SEO content creation: 50 time & sanity-saving tips

Content, content, content.

That’s the mantra these days, wherever you turn. Google’s Panda and Penguin updates – and the collective tenor of the online marketing industry – have skyrocketed the demand for fresh, original, quality content…on a consistent basis.

As the top SEO priority for businesses large and small, content creation has many folks scrambling. If you’re one of them, overextended and overwhelmed by the daunting task of continuous content development – or if you just need some time-saving ideas – then you’re at the right place!

Here are six of Heather’s most popular how-to’s on saving your time and sanity when developing SEO content, including both video and written posts. Enjoy!

1. Blogger’s block? Time crunch? 5 easy ways to reuse your blog posts

Crunched for time? Uninspired? Suffering blogger’s block? 

You’re not alone, by any means.  A lot of bloggers struggle with the occupational hazard of being chained to creating exceptional content on a regular basis – even if their muse, time, and sanity are suffering. So in today’s video blog, Heather shares five easy – note, easy – ways you can reuse your hard-labored, older blog posts to produce new, fresh content!

2. 25 SEO copywriting tips and content ideas you can implement today

It doesn’t make a difference if you’re a big brand or a DIY small business. One of the hardest things about launching a Web writing campaign is figuring out how to start.

If you’ve been facing content marketing overload, here are 25 SEO copywriting tips you can implement right now…

3. The Veg-O-Matic approach to SEO copy development

One of the areas where many site owners get “stuck” is content creation. There are more SEO copy opportunities than ever before, including:

• Tweets
• Facebook posts
• Product/service pages – new pages, as well as updates to existing pages
• Case studies
• Blog posts
• White papers
• Videos
• Webinars

(I’m sure you could add more to the list.)

The challenge with “content overload” is that nothing gets done. Planning an editorial calendar seems impossible. There’s too much to write in too little time.

That’s when you bring in the SEO content Veg-O-Matic to slice and dice your content into little bits…

4. 3 SEO content ideas for the blogging blocked

 If you’ve been blogging awhile, eventually you’ll probably hit the point where you’re not sure what to write about anymore. It can be very frustrating to sit there, looking at a blank page, thinking, I need to come up with a post, what am I going to do?

So here are some ideas for those folks who may be stuck because they’ve been blogging for a while, or for those who are just starting to blog and they’re looking for different avenues in which to do it…

5. 15 headsmacking SEO copy ideas

I love “headsmacking” SEO copy opportunities. You know, ideas that are so simple, easy and obvious that they make you hit your head and say “Doh” when someone points them out.

It’s easy to have blind spots around our own SEO copy – we either look at it all the time (so we don’t see opportunities,) we wrote it (so we’re too close to it,) or both. Here are the most common headsmacking opportunities I see…

6. How to create an editorial calendar

Are you feeling the need to get your (editorial) act together? If so, you’re in luck, as today’s SEO copywriting video is on how to create an editorial calendar. Heather has wanted to do a video how-to on creating an editorial calendar – especially for those new to SEO content writing and for DIY SEO copywriters – because she realized that in previous posts, her using the words “editorial calendar” may have implied a complex concept, when in fact it is very simple.

Tune in as Heather de-complicates the “editorial calendar” with three steps to creating one that serves both you and your content development team…

Thanks for joining us for this video and text post mashup! What time-saving tips would you add? Please share them in the comments below!

photo thanks to striatic