It’s often said that you should simply “write great content for your users” in order to do well from an SEO perspective. I think it should be more correctly stated as: “Write great content about a topic that your users care about and which few have done a good job addressing”. There are many aspects of this definition that will be interesting to explore, but what we’re going to address in this article is how to write content “about a topic”. I would argue that the most important step in content optimization is a final “unoptimization” step you should always perform before finalizing any document – to ensure you’ve successfully made the document be *about* the topic you’re targeting. Read on »