As we all know content plays vital role in helping your sites feature in the search engines. Quality and timely content is something that influences search engines.

Copyblogger contributor Sonia Simone has posted about the three content and SEO myths that exist in our minds.

Simone says, “There’s a major misunderstanding that underlies all of these small ones: that you have to prioritize SEO over your audience in order to get good results on the SERPs.

Consider Mark Schaefer’s recent statement:

“I never stood out as a voice in the industry until I stopped being a slave to Google. Be original or be optimized. It’s hard to serve two masters.”
– Mark Schaefer, Five golden lessons from writing 2,000 blog posts

I agree with Mark 100 percent that your content must be original. I don’t agree that you have to choose between being original or being (thoughtfully) optimized.

Write for your audience first. Then, educate yourself about common-sense ways you can tweak your content so that search engines understand what you’re doing.

If you’re doing dumb things because you think Google wants you to, stop immediately. There are times when the smartest thing you can do for your SEO is to ignore Google — at least for some of your content”.

Do Content Writers Really Need to Think about SEO?

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