Comments on: Reader comment: counting keyword density and worrying about SERP’s

By: Hesham

Hesham — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:32:59 +0000

I agree with you Lis,

So many people think there is a major difference between writing for readers and writing for SEO, and actually writing for readers is good for SEO!

After spending some time with Scribe, I realized that I don’t have to follow all it’s instructions, and it would be better idea to use it like a tool that help you on getting fast information about your article, and help on deciding what is the best for it before publishing it online!

Also some times calculations we make doesn’t work for some reason! So, I really don’t mind to publish a post even if it’s not 100% SEO optimized!

By: Giannis

Giannis — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:03:36 +0000

nice post, also like your Thesis skin. find place to design my PPC LP like this.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:15:31 +0000

This is exactly what I do as well: readers first, SEO second.

But in the end, if it’s really well written for readers, search engines are going to pick up on it and rank it well.

Might just take longer.

By: Suhasini

Suhasini — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:13:09 +0000

My strategy towards SEO is to write everything about a niche which a viewer look for , nice post.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:59:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing your technique. Before start to write content for blog post, I generally research the keywords from word tracker then I analyze that keyword. After I finish analyzing these keywords then I go through visitors, I mean who is going to read my blog. According to that I write content.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:53:25 +0000

The point is more about having to add the keyword phrase several times in the content itself and also add several links and other small bits and pieces. All that makes you too focused on SEO and not too much on your readers. For new bloggers, it might be hard to find the balance here, so best to stay away from SEO stuff until you are confident with writing valuable posts and until you have built a solid readership.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:11:42 +0000

The SEO title from “SEO details and additional style” custom fields in Thesis.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:06:56 +0000

I’ve been wondering if Scribe scans your actual post title or SEO title – anyone know?

By: Anup

Anup — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:17:40 +0000

Thanks for the info

By: Lis Sowerbutts

Lis Sowerbutts — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:27:27 +0000

I really not see it either or – though I do sometimes use all-in-one or thesis or to use an alternative title. But its really not hard – most readers won’t click thru unless they know what the post is about – if you use your keywords in the title – Google will notice as well.

You can use alternative titles to have a good SEO title and a magnetic headline

You can write great content which mentions a keyword in the title, the first paragraph and at the end

You can write content that is scannable – Google doesn’t care how many lists or paragraph tags you use.

I don’t see the conflict – its just people think that writing for SEO is really different from writing for people – its not