Consistently Updated Website Content Increases Search Engine Page Ranking

December 2, 2009 by Jennifer Bourn | 1 Comment

updating website content consistentlyA frequently updated website, blog, or weblog with high-quality, relevant, personal, value-added content is the key to a high search engine page ranking. A website that is updated consistently with fresh content means you’ll be found by your prospects and customers much more often online, both in the search results, and through referral links.

In fact, while search engine optimization efforts do accelerate your results and help drive more traffic to your website, many entrepreneurs and business owners are seeing an increase in website traffic and search engine page rankings as a result of simply adding a blog to their existing website, or upgrading their existing website to include a blog and a complete content management system, such as WordPress (which is what this site is built on).

Here are some quick ideas to add fresh and new content to your website:

  • Add a newsroom or press room to your website and add press releases and new articles as appropriate.
  • Integrate a blog or upgrade your website to a blogsite to easily add short blog posts with valuable information.
  • Create an articles section on your website and add new articles as they are written.
  • Publish RSS feeds on your website of other complimentary blogs, positioning you as an information publisher.
  • Add a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section to your website and as your prospects and customers ask you new questions, add the question and answer to your website.

Do you have any other ideas on ways you can make it easy to add new content to your website? Have you tried on of these options and had success? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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    About the Authors: Jennifer and Brian Bourn owners of Bourn Creative, a Sacramento web design company, help established businesses build beautiful, feature-rich, custom WordPress websites and blogs, design powerful, personal brands, and help their clients learn to leverage their website and blog to attract more clients than they ever thought possible.


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    1. Actual Proof That Blogging is Great For Business | Bourn Creative

      Mar 14, 2010 at 03:03

      [...] us, publishing a blog with well written, frequently updated content has attracted new visitors to our site via search engines, enticed friends from Facebook and [...]

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