Web is altogether a different medium. The global web content reader has specific expectations of every website. Writers evolving from press/print and taking up web content writing in the later part of their writing careers need to understand of what really constitutes web content writing. This equally applies to youngster and newcomers writing online for the first time.
First and foremost, a web reader reads the digital pages more slowly than the paper ones, which means the reader reads less online than he does in print. Second, when the web reader visits a website or does web search, he looks for specific information. Easy navigation and clear site-map makes a big difference in meeting the web reader's expectations, and resulting in either requesting for information or making a purchase decision.
All web content writers must and should ensure that they keep in mind the 3S, when they develop the content.
SCANNABLE CONTENT:
Web content readers scan the text for specifics. Rarely the web reader is interested in reading large chunks of running texts. So the web content writers should evolve scannable content that includes,
- Pointed Headlines
- Expressive Subheads that keep readers moving through them.
- Bullet points
- Numbered lists
- FAQs
- Highlights points in bold/italic
- Matching font colour
- Recognizable icons
SHORTENED CONTENT:
Web content readers scan the text for specifics. So a web content writer should put the paragraphs brief, not exceeding 5-6 lines. Web content writers should strategically employ the "eye-catcher" technique, with key words/points highlighted in bold.
Research has proved that web content is most effectively read when it is 50 percent of its counterpart in print. For doing this a web content writer should be a ruthless editor.
SEGMENTED CONTENT & SITE MAP:
A web content reader knows what he wants. A clever reader visits a particular website and goes to the site map to find what he needs. So, what is expected of a web content writer is to create provision for the site-map page, which is clearly drawn and well presented after detailed deliberations.
Becoming a successful content writer is not something impossible. What is needful is the right focus and approach. By putting oneself in the shoes of a web content reader and then presenting the content the way the web content reader will read it, actually makes a big difference in the way content is written for the web, and the way it is read.
Recent online research studies have noted that the key-words are the key to put your website in TOP 10 of popular search engines. It is a validated fact that, customers use appropriate product/service related key words to find the needful products and services online.
Question yourself, when an Indian or a foreigner visiting Delhi as a tourist, what key words will be type at Internet search, to get the needful information. If you are running a Delhi-based tourist agency, with a website of your own, how do you position yourself through your website, before this tourist, and offer the needful information.
The strategy before launching a website is to work backwards, starting with a set of key words that immediately reflect what you offer, may it be a service or product, or even both. For evolving these key-words you must have a detailed understanding of your customer's profile, and their expectations in terms of products and services.
What is expected of every product or service provider is to have a detailed understanding of quality standards of market-specific and region-specific customers. For the key-words of products and services that carry with them the nation and region name tags are most successful, and offer an immediate avenue for businesses to happen, and deals to strike.
Well, by availing a professional's expertise in researching the right key words, that will later spice the content of your website, is a mark of guarantee of your website's positioning in the TOP 10 of web search. A key-words researcher as a formal entity, is quite new, even though all key-words research is as old as web search and website content itself. A Key-word Researcher’s job is soon becoming a specialization with a multitude of tasks to undertake.
A key-word researcher's job includes
- Studying products and services
- Understanding competition and competitors in the market
- Writing key-word rich content for websites
- Researching for most preferred key-words
- Conducting feasibility studies to find out what key-word results in what websites
- Studying the meta-tags of TOP 10 websites in terms of the Titles, Key-words and website descriptions
An expert Key-word Researcher helps in evolving the correct keywords that would enable search engines to match your web pages. This means putting your website before your customers who are ready and willing to purchase your products and services.
What benefits do you draw, by availing the services of a Key-word Researcher?
- Directs more traffic to your website for 80 percent of online purchases originate from search on search engines.
- Provides your greater visibility, with your competitors falling behind
- Helps you in avoiding the possibility of "insider thinking" that is limiting yourself to the product and service alone, and not of their importance to the actual customer/client
- Stretches your firm's advertising budget, especially paying less for pay-per-click advertising campaigns that connect your bid prices to the most qualified customer base
Understanding that Key-word research is an absolute necessity for any successful Internet Marketing campaign, it is to be realized that a professional Key-word Researcher can conduct for you the most comprehensive key-word research, and ensure total online success.
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