What is "quality content" "awesome content" mean?

12 years ago

I think what you are doing is quality content. It is not copied form anyone else and it is useful. I think using social media is a good thing. You can have links to facebook, twitter, and pintrest is a good one if you will be including pictures with the recipes. People LOOOOVE to pin recipes and then they will link to your site. I would definitely have a good amount of recipes available on the site and then also have a permanent link accessible on every page where they can purchase your book for all recipes and info. But I find it good to offer a good amount for free so people can fall in love with what you are doing and then they will want more.

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by arkina

I think what you are doing is quality content. It is not copied form anyone else and it is useful. I think using social media is a good thing. You can have links to facebook, twitter, and pintrest is a good one if you will be including pictures with the recipes. People LOOOOVE to pin recipes and then they will link to your site. I would definitely have a good amount of recipes available on the site and then also have a permanent link accessible on every page where they can purchase your book for all recipes and info. But I find it good to offer a good amount for free so people can fall in love with what you are doing and then they will want more.

Thank you arkina.

What do you mean by "pin the recipes"? What is pintrest? Should I wait to sign up for social media after I have a certain number of recipes?

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Coconut Isa.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Thank you arkina.

What do you mean by "pin the recipes"? What is pintrest? Should I wait to sign up for social media after I have a certain number of recipes?

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No. Just after you learn what it is and how to use it.

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tpw

12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Now, my question is, how should I write "quality content", or "awesome content"?

Create content that people will WANT TO READ, and assemble it in a way that people will be HAPPY TO HAVE READ IT once they are done reading.

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

"Quality" and "Awesome" content simply write content that WOWs people and make them want to bookmark it, backlink to it, and read it repeatedly.

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tribros

12 years ago

The content that is not for search engines but for visitors. Content that is reader friendly not keyword stuffed but flows naturally and that people enjoy reading and makes them come back for more.

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Kevin Maguire

12 years ago

Here's your first Coconut Recipe.

That's AWESOME content

Coconut by Harry Nilsson - YouTube

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12 years ago

Contents, enable with capabilities to build a clear and perfect picture about the thing what? the reader wants to know.

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hsbinmarket 12 years ago

Quality content means the content with quality ( Correct information with proper arrangement).
Awesome content means content with high quality (quality content which attract lots of traffic.)

Both are defined as per my views.
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UMS

12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Now, my question is, how should I write "quality content", or "awesome content"?

There are two main methods:

1. A lot of IMers hire super cheap non-English speaking writers that churn out barely readable rubbish. They are under the impression that quantity = quality.

Can count the number of times someone comes to the WF and states that they can't understand why their site isn't ranking well given that it has 100% high quality content. If you look at their content, it takes half a nano-second to realise it's completely worthless and full of laughable grammatical and spelling mistakes.

2. The "correct" way to write quality content is to have a writer (including yourself) that has a very good writing style and a very good knowledge of their subject.

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Raindance

12 years ago

It all comes down to entertaining your audience. People have very little attention span, and if you're not getting them hooked, they instantly start looking for something else. You need to provide what they are looking for, and make it enjoyable to read as well. I've seen so many sites gone to the dogs only because the content was very bland despite being useful.

Find the right information for creating your article, and then make it engaging. If you want to know how to make it engaging, read magazines or - I hate myself for saying this - read celebrity gossip columns. I know those columns are filled with the most brainless news around the world, but those articles are engaging. Once you start reading them, you can't stop till you reach the end. Plus, celebrity sections are the most read news anyway, because of the enlarged readership, and so those writers know how to get a reader to not to lose focus. Add in humor as well - that's going to make you a legend in the reader's eyes.

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Simon Farmer 12 years ago

In the eyes of Google "quality" content is really anything that makes the user stay on the page, bookmark it, come back to it, link to it and tell their friends about it.

I could be just an interesting picture. As long as it accomplishes the things above then it is quality content.

I have one page websites ranking in Google with basically only a picture and a headline on the page.

It's crazy.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

My focus as my username suggests is "Everything about Coconuts" from its uses, benefits, recipes, etc., I am simply creating my homemade recipes that I eat, drink every day and posting (with pictures taken only from my iPhone 5, not a professional camera) with some kind of real life incident, story, memories back when I was growing up among coconut trees in our home.

Sounds good to me.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I am also writing about other foods and their benefits, recipes etc., not just coconuts.

That part sounds much less good to me. Less targeted, less focused, overwhelmingly more competitive and probably much less income-producing.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I have not done any keyword research.

I've done very little for most of my niches, too.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

What kind of keyword research should I do?

I advise you not to put much effort into trying to attract search-engine traffic. Non-SEO traffic is a good way to get more than just an "edge" over competitors. Its overall quality tends to be so superior to that of Google traffic that it can even be a way of forgetting "competitors" altogether. I don't like to put time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons. First, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost. Secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic, or to make specific plans to try to increase the flow of that sort of traffic. I prefer almost any other traffic-source.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I am coming up with some articles about that and just posted 3 or 4 now. Planning to submit them to ezinearticles now.

Why do you think it will help you to have them Ezine Articles? It may, possibly, but this kind of attempt at passive syndication can only ever be an afterthought to taking more active steps to get them published in better places.

The last thing you'd want would be for potential customers to find them in Ezine Articles rather than finding them on your own site.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I am not on facebook, twitter or any of the social media.

Neither am I. I wouldn't think they'd be good ways to market your site.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I share my recipes with my colleagues at work everyday and at least some of them like my weird recipes.

I think you may have created a good niche for yourself, here. I wish you well with it. "Enthusiasm niches" can be a lot better than "problem niches" because there aren't usually thousands of other marketers active in them, all targeting exactly the same traffic as you.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

My goal is to sell my homemade recipes as my first product.

It's a possible income source. Not always the easiest of things to monetize, though, because so many people who look online for "recipe information" aren't really buyers - a lot are looking for free information. There's probably a lot more traffic in "recipe niches" than potential income. But that doesn't make it hopeless, by any means. (It might be yet another reason for not wasting your time with SEO and keywords, though!).

Originally Posted by coconutisa

How to setup aweber so that it would automatically email the subscribers?

You need to read the information on their site, look for tutorials, and so on.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Can I offer the first 3 or 4 chapters to build a list? Should I send tips or recipes, weekly or daily?

Only an expert in your niche can know the answer to these questions with confidence. If you can't find one (and maybe you can't at all, that wouldn't be a surprise!), then to some extent you'll have to test for yourself, which is always a good thing to do, anyway. Though somehow never quite as easy as it sounds! :p

But here are three posts which may help you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7647187
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5300985

Originally Posted by coconutisa

I read here in the forum that one should write superb content, relevant content, useful content.

That's for sure. Your income will depend on it, perhaps especially in this kind of niche.

But start by appreciating the fundamental point (which so many miss!) that what "quality content" is - as far it's relevant to your income - is something decided by people, not by search engines!

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Now, my question is, how should I write "quality content", or "awesome content"?

Remember that "quality content"/"awesome content" is defined, in this context, simply as "content that publishers with audiences choose (for whatever reasons) to share with those audiences". It's a very practical definition, and one that relates pretty directly to your income. You need to produce content that other people want to share. There are some suggestions for exactly how to do that in the links in this post.

Good luck!

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sounds good to me.

Thank you.

That part sounds much less good to me. Less targeted, less focused, overwhelmingly more competitive and probably much less income-producing.

Noted.

I've done very little for most of my niches, too.

okay.

I advise you not to put much effort into trying to attract search-engine traffic. Non-SEO traffic is a good way to get more than just an "edge" over competitors. Its overall quality tends to be so superior to that of Google traffic that it can even be a way of forgetting "competitors" altogether. I don't like to put time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons. First, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost. Secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic, or to make specific plans to try to increase the flow of that sort of traffic. I prefer almost any other traffic-source.

Will do.

Why do you think it will help you to have them Ezine Articles? It may, possibly, but this kind of attempt at passive syndication can only ever be an afterthought to taking more active steps to get them published in better places.

The last thing you'd want would be for potential customers to find them in Ezine Articles rather than finding them on your own site.

But, I thought you had earlier suggested that after it's indexed on my website first, I can submit to ezinearticles. Now, I am confused, may be, this is the part of learning :confused: My purpose in posting at ezinearticles is for potent webmasters/publishers with lists to see my article there and if it fits their theme, will use it. Am I incorrect in assuming this?

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Neither am I. I wouldn't think they'd be good ways to market your site.

Okay.

I think you may have created a good niche for yourself, here. I wish you well with it. "Enthusiasm niches" can be a lot better than "problem niches" because there aren't usually thousands of other marketers active in them, all targeting exactly the same traffic as you.

Thank you.

It's a possible income source. Not always the easiest of things to monetize, though, because so many people who look online for "recipe information" aren't really buyers - a lot are looking for free information. There's probably a lot more traffic in "recipe niches" than potential income. But that doesn't make it hopeless, by any means. (It might be yet another reason for not wasting your time with SEO and keywords, though!).

Should I get out of recipes and focus on my eBook that I am working on my experience of losing weight with coconuts and maintaining it for over 10 years now?

You need to read the information on their site, look for tutorials, and so on.

Will do, but is it easy?

Only an expert in your niche can know the answer to these questions with confidence. If you can't find one (and maybe you can't at all, that wouldn't be a surprise!), then to some extent you'll have to test for yourself, which is always a good thing to do, anyway. Though somehow never quite as easy as it sounds! :p

How to find an expert?

But here are three posts which may help you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7647187
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5300985

That's for sure. Your income will depend on it, perhaps especially in this kind of niche.

But start by appreciating the fundamental point (which so many miss!) that what "quality content" is - as far it's relevant to your income - is something decided by people, not by search engines!

Remember that "quality content"/"awesome content" is defined, in this context, simply as "content that publishers with audiences choose (for whatever reasons) to share with those audiences". It's a very practical definition, and one that relates pretty directly to your income. You need to produce content that other people want to share. There are some suggestions for exactly how to do that in the links in this post.

Good luck!

Is there an example of quality content, useful content, awesome content that I can model after?

Thanks.
Coconut Isa.

Thanks
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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sounds good to me.

That part sounds much less good to me. Less targeted, less focused, overwhelmingly more competitive and probably much less income-producing.

I've done very little for most of my niches, too.

I advise you not to put much effort into trying to attract search-engine traffic. Non-SEO traffic is a good way to get more than just an "edge" over competitors. Its overall quality tends to be so superior to that of Google traffic that it can even be a way of forgetting "competitors" altogether. I don't like to put time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons. First, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost. Secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic, or to make specific plans to try to increase the flow of that sort of traffic. I prefer almost any other traffic-source.

Why do you think it will help you to have them Ezine Articles? It may, possibly, but this kind of attempt at passive syndication can only ever be an afterthought to taking more active steps to get them published in better places.

The last thing you'd want would be for potential customers to find them in Ezine Articles rather than finding them on your own site.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Neither am I. I wouldn't think they'd be good ways to market your site.

I think you may have created a good niche for yourself, here. I wish you well with it. "Enthusiasm niches" can be a lot better than "problem niches" because there aren't usually thousands of other marketers active in them, all targeting exactly the same traffic as you.

It's a possible income source. Not always the easiest of things to monetize, though, because so many people who look online for "recipe information" aren't really buyers - a lot are looking for free information. There's probably a lot more traffic in "recipe niches" than potential income. But that doesn't make it hopeless, by any means. (It might be yet another reason for not wasting your time with SEO and keywords, though!).

You need to read the information on their site, look for tutorials, and so on.

Only an expert in your niche can know the answer to these questions with confidence. If you can't find one (and maybe you can't at all, that wouldn't be a surprise!), then to some extent you'll have to test for yourself, which is always a good thing to do, anyway. Though somehow never quite as easy as it sounds! :p

But here are three posts which may help you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7647187
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5300985

That's for sure. Your income will depend on it, perhaps especially in this kind of niche.

But start by appreciating the fundamental point (which so many miss!) that what "quality content" is - as far it's relevant to your income - is something decided by people, not by search engines!

Remember that "quality content"/"awesome content" is defined, in this context, simply as "content that publishers with audiences choose (for whatever reasons) to share with those audiences". It's a very practical definition, and one that relates pretty directly to your income. You need to produce content that other people want to share. There are some suggestions for exactly how to do that in the links in this post.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by tpw

Create content that people will WANT TO READ, and assemble it in a way that people will be HAPPY TO HAVE READ IT once they are done reading.

Originally Posted by Randall Magwood

"Quality" and "Awesome" content simply write content that WOWs people and make them want to bookmark it, backlink to it, and read it repeatedly.

Originally Posted by tribros

The content that is not for search engines but for visitors. Content that is reader friendly not keyword stuffed but flows naturally and that people enjoy reading and makes them come back for more.

Originally Posted by sscot

Contents, enable with capabilities to build a clear and perfect picture about the thing what? the reader wants to know.

Originally Posted by hsbinmarket

Quality content means the content with quality ( Correct information with proper arrangement).
Awesome content means content with high quality (quality content which attract lots of traffic.)

Both are defined as per my views.

Originally Posted by UMS

There are two main methods:

1. A lot of IMers hire super cheap non-English speaking writers that churn out barely readable rubbish. They are under the impression that quantity = quality.

Can count the number of times someone comes to the WF and states that they can't understand why their site isn't ranking well given that it has 100% high quality content. If you look at their content, it takes half a nano-second to realise it's completely worthless and full of laughable grammatical and spelling mistakes.

2. The "correct" way to write quality content is to have a writer (including yourself) that has a very good writing style and a very good knowledge of their subject.

Originally Posted by Raindance

It all comes down to entertaining your audience. People have very little attention span, and if you're not getting them hooked, they instantly start looking for something else. You need to provide what they are looking for, and make it enjoyable to read as well. I've seen so many sites gone to the dogs only because the content was very bland despite being useful.

Find the right information for creating your article, and then make it engaging. If you want to know how to make it engaging, read magazines or - I hate myself for saying this - read celebrity gossip columns. I know those columns are filled with the most brainless news around the world, but those articles are engaging. Once you start reading them, you can't stop till you reach the end. Plus, celebrity sections are the most read news anyway, because of the enlarged readership, and so those writers know how to get a reader to not to lose focus. Add in humor as well - that's going to make you a legend in the reader's eyes.

Originally Posted by Simon Farmer

In the eyes of Google "quality" content is really anything that makes the user stay on the page, bookmark it, come back to it, link to it and tell their friends about it.

I could be just an interesting picture. As long as it accomplishes the things above then it is quality content.

I have one page websites ranking in Google with basically only a picture and a headline on the page.

It's crazy.

Originally Posted by amcg

In terms of content and targeting with a blog, the one piece of advice I'd give; get to know your customers. If you know them, understand their needs, you can reach them with information that will be valuable to them. This will help you make sales.

Thank you for your varied responses and even though I understand the definitions of "quality content", "awesome content", can you provide a good example of high quality content, that is useful, and of value that I can MODEL after?

Alexa Smith seems to go for always content with 1000-1200 words, but I have seen other writers who respond to write even content with 200 - 1500 words.

I have seen experienced writers (long time writers in this forum) advertising here writing content for hire with 200-1500 words?

Can I not write quality, useful, relevant, and engaging content anywhere between 200-1500 words?

Thanks,
Coconut Isa.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Can I not write quality, useful, relevant, and engaging content anywhere between 200-1500 words?

You can write it, perhaps.

But the reality - if your experiences are anything like those of others - is that unless it's truly exceptional and outstanding and remarkable, you won't be able to get much that's under about 800 words published in any places that already have the targeted traffic you want to attract to your site (and 1,000-1,200+ words is typically better). And other places, where you can just submit it yourself and/or get it "auto-accepted" without any realistic approval process, don't have that traffic and can't really help you. And there are reasons for that.

Contrary to what many people (whose idea of "traffic" is perhaps typically "Google traffic") will tell you, sometimes length really does matter.

Content marketing isn't just about "what you have": it's about who reads it (where you get it published).

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

You can write it, perhaps.

But the reality - if your experiences are anything like those of others - is that unless it's truly exceptional and outstanding and remarkable, you won't be able to get much that's under about 800 words published in any places that already have the targeted traffic you want to attract to your site (and 1,000-1,200+ words is typically better). And other places, where you can just submit it yourself and/or get it "auto-accepted" without any realistic approval process, don't have that traffic and can't really help you. And there are reasons for that.

Contrary to what many people (whose idea of "traffic" is perhaps typically "Google traffic") will tell you, sometimes length really does matter.

Content marketing isn't just about "what you have": it's about who reads it (where you get it published).

Alexa Smith,

Much obliged, you are always helpful. I have more questions.

I want to write content for my website visitors (who might become my subscribers, and then may be, buyers/customers). I write a blog post/article and post it on my website first per your suggestion.

Questions:

1. How to write for them so that they find the article FIRST on my website and NOT on the directories?

2. What should I do or don't do to AVOID my website visitors to find my article FIRST on the directories and then on my website?

3. How to write content that I publish on my website FIRST as above and then I want other webmasters/bloggers ONLY, who have their own audience to find my article in the directories?

Thanks,
Coconut Isa.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael Ten

The idea of what qualifies as quality content is significantly subjective.

It is, in one sense, Michael, because terms like "quality" are always a bit subjective ... but there's also an objective, practical definition available, which I suggest is actually a much better and more helpful one, as well as not being so subjective: "quality content is content that publishers want to syndicate because they choose to share it with their readers/visitors/subscribers, and others choose to link to it".

That is, after all, the income-determining component of "content", so it's not a bad definition, is it, albeit pretty teleological?

Originally Posted by coconutisa

1. How to write for them so that they find the article FIRST on my website and NOT on the directories?

Key concept: this is a cumulative process. The precise outcome/effects (especially when your site is new) are difficult to predict accurately in each individual case, but as long as you gradually accumulate initial indexation-rights for your own site, every time you publish anything, that will be the long-term outcome. If, on occasions, an article in EZA outranks the copy on your site, that will always be temporary as long as your site has the initial indexations of all its contents.

The people who go wrong and shoot themselves in the stiletto-heeled foot are all those who give article directories unique, not-previously-published, not-previously-indexed content. Those are the same people who end up announcing that "article marketing doesn't work very well any more", because that's their experience of it. They typically like to blame Google, and Ezine Articles, and anything other than taking responsibility for their own mistakes, but the reality is that "they did it to themselves". :p

Originally Posted by coconutisa

2. What should I do or don't do to AVOID my website visitors to find my article FIRST on the directories and then on my website?

What you need to avoid, in this context, is what's explained throughout this thread (only a short thread, and worth a read!): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

Originally Posted by coconutisa

3. How to write content that I publish on my website FIRST as above and then I want other webmasters/bloggers ONLY, who have their own audience to find my article in the directories?

The only people you want to find your articles in an article directory (no need to say "directories" really - we're talking only about Ezine Articles: the rest aren't worth using, unless you find a special directory about coconuts, which won't be easy!) are publishers. Publishers of ezines. Publishers of newsletters. Publishers of recipe-collections. Publishers of websites. In other words people who have readers and need content for them to read. Not people looking in search engines for information about coconut recipes, whom you want to find the one on your site (if you want them at all). Reasons explained in detail in this post.

Some suggestions for writing the content are here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It is, in one sense, Michael, because terms like "quality" are always a bit subjective ... but there's also an objective, practical definition available, which I suggest is actually a much better and more helpful one, as well as not being so subjective: "quality content is content that publishers want to syndicate because they choose to share it with their readers/visitors/subscribers, and others choose to link to it".

That is, after all, the income-determining component of "content", so it's not a bad definition, is it, albeit pretty teleological?

Key concept: this is a cumulative process. The precise outcome/effects (especially when your site is new) is difficult to predict accurately in each individual case, but as long as you gradually accumulate initial indexation-rights for your own site, every time you publish anything, that will be the long-term outcome. If, on occasions, an article in EZA outranks the copy on your site, that will always be temporary as long as your site has the initial indexations of all its contents.

The people who go wrong and shoot themselves in the stiletto-heeled foot are all those who give article directories unique, not-previously-published, not-previously-indexed content. Those are the same people who end up announcing that "article marketing doesn't work very well any more", because that's their experience of it. They typically like to blame Google, and Ezine Articles, and anything other than taking responsibility for their own mistakes, but the reality is that "they did it to themselves". :p

What you need to avoid, in this context, is what's explained throughout this thread (only a short thread, and worth a read!): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

The only people you want to find your articles in an article directory (no need to say "directories" really - we're talking only about Ezine Articles: the rest aren't worth using, unless you find a special directory about coconuts, which won't be easy!) are publishers. Publishers of ezines. Publishers of newsletters. Publishers of recipe-collections. Publishers of websites. In other words people who have readers and need content for them to read. Not people looking in search engines for information about coconut recipes, whom you want to find the one on your site (if you want them at all). Reasons explained in detail in this post.

Some suggestions for writing the content are here: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3188316

Alexa Smith,

I understand now. I am slowly and steadily getting out of confusion, being a beginning blogger!

You are so helpful. I will continue my journey confidently now, still, it would be great if I can see a MODEL of a well-defined, useful, quality content.

Regards,
Coconut Isa.

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amcg

12 years ago

In terms of content and targeting with a blog, the one piece of advice I'd give; get to know your customers. If you know them, understand their needs, you can reach them with information that will be valuable to them. This will help you make sales.

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Lokahi

12 years ago

By simply writing about every aspect of coconuts, you are likely to already be keyword targeting, even without keyword research. Most times, keyword research will only tell you what is popular or well searched. Once you find out, you will notice that you start to limit your writing to only the most popular terms. And, that doesn't really serve your reader's best interest as they might need to know about many other aspects of coconuts. Just keep doing what you've done and success will find you. If you do keyword research from here on out, let it be a persuasive but not definitive tool that gives you direction but doesn't limit your creative writing. As for social marketing, it won't hurt to start a Facebook page and share a few of your favorite coconut related tips. You don't have to be veryu social to make Facebook pages work for you, just share really good content and ask readers to share your posts. It's really that easy.

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Lokahi

By simply writing about every aspect of coconuts, you are likely to already be keyword targeting, even without keyword research. Most times, keyword research will only tell you what is popular or well searched. Once you find out, you will notice that you start to limit your writing to only the most popular terms. And, that doesn't really serve your reader's best interest as they might need to know about many other aspects of coconuts. Just keep doing what you've done and success will find you. If you do keyword research from here on out, let it be a persuasive but not definitive tool that gives you direction but doesn't limit your creative writing. As for social marketing, it won't hurt to start a Facebook page and share a few of your favorite coconut related tips. You don't have to be veryu social to make Facebook pages work for you, just share really good content and ask readers to share your posts. It's really that easy.

Thank you Lokahi.

I will continue to do what I am doing.

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Michael Ten

12 years ago

The idea of what qualifies as quality content is significantly subjective.

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smoor2012

12 years ago

There is alot of good advice here. The fact is that you seem to know what you are writing about with the health aspects of coconuts and using them. That is your biggest asset. The next thing I think would be to find out how the benefits of coconuts and your recipes can help people with whatever diet or other issues they have.

Quality content has been researched somewhat and your own experiences added to it. That is the best way I know to contribute to this thread. I read the replies and there was good advice. A post on quality content always interests me. And yes, I would join the social media that interests you, but especially facebook and twitter. Keep using this forum too. I would say that Warrior forum is the best forum you can be on. There is alot of experience here and plenty of help when needed.

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by smoor2012

There is alot of good advice here. The fact is that you seem to know what you are writing about with the health aspects of coconuts and using them. That is your biggest asset. The next thing I think would be to find out how the benefits of coconuts and your recipes can help people with whatever diet or other issues they have.

Quality content has been researched somewhat and your own experiences added to it. That is the best way I know to contribute to this thread. I read the replies and there was good advice. A post on quality content always interests me. And yes, I would join the social media that interests you, but especially facebook and twitter. Keep using this forum too. I would say that Warrior forum is the best forum you can be on. There is alot of experience here and plenty of help when needed.

Thank you for your encouragement. I will continue on this path.

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hustlinsmoke

12 years ago

If your writing about what is relevant on your site, you shouldn't need keyword research. It should just form and take shape, all original and the serps should pick it up. If you want too you can get down and dirty do an analysis of your website, see what words are ranking what is doing well on the other sites and compete.

Otherwise this sounds like a passion and I would keep it that way and not let your greed get in the way.

I have offered up to three chapters of an ebook for signups, it used to work good in the old days, now it doesn't seem to get me much more clicks.

I know I love the word free but honestly are people starting to get scared of that word?

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by hustlinsmoke

If your writing about what is relevant on your site, you shouldn't need keyword research. It should just form and take shape, all original and the serps should pick it up. If you want too you can get down and dirty do an analysis of your website, see what words are ranking what is doing well on the other sites and compete.

Otherwise this sounds like a passion and I would keep it that way and not let your greed get in the way.

I have offered up to three chapters of an ebook for signups, it used to work good in the old days, now it doesn't seem to get me much more clicks.

I know I love the word free but honestly are people starting to get scared of that word?

Much obliged.

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frank07

12 years ago

"quality content", or "awesome content" These two are somewhat related to each other but very much different. Quality content is an article that you have written that includes proper planing, keyword stuffing, keyword positioning and all the things that are related to search engine optimization. On the other hand, awesome content may refer to an article that has a good content but is not strategically made for s.e.o.. This could be written for the sake of just sharing information to readers.

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

1. How to write for them so that they find the article FIRST on my website and NOT on the directories?

As Alexa mentioned, this is a cumulative process. Before Google loosed their menagerie, people searching for information often found it in an article directory. My guess is that, at the time, the algorithms viewed a large collection of related articles as authoritative, coupled with steady additions of new content, as a good thing and ranked accordingly.

Once large numbers of marketers started misusing and abusing automation tools (like article spinners and mass submission tools) to literally bury the directories in digital manure, the search user experience went downhill fast. And when search users start complaining or looking for alternatives, search engines react. Enter the Penguin and the Panda.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

2. What should I do or don't do to AVOID my website visitors to find my article FIRST on the directories and then on my website?

You don't want to avoid having potential visitors finding your article on directories at all. If I could control things, here's the order I would choose:

1. Article found on my site.
2. Article found on a site or in an ezine, etc. with related content AND an interested audience.
3. Last, article found on an article directory or other general mass collector of content.

About the only active thing you can do is make sure you get the articles indexed on your site first, before submitting them anywhere else.

Originally Posted by coconutisa

3. How to write content that I publish on my website FIRST as above and then I want other webmasters/bloggers ONLY, who have their own audience to find my article in the directories?

Thanks,
Coconut Isa.

Again, you can't actively control who finds your content when you post it to a public site, like a directory.

About the closest you can come is building your own private list of publishers who want what you write. After your article is indexed on your own site, give it to your partners. Finally, dump a copy on the directory.

On the topic of "subject specific directories", most of the ones I've found don't bill themselves as such. They tend to use names like "knowledge base" or "collected resources". Some won't actually use your article. They'll link to it under something like "To find out more about _____:"

Originally Posted by hustlinsmoke

If your writing about what is relevant on your site, you shouldn't need keyword research. It should just form and take shape, all original and the serps should pick it up. If you want too you can get down and dirty do an analysis of your website, see what words are ranking what is doing well on the other sites and compete.

Otherwise this sounds like a passion and I would keep it that way and not let your greed get in the way.

I have offered up to three chapters of an ebook for signups, it used to work good in the old days, now it doesn't seem to get me much more clicks.

I know I love the word free but honestly are people starting to get scared of that word?

I think that in some markets, the "free chapters" offer has been abused to the point that people don't trust the offer anymore. From what I'm seeing or hearing, there are too many "free ebooks" or chapters that are nothing but a long-form sales letter in pdf format.

Something I have on my "things to test list" is wording similar to Amazon's Kindle offers of "get a free sample by email" on a page describing the book. I'd like to test this as an alternative to squeeze pages.

Along with the sample would be an offer to continue receiving content, making the opt-in a more traditional two-step process (with the opt-in playing the part of the product).

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

As Alexa mentioned, this is a cumulative process. Before Google loosed their menagerie, people searching for information often found it in an article directory. My guess is that, at the time, the algorithms viewed a large collection of related articles as authoritative, coupled with steady additions of new content, as a good thing and ranked accordingly.

Once large numbers of marketers started misusing and abusing automation tools (like article spinners and mass submission tools) to literally bury the directories in digital manure, the search user experience went downhill fast. And when search users start complaining or looking for alternatives, search engines react. Enter the Penguin and the Panda.

You don't want to avoid having potential visitors finding your article on directories at all. If I could control things, here's the order I would choose:

1. Article found on my site.
2. Article found on a site or in an ezine, etc. with related content AND an interested audience.
3. Last, article found on an article directory or other general mass collector of content.

About the only active thing you can do is make sure you get the articles indexed on your site first, before submitting them anywhere else.

Again, you can't actively control who finds your content when you post it to a public site, like a directory.

About the closest you can come is building your own private list of publishers who want what you write. After your article is indexed on your own site, give it to your partners. Finally, dump a copy on the directory.

On the topic of "subject specific directories", most of the ones I've found don't bill themselves as such. They tend to use names like "knowledge base" or "collected resources". Some won't actually use your article. They'll link to it under something like "To find out more about _____:"

I think that in some markets, the "free chapters" offer has been abused to the point that people don't trust the offer anymore. From what I'm seeing or hearing, there are too many "free ebooks" or chapters that are nothing but a long-form sales letter in pdf format.

Something I have on my "things to test list" is wording similar to Amazon's Kindle offers of "get a free sample by email" on a page describing the book. I'd like to test this as an alternative to squeeze pages.

Along with the sample would be an offer to continue receiving content, making the opt-in a more traditional two-step process (with the opt-in playing the part of the product).

Hello John,

Thank you for contributing your ideas in helping me become a better blogger, marketer and provider of value.

Regards,
Coconut Isa.

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Rob Maggs

12 years ago

Awesome....finally someone has got it! Writing about something they have a passion for, not creating crap blogs with spun content submitted to multiple article directories or curated crap, but unique content...fricken awesome, I salute you!

I think your best way forward is to really get into Facebook(and maybe twitter) and share that passion. Forget Google and they will notice you, if you have good UNIQUE stuff to share then people will love you....and also "big G"

I think the message we have these days from Google is to forget SEO, keyword densities etc...just start writing for real people. If you are passionate about what you do, then people will pick up on that...also use Youtube, film your amazing recipies in production and you my friend will do well

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

Awesome....finally someone has got it! Writing about something they have a passion for, not creating crap blogs with spun content submitted to multiple article directories or curated crap, but unique content...fricken awesome, I salute you!

I think your best way forward is to really get into Facebook(and maybe twitter) and share that passion. Forget Google and they will notice you, if you have good UNIQUE stuff to share then people will love you....and also "big G"

I think the message we have these days from Google is to forget SEO, keyword densities etc...just start writing for real people. If you are passionate about what you do, then people will pick up on that...also use Youtube, film your amazing recipies in production and you my friend will do well

Cheers Rob

Hello Rob,

Thank you Sir for your words of encouragement. My only goal of writing content on my blog is simply to follow the golden rule.

Provide value to the visitor first irrespective of whether that person is going to buy or not to buy my products.

I have noted down your ideas to slowly expand to other ways of making content available to the visitor.

Much obliged for taking time to contribute to my questions.

Regards,
Coconut Isa.

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Rob Maggs

12 years ago

Originally Posted by coconutisa

Hello Rob,

Thank you Sir for your words of encouragement. My only goal of writing content on my blog is simply to follow the golden rule.

Provide value to the visitor first irrespective of whether that person is going to buy or not to buy my products.

I have noted down your ideas to slowly expand to other ways of making content available to the visitor.

Much obliged for taking time to contribute to my questions.

Regards,
Coconut Isa.

yes, your on the right page! Though, Take the time to learn and do some keyword research and create your articles around them as well.

Those were the days my friend

My pleasure mate, I would suggest setting up a free membership site, give them your unique content to reel them in and build a rapport and then entice them to sign up for paid membership. Set up a skype group so you can chat to them and offer them further support...I reckon that is a $47 a month business

or at least a $10 a month membership

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coconutisa

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Rob Maggs

Those were the days my friend

My pleasure mate, I would suggest setting up a free membership site, give them your unique content to reel them in and build a rapport and then entice them to sign up for paid membership. Set up a skype group so you can chat to them and offer them further support...I reckon that is a $47 a month business

or at least a $10 a month membership

Thank you Rob.

Much obliged.
Coconut Isa.

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tjaysen70

12 years ago

yeah funny I was thinking of a similar venture.

But yeah, you should get an aweber account and build a list. Start by offering them something to get in exchange for their email. This bribe, is only gonna work if you give them something of value, like a recipe book, vidoe, etc. And then send them some cool stuff in autoresponder messages.

The key is to be non-salesy and build a relationship with these fans of your stuff.

Then later on, after you've built trust with them, have an increased email open rate, and get them to engage and come back to your blog to discuss topics and interact, you can promote your own product.

They will want to buy your stuff and you can make money and have fun at the same time.

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EPoltrack77

12 years ago

yes, your on the right page! Though, Take the time to learn and do some keyword research and create your articles around them as well. This will only benefit you more in the long run with free targeted traffic. And a steady flow of it. Also, sign up with aweber and create an opt in form and start collecting names and emails in a niche and in your case coconuts. You can easily create your own word document and then save it as a pdf and give that away in exchange... Build yourself a list! Online real estate my friend

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JasonBennet

12 years ago

It will be a good idea to start off by doing some keyword research first so that you will know whether there is demand for the information that you are creating. If there is a demand for it, I will decide on the platform that I will be using and start focusing the rest of the time on driving traffic to the website. This is what I will do personally.

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Mary Stevens

12 years ago

If you can make me feel like you have given me something I can't find anywhere else. If you have driven the desire to know more to the point I am willing to whip out a credit card, that is awesome content.

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