It is a pleasurable challenge writing to Ezine and Article publishing Directories. This is the "sandbox" that most writers are contributing to today. More articles are written and show up as an entry to Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVist and other search engines than their are websites. Some websites are articles in themselves. It is much easier to write an article than it is to build a new website for most of us. The common person may not be able to do build their own website, but he or she may have the talent to be a successful writer. Think of the competition though! Thousands of writers writing about their content, promoting their website, and sharing their ideas. The numbers are overwhelming! There are a number of things that a writer needs to be aware of when submitting articles to develop a mass readership.
Article Optimization - If you want your article to show up on page number one of Google, it has to be optimized. Optimization is done by following some of the simple rules called "Search Engine Optimization".
Choose a high quality article directory to submit to. This will contribute a great deal to getting the article close to the number one spot. You can determine the article directories PR rating in Google ทby installing the Google task bar on you browser and going to the article directory website. Contributing your article to the directory is a very simple thing. You will have to provide personal information, possibly a pen name, your website url if you have one, and the category you will be writing about.
Use keyword rich content in the title, teaser, and body of the article. You have to do some keyword research and plug them in to your article every chance that you can. A good example in this article would be the keyword "article directory". It has to make sense when you use it. Once every paragraph or two and your readers will not get bored with the article and keep reading until the end of the article.
Use bold, italic, and underline when it seems appropriate with your keywords. Using Google, go look up some of your favorite keywords. You will notice in the list of Google links that the keywords you put in are in bold. Google picks up on the keywords. Let me repeat that, Google picks up on the keywords. In SEO Made Easy, the author indicates that not only does Google pick up on keywords, but Google picks up on keywords that are in bold, italic, and underlined.
Article Directories will let you place one to three incidents of anchor text in the body of the article. This is an excellent way to get a link back to your website! Google takes a while to do this, but eventually it will index the article and register the link. You can work in your keywords in clever fashion this way. If you have a website, and you are promoting your website in the article, this is the opportunity to use the keywords from your website. If the article directory allows the technique, html anchor text entries can be made in the body of the article as well as the bio. The reader would not normally know that html was being used. Of course the Article Dircetory has to accept html code for this to work.
Use anchor text in the article writers bio. Most Article Directories accept three, others will only allow you one. This is the sales pitch. If you have interesting content in the article, and have succeeded in convincing your reader that your contribution is worth investigating some more, they will want to go to your website and look some more! This is the author's sincere wish most of all, to gain trust and repore with his or her readers and to start a continuing business relationship. It can be done with a proper close to the article asking for the reader to "come on in, the water is fine!"
Article Writing - If you want your article to be read from start to finish, choose keywords and content that will make sense to the reader. Don't try to write about nuclear physics to a business crowd.
Determine your audience. This is done easily by entering your keywords into Google. Look at the number of entries returned. An article will be successful if you choose an audience that is not to large that you cannot compete against and not so small that you will only expose the article too few times to too few readers. When starting, it is a good idea to start with keywords that are getting about 30 hits a day at Overture. Normally there would also be less than ten million entries returned from the Google keyword search for your topic. Work on the larger populations when you get this down. You will find innumerable targets and keywords that you can do this with. There is no end to topics available on the internet. What a rich source of information!
Use original content when submitting to Article Directories. They have a way of finding out if your content is not original. Article directory submission guidelines always require you have exclusive license allows your name to be associated with the articles produced for you or by you. So don't do it. You will get caught!
Enjoy your writing! The world is open to to your ideas and more than willing to accept what you have to offer, if it is done the right way!
Article Optimization - Directory Submission 101
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
In SEO, Link Is The Key
Write book, want reader; have website, want visitor.
For this to happen, your website has to be a prominent landmark on the search engine landscape. This SEO does for you. SEO services use leverage like link baiting, link building and social media marketing to increase the visibility of your site. In each of these tools, the content is crucial.
The content written for link baiting should be attractive enough to hook the visitor like a fish on a tackle. Perhaps a “must visit this summer” or ‘penny vacations this summer’ is a better bait than a mundane ‘places to visit this summer’. How can a visitor wanting to travel this summer not click on a link such as these?
Link building, on the other hand, involves quality content to lead the visitor to your site from other relevant links. For instance, a visitor will reach your travel website through an online atlas.
Social media marketing does what it says – it promotes your content on social media websites like Yahoo Buzz and others. And if internet reports are to be believed, these social sites send visitors in droves to your site.
So now you are popular and your PR (page ranking) will probably be raised by the search engines. Google ranks pages from 0/10 to 10/10, in order of increasing importance. It is also indicative of the number of incoming quality links that page has; it is, to put it simplistically, a good page. A good page rank is like a school grade – you feature high on the list of selected candidates at universities, in this case the search engine. However, you are not allowed to rest on your laurels. There is an update every three months and your page rank may go up or down, depending on how well connected you are.
Also be aware that some people throw up issues of ethics in the SEO business. There is much talk about exploitation of search engines. However, another group of people rubbish this and believe that a search engines cannot be manipulated. So if your website is flagging, hire an efficient SEO service today that will typically work in accordance with search engine regulations and webmaster guidelines. You can buy a service to suit your pocket, or even avail installment plans. An important thing to remember, though, is that the results will take a few months coming, post search engine optimization.
For this to happen, your website has to be a prominent landmark on the search engine landscape. This SEO does for you. SEO services use leverage like link baiting, link building and social media marketing to increase the visibility of your site. In each of these tools, the content is crucial.
The content written for link baiting should be attractive enough to hook the visitor like a fish on a tackle. Perhaps a “must visit this summer” or ‘penny vacations this summer’ is a better bait than a mundane ‘places to visit this summer’. How can a visitor wanting to travel this summer not click on a link such as these?
Link building, on the other hand, involves quality content to lead the visitor to your site from other relevant links. For instance, a visitor will reach your travel website through an online atlas.
Social media marketing does what it says – it promotes your content on social media websites like Yahoo Buzz and others. And if internet reports are to be believed, these social sites send visitors in droves to your site.
So now you are popular and your PR (page ranking) will probably be raised by the search engines. Google ranks pages from 0/10 to 10/10, in order of increasing importance. It is also indicative of the number of incoming quality links that page has; it is, to put it simplistically, a good page. A good page rank is like a school grade – you feature high on the list of selected candidates at universities, in this case the search engine. However, you are not allowed to rest on your laurels. There is an update every three months and your page rank may go up or down, depending on how well connected you are.
Also be aware that some people throw up issues of ethics in the SEO business. There is much talk about exploitation of search engines. However, another group of people rubbish this and believe that a search engines cannot be manipulated. So if your website is flagging, hire an efficient SEO service today that will typically work in accordance with search engine regulations and webmaster guidelines. You can buy a service to suit your pocket, or even avail installment plans. An important thing to remember, though, is that the results will take a few months coming, post search engine optimization.
What Are The New Trends In SEO?
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Being a successful SEO manager or webmaster, means that you have to first of all be able to adapt efficiently and effectively to all new rules and regulations applied by the various leading search engines and then use multiple optimization techniques in order to achieve your goal and get better rankings for your websites.
We all know that the benchmark of all SEOs is keyword rich content. However important it is, there are some other techniques that are appearing and becoming equally important for the potential success of an SEO strategic plan. Let’s have a look at some of them.
1. Blogging is by far the most popular trend lately and definitely for a reason. It is proved that blogging increases the visibility of a website when the writing is good, the content is gripping and the writer seems to have more to offer and suggest. People are thirsty for information and good writing and this is what makes blogging the number one trend in SEO right now. There are many blog directories and hosting websites online right now, with Wordpress and BlogSpot being the most famous and popular among them.
2. Social Bookmarking is also a new trend and effective off site optimization method that gets great attention, mostly because it is connected with the increased interest in social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook. There are numerous media and networks out there that give their users the chance to add links to their favorite websites and share them with their friends and networks. This phenomenon is definitely capable of increasing your site popularity if you work towards this direction, because it can be a tremendous source of highly desired back links. Moreover the traffic in this case is what you really need - quality traffic , since people who will clink on your link will be people who would be aware of what you sell or what your business is about, having read some good feedback about you and your services.
3. Article marketing is not probably a new trend but it is always developing and evolving. There are article directories and warehouses where webmasters and advertisers can post their articles and advertise their businesses, usually completely free. It is the most preferred SEO technique, for the same reason that blogging became so popular.
SEO works undoubtedly on multiple levels and it can be really hard to follow all new trends. There is no reason to worry though because applying all techniques at once is not a good idea anyway. You need to make sure you have completed one in order to go to the next level. This is a small guide just to have an idea of what you can do and towards which direction you can head next.
We all know that the benchmark of all SEOs is keyword rich content. However important it is, there are some other techniques that are appearing and becoming equally important for the potential success of an SEO strategic plan. Let’s have a look at some of them.
1. Blogging is by far the most popular trend lately and definitely for a reason. It is proved that blogging increases the visibility of a website when the writing is good, the content is gripping and the writer seems to have more to offer and suggest. People are thirsty for information and good writing and this is what makes blogging the number one trend in SEO right now. There are many blog directories and hosting websites online right now, with Wordpress and BlogSpot being the most famous and popular among them.
2. Social Bookmarking is also a new trend and effective off site optimization method that gets great attention, mostly because it is connected with the increased interest in social networks, such as MySpace and Facebook. There are numerous media and networks out there that give their users the chance to add links to their favorite websites and share them with their friends and networks. This phenomenon is definitely capable of increasing your site popularity if you work towards this direction, because it can be a tremendous source of highly desired back links. Moreover the traffic in this case is what you really need - quality traffic , since people who will clink on your link will be people who would be aware of what you sell or what your business is about, having read some good feedback about you and your services.
3. Article marketing is not probably a new trend but it is always developing and evolving. There are article directories and warehouses where webmasters and advertisers can post their articles and advertise their businesses, usually completely free. It is the most preferred SEO technique, for the same reason that blogging became so popular.
SEO works undoubtedly on multiple levels and it can be really hard to follow all new trends. There is no reason to worry though because applying all techniques at once is not a good idea anyway. You need to make sure you have completed one in order to go to the next level. This is a small guide just to have an idea of what you can do and towards which direction you can head next.
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