Can I ask a ?….

What happens when you have 2 clients fighting for the same thing? What do you do when you client want to rank for “WordPress SEO” (doing the best I can for you!!) and this is what you want also?

Of course, a person wanting WordPress SEO would most likely not come to you, but this is just an example.

@WriterDad – Thanks, Sean. You know what’s funny is that as I was writing this, I had in mind the comments and the conversation we on that post on your blog a couple months ago. That mindset was what I was trying to crack with this.

@Eric – Thanks very much for the kind words. I take that as serious praise if I really could explains well enough for a 5-year-old to understand (any 5-year-olds please contact me to verify, thanks).

@Franklin – You know it, buddy.

@Scott – You have hit on a very important thing: SEO must be part of the planning of a site–even the entire business–from the beginning. It must be part of the DNA. SEO is not an afterthought. It also means you can charge more!

@John – Well said! You and I are of the same mind on this.

@Jim – Thanks! If you think the free content is good, wait till you see what you get when you pay for it.

@Owain – The web is growing at breakneck speed. You cannot succeed online without SEO any more than an Olympic athlete could win the gold without training. Concerning the difficulty of SEO, I would say it’s as difficult as anything else internet-related, no more or less. The technology allows non-coders to get good SEO now, which lowers the barrier to entry.

Let’s realize that we are business owners and we need to think like entrepreneurs. Owning a website (your business) and not paying much attention to SEO is like owning a brick and mortar store and never listing your business in the Yellow Pages and figuring putting up a sign in the front doesn’t really matter because your product will speak for itself, so you need no sign.

If all it took to succeed in business was good copywriting skills then that’s what we should all learn in business school by far.

This is a good article Michael and I hope it debunks some of the myths out there that good SEO means bad content / writing.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Good SEO actually focuses your content when done properly. Good SEO means you write for people and at the same time you’re making sure Google notices, too.