Seo Article Writing--how You Can Optimize Your Articles For Search Engines

Your articles must be optimized for the search engines. In the internet, content is king and article is the most powerful way to generate content. Article is like an open book for all to read. Content is not just king, the search engines also love fresh and original content.

People are afraid of keyword SPAMMING but what I found out is that a lot of articles are not optimized for the search engines as such lose their relevance to surfers who are searching for information or solution to their problems and challenges. You have to reprogram your mind to write SEO article not just another regular article. For instance if the keyword you are targeting is ‘meditation,’ instead of writing ‘articles’ I should be specific by writing ‘meditation articles’

The heart and soul of SEO article writing is keyword research. Without relevant keyword or key phrases, your articles will lose focus and will not benefit your surfers when they querry the search engines. Keyword rich and relevant articles (called SEO articles) are win-win both for the web surfers, you the author of the articles, and your search engine ranking. This is because the search engines treat your article as an individualized web page. If your articles are not search engine optimized, people will not find your site and you will not rank high in the search engines or make money. Note that every article is a soft sell or subtle advertising for the writer who is positioning himself as an expert or problem solver.

However, you should not position yourself as an article author; you should sell yourself as an information marketer. Marketers make money while strick academic, ivory tower article authors have empty pockets. Remember that there is no best-writing author; you have a best selling author. If you are not generating leads and converting your readers to customers, your energy writing all these powerful SEO articles will be wasted.

Choose on or two keyword to optimize in your SEO article writing. The rest should be synonyms of the key phrases you are optimizing for the search engines. The search engines don’t only look for your keyword but also the keyword popularity, keyword density, as well as on-page placement of keywords in your SEO articles.

Generally, SEO articles should be between 350 to 700 words. Search engines love focused content and great attention to targeted keywords to enable web surfers find what they are looking for.

Within the body of the SEO articles, a lot of work should be paid to the headlines nicknamed titles when it comes to articles. Search engines pick on headlines first. Work hard to craft your headlines with one or two of your keyword. 80% of your time and energy should be focused on your title or headlines. In crafting your article titles, try as much as possible to remove stop phrases like a, and, the, of, and because. These are called stop words and most search engines do not index them. The title font should be H1 tag-- fancy way of saying that the title should contain the biggest letters.

The next biggest heading type is H2 tags reserved for subheading or subtitles found inside the body an SEO article. Some people call these set of tags ‘scan or paragraph breakers’ because majority of people scan instead of reading for lack of time. This is the case with especially long articles.

In the body of the SEO article, the first two sentences in the paragraph should also contain your keyword or key phrases if those articles must be relevant for the search engines.

The next thing you must bear at the back of your mind is that every other subsequent paragraph in an SEO article should have at least one keyword. Don’t over do it by writing more than two keywords. In my case, I try to use synonyms (keywords that are similar in meaning) for variety. It makes you more creative and more natural.

Your conclusion or summary towards the end is also where search engines look at for keyword relevance. Incorporate this in your SEO article writing.

Generally your keyword density for an SEO article should be about 10% or less of your total word count (350-700 words).

Your article resource box may be the most powerful part of your unique selling proposition. Make good use of it. That’s also the only place for your call to action. Your author's bio is also the only place where article directories allow you to insert your URL of the SEO article. Make sure you use anchor text instead of direct URL. If you want deep links, place the articles in your blog first before submitting it to article directories for distribution.

By: uzo onukwugha

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Uzo onukwugha has positioned himself to help article writers, authors and copywriting maximize their search engine relevance. The result is that you will rank high in the search engine for your keyword, generate trafic and turn browsers into buyers.