how to improve your web content
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How can you improve your web content and make users stay on your web pages? Cut down your text, simplify your language and know your audience.TRANSCRIPT
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How to improve your contentWeb Producer Network event
Jenni Taylor29 April 2014
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What can good content do?
• improve visitor experience• organically improve SEO• help users engage with your pages• encourage them to perform specific tasks• make visitors decide to stay
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How long have you got?
Weibull distribution suggests the longer a visitor stays on a site, the more likely they are to stay. Most web pages have a negative ageing effect.
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You’ve got 10 seconds.
What do you remember?
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You’ve got 10 seconds.
What do you remember?
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You’ve got 10 seconds.
What do you remember?
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You’ve got 10 seconds.
What do you remember?
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Cut unnecessary words
Replace these with a single word
• A large number of• Despite the fact that • Personal opinion• Each and every• Has the opportunity to • End result• At this point in time • In a case which
• Many• Although• Opinion• Each, every, all• Can, could• Result• Now• When, where
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The recap (and the bits I missed)
• Know your audience• Make content easy to read• Connect with other content• Create unique and useful content• Tell a story• Put substance before style
Remember, it doesn’t matter what you decorate it with…
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It’s still a Nissan Micra
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Finally…
Take time with the details and enjoy writing.
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