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Those are some of the first questions I asked myself when I first started thinking about article writing, then you wonder how to lay our articles out and so on, so here is a small but useful guide on how to write your first article, I have covered where to write them and many other topics in other articles.
Basic Steps To Writing Your First Article
Start your first article simply by writing down what it is you want to write about, it is not really worth getting all worried about keywords and density within your first article. Just take the time to write up a 400+ word article in a text editor. Once you have completed this take a short break then go back and re-read your article, now ask yourself the following questions.
Did it make sense?
Has it cleared up all the points you wanted to make?
Does your article flow explaining each point carefully?
Once your article as "an article" and not just words and you answer yes to the above questions we can now look at some more interesting points that you should consider even from your first article.
Building a Relevant Title From Your Article
Some people will disagree with this method however I have found it to be quite effective from time to time, start by making a list of the most popular words in your article, (ignore words such as "is", "as", "then" "the" and so on) focus on "keywords" that people will look for in search engines.
Once you have your list pick out 3 or 4 of them and do some quick research using Google's "related searches feature"
Step 1 - Play With the keywords
It will not take you long to do this with practice, start by typing in your keywords and doing a related search and see what you get.
For Example: Your most used words are, "Article", "Money", "Online" type those in to Google as "article money online" (withOUT the "") and see what related searches come up
You would come up with a fair few, now look through them and see if any would make a good title that is relevant to your article, using the above example we may choose from the list..
Money Online Article Marketing
Now we could simply format this to a new title such as "How To Make Money Online Article Marketing" and you have a title that is relevant, searched for and should do well in search engines!
Note: Play with the words, put them in different orders until you find the right combination for your article! Once you have done it a few times you will be amazed how quick it is.
So now we have a nice article, a nice title and now all we need is a nice resource box and our article is good to go!
For more details on how to make your resource box work for you read some of the related articles on my own article directory where you can pick up tips and tricks for almost any topic! Visit TheFree Article Directory now.
