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SEO Articles That Drive Vast Amounts of Traffic

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on June 26, 2009  |  3 Comments

By Barbara Kirby

SEO articles are one of the most effective online marketing strategies that any webmaster can use to drive vast amounts of traffic to their website. Search engine optimized articles or SEO articles for short, are articles specially written for the search engines. However they must also serve potential customers and so the articles need to be written in an informative and natural way as well.

Most SEO articles are between 350-500 words long including the title. The majority of webmasters understand the need for keyword research and for SEO articles keyword research is crucial. Once you know the primary and secondary keywords that you want to target for your website, you can then use them by writing articles that include them or you can outsource the work to professional SEO article writers who can write them for you.

Opinion seems to differ among SEO companies as to the correct keyword density, the amount of times a keyword needs to be placed into an article. Some say 0.5% and others 5%. Any more than that and no doubt Google would see the content as being keyword stuffed so it is safe to opt for around the 3% mark. You also find that the higher the keyword density the less likely that the article will still sound natural.

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Article Marketing Tips with EzineArticles.com

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on June 25, 2009  |  No Comments

Practical Article Marketing Tips – How to Get Endless Waves of Traffic From Articles (This is Easy)
By Jeff Herring

Article Marketing is the best free source of traffic on the Internet. And it is fairly easy to create.

Now that I have made that rather bold claim, let me back it up.

On old internet adage is

Don’t chase after traffic. Find out where the traffic is going and then get in front of it.”

Article marketing is a great example of this saying. For instance, EzineArticles is the number one Article Directory on the Internet. At the time of this writing, they currently get 15 million unique visitors a month. Breaking it down, that’s 500,00 (half a million) unique visitors a day, or about 21, 000 an hour. You want to get your articles in front of this kind of traffic.

How to Get Started

Make a list of 7 tips on a topic in your niche. Add about 50 words per tip. That’s a 350 word article. Now take each tip and expand on it, and turn each tip into an article. You began with a list of 7 tips and now you have 8 articles. Get these articles up in front of 15 million unique sets of eyes each month.

How to Know What to Write About Next

Once you have about ten articles written and published on EzineArticles, here is a little insider’s tip on how to know what to write about next.

Log in to your EzineArticles account. Click on “Author Tools.” Click on “View My Article Reports.” You’ll see all of your published articles at once, along with the statistics on your articles. Pay close attention to the articles that are getting the most views and click-thrus. A “view” means that someone has looked at and read your article. A “click-thru” means someone had clicked on the link(s) in your Resource Box to visit your web site or blog.

The articles with the higher number of views and click-thrus are the topics you need to write about more and more. Your audience is voting and telling you what they want to know more about. Pay attention to this. More quality articles on what your audience has told you they want more of equals more traffic from your articles.

And to jump start your article creation for more traffic, you can claim your Free Instant Access to 2 of my Instant Article Creation Templates when you visit http://www.TheArticleGuyBonus.com

With templates your article creation is “plug-n-play.” Simply plug in your information and you can quickly play in the game of generating more traffic with your articles.

From Jeff Herring – The Article Marketing Guy & The Great Article Marketing Network

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Article Marketing Basics For Page Rank (1)

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on June 25, 2009  |  1 Comment

Article marketing is a strategy of getting more exposure and one way back links to your website.  In theory, its simply witting an article related to your website and posting it on public article directories (like ezinearticles.com) .  Your hope is that other people like your article republish it on their website.  You should have links back to your website included in the article so you will get back links  from the other website which in turn will increase your page rank.   Another likely outcome is more page view to your website since readers of the article will likely click on one of your links.    I recommend posting the article to your blog also. Content on your website is very important.  Dont worry about duplicate content because it really only matters when the duplicate content is on your site.  I just say don’t post an article in two categories on your blog, that is duplicate content and your site rank may get penalized.

Now moving on I want to get into the technical side of this. When submitting your article to directories, you will need to pass strict grammar and content guidelines.  Your article will get reviewed and may or may not be published.  The size of the article should be 300 + words.  I can’t emphasize enough that your article should not be stuffed with links back to your website, this just looks like spam and it won’t be approved by the editor.  A maximum of two self serving links is the general limit for article directories.  I recommend not writing articles on topics you don’t know much about. People are searching for informative or interesting content that they have not seen before.  If you are writing high quality articles that are actually useful and informative to readers then article marketing will work wonders for you because lots of people will want to re-publish your articles.

Before you sit down and start writing, I think it’s important to take a look at several example articles to get a better idea of what is expected. Some directories you can look through are:

• articleteller.com
• goarticles.com
• articlecircle.com
• articlesbase.com

Article writers and those that repost them on their website form a circular SEO relationship.  The writer gets back links from the reposter’s website while the reposter gets SEO benefits from having good content on their website. This truly is a free but powerful SEO strategy that should not be overlooked.

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Article Marketing – Secrets to Generate Traffic to Your Website to Boost Your Business

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on June 25, 2009  |  2 Comments

Srinivasan V. K.

Article marketing is writing about a topic and distributing articles which comprise back links to the website that you wish to promote. It is one of the most popular online marketing tools to promote any business, their products and services. Article Marketing is very effective to get more traffic to your website. Start to write an article with a title. This is one of the most significant parts of any article. The title must convince the reader to read the whole article. Title should be brief, catchy, compelling and direct to the point. Use relevant keywords in the title of your article.

The first three words in the title must tell readers the essence of your article and also what information you have. If your title fails to grab reader’s attention, then they won’t continue to read your article. So no one will reach your resource box and ultimately there won’t be any traffic to your website. Use a longer phrase in your title so that the Search engines rank your website in higher position.

Begin your articles with the keywords that are best suitable to your product or service. You should focus on the purpose of creating the article. Divide your articles into short paragraphs so that your readers will understand your ideas more easily. The first paragraph should contain the most important and interesting information. Use bullets, list and subheadings to make your article legible.

Keep your article between 250 to 600 words in length. The most important thing of an article is that target viewers seeking for information in a particular niche should read the article. Your content should associate with your title. Do not write lengthy sentences as it would irritate the reader. Be informative and do not divert from the topic you have chosen. Consistently creating an article with solid content will bring you to the status of an expert author.

Make sure that the keyword is in the content of the article you’re writing. If your article has the relevant keywords to the topic, Google finds your article by the search engine and place it on the first page so that your article gets massive traffic. No need to pay for this advertising. If you provide useful tips in your article, then readers will get impressed and they will click on your link that you have placed in your resource box. Pay attention to the quality of the content and check the spelling and grammar of your article before submitting it to the article directory.

Once the article is written, start submitting your articles to article directories that will share it to millions of websites. Doing Google search you can find many free article directories and paid ones. You can submit articles online in any number of free article directories. This will increase your article marketing efforts and bring a lot of traffic to your website from potential customers. So keep submitting your articles on a regular basis… Every article should contain a resource box, which includes information about the author. It is where you promote your product or website. This should contain your name, the link of your website and a call to action, which convince the reader to click the link to buy your product. This will boost your websites rankings and bring more and more traffic. It is advisable that you do not include an email address for contact.

Maintain a record of all the articles you write and where they are submitted and the links you placed to your website from these articles, so that if there is any change, you can update your article and resubmit it. Now you have learned how to write an article. So start writing some articles and get the benefits of article marketing. I hope that this article will help you to compose any article of your choice.

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Get $100 Per SEO Article – How to Become a Highly Paid SEO Writer

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on June 24, 2009  |  3 Comments

By Yuwanda Black

SEO copywriting is an exploding niche. There are SEO writers routinely bill $25 to $100 per SEO article, or more. So then, why are there so many freelance writers who still struggle and take on $3 per article article writing gigs? Because they lack the following:

3 Keys to Becoming a $100 Per Article SEO Writer

1. Marketing Skills: Many SEO copywriters go to job boards that list poor-paying SEO article writing gigs because they don’t know how to market. Going to job boards is easy. After all, it’s where many of the jobs are. But, the lucrative SEO article writing gigs can’t be found on job boards — you have to ferret them out for yourself. This means learning how to marketing effectively.

2. Confidence: Many writers lack confidence in their skills. Thus, they find it hard to negotiate with clients. When you know that you’re good at what you do — and especially in a high-tech niche like SEO — you negotiate from a position of power. This means you command higher rates — because you know you’re worth it.

3. Negotiating Skills: Speaking of negotiating skills, keep the following in mind: clients pay not for the 400-600 word SEO articles you write for them, but for what those SEO articles do for their bottom line.

They may be selling a product or service that is worth thousands — and using your SEO copywriting skill to do it. Many who hire SEO writers either don’t have the time or skill to do their own writing. This means they need you as much as you need them. They’re not hiring you, they’re partnering with you. Always tune into this info when you’re negotiating rates.

Haven’t a clue as to what SEO article writing is? Read on.

What Is SEO Article Writing?

Basically writing articles with specific phrases that clients give you. FYI, SEO stands for search engine optimization. For example, if you owned a website that sold carpet, you would want a lot of articles with phrases like “carpet cleaning”; “carpet stains”; “carpet stores”; etc. on your site.

So, the client will email me and say, “May I have 3 articles with the keyword phrases (that’s what these phrases are called) “carpet cleaning”; “carpet stains”; and “carpet stores”. Make each article 400-500 words each, please.

You would write then write the articles on anything you want around these keyword phrases, ensuring that you repeat the keyword phrase at least 7-10 times. This helps drive traffic to the webmaster’s site (it’s called keyword density).

That’s SEO article writing in a nutshell. And, there are millions of websites that need this type of writing. The amazing thing for those who know how to write this kind of copy (SEO writers/copywriters) is that there is very little competition because the field is so new.

Becoming a $100 per article SEO writer is not hard, if you learn how to market, have confidence in your skills and learn do some research on SEO (it’s not rocket science, I promise!).

About the Author: Yuwanda Black is a freelance SEO writer and the author of How to Make $250+/Day Writing Simple, 500-Word Articles. Ms. Black says, “You can work from home as a freelance writer in your PJs, getting assignments via the internet. I do it every day.” Learn more about how to start a successful career as a freelance writer.

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Do it Right – The Latest SEO Article Writing Tactics

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on June 20, 2009  |  1 Comment

By Anton Stoutjesdijk

SEO article writing is a new functional art form. It appeals to two very different groups and the tactics used need to reflect the demands of both. Good SEO article writing appeals primarily to the web browsing public but only if well written and well targeted to the web browsers search preferences. Furthermore, SEO article writing needs to grab the readers’ attention, engage the customer’s thirst for knowledge and deliver satisfactory answers within just 500-600 words per article. SEO article writing is both technical and creative. Here are the steps necessary for really great SEO article writing.

• First, you identify the topic phrase or keywords used by your target audience. For instance you want to bring ‘long-life’ bulbs to the buying public. ‘Long-life’ then becomes the keyword you need to use in several key places throughout your article. But we want to dig a little deeper here…
• Secondly, in the SEO article writing process, make a list of words that relate to ‘long-life’ and ‘bulbs’. These words should be ones that ordinary people use all the time to describe them. This is an essential aspect of SEO article writing because these words are those that your potential site visitors will type into the search engines in order to find your website. So how about ‘eco’, ‘compact fluorescent’, ‘lamps’ and ‘lighting’ etc.
• Thirdly you should do keyword research. It doesn’t take long with the aid of comprehensive research tools such as ‘Wordtracker’, ‘Wordze’ and ‘Keyword Discovery’. If you like the free options the above programs occasionally offer free trials or try ‘Google Keyword Tool’
• Fourth, write a list of topics you believe would interest your audience. Then choose several and get writing! Consider all the angles you can use that relate to your topic or industry, think about common questions being asked by your audience and answer them in your article, consider providing information that your audience and potential customers would really want to read or would find particularly interesting so as to shed enlightenment and entertainment onto your articles. Typical SEO articles should be between 500 and 600 words. More than that, you’re wasting your time writing, readers have a short attention span. Review your SEO article and work in naturally those keywords and collocation phrases. Ensure your sentences link together and make sense. Make sure you only use one keyword several times in the article and once in the heading. People used to say 1-3% – The search engines are getting smarter, so simply put the keywords were appropriate. Also use a few synonyms of the keyword in the article. This will also help searches and your audiences find you for related terms.
• Proof check the article for spelling and grammatical correctness. Most readers who visit your website, drawn by your SEO keywords, will mind bad grammar and spelling. Once you turn the reader off it is impossible to bring them back so make sure it’s correct.

Search engines won’t know a split infinitive from an anaphoric reference but your site visitors will. So quality content should always take preference over SEO.

Search engine algorithms are the second group of art lovers for your SEO article writing and when they appreciate your efforts they reward you by pushing your website, content or article higher and possibly on the first page of their search results.

So when the Google spiders come along and scan your article, they are looking for results to put in front of the reader who types “long life bulbs” into the Google home page. What happens then? It works incredibly quickly, searching through millions of Internet sites in seconds looking for very specific matches to the keywords. The more exact the match and the more matches within any one site’s text the higher the return ranking will be.

Of course the algorithm is not really an art lover. It can never appreciate the poetry that you pour into your SEO article writing prose. In fact it appreciates the spaces between your words and each individual letter in equal measure to number of keywords in your text. Fundamentally it loves a good ‘keyword dense’ piece of text. A minimum of 1-2 in every 100 words should be keywords and a further 1-2 of synonyms if you really want to turn the search engines on.

Do not have the time or confidence to write SEO articles? Try us, we understand SEO article writing and will make sure you get the results you’re looking for.

Anton Stoutjesdijk is the English project manager at New Frontier Digital – We can research the keywords and write the articles fast and cost effectively. We create gripping informative prose that both intrigues and informs your article visitors.

Organisations of any size can comfortably outsource SEO article writing to competent and highly skill SEO writers. Ultimately we work to see your sales increase in line with your ranking when you put us to work on your keywords. Contact us today info@nfrontier.co.uk to help you get started.

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How to Make Serious Money With Article Marketing (1)

Posted by Dave The Seo Fool on May 1, 2009  |  No Comments

By Alex Cadens

Article marketing is often accused of not having the ability to help you scale up your business, and such accusations usually come from those that prefer PPC or other “fast track” ways to drive traffic to their webistes or blogs.

I have often read or heard people say that with article marketing you cannot expect the same rate of growth in your business as you would with a good PPC marketing campaign, and up to some point they may be right.

However, you have to consider that when you set out to start a PPC campaign with the goal of scaling up your business you certainly could hit big and make a lot of money, and I mean thousands of dollar in just a few days, but you will surely be spending another few thousand dollars in PPC costs to achieve that, which always leave the possibility of your campaign ending up being more expensive that what you earned in commissions.

Make no mistake, the folks that manage to make $50,000 per month in commissions using PPC, quite often spend over $30,000 to $40,000 in order to do that, so yes, that way to go can be profitable but you definitely need an appetite for risk and some serious cash to spare.

I do not discard PPC advertising because there is no denying the potential it has to deliver quick results, I just have a preference for article marketing which will certainly be a slower way to make things happen, but it also has three distinctive advantages over PPC:

1. It is completely free, so your campaigns will cost you only some of your time.

2. The results you will get will be lasting results, because all the content you publish will remain there forever driving traffic to your websites.

3. You will build permanent one way links to your websites thus boosting your page rank and your chances of sucking natural traffic directly from the search engines.

The only thing you need in order to make article marketing a massive marketing weapon and make a lot of money with it, is to multiply your articles for as many directories you can. In other words, you should submit your articles not only to 2 or 3 article directories, but to 100 or 200 of them.

If you do so, and you write 30 articles per month, you would get around 6,000 new links every month pointing to your site and a truckload of visitors instead of a handful of them. More visitors mean more sales, more leads and ultimately more money.

By now you must be thinking “200 directories? No way, that would take forever” and certainly you would have to be insane to submit an article to 200 directories manually, as you could be spending about 10 hours of your time only with the submission of one article to 200 article directories.

If you really want to make serious money with article marketing, you have to include an article submission software in your toolbox, and not just any article submission software, but one with the ability to do everything automatically. Watch the video at this site, so you get a clear idea of what I mean by “everything automatically”.

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