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HOW TO BUILD AUTHORITY THROUGH CONTENT AND GOOGLE AUTHORSHIP<br />

You want something to write home about. You want something significant to<br />

share on Twitter or Google+. You want something that will rouse you out of<br />

bed for another meaningful day of work.<br />

And you want a little bit of attention or encouragement … because anonymity<br />

sucks.<br />

Fear and loathing in SEO copywriting<br />

And that’s what the general context for SEO copywriting has been for a while.<br />

Companies who want to rank high and build links clamor for content, hiring<br />

web writers by the dozens to grind out keyword-rich posts.<br />

Who cares who you are? It’s all about production …<br />

“Can you knock out fifteen posts on birth defects by this afternoon for $20 a<br />

pop? Do good work and I’ll have fifteen more assignments for you.”<br />

Oh, stop it. I’m swooning.<br />

If writers are running the show, nobody told the vendors — or Google, for that<br />

matter. In fact, it felt like Google wasn’t even listening.<br />

But they were.<br />

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