The Google Webmaster Guidelines shed light
on how anyone should approach developing their content, whether it is content
for every webpage of the official website or articles to be used for internet
marketing. ‘Quality articles’ has a distinct definition by Google, like other
major search engines. To be ascertained as ‘quality articles’, the articles
would need to be relevant to what the user is looking for. This is the simplest
definition that Google would offer you.
However, in the broader picture, to create
quality articles one also needs to steer clear of any unacceptable practices
such as plagiarism, spinning and keyword stuffing. Plagiarism is actually
pretty common in these times when sourcing content from an existing webpage is
not a daunting challenge at all. Even if the articles are of relevance to a
reader, if they are duplicated or completely plagiarized then they are not
quality articles. Additionally, even if the articles are spun from existing
content that is already published somewhere on the internet then they also fail
the criteria for quality articles. Spun content may not be as easily spotted by
Google as plagiarized content if the spinning is done well, , as John
Phanchalad explains, but it would eventually be picked up by Google over time
when referencing and crosschecking of the content is done vis-à-vis authority
sites.
Keyword stuffing is another major factor
that Google Webmaster Guidelines suggests is not conducive to creating a
quality article and can be counterproductive in any internet marketing
strategy. Overstuffing of keywords, questions, words or phrases that users
would enter in the search engines is a strict no. With stuffed keywords, the
articles lose their readability and thus there is a compromise on the quality.
There are some guidelines offered by the
Google Webmaster to write a quality article and have an outline that would help
in getting quickly noticed and appreciated by Google. First, the keywords
should be in the title that should clearly describe what the content is. The
meta-tags should also be used to effectively state what the article is all
about. For instance, if an article is on the tips to insulate one’s home then
that is what should be mentioned explicitly and not a title or meta-tag that
says types of insulation systems. Simple factors such as these define
relevance.
In a nutshell, Google Webmaster says that
articles that aim at helping the reader by offering exactly the kind of
information that the user is looking for by entering a search criteria, would
be classified as good quality articles. For an internet marketing campaign to
be desirably effective, all contents created in the process should adhere to
the Google Webmaster Guidelines.
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