Tips from SEO Experts

When creating a business website, your pillar content is going to be the main, broad topic of your website. The topic can be anything: real estate, shoes, perhaps software. The pillar is the businesses underlying sales objective. 

Creating a successful website requires a strategy. At the foundation, your pillar is your SEO keyword or keywords. It is the topic your customers will use when performing a search–a search that should lead directly to you.

Pick a Content Topic

Pick a topic which is relevant to the consumer. Try not to be too specific or too broad at this stage. You should consider how much your audience cares about the topic, if it ties to your services, and if it has a good search volume.

Your main topic can have with sub- or “specific” topics branching off from this central theme and are relevant to your pillar content. 

Create a Pillar Strategy

Once you’ve identified your topic and subtopics, you need to create a table of contents – a list of all relevant information regarding your SEO content. This is the place to identify your overall objectives and goals.

Consider who the audience is, why are they looking for this, and what they need to know. How is your information going to serve them better than what they can find elsewhere? 

Content Outline

You need to create website building steps so that you have a process. Your outline is effectively going to be your to-do list. Your outline should, roughly, include landing page, menu with subtopics, subtopics pages, payment platform, contact page, and customer service pages. Next, add to that list your editing process steps.

Edit your Content

It’s important to build this time into your to-do-list, as this is the refinement that elevates your content from decent to great. Editing steps should include narrative flow, format, editorial style, and grammar and spelling. That means you should edit your entire web content four separate times, focusing on each editing method separately, to ensure your content is perfect.

Content Deadlines and Communication

Set deadlines for each step of your outline. This will give you a structure and a timeline to follow. It’s important to keep in mind that during the content creation stage that the content does not have to be perfect. It just needs to be created. You’ll refine that content during the editing stage. Where that may seem like doing double the work, the truth is that focusing on one thing at a time will keep your mind clear and your deadlines approachable and attainable. 

You’ll likely be communicating with a team of designers and content writers at this point and it’s important to remember that communication is key. Whether it’s questions or obstacles, you should establish a respectful and approachable rapport with your teams. They need to feel that you are available and willing to talk about the process. 

Content Design

Lastly, you’ll want your team to implement the design, such as images, video, color, and font – all the additions that make a website engaging and friendly. This will improve your dwell time with customers and help improve engagement and conversions. Agency Partner has 10 years experience creating and implementing pillar strategy and will provide you with the expertise to get your website launched successfully.

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