How important is content for SEO?

When people create a website and start to optimize it for search engines like google (which may take much time) they forget the things which are more important than SEO. Content. Google can not see pictures, so the only way to let them know what you have on your site may be via text. Is it really so difficult to put text on our sites?

many website creators care more on how the site looks like, and take less care about it´s functions.It is true that Flash, can be used to create a very beautiful site, but nice layouts with animations, completely neglect the fact that we are building a useful site for the world, not just for us.

When optimizing you sites, its content should be the first thing you think of. Many people may say "I don't even know what to write." Well, your site is an extension of your business/service/whatever, and as such you are likely to be well versed in that area. But I think people get caught up in the idea that the text is going to be placed on the site, promoting the attention to variables such as what font to use, what color, how it will look, etc.

So what to do to create a text. The best advice I can give you is to write your text with pen and paper and then type it via textpad not word (this may cause problems with copy and paste). Just write about anything of your business, yourself, your service, everything can be used in future, you never know how things will develop in future. You should try to write specific (for keyword reasons). That way it isn't hard to create an article with more than 1000 words. You may not use everything ones, but maybe in future. 500 words of text may be enough for a site, you see, this may be a good start.

After all think about spacing, fontsize, color and so on. This is one of the biggest
mistakes which are done while creating content for your site.
Try it out, this method will surly help. Content is so very important to search engine optimization, and should be treated as such.

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