Writing the content for your online business web site

Posted on May 7, 2008
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Your online business web site will thrive on content, primarily. No matter how good your product or service is , its clear that your only selling point is the content on your web site. Unlike your competition who have offices or stores somewhere and – depending on how good their products or services are – can allow the products sell themselves by just showing them off to prospective clients, you are entirely dependent on your images and content to make that sale, or clinch that portfolio. Obviously with Adobe Flash and 3d imaging software you can come up with stunning online ‘presentations’, but these have their disadvantages(one of which is their inability to be crawled by search engine bots ), and are not readily available to the average internet entrepreneur.

What’s all the hype and noise about content? I wrote a little piece on its effect on web traffic here, but primarily this is the reason your online visitors come to your web site in the first place. To get some information. And talking about the dual concepts of information and content…

I also want to make a distinction here. In using the generic term ‘content’ I am basically referring to the actual amount of useful information contained on your web site ( or a particular page on your website ). It isn’t just good enough to throw up a write-up that may seem to describe your products and services, it is necessary to consider the perception of your visitors. Exactly what keywords are likely to draw your visitors to your web site? If they are searching for such keywords what information will they specifically be looking for?

By determining these you can form a simple mental guide that will aid you in coming up with the right content. From my perception of content it’s clear that your content should appeal to a broad range of people within your defined targeted traffic.

In the long run , your ability to create information-filled content will give your visitors some value that will definitely ensure that they return, and also spread the word for you. My piece on creating relevant content will definitely give you a tip or two to enable you sell your product or service and come up with a winning solution for developing your content.

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