Husband, Dad, Writer

January 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Today I have a post about Daisy… but it isn’t here.  You might remember Corey from Simple Marriage, who filled this same spot this same time last week.  My post on the unwavering faith of marriage can be found there.

Thanks to everyone who is playing along with the SEO Content game.  Yesterday’s entry “Dad” was an awful lot of fun.

Because a dozen emails have advised me to do it, tomorrow I’ll share on excerpt from “February.”

Writer Dad

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SEO Content? Maybe…

January 19, 2009 By 22 Comments

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

~Victor Frankl

Today’s Deja Vuesday travels back a few months to when I first discussed SEO content.   I’ve learned a lot since then, and my perspective has certainly shifted, marking this as a post definitely worth revisiting.

In the comments that day, I first met Susan Green, an excellent copywriter who has helped me on many occasions.  She first articulated the value of SEO content that day, and has continued to remind me of its value ever since.

Let’s wind back the clock and see what I once said about SEO content….

seo contentI don’t write SEO content or throw attention at keywords.  I hope I never feel the need to stray from such straightforward guidelines, at least not while writing for Writer Dad.

I can almost hear the collective gasp from the probloggers.

I’m not trying to argue, merely stating what works for me – writing SEO content isn’t it. Before starting a blog, I did my due diligence.

I read Darren’s book, and clearly understood the importance of SEO content and keywords.

During my first two weeks of posting, I stuck to those principles.  I would outline ideas, title included, draw the keywords I needed, and then scribble my thoughts around them.

It was backwards and I knew it.  I abandoned the practice of designing my drafts around SEO content by my third week.

Writing SEO content, I’ve no doubt, dulls the voice.  Now, when I pen a post, I sit at the keys with a vague idea of how I’d like to spit.  Words spill.   Only when finished, do I read the post to see what keywords I might gather.  I then decide on a title, an appropriate quote, and a picture to give all the black and white a little splash of color.

Like advertising, or pretty much anything else, I’ve no issue with SEO content.  I understand the mathematics, and am positive that the future will find me developing sites where writing for the deities of search engine optimization is entirely necessary.

When that day comes, I’ll design my words around SEO content accordingly.

The hallways of the internet blare with a billion echoes.  Like life, it takes courage to think different.  It’s hard to claim a niche when I consider myself an expert at nothing.  I don’t want to pen SEO content packed lists telling others how to live their lives when I’m still working full time on my own.

When I write,  I want someone to feel a silhouette of my thought.  Even with a full understanding that my words will be mostly forgotten within thirty-six hours of broadcast, I write them with everything I have.

My children will one day comb through my archives; I write for them, not the SEO content they will never be looking for.

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.

When you have language, you can skip rope.  Do I really want to skip with SEO?

Content comes first.

Writer Dad

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Having Fun with SEO Content

January 18, 2009 By 43 Comments

I Love Having Fun with SEO Content!

SEO ContentWhen’s the last time you heard someone say that?  Though I have been having a whole lot of fun in the lab with my mad scientist SEO experiments, I admit it, I only said it for the keywords.  It’s also why it looks so giant.  H2 hurts my eyes, but Google loves SEO content when it’s all big and bold.

I’m running with a new series on Writer Dad.  For those readers who are not bloggers, or for those bloggers with no use for these mathematics, my apologies, but I’m about to blah blah blog for a little bit.  My new once post per week series is called:

SEO Content as Art.

Or something like that.  The name is certainly subject to change.  Long time readers are familiar with the many lanes of my learning curve.  I want to learn it all, and want to learn it well.  My enthusiasm sometimes sends me bounding beyond my borders instead of greeting them at a more reasonable speed.  Falling on my face always hurts a lot more when I’m running too fast, yet only now am I learning to slow down.

The last time we talked about SEO content (in a post titled SEO I don’t think so), I professed that although I would surely have many sites where SEO content was of utmost importance,  at least while writing for Writer Dad I wanted to ignore its restrictions.  This is still largely true, but I have to amend a few of my thoughts about SEO content.

SEO content affects every blogger in some way.  How much we pay attention to is entirely up to each of us.  I chose to ignore SEO content for a long time, but now it’s time to change my game for some of my work.  I would like to take a subject that affects all us blah blah bloggers and explore it well.

I launched my first niche site last week for parents needing potty training help.  It’s a fantastic product and I couldn’t be prouder, but that means exactly nothing if I can’t build the best roads to find it.  I’m a writer.  The best way for me to get people there is by the precision of my words.  I must learn to shoot SEO content like an arrow from a quiver.  In a world where people ask Google when they need an answer to a question, I must know how to answer and, more importantly, anticipate their questions.  How do I do that?

SEO content.

Of my online endeavors, Writer Dad has the most authority.  This makes it the best place for me to experiment.  The challenge is to try to learn as much as I can while making the process as engaging for my audience as possible.

One day per week, I’m going to run an article engineered with SEO content as I try to rank for a particular keyword or keyword phrase.  I will try to make it as entertaining for the reader as possible, while being informative for those bloggers interested in the process.

Here’s how the SEO content will work.

I’ll write my post packed with specific SEO content.  In the comments, I’ll articulate what keyword or keyword phrases I’m trying to rank for, and then report how I’m doing along with the tweaks I’ve made to improve the ranking.  Anyone who has suggestions is welcome to cast them.  I see this as an excellent opportunity to learn about SEO content together.

Learning to write effective SEO content is like being given the keys to the kingdom.  If I want to spend my days puling the most creativity from the depths of my mind, I must build a business instead of a job.  To do that, I must be able to manufacture the best SEO content I can.

Cart meet horse.

On a related note, Potty Training Power is on page two of Google for the search phrase “Potty Training Help,” after only a week.  That’s after half a weak tweaking the SEO content.  Though I’m highly encouraged by early success, I have to hand a round of thanks to anyone who linked to the site.  The incoming links haven’t kicked into the dashboard yet (blah blah blog) but I know that wouldn’t have been possible without a lot of friendly invisibles, so giant thanks to everyone who helped me out.

Thanks again, and I promise to make the SEO content a lot of fun.  This week’s is scheduled for Wednesday.

Until Tomorrow,

Writer Dad

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