What is the ‘Content Emporium’
January 11, 2010 in Admin
A few years ago I started to get involved with website design (doesn’t everyone), at first it was just for fun but as more and more of my websites came online it became apparent that the sites could only be found if you entered into the search engine a very specific search term. There were just gazillions of websites that offer the same generic service as my clients, after all our hard work of site design, careful keyword selection and so on the sites were no where to been seen.
Whether you are a small start-up web designer or a marketing guru for a major corporation getting your site visible to the masses is a hard task. Nowadays there are directory websites, some free, some not, that will add a listing whether it be a simple URL link or small article to their listings, and at first sight they seem to be the answer to help promote your site and raise it’s awareness to the search engines. After all, we all want links to our website as we know it helps our ranking. Having spent some very lonely days researching how to give your website kudos it has become apparent that quality links to your website are what count and not simply quantity. Many directory listings can actually harm your kudos and send you plummeting of the search engine results pages, so what to do?
Seek Out Quality User Driven Article Directories
The key to your website success is it’s content, it’s articles, it’s information. Rather than just have a URL listing to your website and hope that it gets you some search engine love, submit a full, content rich, keyword rich article to an article directory. Not only will you be able to provide high quality informative content from your site but you can link to other like minded conscientious authors who also add value to your business, hobby or products.
With article directories you are in control of what links to your website and you can post as many articles (without duplicating) as you need. If you add a new section to your website submit an article to promote it. Seeking out the quality article directory websites can be a minefield so it’s an idea to look through the content that already exists and see if you feel that it is well structured and well written, you don’t want to be associated with poorly written articles! So with all that in mind I decided to create the Content Emporium, a category structured authority.
Editor Controlled Publishing
We have all heard the saying “Content is King” and even bad content is king, so to prevent the directory from being associated with bad content all articles submitted are proof read, tweaked (if needed) and then published by editors. This ensures a consistent high standard of published articles which will only give your website a good reputation. The article guidelines are there to help achieve the high standard required for an authority and is a must read by anyone wishing to become a contributor.
Content Emporium’s Ultimate Aim
By creating a website with good quality, relevant and up to date content it will given time become an authority with the many search engines that we all use daily to find our information. With a good authority comes good ranking and with good raking comes good back link kudos. The websites that are linked to from within this authority will therefore receive good weight for their rankings, well when the site becomes established anyway.
As with any new community there are always things that have not been included from the outset and if you have a suggestion for improvement or require a new category to be added please use the contact page and send me a message.
Hi, I’ve just submitted my first article. Hooray for me! I couldn’t see the usual Wordpress toolbar that let’s you choose font style, e.g. Header 3, etc. so we can create subheadings.
Hi KennyG, the ‘Format’ drop down list where you can specify the formatting for the text is hidden by default and as yet I have not found out how to set it to default to visible. You can show it by pressing the ‘Show/Hide Kitchen Sink’ button on the end of the first row in the text editor.