Website Content is Still King - 3 Tips to doing it right

January 28, 2016

The content that you publish on your company's website is more important than you might think. There are numerous different elements that contribute to the perfect business website such as the web design, site architecture, back-end and front-end coding, website hosting servers, images and text content.

People talk about website content and whether it really matters in the long run. The fact of the matter is that if your website does not have the right content then you’re wasting time and money on it. The content on your website is everything that is going to define your business. Your website must be engaging, useful, and informative for the audience. While providing business value in generating leads and clients.

Now that we know the importance of good content on a business website, we can move on towards discussing the key factors that contribute to making the content attractive:

SEO Optimized

What’s the main thing that you’re looking for when you build a website? Quality Traffic. For attracting traffic to your website, you need to make sure that your website is SEO friendly. To do so, you need to ensure that you use ‘keywords’ inside of your content that enable search engines to pick up your site.
Do not try to overuse keywords or use the keywords metatag as both of these outdated methods hurt more than help.

Short, informative, and engaging

People look for simple, clear, and concise information. If your text is too long, they’ll eventually turn away just by seeing the length of the information on your website. Similarly, if your content is too vague, people will turn away just after reading one sentence. Your content should be easy to read, it should provide the necessary information to the customer, and it should be interesting.

User Friendly

Last but not least, your website should be user friendly. We often hear the term ‘user friendly’ when we talk about websites but what does this exactly mean? It means that your website should be easy to use, easy to navigate through, and interactive. This means that the user should be able to easily understand the options available. They should be able to find the information they require without much effort.

Content is the core component of a website that defines its success. Your company website is not going to succeed without good content. Therefore, when your website is in the development phase, ensure that you allocate the required budget and time to create useful and interesting content for your audience.