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A Good SEO Content Writer Builds High-Ranking Websites

When I tell people I’m an seo content writer, Internet marketer, health copywriter, they often want to talk about their website and get feedback from me.   I belong to so many forums, online writing groups, Internet marketing programs.  I know so many online experts and teachers.  But lately I’m finding many people come back to the basics of SiteBuildIt! (SBI!) / sitesell.   It really is about content.  Content is King / Queen !

That’s what sitesell preaches — First write for the visitors — good content and lots of it.  Then write for the search engines and spiders.   Then later you may also write for your vendors and merchants.   But it all starts with good seo content.

I see so many websites that may be dry and a little boring, others outdated.   It doesn’t help much to try to be savvy by putting up a video about online marketing that is 2 years old.   Internet marketing changes daily.  Others may collect data sheets and materials and product reviews from vendors, but don’t understand that search engines like Google will knock you down for putting the data sheet up on your website that is on your manufacturer’s site.

That is another thing I think sitesell does right — They say, do not even try to make a sell or try to promote any products until you have at least 30 pages of fresh seo content.   And then they want to see I think it’s a 100 visitors a day as well.   What is so cool, is that by following sitesell’s program it is not hard to get there.

Whereas private website builders and online marketers sometimes never get there on their own.   They don’t have the fresh seo content.  Their material, articles, sales pages are outdated.   The blogs are attended to every so often (every 2 or 3 months).   And they wonder why they’re not getting results.

However, it takes earnest discussion with small businesses to find out their real needs and goals.  All that some businesses want is a mini-business card website.  Hey, that’s OK.  Make it attractive and pretty.  If you don’t care about ranking on Google, just leave it out there.  Other people like Bob Bly, for instance, say they’re website is for one purpose — just to refer new clients to their portfolio and body of work.  Hey, that’s great.

It’s image too though.   We want to look good online.

I have a friend who says he is not interested in online marketing or his website.   Yet he paid and pays one of these local companies $500 to $1000 a month to build and market his simple site, place him on all the local directories.  (;   (;  And then says the company’s never helped him.

When I Google his business one thing is very obvious.  The second website that comes up on page one for his name — is a Ripoff Report for consumers by consumers.   And it recounts a mishap that occured at his business 12 years ago!  If you read all the way through to the end of the report, you see the customer was compensated and received the insurance coverage — even though it’s rather confusing to understand exactly what happened.  I happen to know this family business is an honest hardworking business.  The owners are generous and kind-hearted.  They’ve been my clients, as well for 7 or 8 years.   But they have to live with this name- and company-bashing every day, because no one has taken the time to get to the bottom of this online fiasco and helped them.

Personally, I’d recommend getting ahold of the people in charge of the Ripoff Report website –and trying to get that removed.   And at the same time building such a dynamic presence online that it all is countered by better publiciity.  This is not that hard to do.  Using  a good keyword and / key phrase campaign, doing social media, and getting good backlinks posted (like commenting on forums).  It takes some focused effort.  It is a bit of a simple science, and it works.

But back to the beginning.  It really all starts with great seo content writing.   Write lots of content.  Each article or page you write use good keywords that relate to your topic, your expertise, and business.  Use solid guidelines like those offered  by myself.  Write seo content that relates and speaks to the reader.  Be friendly.  Interact.  Help people.  But be active and informative.   Remember copywriting rules — and make your pages a call to action.  Make the most of your seo or direct market website, place an Opt-in box on every page.  Collect email addresses.  Nurture and build on your relationships.

These are some of the basics of seo content writing and a positive web presence.   But every case is individual.  Everyone and every businesses’ needs will be a little different.   One may want a profitable website that monetizes and sells vendor products.   Another may only want a business-card presence.  Another wants to sell their company services.   Another must counteract some bad publicity.   Whatever it may be, one of the best places to start is with a good seo content writer.

Write for the Web in Your Specialty and Just on Principle

On the back of a painting my artist Dad painted for me, he wrote Remember to Write — I add Remember to Write for the Web.  Famous writer and publisher Virginia Wolfe said, Every woman who wants to write needs her own room and her own money.  She also said, all women should write, no matter what they write.  It sounds gender-slanted.  But living in the south, there still are some issues with the sexes.  Yes, I add, to myself…. You’ve come a long way, baby.  But not coming from a privileged sex or family, many women still need to stand fast and strive for what is right for their lives.

I’m talking about writing for the web tonight.  I’m talking about writing and learning seo, becoming an seo copywriter even.  I’m talking about training to be a sales letter copywriter, a web site copywriter.

There is a lot involved in this web occupation.   It’s not just writing.   My Dad wanted me to soul search and write deep things.  He wrote a novel once, then he told me, some months or years later he let it burn in the fire.  He wrote great letters to his daughter.  The dream of being a Great 21st Century Novelist.  Write a great book and turn it into a movie.  I know the parents of a young man Christopher Paolini who home-schooled their son.  He wrote all those books Eldest, Inheritance, Eragon. And one of those books was made into a movie.

No, that’s not what I’m talking about tonight.  I’m talking about the Write-for-the-Web occupation and special and unique training required to be successful in this field.   There needs to be a point to it all.  And with many people out of jobs, we need to be able to make our work profitable.

It has to do with online success.  Information is what people are looking for online.    And people like to go to Amazon and different places and buy things.   And then we have all those Opt-In boxes with follow-up emails that need to be written.  So online writing is a little different than a lot of other writing.  Oh, yes, we still need to be able to tell a good story, to engage our reader so they want to turn page to page.

When I was a kid I wrote a poem from the small town where I lived.  I sent the poem into a national Youth magazine that we received in my seventh grade class.   One day my poem was printed in the magazine!   I wrote an editorial opinion piece that was printed in a newspaper, and I wrote stories that my teachers liked.   Later I wrote this really cool one-page essay for a competition.  I know it was good.  But like the poem in the youth magazine it was not acknowledged.  There’s always reasons.  Writing can be so personal — then come the interviews.

Terri Gross from NPR, “And Katherine, tell me, how do you identify with this character in your novel?  Were you ever put in such an uncomfortable position?  Was the domineering grandmother like anyone you knew in life? Or was it like you?”  Aghhhhh.   She drives me nuts when she does this to so many people.  I just shake my head.

Become a writer.  Be ready for your world to be threshed out — at least if Terri Gross is the interviewer.  Eh, it’s OK.  But novels, short stories, play and movie scripts are not something to expect to make a good living at.   No, not at all.  So instead, Do those activities on your own after work hours, I say.

Learn to write for a living.  Because you and I can.  Learn SEO.  Learn a little HTML, CSS, PHP and WordPress — put up a well laid out website.  Write good headlines and subtitles.  Learn how to put up squeeze pages fast and easy.  Then put an Opt-In box on that page that collects emails addresses of people interested in the things you have to say.  Then write the emails and nurture the relationships.  It’s not the easiest thing in the world.  People are wary of sales people.  But did not the great Zig Ziglar say, Those who do not get out there and talk to people and build relationships have skinny children?  We don’t want our kids to be skinny!

So, let’s learn to write for the web.  We can pick a specialty.  Like I love to write about health, online writing, blogs and such.   Learn SEO.  Find a mentor.  Do some social networking.

My point is this, we need to make a little money with our writing.   And web writing, building websites and writing them, I believe, shows a lot more hope and potential of income than writing for your local newspaper, or creating the next great novel .  It definitely will get your creative juices going — because you need to be a little different.   And to write for the web so that it makes money means learning online techniques.  If you’re concerned, as I am, and most honest people are about too much hype or dishonest activities online — sell products you like, sell products you use.

And one other thing I highly recommend for success online — get a name for yourself, and build your brand of one — get involved in forums of like-minded people as yourself.   Learn more about building a List, selling online, writing ebooks, SEO techniques.  The reason I highly recommend good forums is that it’s really a great thing to help and be helped.  Offer your advice and tips.  And ask the questions about things you want to know more about.   Many people out there know about what you want to learn and are happy to share that information.   And you have skills and knowledge too that can be an asset to a forum.   Write for the web, and have some success with it.

Review Hostgator

Yes, I’m going to review Hostgator, my hosting company, just a tad today.  Now, it is true, you can get a free blogger with no hosting or domain name purchase with Google, at blogger.com.  However, I prefer my own site.  It’s a learning experience.  Learning to maintain a WordPress site is a good skill to have too.

Hostgator customer service is so great.  It’s all about the people.  I remember a few years ago when I first bought my domain names.  I was taking a few classes at the University of Texas, but I really wanted to learn to make my own website.  I think I read somewhere, like from Ewen Chia’s material maybe, that HostGator was a good web hosting company.

I didn’t know anything about putting up my own website.  Gees, I must have sounded so dumb when I called Hostgator customer service.  But one sunny day outside one of the delis on campus, out on the patio, I called HostGator and got the friendliest guy.  He told me all about his websites, how he did it, and what his expertise was.

The next time, I may have been at home and wanted to know how to get that generic “Hello World” WordPress template activated …. and I needed those DNS numbers to transfer my new domains over to HostGator too.  No problem.  Another friendly person at HostGator.

What I always find so nice about Hostgator people is they make me number one while I’m on the phone.  No matter what my question, they try to help, and have the time for me.  I live in San Antonio.  HostGator is in nearby Houston.  But they don’t always know where I’m calling from — but they are neighborly friendly no matter.  But I hear of Internet marketers from across the world raving about how great Hostgator is as well.

A couple of years ago, my boyfriend decided I’d been messing around  on the Internet long enough and that truly I ought to know how to build a website by now.   I agreed.   Really, I should know how to make a nice little website by now.   So, we found a mutual client of ours who needed a new website built, plus some Internet marketing service.

Well, it turned out to be a little over my head after all.  Oh, I didn’t even use the nice Sitebuilder that HostGator offers for one website — nor did I use the automatic download of WordPress HostGator graciously offers.  Instead, I decided I’d build a website from scratch from what I’d learned about HTML from w3schools.com.  I got some help from HostGator.

See, the thing about HostGator is that they hire really friendly great skilled people.  However, not everyone knows the same stuff.  There’s an IT person here, an engineer there, a freelance web designer in the next spot.  And the policy seems to be at whatever level they are skilled and trained, they will help however they can help.  I’ve got Hostgator customer service who knew exactly and much more than what I needed to know, and others at times who didn’t know anything about the WordPress on my site, but had other skills.  No problem — they always answer the phone soon enough.  Just get on the phone and call again, and see what the next person knows.

So, as I was trying to make this website for this client, I did not need to pay a website designer or HTML proficienantse top dollar.  No, I called HostGator.  They answered my questions about what files did what for this website that was hosted by HostGator.  A lot of this is not part of their job description.  But I was downloading images, downloading HTML documents and playing around with them on the cpanel of HostGator.

I got the site up.   I had little jpg images bordering the top and bottom of the site.  I played around with pixels, and content, all with raw HTML.  And I used HostGator.  It was primitive.  It wasn’t up to par for my client — this website of a couple of years ago.

But this is to review Hostgator today.  And I just want to say their service is exemplary.   I love HostGator.  I can’t  think of a reason in the world to ever use another hosting company.  I trust them.  They help me.  And they are reasonable.

And one of these days soon, I’m going to be an affiliate for Hostgator, because I like them so much.  So, signing off for the night now. Just wanted to review Hostgator for you on this blog.

20 Tips for Better Health Naturally

Here are a few tips I recommend that you can try  for your better health naturally, if you like.

1)   Eat good foods – so you don’t need medications

2)  Avoid  junk food – it’s not good natural food

3)  Look to pure natural remedies like Young Living essential oils

4)  Stay fit – be active – get plenty of physical exercise

5)  Lead a balanced life – not getting too obsessed or one-sided in activities

6)  Get on some kind of healthy diet – that works for you – I recommend balance and healthy food

7)  Breathe deep – get fresh air

8 )  Smile regularly – be happy –  laugh

9)  Try to get off caffeine – try chicory, barley teas and/or roasted dandelion root

10)  Drink lots of good water – get your water tested; use the best bottled water you can find like Ozarka if you need to

11)    Avoid  fluoride in drinking water, toothpaste  ( I still have all my teeth, and I haven’t used fluoride in my toothpaste for as long as I can remember! — you buy no-fluoride toothpaste at Whole Foods or on Amazon)

12)    Use a good green drink regularly – a swig of wheat grass at your corner Whole Foods and/or buy a green powder of barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella

13)   Study and read good material to educate your self about better health – read Steven Acuff’s website

14)  Grow something – fresh herbs, teas, cucumbers

15)   Use healthy oil – as one of the components of your macro-nutrients of protein, carbs and oil – coconut oil, olive oil are good

16)  If you eat meat – get it free range; and if red meat – grass fed

17)  Fast occasionally — but do this wisely and cautiously

18)  Go on strike – strike against overweight and diabetes; refuse to partake of junk food and sugary drinks and candies

19)  Take more walks by yourself or with a friend along the beach, in the mountains, or to the end of the dirt road and back

20)  Spread the  word about better health naturally

Those are just a few ideas to get started.  One of the most difficult things about getting on a health program is the discipline and belief in it to stick with it.  One way to convince yourself may be this:  maybe you have a little problem physically that’s nagging you.  Maybe you get warts on your fingers, or get a cold or flu every winter; maybe you have arthritis; or maybe you have painful menstrual cycles.  Pick one thing, if there is something that’s bothering you.

Decide you are going to work on the problem (choose a smaller problem to start with) and see if you can reduce it or make it go away altogether.  Now, later in the game (for the record, I’m not a doctor, so you need to take full responsibility for yourself here), but later in the game you may decide to work on a serious condition, a chronic disease or problem you believe or someone told you that you have.  But for now, pick a smaller problem. Maybe you have a nervous muscle twitch somewhere that you’d like to see go away.

I suggest, you start by going to Steven Acuff’s website. Look up his food lists of good foods to eat, and foods not to eat.  Follow these food guidelines to a T for one week.  Work yourself up to it if you need to.  Maybe your favorite entrée is still in the refrigerator right now that your Mom cooked up for you special.  Go ahead, take it slow, if need be.   Go ahead nibble on the goodie, no need to throw everything out in the house not on the lists — Yet.  (;  Well, maybe never, if you live with family or friends who eat all kinds of no-no’s.

Work up to it.  After all, maybe you’ve been eating whatever you like for a long, long time.  It may take a little while to build yourself up to being very disciplined in your diet for a whole week.  But work towards it.  Then do it!  Stick to the good foods, and no bad foods for one week.

One week!  You did it!

Do you see improvement?  Be sure to do some of those things on my 1 – 20 list above, like getting outside for fresh air, staying active. Drink good water.

Your problem, as I often find myself, may be gone now.  You may be better.  But if not so, you may be ready to go a little deeper into the process.   At this point, if I’m really determined to lick this problem, this issue, whatever it may be – and it’s not better yet (which usually by now, I may very well be recovered from it) – but it is still lingering . . . .    Well, I’ll tell you about what I do next in a future post.  Because I think we’ve done worked hard for  one week, and you can keep doing the same for another week and another week still and you’ll still see improvement.   For better health naturally, we’ve already covered a lot of ground.

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