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If you\u2019re a WordPress user who plans on using content anywhere on your WordPress site or your client\u2019s WordPress sites, you need stop what you\u2019re doing and read what Google\u2019s Matt Cutts recently said about the \u201cnew\u201d rules of SEO Copywriting.<\/p>\n
As a blogging platform, WordPress relies heavily on delivering valuable content in order to achieve high rankings. Sure, it\u2019s nice to have back links and social book marks, but the content is what people come to your blog to read, so you need to get that right if you want good search engine rankings and a lot of traffic.<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about how SEO, as we know it, only has two more years to live. I got some interesting comments, some of them from people who are still insisting that the old rules of SEO are just as important today as they\u2019ve always been. I\u2019m talking about rules like:<\/p>\n
But the new rules of SEO aren\u2019t this cut and dried. They\u2019re driven more by social principles than by the application of mathematical formulas. The primary mistake may bloggers and SEOs are still making is applying the old rules of SEO in their blogging and content writing.<\/p>\n
They create content that\u2019s \u201ckeyword rich,\u201d but which read like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cWordPress Tutorials is our specialty on this website! If you\u2019re sick of WordPress tutorials that are too hard to understand or which assume you already have good knowledge of WordPress development, you\u2019ll love our WordPress tutorials. Our WordPress tutorials\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n -Okay, so I\u2019m exaggerating a bit, but you get the point. Have you ever seen a WordPress blog that reads like this ^ ranking at the top of the search engines?<\/p>\n Maybe several years ago. But the mighty Google Penguin and Panda updates have wiped those sites off the face of cyberspace. If you\u2019re one of the WordPress users who saw your search engine traffic disappear during one of the last Google updates, you already know what I mean.<\/p>\n So if you don\u2019t want this to happen in the future, you might be interested in hearing what Matt Cutts from Google recently said about the new rules of SEO copywriting\u2026.<\/p>\n Google technology has evolved a lot over the past 10 years. It used to be that their search spiders could only detect keywords based on exact matches and rank online content accordingly. So if you wanted to appeal to the search engines, you sometimes had to use funky sounding keyword phrases in your blogs and articles just to get the attention of the search engines.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all changed.<\/p>\n Google now has the capability of determining the relevancy of blog and article content as well as web pages using clusters of keywords which are found distributed throughout your content. They\u2019re even using synonym matches to determine content relevancy. Ever wondered how those blogs that didn\u2019t seem to even contain your primary keywords were ranking above yours?<\/p>\nThe New Rules of SEO Copywriting: Keyword Density is Old News<\/h2>\n