get shared socially AND any content that you want to use to sell a product.

The content that I have read from you so far, Tony, has been great!

Good content to me is something that other websites and blogs will want to link to automatically so that their readers will find it helpful and useful also. Also note that "good content" doesn't necessarily mean a 500-700 word article (or a 20-minute long video). If people are linking to it automatically, and visitors are clicking back to your website and buying products because they liked your info... then you officially have good content.

Content that large numbers of ezine publishers and webmasters, with tens of thousands of targeted subscribers, in my niches, want to syndicate and put in front of their readers, with my links in it.

In other words, content that brings me in floods of pre-targeted traffic without my having to do any more than circulate it to people who need "content".

I can't produce much more valuable "content" than that: for me, it certainly beats SEO/rankings, even though some of those will often follow it, too, just from the relevant backlinks carrying so much linkjuice.

Appeal to the reader's emotions with your valuable content. Ensure it's valuable because it is helpful! Then get them into the buyer's mode because they know your product will help them...make sure you keep them as lifetime customers thereafter

Good content is when people respond to what you are saying, either positively or negatively, because that's when you can learn how to improve it :-)

If content is king, RESPONSE is the queen :-)

From a consumer of content standpoint, content I feel adds to my knowledge, leads me to a solution I need, or keeps me coming back to reference when I need it. That's valuable content.

From a marketing standpoint, content that leads the reader to the action I want them to take (such as placing an order, opting into a list, completing an offer), and also content that keeps the visitor coming back (stickiness) so I have more opportunities to convert them in one way or another.

Some of my content doesn't directly result in sales/commissions/etc. But with visitors coming back to my site to refer to material several times, builds a level of trust, which can lead to the visitor trusting my content on the next subject. Which results in more willingness to buy, sign up, opt in, etc later as well.

Maybe I could do better with this, but in some of my sites, I don't PUSH the opt in, instead after someone finds several of my content items useful, they choose to opt in through the rather unobtrusive subscription link located on each page. The result, by the time they opt in, they've already decided my content is useful to them, and so I get a responsive list out of them.

The answer is simple: you just need to be a human to recognize if it is a good content.

Whatever your target audience wants to hear.

I prefer content that is easy to read, provides informations to the reader and of course a call to action..

God bless you,
Jeremiah