Writing Well, Spelling Well for Top Search Engine Ranks

Posted on December 1, 2005

Interesting research and information on the Search Engine Journal by Guest Columnist Joel Walsh…

I read it a while back but wanted to ‘chew’ on it and make a few of my own observations before sharing it publicly here.

There’s a lot of good tips on the page that I’m sure you already know:

  • writing articles for reprint
  • using bullet points
  • updating your content frequently
  • contextual relevance (I’ll talk more about this later - this IS the way of the future for Search Engine Optimization)

But the shocking part (at least to many of us) of this research was the revelation that:

  1. grammar,
  2. spelling,
  3. and writing style,

were other attributes shared by well positioned pages in Google.

Interesting…

If you have any time over the holidays (or any other time thereafter for that matter), your time could be well served by visiting your competitors, observe and learn from their writing and layout styles, and refreshing your own pages (paying closer attention to spelling, grammar, writing for the web, shorter sentences and so on).

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Laura Childs

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3 Replies to “Writing Well, Spelling Well for Top Search Engine Ranks”

  1. Sally on April 6th, 2006 2:27 am

    Hello Laura,

    I dont know how you find all these very relevant and useful tools but another one you have found. I am eagerly awaiting my free report, what a quick and easy way to spell check my site, as we are only human and do make mistakes! take care, sally

  2. cool water on March 19th, 2007 11:40 am

    You sent some vaulable info. in the last news letter about adwords that were cheaper than googles. Also, how you place some things on your daughters website.etc . I would like to know if you could resend the news letter you sent out last.

    thank you

    cool water

  3. Laura on March 20th, 2007 9:06 am

    Cool Water…the ads are to the right of your comment. Not sure how (or why) you missed it.

    At any rate, the url to the post is here: http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/index.php?p=161

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