It’s a darn long title but gets the point across. Jacob Morgan echoes the point by writing for personality.

Keep writing. Keep being you, not a spider.

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Kimmelin: Good job Kimmelin, you did indeed bring new points to the table. I’ll take your advice about the keywords, and I’m in no danger of ignoring the craft. To that I promise.

I think any true writer needs to write with the process of formmulating his/her craft, first and foremost. Writing for SEO takes your writing from CREATIVE writing to TECHNICAL writing…not neccesarily bad, if you WANT to be a technical writer…but devastating if you want to be a CREATIVE writer.

Save the concern over SEO for your tags. There’s plenty of opportunity to get good, strong, SEO terms in your tag section.

Another hint (courtesy of my nearest and dearest): keep up the good work with your blog entry titles. The importance here for SEO is huge.

Lastly, if you are able to replicate words within all three: title, blog post content and tags…that’s where you’ll see the greatest returns in terms of SEO.

But, no matter what: stay true to your craft!

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Oktober Five: I hope I was fluffier for you today. Sorry for such a technical week. I promise next week will be more fun; except for Wednesday when I’ll be talking about poverty. That won’t be fun at all, but at least it won’t be about SEO.

Vered: It’s like seasoning. Just a dash or you dim the dish.

Harmony: Some days it is very difficult, but you guys read and comment; you deserve my time. One of my most loyal readers pointed out that I seemed to be rushing through answering my comments the last two weeks. She was correct. I’ve cut my comments on other blogs so I can do my best job here. I’ve felt really good about it this week.

B. Wilde: Thank you for all your compliments. I’ll continue to give you reasons to enjoy the time you spend reading. I was reading Hunter’s article without knowing that was at the end. It caught me by surprise, right in the stomach.

“It takes courage to think differently.” So true. Once I abandoned the idea that I had to write or blog according to “best practices,” I had courage and I did think differently.

“Writing for SEO, I’ve no doubt, dulls the voice.” This is the writers most prized possion, in my opinion. It’s all about your voice. And as I’ve told you before, you stay so true to who you are and what you believe in. For this, I have tremendous admiration for you.

“If Writer Dad is my chance to touch our most local universe, then I wish to use my most genuine voice, rather than one designed to capture the attention of the Googlebots who crawl across my verbiage.” Probably the biggest reason I subscribe to you is that you write in a way that gives me a connection to you. You make the experience personable. You write for yourself first, and because of this, your readers follow you.

I hope one day to have someone like Hunter Nuttall write something as complimentary about me.

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