Optimizing Your Articles For Search Engines
Category: Making Money With Articles | Sep 03, 2009 |
Keyword density and placement are important parts of optimizing your articles for search engines. Search engine spiders scan a page in a way that makes it important to place your keywords where they will be detected and recognized as a keyword, so that your article will come up when someone searches for that keyword.
What is a Keyword?
A keyword is a word that is going to be placed in your article several times,not just once as that would make every word a keyword. When a spider sees that you have a word placed several times in an article, it will determine that your page may be useful to users that search for such a keyword.
Over Optimizing Your Articles
It is important to note that there is also such a thing as over optimizing your articles for particular words, this is known as “keyword stuffing”. When you stuff keywords in an article a spider will detect that you are trying to trick it into placing your article high in the search engine results for that word, and will instead penalize your site and your page for doing such. This may even affect the rankings of your other pages or get your site blacklisted from a particular search engine if you are found keyword stuffing too many times.
What is Keyword Density?
Keyword density is how many times your keyword is placed in your article. Most use a percentage to determine how many times they will put a keyword in an article. For instance, if you have a 500 word article and want to achieve a keyword density of 5%, then you will need to have the keyword in your article exactly 25 times. You can find hundreds of resources and guides recommending one keyword density over another and the reasons behind the logic, however, in the end you will have to determine which density is more profitable for your articles. Each webmaster as their own density that they like to achieve based on past results. As long as you don’t over optimize and you are making sufficient profit from your rankings, then you can choose whatever keyword density you like.
The Right Density
No matter what exact density you choose, it is important to place keywords so that there are more at the beginning and end to produce an hour glass effect. Having the right keyword density in your article makes it more likely that you will make money off of that article because it will rise in the search engine results and be seen by more people.
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I am a reporter – and surely, I make more money than $9 per article! If you are a freelancer, you should submit different articles to different news outlets. Cover events in your community and submit them to local newspapers – and then branch out to state papers. Also, are you good at photography? You might want to snap some shots of local happenings and submit those, too.
You need to find more outlets to submit your stuff to. Also, if there is a demand for a certain article or news piece going on in your neighborhood – address this issue and work towards showing the editor that you are in touch with what's going on and they might up your pay per article.
Good luck!
if you go to pay per post, you can make money by writing sort of review of certain products or websites and post to your blogs or websites. the advertiser pay for the review, hoping that whoever read the post will buy the products or visit the websites.
about submitting articles to article directories, it is to build the author/webmaster credibility on the specified niche market, so that any product launch by them can be easily adapted by interested reader. other than than, it is useful for SERP by having links back to your website/ online pages.
I hope this helps.
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Hi John,
I'm professional writer myself so I know exactly how you should start.
1. Create a simple website for your article writing business.
Explain how much you charge per article and for how many words.
eg. $20 for a 500 word article
2. Use Paypal for online payment. Integrate it on your website. PayPal has details on how to do this.
3. On your website, explain why your service is different to justify that you charge more than others. For example, your articles are researched thoroughly for the client and you will do search engine optimization for them if they are to place the articles on a website.
4. Go to several websites such as
http://www.Elance.com
http://www.Scriptlance.com
http://www.FreelanceWriting.com
to register your service and have a detailed profile.
5. Start bidding for jobs and with every job you complete, ask for a testimonial from the customers and place it on your website.
6. While you are building a good reputation and feedback with these websites, you can promote your website by search engine optimization, blogging, forum posting, squidoo lens, press releases and distributing your own articles.
It will take about 3 months to build a good reputation and charge higher prices.
After that, hopefully the majority of your clients will come from referrals and finding your website with the search engines.
If you're a newbie, I would charge $5 for a 500 word article to start with. This is very low, but you need the testimonials and get used to this business.
After that steadily increase your prices. I currently charge $36 for a 500 word article but it took me a while to get there.
Hope it helps.
They are all scams, I sincerely suggest you to stay away from this BS.
If your spelling and grammar is decent, you could go to forums where internet marketers hang out and offer to write articles that they can then use to post on their own websites (or whatever else they want to do with them).
Often that will involve them giving a list of keywords or short phrases and you would then write up an article for each one of them. And there are a LOT of people wanting to buy such articles…
I'll pop a link to one of those forums in my source(s) section below (digitalpoint). You may have to register to post an offer for your services, but it's free for you to take a look around first without registering.
You can also write articles on 'associated content' – not sure what they pay per article, but believe it depends on how many views your article gets, so I'd suggest writing about topics that are hot in the news right now. I've linked there below too and it should have all the info you'd need to decide on their site.
Hope that helps and good luck. If you are motivated to put in the time and effort, there's no doubt you can make money online writing articles!
They are all either scams or spams, better to stay away from all this BS.
Here are a few suggestions:
1) Go to Elance and register yourself there. Start bidding for article writing projects and with enough projects, you'll make good income.
2) Find an affiliate products. Write article to 'presell' the product and post it on free blog host e.g. Blogger. And earn commission from it.
3) Or a variation from above; just submit your articles to article directory but cloak your link with free services e.g. Tinyurl and earn commission from the conversion.
You either continue your quest to learn all the details of website programming, and that's my best option. Or you hire someone to do the job for you.
It is not just HTML that you have to worry about, but DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, maybe flash, forms, Perl, PHP, etc. It all depends on how complex your site will be, and from your description you want it to be complex and secure.
You can start searching for a cheap programmer to do the job for you, and most likely a college or a university student will do the job. As an option, you can visit http://www.elance.com if you’d rather have someone else build a website for you. Just put up a listing of what you want and programmers will respond.
And if you want to get some money using your site you can check: http://www.probuz.com/index.html