Article Writing for SEO: Key points

Article writing for SEO purposes is a little bit different from article writing for your book. You really have to be careful to make sure that you

• provide interesting content and you
• also have to make your article to be search engine friendly
• make people want to forward your article

Here are some points to remember:

1. The Keyword should be at the beginning of the first sentence of your article
2. The keyword should be in “bold”
3. The keyword and its synonyms should be used 2-3 times within the body of your article
4. Create paragraphs or write in bullet points or with numbering to make reading easy and interesting. Remember that people like to read lists
5. Write a catchy title. The title should include the keyword and should also make you want to read the rest of the text.

Make sure that your article has at least 200-250 words. Google likes to see a good number of words. You don’t want the article to be too long though, because it is going to turn people off. People don’t want to spend too much time reading your ramblings.

And most importantly for SEO article writing and content development, the content must be unique or you may be sanctioned by Google for duplicate content and your website may even be penalized by the almighty Google.

Inbound Link Building: Submitting articles to directories

Submitting articles to directories is very important for inbound link building. So you have to make sure that your article contains 3 links back to your website

Important Tip: Use Firefox, save the login info, so as to speed up your article submission process
Here are the instructions

1. Create a free Yahoo email address for article directory registration
2. use the same username, email, password at all article directories
3. Use a real name (it does not have to be your real name, but has to look like someone’s name.) remember that your article will be reviewed by someone
4. Use a catchy title for your article: eg use “How to do Local Internet Marketing Correctly” instead of just ” Local internet marketing” – You have to make your title intersting for someone to want to read it
5. Make sure that the keyword is at the beginning of the first sentence of the article
6. Use the first 2-3 sentences as an introduction for your article
7. The body of the article should be 450-550 words long. Seperate your article into 4-5 paragraphs
8. Use the resource box at the end of the article to place links back to your website. (See below for the resource box sample. Just change the info, but the format should be the same
9. Place the resource box info at the end of the body of the article if there’s no resource box
10. make sure that you read the instructions for the article directory carefully

Here’s a sample resource box:

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