"Content is King," Bill Gates said in 1996, and we waited many years to fully understand the wisdom of this saying. In Greek, what he said means that the content is king, and of course his prophecy was fully justified 20 years later.
Content is what Google categorizes for it and SEO is 100% influenced by quality content.
Today, design is finally focused on content: Rich text, great photos and videos, have become the backbone of the modern website. The content emerges from the layout and decorative elements, or, in other words, design is the 'packaging' for the content.
Visitors do not come to our site to admire the layout or the overall design. They do not come to admire the wrapper. Visitors come to our site to achieve their goal. Their goal is to extract the information they want, that is, to search, find, filter and extract some of the content.
The layout and design of a website certainly attracts and invites visitors, but only works when there is relevant, useful and 'catchy' content.
Google itself has stated in the guidelines for webmasters that every website should have some utility, a purpose that usually should be to serve a basic need of its end user.
Building a website with no content is pointless
The purpose of building a corporate website is to present your business, activities, services and products. As beautiful as the design is, the wrapper, the one that will boost Google's eyes and win over visitors and potential customers, is the content.
Your corporate website will not be successful simply because you will use WordPress and a beautifully designed theme. It will not be successful simply because it will have many meta tags and keywords. Your corporate website will be successful when it has rich, original, well-written content that answers the visitors' queries before they are well worded.
Answer the potential questions of your customers. Provide as much technical information and data as your visitors and customers will find useful. Refresh the content of your website by adding new products, new articles, fresh content.
Your corporate website is designed to turn visitors into customers. Design is what will make the content stand out. Pictures and texts are what will convince visitors.
Collect and create unique content
A few days ago a friend of mine wanted to build a website for hagiography because he is a second generation hagiographer himself and his brothers. But there was one key problem. The content.
Why build a website with a logo and a slider and probably 5 pictures of hagiographies and a church with no future and no walk in Google.
The reasons for not walking are simple, for lack of content. In order for your website to have a footprint on Google and to be considered a boring website, the visitor must have something to see and stay within your site.
Give visitors the information they are looking for
According to Google again, you should provide high quality content on your pages, especially on your homepage. This is the most important thing to do. If your pages contain useful information, their content will attract a lot of visitors and will entice webmasters and webmasters of other sites to link to your site.
To create a useful website rich in information, write pages that clearly and precisely describe your topic. Think of the words people will type to find your pages and include those words in your site.
Think and study in advance what the world and your prospective customers are looking for on the web and create relevant pages.
For example at this particular hagiography site we have to make separate pages for each church that has been hagiographied by region in order to catch the keywords in local searches.
At the same time, we would also like to include videos from every church uploaded to YouTube and incorporate them into our website as well as photos and texts.
Texts should be over 1250 words long. You can see how you should write your articles in the article: How to write a perfect article for Google and your audience.