Comments on: The C-Word And Why Content Isn’t King https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/ SEO Copywriting Training and Content Writing Tips Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Heather Lloyd-Martin https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-152083 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:11:27 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-152083 In reply to John.

John, your question is a good one. Although Google LOVES long, resource-rich articles, I’m not sure how many folks really *read* them. They may share them. They may mean to read them someday. But I’m not sure, especially in the age of content shock, if readers dig in and devour long posts.

]]> By: John https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-152067 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:22:07 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-152067 Great post!

Yes, the good writers are still saying the same thing they’ve been saying: connect with your audience. ( I like reading advice from James Chartrand, of Men with Pens and Damn Fine Words fame.)

Does anyone actually read those 2500 word articles?

]]> By: Heather Lloyd-Martin https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-126667 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:19:01 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-126667 Ugh, James, I’m so sorry you went through that. It sounds amazingly frustrating — especially when you figure that a large company should know better. :(

You would have enjoyed this week’s SEO Copywriting Buzz newsletter. I went on a rant against the word count myth. Needless to say, it got a great response…and it was very fun to write.

Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: James Mawson https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-126634 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:59:01 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-126634 Yeah, earlier this year I was working full time as a copywriter at one of Australia’s largest online marketing agencies. Pretty much every page we wrote was about hitting 300 words and writing to a certain keyword density in as short a time as possible. The entire website strategy had been set ages ago, and deciding what needed to be said on the website was a total afterthought. In 2015. Crazy.

]]> By: Kristine M Smith https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-56797 Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:31:53 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-56797 AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!

]]> By: Andrew Healey https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-55400 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:09:03 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-55400 Excellent post, Heather. Content must have value. It should educate or entertain. Otherwise, it’s just merely “content” filling a space.

]]> By: Heather Lloyd-Martin https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-55349 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:54:17 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-55349 In reply to Tubbydev.

Thanks, @Tubbydev, for your perspective. I think I’d still write outstanding content, even if there’s poor competition. After all, all it would take is one competitor with a fantastic blog to knock yours out of the water (and take away your profits/market share…)

]]> By: Heather Lloyd-Martin https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-55346 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:52:54 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-55346 In reply to Michael Cambron.

Hey Michael!

I may have had you in mind when I was writing my post. :) Hopefully, you’ve moved on from feeling guilty and KNOW that you deserve much more than 1 cent a word!

]]> By: Tubbydev https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-55321 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:11:08 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-55321 Hello, great post BUT i think that you have to consider that “content” and performances of this content in Google DEPEND ON competition (between publishers).
If there is BIG competition about one subject, you will have to write great content (quality).
If there is poor competition, you need only quantity.
If there is poor competition, you don’t need efforts to connect people because they don’t have something else to read or to see ..
Don’t do more than needed (except for pleasure ;-))

]]> By: Michael Cambron https://seocopywriting.com/the-c-word-and-why-content-isnt-king/#comment-55303 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:10:32 +0000 http://seocopywriting.com/?p=23452#comment-55303 Hi Heather,

Spot on post. As you know, I was writing content for one of those “Content Mills” where I was getting paid 1 cent per word, and had to meet extreme deadlines. The result was a guilty feeling that I was writing junk due to a lack of research time needed to write the best content that would make a connection.

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