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Slow and steady content-creation wins the Google Search race

Slow and steady morning jog and jogging

Fully, generously, and even a little verbosely populating your website, your blog, your social media profiles, and your social media content is 100x more important to your success than “optimizing for search.”

Morning Runs

To put it in colloquial terms, doing a slow hour jog every morning in a cotton t-shirt, gym shorts, and an old pair of Saucony Jazz will do more for your chances when you race your first 5k than subscribing to Runner’s World, reading Jeff Galloway’s book on marathoning, and spending a grand on the perfect light and wicking shoes, shorts, socks, shirts, shades, and shells.

Because there are so many people selling, marketing, and promoting SEO services, putting the cart before the horse is very compelling. And, in DC, everyone buys the outfit before they hit the road running. But you don’t need do.

Long story short: you need something to optimize before you can optimize and that requires germane and salient online content that best reflects you. What you don’t need to do — and maybe even shouldn’t do — is go on a content bender over a long Summertime weekend. Spend Labor Day with your family!

1970 Dogwood Street

Jen Tucker and Anne Haas of 1970 Dogwood StreetDo what I do, do what Anne and Jen did and do: they started their site and their blog on for-free and so easy to use Blogger Blogspot; then, after getting into blogging, really committing to a committed and weekly editorial calendar, and even really enjoying the process of sharing their process, passions, interests, and even their meals, recipes, and the books they’re reading, they took the next step: upgrading to a customized WordPress combination website and blog.

They spent over a year running in trainers and shorts and shirts getting into the groove of the runner’s life before — did they love it or did they do it begrudgingly — before they splurged at Pacers.

I have been helping out Anne Haas and Jen Tucker over at 1970 Dogwood Street, a Northern Virginia and Washington, DC, interior design and organization firm, with the search engine optimization (SEO) of their website. While they launched their new website, they didn’t spend any time optimizing for search.  While Anne and Jen “help clients tackle visible clutter, personalize their living spaces, and transform their homes into sanctuaries” they also blog and tweet and Instagram and Facebook about their clients, their design trips, their exploration, their interests, their current fascinations, and their influences — they even give generous shout outs to the local “competition” and other people’s work that they like.

They’re doing it right because they love doing it. They’ve taken the content creation life to heart and, as I have finally been optimizing their site for Google Search, it has been a breeze because there is so much to work with. In fact, they’ve so taken blogging to heart that they’re all over me whenever my WordPress and site updates in any way interrupt of change their process at all (no good deed goes unpunished).

That’s where you want to get. You want to achieve whatever Jen and Anne have. Because it’s sustainable and they’ll never become frustrated by the work because it’s become part of their lives and they’ve integrated it into their lives as part of their daily bread.

Optimize After You Build Your Base

Now, it’s time to take it to the next step with optimization: connecting to Google Analytics, Bing, Yandex, Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools, sitemaps, metadata and tags and all that fun stuff.

Feel free to own the yacht but hire a crew if you’re not yet seaworthy. If you get my drift and want to adopt the yachting lifestyle yourself but either don’t have the mad sailing skills yourself, don’t yet posses a world-class crew, and don’t know yet where to go, then you should give me a call or reach out me by email — so I can help you pilot your vessel now, in the tranquil blue-green shallows of the Caribbean, as well as in the roughest seas and into — as well as out of — the storm.

If you’d like to chat more, call me at +1 (202) 869-3210 Ext 0001  email me, or feel free to self-schedule a 15-minute call, a 30-minute call, or a 60-minute call with me.

Until then, regale yourself on all of the blog posts I have written in the past year on the subject of content-creation and content marketing:

 

Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham, digital strategist and technologist, is a leading expert in digital: search engine optimization (SEO), online relationship management (ORM), Internet privacy, Wikipedia curationsocial media strategy, and online public relations with a focus on blogger outreachinfluencer engagement, and Internet crisis response, with the digital PR and social media marketing agency Gerris digital. [Feel free to self-schedule a 15-minute call, a 30-minute call, or a 60-minute call with me] A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, web strategy consultant and adviser to the industries' leading firms. Chris Abraham specializes in web technologies, including content marketing, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media.  Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr, and top-10 social media influencers by Marketwire; and, for what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 79 the last time he looked. Chris Abraham started doing web development back in 1994, SEO in 1998, blogging in 1999, influencer engagement in 2003, social media strategy in 2005, blogger outreach in 2006, and Wikipedia curation in 2007. Feel free to self-schedule a 15-minute call, a 30-minute call, or a 60-minute call. If you want to know the services that Chris offers check out Services If you want to work with Chris use the Contact Form You're welcome to follow me via Social Media You can learn more about Chris over in About Chris writes a lot so check out the Blog Chris offers webinars so check Events

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