15 Ways To Get Quality Content On Your Website

There are times where we just don't know what to say or we are all out of ideas for the day. The pressure is constantly on to find quality relevant content for our sites. We here is constantly, quality matters. Not all of us are blessed with the ability to converse on any and every topic. The most important part about having our own sites and connecting with our visitors is to write about and have content on our websites that is going to be useful to the people reading them. I ran across a favorite list that I studied maticulously when I first started publishing online. My biggest thing was I never wanted junk content on my site, just stuff that was informative and helpful. Mostly I wanted to connect or interact with my visitors.

This list came from Robin Nobles blog and I could not find the exact list again on her site but I practically memorized it, and added some things of my own:

Adding Quality Content To Your Website…..at Least 15 Different Ways, there are more but this is enough to get the juices flowing:

• Here are some good things to remember:
• You are only confined by the boundaries you set for yourself and your website. Allow yourself to think in a totally different way than you've ever thougt before.
• Your website content should be written for your buying customers….not for you or the search engines. The search engines are NOT your target audience.
• Think of the overall picture of your site, as if it were a living, breathing entity. Keeping in mind that websites should continue to grow and never be stale or stagnant.

Now Comes the Tips and Suggestions for Creating this Quality Content:

1. A calendar of events. Ask your visitors to post their events on your site, if it relevant and useful to your readers.
2. Before/after experiences. Perfect for weight loss sites, or sky diving, and extreme sports sites.
3. Pictures from your customers. Perfect for travel sites, recreational sites, and children's sites. Most people would be thrilled to discuss their trips and their children.
4. Have things to download on your site for children, this could be coloring sheets, always put your logo and website address on it. People can download and print sudoku number puzzles or crossword puzzles, to add to the stickiness fo your site. Be creative, convert some of your posts into pdf's that people can download.
5. Obviously forums are a great way to add interactivity and conversation to your site.
6. Writing new, fresh content on a regular basis. These posts can be short, and relevant to what is going on in your niche.
7. An expert Q&A on the main page of your site. Get an expert to answer questions and post one question/answer a week on the main page of your site. Have past Q&A's in a searchable archive on your site.
8. Product reviews, do them yourself or JV with someone who likes to give their opinion….know anyone like this???
9. Short tips, lists like this one. They don't have to be long they can even be things that people have heard before. Resources to jog people's memory or think in a different way is the idea.
10. FAQ's, this is a big one. FAQ's are content. I visit forums in my industry and see what people are talking about and then I try to answer those same questions on my site at Crafty Places. I find alot of useful information in the craft forums for content for my site.
11. How-to-guides. Do a resource guide with how-to information, and links to other useful information. If you sell car parts have how-to guides about installing a carborator. Well, that is a little extreme but you get the idea!
12. Content that solves a problem. Just like with the FAQ's. The internet is the number one place where people do research, some people have to absorb all the information on a given topic before they settle on something, make sure they finish up on your site. If you can solve problems for your visitors, you're giving them just what they're looking for online. For my craft site I have my design team members give step by step examples of how they accomplished their craft. Pictures are very helpful and most of the time necessary, a video is even better! More on video later.
13. Historical data. This is important if you have a car parts site or are a realtor, potential buyers want to know the history of the car, or house before purchasing. They certainly would want to know if they previous owners were smokers or hot rodders. For crafty places one of my first posts was about the arts and crafts movement of the 19th century. I dug up an old book from the library and gave some facts and history about how arts and crafts got started.
14. Interviews. This is the easiest and most generally helpful content. Especially with podcasts and how easy it is to jump on the phone click record and download stratight to your blog, you can't be without this type of content.
15. Seasonal articles. Is your industry "seasonal", for example the craft industry is very seasonal. I have a ton of ways to capitalize on this for my niche. For example, if you have a safety blog Halloween and 4th of July are excellent opportunities to write articles on staying safe while still having fun.

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