All Your Content Is New Content

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We all know, as Wealthy Affiliate members, that our websites need to have regular fresh content added if we want to rank well in the search engines.

Websites that create new posts on a regular basis week in week out are going to do better than those that don’t (provided of course that the content is of high value and engaging).

However, the search engines don’t just notice the latest posts. Their crawlers pick up changes and updates throughout your whole site.

By freshening up old content and bringing it more up to date you will notice an improvement in the ranking of any posts you work on.

But it’s not only the updates you make to your posts that counts as new content. Any comments you get on your posts is a part of your new content too.

So whenever I update an older post and improve the content, I make a point of ensuring I request a few comments from site comments here at W.A.

The comments also add to the overall word count of your article as far as the search engines are concerned. If the comments you get add a further 500 words to your article length then that could help your ranking too.

One of the most underestimated advantages of site comments however is that they can really help to improve your content.

A number of times I have finished an article thinking I have included everything I need to. But then I get a few comments and questions and realise the article isn’t as complete as it should be. If someone has read my article and has a question to ask then clearly it hasn’t covered every area it perhaps should.

Comments are vital content for your site, and that’s why the search engines place a high amount of value. Getting comments means visitors are engaging with your site. When your site matures, and you regularly produce engaging content you will get more and more comments naturally from readers who have found your site via the search engines.

However, if you’re just beginning, and you want to put as much high quality and engaging content as possible on your site, don’t forget about site comments to both increase the amount of content you have, and to help improve it as well.

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Great post, Ray! Thanks for sharing!

Jeff

Thanks Jeff, good to see you.

Thanks, Ray! Good to see you as well!

Jeff

A most interesting and informative post.

Stuart

Thanks Stuart, pleased to hear you found it helpful.

You are more than welcome.

You are so right! Thanks for sharing :-)

Hi Luc,
Good to see you, thanks for reading.

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