Hi today we will discuss how to use search engine optimization (SEO) for writing articles.
Have you ever written an article and not received as much traffic as you wished? You may have been trying to promote or introduce a product or establish yourself as a reputed author, but the number of visitors proved disappointing. This may have been in part due to a lack or proper use of SEO techniques for your article.
How do you use SEO for an article? First is choosing a great title. The title of your article is key. The title of your article is the first thing a reader or customer sees when he/she reads your article. A first impression is very important. The title also is used by the search engines to list your article in the rankings and forms a part of the ranking itself. The title determines, to a large extent, what keywords or search terms will bring up your article when a reader or customer does a search. So a great title, hopefully an eye catching title, is important. Also try to insert a keyword or two directly in the article itself. This helps greatly with SEO. At ArticleCardinal.com there are several features the directory uses to help you with SEO and title selection. ArticleCardinal.com has a unique feature called an optimized url text. This text will be used as a page name in all urls associated with your article and helps greatly with SEO. ArticleCardinal.com also allows you to choose the page title which is shown in the browser's title bar for search engine optimization.
Now we can look at the article itself. What can you do to make it more SEO friendly. Make your article at least 350 words in length. Add a keyword for every 100 words of the article. Make the keywords relevant to the article. And the title should be relevant to the article as well. Don't add tpp many keywords to the article...this is called "keyword stuffing" and your article ranking will be penalized by the search engines and the result will be less visitors to your article.
Well that's it for today. Visit ArticleCardinal.com for a great directory to publish your articles in.