5 tiny tips for se optimising user generated content

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5 Tiny Tips for SEOptimising User Generated Content


The ability to interact with websites has really kept the internet going from strength to strength - without Web 2.0, the net would be a complete snooze and that user-generated content has quite a bit of SEO potential.


As well as giving you the chance to answer back to a blogger that has got it completely wrong! Today we check out the ways that you can take advantage of user generated content in your SEO strategy.


First - create user generated content

There are a ton of ways to invite user generated content, and start boosting your traffic, your reader engagement and also your SEO. These include:

Letting customers leave reviews Allowing personal photo, video or audio

uploads of you products in action Creating a blog and allowing comments Creating a wiki section for your site


The tag's in the bag

Let users tag your products with their own keywords. Provide a list of popular tags for them to start with also provide you with insight into keywords that should be part of your SEO strategy.


Let them title their content

Having titles on content is great for search engine optimisation, and even blog comments can be titled!

Forum posts, videos, reviews, photos, discussion board posts, and comments should all be titled.


Get your community's opinion

Utilise feedback forms and surveys on your site to gauge the impact of your SEO efforts on the user experience, to find out about what your competitors are doing that visitors value.


Use the Share button

Sharing is caring! Add a 'Share' button to your content that allows people to post your pages to their Facebook profile, to Digg/delicious/Stumbleupon, and to email the link. This throws links far and wide across the web and is great for SEO.

5 tiny tips for se optimising user generated content

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