Texas hold em poker blog content

I intended originally to continue my Keys to Winning Poker Tournament series today.  However, my internet connection has taken a dive, so I can’t access my notes to construct a smart poker article to contribute to the Keys to Winning Poker Tournaments series of poker strategy discussions.  Instead, the drunken rambling topic of the day is Texas Hold em Blogging – more specifically, Texas Hold em Poker Blog Content.

Poker Blog Content Introduction

In case it was not painfully obvious, I am a poker blogger.  The Poker Pub is my Poker Blog.  My Poker Pub Poker Blog is the central Poker Blog of the Online Poker Circuit. I blog poker for the Online Poker Circuit at the Poker Pub Poker Blog.

Wow, that was painful.  Not too much pizazz in that introductory paragraph on Poker Blogging, was there?  If I read that, I’d surely have clicked the X in the top right corner of my browser by now, had I not fallen asleep………

The problem with that intro paragraph is, well…  Its obvious.  I did do one thing properly, however.  I had a point and I stressed it.  I just did not go about it the right way.  Its important to stress a point when blogging poker content, but don’t overdo it like I just did.  There are many ways to emphasize a point without repeating it.

More emphasis, less repetitious

During a lecture in college, I had a professor who would repeat everything he deemed “test worthy” right after he said it.  It would go something like this:

“I am discussing the topic of poker blog content.  I repeat, I am blogging on the topic of poker blog content.”

We would know he wanted us to be aware that we would see the topic of poker blog content on our upcoming exam.  He got the point across, but made for a boring lecture.  Reputation is good when it comes to writing poker content, but should not be overdone, less a snooze fest.

Better ways to make a point when writing poker content

Another college professor of mine had similar ideas.  He wanted to tip us off that certain points in the lecture were testable, but he didn’t bother repeating himself verbatim.  Instead, this professor would creatively emphasize the main points for testing purposes.  He’d tap on the board while saying “This is a poker blog.”  Sometimes, he would hit the podium while saying Poker content writing here.

Yet other times, he’d go so far as to stand on his desk while shouting:

Poker Blog – Content relating to poker coming through!

He commanded our attention, keeping the lecture interesting while doing a great job of stressing his points without being too redundant.

Know your audience – write to them

Many of us poker content writers repeat for the sake of search engine recognition.  We want the search engines to know that when they come to the Poker Pub, they will find content relating to poker.  We over repeat ourselves so that the spiders can figure it out.  Trust me – even though my biggest incoming link is anchored JustHere4theBeer, the spiders all know I am blogging on poker (and sometimes beer).

Leave the search engine content tweaking to the Meta tags.  When you write your articles, write to the live audience, stress your point – repeat as often as necessary without overdoing it – let the Meta tags address the spiders and search engine readers.  I might add, however, there is nothing wrong with occasionally throwing in a twist or angle to persuade search engines to notice you for something extra.  As I said, I am writing Poker Content in the confines of this Poker Article.

My audience at this moment is mostly poker content writers and poker webmasters.  This is not my targeted audience, but currently, my main audience is said crowd.  With that in mind, I am discussing poker content writing to cater to my audience.

My poker strategy articles target my intended audience, which is the online and live poker players looking to better their game by reading and discussing poker strategy.  Eventually they will find me, and I too will find them.  Until then, I mix it up with poker blog content targeting my ideal audience – poker players‘ interest, while reaching out to touch base with my current poker content provider audience.  Doing so may help me keep the attention of the poker writer community as well as help me to reach online poker players and live poker players alike.

Poker content conclusion

If you have kept your eyes open throughout the course of this article, you’ve hopefully taken away the following:

• Write poker content to your intended audience
• Do not neglect your actual audience while writing about poker
• Stress main ideas in your poker blogs content, but don’t overdo it
• Use Meta data to help search engines figure out you are writing poker strategy
• Summarize – add an extra idea, ask for discussion, feedback or recognition

Choose a topic, communicate, expand on the idea, and leave a final added “gold poker chip” of information.  Unrelated, multi-topic posts on poker are far more effective and will reach more poker blog readers as two separate posts than they are as an uber-poker-blog-post (iggy is exempt from this gold chip of advice).  If you enjoyed or benefited from this article, please bookmark it, link to it, give me feedback, comment, phone a friend – get the word out for the Poker Pub Poker Blog.