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MARKETING MATTERS factors: taste, time, ingredients, cooking level, etc. The title allowed you to quickly evaluate if this is the right recipe for you. Tell me, how different are your buyers? They too are faced with a wall of search results, just like you were when you searched for a recipe. What are the things that make them click on the link? Think back to your competitive advantages and your audience’s decision making factors. Talk about those things in your page titles and descriptions. Consistent Formatting Appeals to Viewers. You know what every recipe post has in common - a recipe at the bottom of the page. All of them are formatted the same. That's how you know to scroll to the bottom of the page to get what you want even when you've never been there before. You can do this on your website too. Your services pages can be formatted similarly, blog posts should look the same and all of your content should share similar formatting tactics. If you’re not sure how to format your content look at how other people do it. If you're posting job listings look at LinkedIn and Indeed, what do they share and how are their listings formatted? Jobseekers are used to looking at those sites. Share your information in the same format that they're used to. Mirroring a layout they already know keeps them feeling in control and comfortable. People will scroll. Even if they hate it. I’m not going to argue with you about how annoying it is to have to scroll to find what you want. But here’s the deal - you and I both know we scroll through a recipe blog to get to what we want. So, reality is people will scroll. As they're scrolling we have the opportunity to catch their attention and entice them to read the things we want them to read. Because they will scroll. And as annoying as scrolling is you need those words to get your content to rank. And in the end it’s more important to get your page to show up than it is to eliminate even the slightest hint of scrolling threat. So as much as you may hate the recipe bloggers for all their annoying tactics. Now you know why they do it, because it works. I'm not suggesting you start telling stupid useless stories before you get to the point on the pages of your site. I’m suggesting you take a look at the way these recipe bloggers reeled you in and how they successfully rank their content on Google. We can all learn a thing or two from them and maybe if we do it right, get our content to rank too. OF MICHIGAN www.sealpitchblack.com Dark Force Sealcoat Distributing LLC 7132 N Scott Rd | Saint Johns, MI 48879 989-224-4581 EMAIL: darkforcesealcoat@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- Serving all of Michigan and the Upper Peninsula For More Information On This Advertiser Please Visit www.CallAPE.com/e-inquiry For More Information On This Advertiser Please Visit www.CallAPE.com/e-inquiry 1.800.210.5923 [37] June 2020