SEO – 10 Tips for Writing Content that Ranks

An SEO site made a nice infographic about writing content for your website. They have 10 tips and you can view them here.

The following are 10 tips for writing content that will help your website rank higher in search results:

1. Write for users, optimize for robots
2. Forget about keyword density and keyword stuffing
3. Integrate related keywords, synonyms, and grammatical variations into your content
4. Use Google’s free tools to find long-tail keyword variations that you can blend into your site copy
5. Focus on writing long, in-depth, quality content
6. Target high quality low competition long-tail keywords
7. Write content that answer’s common questions from prospects
8. Get your content noticed and shared on social media platforms
9. Strive to build your AuthorRank and develop your Google+ profile
10. Don’t forget about title tags and meta descriptions, they are the first thing people typically see in search results

While there is no simple formula for achieving top positions in search results, these tips will help appease both search engines and your site visitors. In addition to the tips above, focus on adding new and sharable content to your website or blog regularly. Google prefers websites that update their content on a regularly, so the more often that you update your website the more likely Google is to crawl your website..