Are you serious about getting traffic to your blog? If so, then you need to familiarize yourself with basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to maximize the visitors you get from search engines. Learning how to write SEO friendly articles is pretty easy, just continue reading to find out.

Finding Keywords

SEO starts with finding out what keywords and keyword phrases to use. Keyword phrase should be words that are searched quite often. For example If your post is about earning cash with a blog, you could try to use the keyword phrase of  “make money blogging”. You can use google AdWords to search how popular certain phrases are and then select the ones that are most suitable. Here is how to use google AdWords to find other keywords and keyword phrases.

  1. Just guess what might be good keywords for your article
  2. Go to Google AdWords Keyword Tool
  3. Write the keywords you guessed and search for synonyms
  4. Sort the items based on query amount
  5. Check whether there are any good synonyms that you can use

Other aspect that should also be thought of is how competitive is the scene around the keywords. Try to think of keywords that many people have not yet optimized their article for. Basically the only way nowadays is to use long keyword phrases like “make money with nature blog” or things like that.

Importance of The Title

To be honest, the article title is the most important thing for SEO. The reason is that when people link to your articles they normally use parts of your title in the anchor text. Title text has itself some value, but the back link anchor texts mostly determine how your article is ranked with SEs.

Title works two ways, first it must be enticing, second it must contain keywords. Now that you know what your keywords will be, use the keywords in your article title. The most tricky part is also to make it enticing for others.

Use also other words than just your keywords in your article title.  The other words can help you to “make the sell”, ie. get people to click and visit your site. For example:

  • Keywords: Online Marketing for Dummies
  • Title: Online Marketing for Dummies – Quick Start to Marketing

Keywords and Keyword Density

To maximise the SE ranking effect of your article, you should use your keywords through out your article. Some people say that you should keep your keyword density to about 3% – 8% of your article.

With my articles, I try to use my keywords at least once in the article in addition to the title. Do not over do this or SEs may think of your article as spam and drop your rankings.

Content Is Again the Focus

You need back links for your site to rank it well. Only way to get back links is to have good content. If your site is boring or the content is bad, people with not link to your site. Write good content and people will link back.

Conclusion

  • Find your keywords before you start writing
  • Use keywords in your title
  • Use the keywords in your text, but don’t over do it
  • Write good content to encourage others to link to your article
  • Writing a SEO friendly article is easy, it only takes a bit more time

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