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This encourages the reader to continue reading as they can apply the information to themselves, and want to continue to find out how they can relate to what you have to say. The longer the visitor sticks around your website, the better your chance of getting your message across and the more likely you are to achieve your goal, whether that be to inform your reader, sell a product, or brand your company.
Keywording is another important part of web design and web content writing. This means that for every page of your website, you need to select one or two of the terms that would most likely be used by someone looking on a search engine for that kind of page. For example, if you have a website about painting, you may have a page with the keyword “paint rollers”, “professional painters”, or “how to paint”. It all depends on the purpose of the page, and how you think someone would look for that page on a site such as Yahoo! or Google. Further to choosing the keyword, you need to know how to use it. You need to make sure that it is worked naturally into your content, or the page will be useless, even if it brings in a lot of traffic. Nobody wants to read a sentence such as “Our Barking Dog From Neighbor Stop will make sure that you never have to listen to a yappy dog again.” It doesn’t make any sense, and there is no real message behind it. Though “barking dog from neighbor stop” may be a good search word, but once the visitors arrive, they will be put off by the terrible wording and grammar.
Once you have determined what you’re going to say, why, and how you’re going to say it, it’s also important to lay it out properly so that your visitors won’t struggle visually to read it. This means that you need to use the right fonts, font sizes, colors, and spacing.
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