I don’t think there’s a single topic in online marketing that’s as misunderstood as SEO.
Partly it’s because on the surface, SEO has changed so much. What worked even a few years ago will destroy your rankings today.
Oddly enough, though, the SEO strategy at Copyblogger has stayed remarkably consistent since Brian Clark started the blog in January, 2006.
It’s not because Brian was staying up late at night reading Google algorithm patents.
It’s because he understood something fundamental about the search engines that most people still don’t see.
He understood that for search engines to be happy — they need happy searchers.
Content that creates happy searchers will be content that makes Google look smart for finding it.
Interestingly enough, that same content is always what will build your audience, connect you with potential customers, and show them that your business is the one they want to choose above all others.
Brian’s search strategy raised some eyebrows in the hardcore SEO community at first. But these days, the advice coming out of the world’s best and brightest SEOs looks a lot like … well … like the Copyblogger archives.
But we’re not here to boast. Because it’s so much more interesting to show you how you can do it, too.
And if it’s cool with you, we’d like to do that for free.
SEO copywriting probably isn’t what you think it is
Search engine research shows that almost 85% of the total factors determining how a web page is ranked are based on things that happen off the page itself. But what you do with your site can absolutely influence that 85%, and help tip the balance in your favor.
Simply put, modern SEO is all about crafting content so compelling that other people want to promote it by linking to it or sharing it, which increases your trust and authority and helps the pages you want to rank well for certain keywords.
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