Comments on: Content is Not King

By: Tuesday

Tuesday — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:28:30 +0000

Amen, Well said.

By: jose

jose — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:05:20 +0000

first and foremost keyword research is king and definitely lord of the manor. content and seo is queen and last but not least the price is backlink and traffic..

at times I have seen terrible keywords and great traffic linkage overthrow all.. go figure

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:44:45 +0000

Thanks Jesse. I’m getting a lot of search engine traffic to the post you mentioned. Seems like a lot of people are asking this question and no-one else has written an answer that specific. :)

By: jesse

jesse — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:22:54 +0000

Shane – just found your site because of a VERY specific search in Google. Your site answered my question quicker and better than any of the other results did.

Thank you
Jesse

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:39:24 +0000

Yes, that’s probably it.
Don’t worry about it, no grammar-police here! :)

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:38:48 +0000

Hey, who knows, maybe you could make a viral cult site which just consists of the results people get from banging their heads on the keyboard. You know, user-generated micro-content like FML, MILA and all those.

On a more serious note: I agree that content is an important part of the puzzle and one might even say it’s the foundation for everything else, but it should not be overestimated.
Sometimes, trashy stuff actually works better than high-quality stuff.

By: Tim Traffic

Tim Traffic — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:08:36 +0000

Ahhh. Sorry about all the bad spelling in my previous comment. I think banging my head on the keyboard made it misbehave to get it’s own back.

By: Tim Traffic

Tim Traffic — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:06:13 +0000

Hang on. Just got to try something here….

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Ok. Point proved. Banging my head on the keyboard has not provided quality content. :o)

Great post though with a lot of good points I think quality content can win out in the end if enough people start to link to you or blog about you but it speeds up the recognition if you actively promote yourself and your blog.
Ultimately you have to have something worth the effort of someonw coming to visit and thn wnting to return again and again though whether you make money from readers as aainst new visitors is perhaps ahnother question. I’m impressed with your blog and it’s content so I will be back.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:50:45 +0000

Hi Vance,
That’s a very good analogy! And you’re absolutely right: It’s just easier to focus on one little thing and ignore the intricacies. Simple, short ideas simply stick, even if they are inaccurate or incomplete.

Thanks for your comment!

By: Vance Sova

Vance Sova — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:26:26 +0000

Hi Shane,

Your approach to the “Content is King” is a very sensible one.
There is no doubt that content is hugely important but it is not the only thing necessary for success online.

Off-line no king would be a king without his subjects. He would accomplish nothing without his servants etc.

I think that the same principle applies online.

It is human nature to focus on the head and forget about who or what carries it, feeds it etc.

Simplistic slogans serve well to attract masses of people looking for simplistic solutions. Populism is well both off-line and online.

Thus we have, as you call them, preachers focusing only on content or only on other important aspect like SEO to the exclusion of everything else.

It is very hard to find a balanced approach.

Vance