Know your page

In this article, we show you how and why it is crutial to write content for your own website. But, you have to choose wisely about what it will be printed. Its not a matter of random writing…

There are many reasons why it’s good to develop content for your website. It gives the search engines more reasons to rank your site high. It informs potential customers, answers their questions and allays their fears about ordering products and services from you online.

And with the ever increasing importance of social media, developing content that’s suitable for distribution through Facebook and other channels is another reason why it’s good.

When preparing content for your site, you may be trying to rank for certain long-tail keyword for example.

While thinking about these reasons, many web copywriters may lose sight of another important, more fundamental goal of a webpage. And that is whether the purpose of a webpage is to entice someone to visit, return or continue looking for more on your site, or is the purpose to motivate someone to take action, whether that’s clicking a ‘buy’ button or signing up for an e-newsletter for example.

Known as pulling or pushing, you have to determine this before you type even one word

Each of these types of pages is as different as night and day. Pages meant to “pull” someone in and keep them there are gifts of sorts whose purpose is to welcome and inform readers. These pages answer many of the readers’ “how-to” questions among other things.

Pages written to “push” someone are written in a much different tone and have a much different purpose. They are for driving someone to take action. People looking at this content have likely seen the other type and they’re near the point of purchase. Copy for these pages is generally more persuasive since you’re trying to get them to make that click or close the sale.

All of this raises one question – aren’t all pages supposed to be a little of each?

That’s certainly possible and prudent to move readers from one page to the next. We all know the importance of including a “call-to-action” in your copy to keep the reader engaged ON your site.

Say you write an article about some feature of your product and how it’s useful to solving a particular problem. If you fail to include a “call-to-action” and the reader gets to the end, they’re not going to know where to go and therefore, leave your site.

But the big point is to understand the purpose of a page before writing it. Are you trying to entice new people into your site or are you trying to motivate them to take action? Don’t simply go at it with the idea of giving the search engines some great content to gobble up.

This is an important question you need to answer before you even start writing (…or typing).

Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com