May Angela Booth’s Creativity Factory Archives

Content for your site: if content is king, don’t expect great content for peanuts

Apropos my previous post about my little site which scooted into a good PR 4 with just a little content-love.
I get lots of enquiries from folks wanting to outsource articles and other Web content, with these kinds of questions:

“How much for 200 articles on ____”
“I want ten articles about ___ and could you provide [...]

Getting visible online with organic SEO and content

I like experimenting with sites, and new technology, so early in 2006 I bought a content management system (CMS) and started developing a new site.
The CMS turned out to be a REAL pain, but in February and March I persisted with it and wrote some content for the site, around 300 to 400 words per [...]

Web-site blindness: what SEO can and can’t do

Back in my dog-breeding and showing days, we called it “kennel-blindness”. Some exhibitors just couldn’t see why their dog (out of condition, horrible conformation) didn’t win the blue ribbon. Conspiracy theories abounded.
Some Web site owners are like dog show exhibitors. They can’t see why their Web site isn’t competitive with other (bigger, older, more authoritative) [...]