Content is King - Article writing and blogging are still effective

Hello everyone,

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Wanted to start the week off with a little thought on creating quality content for the web.

 

No matter what you do, it seems there is a debate for it.  One of the big ones I’ve been seeing lately is on whether or not article marketing or article publishing is still a good idea.  Like link building and SEO and social networking, this seems to be a point of contention for many.

 

Some will say that Google is ignoring content from websites like ezinearticles, amazines or goarticles because of the amount of crap content that is being published.  However, these sites’ Alexa rankings, Google PR and traffic would seem to indicate otherwise.

 

Many complain that their number of visits has decreased over the past few years.  Well, there are several reasons for this.  First, there’s just more content now than there was a few years ago.  And a lot of it is not worth reading.  So there is some saturation.

 

As for the search engines ignoring it… this is just not so.  I’ve seen many of my articles syndicated.  The trick is, as it always is, to create high quality content.  Write for humans first, not for search engines.  And for the love, do not use article spinning.  All this does is create unreadable nonsense that no one respects or will use.

 

Content will always be king.  This is what the internet is for.  And what search engines like Google, yahoo and Bing do is try to present you the user with the most relevant content to answer your query.  So as long as you’re creating high quality content, be it writing, graphics or video, you will get noticed and you will get search results.

 

Just keep in mind, you get what you pay for.  So if you’re not a talented writer, hire one.  And pay them what they’re worth.  If you think that a good writer wants to work for $1 per 100 words, or 1 penny a word, think again.  All you’ll get is low-quality article spinners who probably don’t speak your language.