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Gang,
Thanks for
being here, I value every one of you
and truly hope that you become successful online!
This is a
special issue! Only 1 article in this issue but its a
doozy.
The article
below is one that I have posted on various places throughout
the web...you'll most likely come across it in a couple
of weeks, but I wanted you to read it first. The article
has already led to sales of my eBook, "65
Answers To SEO Questions".
Special
Note: If you order "65
Answers To SEO Questions" and
you send me your Clickbank receipt number. I'll throw
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the bonuses.
The point
of this issue is to make sure you learn SEO as quickly
as you can. There's nothing like targeted and free traffic
generated by people who are looking for, want, and are
willing to pay for your product.
Experts
agree that search engine traffic is the best there is
anywhere...I 100% agree. I love it!
Whatever
you do, make sure that you learn SEO and utilize tactics
(one example is article writing) to cash in on SEO...you
will be glad you did.
Enjoy the
issue!
Once again,
thanks for being here, your membership to this e-zine
is what matters most to me as an Internet marketer.
"The Regular
Guy"
Karl Augustine
In
this edition of "Starting
Smart!"
*Intro
by Karl, 1 topic - Perseverance
is such a key element to success.
*Special Featured Article: "How
To Write Effective And Unique Articles That Are Optimized
for the Search Engines"
by
Karl Augustine
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Intro
by Karl...
1.Perserverance
is such a key element to success.
When starting
an online business, it is easy to get frustrated. There's
lots of obstacles. Keep going...just keep going. What
will happen if you do keep going is you will get to the
point to where you will already know most times what will
work and what might not work. That's a good feeling.
If you persevere
and work smart, you will be able to join the top 6% of
marketers who are profitable as long as you have a plan
and execute it.
Too many
people give up too easily, and that's ok. If you give
up, you either weren't serious or Internet
marketing just wasn't for you.
Everything
I have ever done in my Internet marketing career has been
from real life experiences and I am giving you this humble
piece of advice now from the heart and from experience...do
not give up. Do not give up.
Persevere,
be serious but have fun. Keep going even if you don't
want to, you will get there if you apply yourself!
Enjoy the
rest of this edition and thanks again for reading.
Karl Augustine
"The Regular Guy"
(c) Karl Augustine
*Featured
Article:
"How
To Write Effective And Unique Articles That Are Optimized
for the Search Engines"
by Karl Augustine
It is a well known fact
that writing, distributing and posting articles to various
location on the web is an extremely effective way to
generate targeted traffic and establish yourself as
an experienced marketer in your field. Unique articles
that help solve the reader's problems, assists the reader
in advancing their marketing acumen, or otherwise generally
inform tend to stay posted on many web sites throughout
the Internet and usually generate targeted traffic for
the writer.
In order to further maximize
the benefits of writing and posting unique articles,
it makes good business sense to optimize the articles
so the search engines list the URL's associated with
those articles on search engine results pages (SERP's).
Ideally, you'd like to see your article URL on the 1st
page of the SERP's so you can capitalize on the free
and targeted traffic from these listings.
So, what type of strategy
can be utilized to optimize your articles for the search
engines?
There's quite a few different
ways but here are some tactics that you may want to
use:
Article optimization tactic
1: Choose keywords that complement your USP and name
your article page accordingly.
When choosing keywords
that will be the central theme of your article, it is
necessary to define what your article will be about,
who the information in the article will benefit, and
how it will tie into your USP before choosing your keywords.
After you've thought through this, then come up with
a list of keywords that will be suitable as the central
them of the article.
Next, decide which keywords
you will center your article around based on the number
of searches that keyword gets per day and by assessing
how much competition there is for that keyword phrase.
Once you have chosen your keyword phrase for the article,
name your page.
Example:
If 'green widgets' is the keyword you wish to base
your article on, you may want to name your web page
'greenwdgets.htm' or 'greenwdgets.html' or 'greenwdgets.shtml'.
Article optimization tactic
2: Utilize keyword in the title tag.
Utilize your keywords that
you've chosen for your article in the title tag of the
web page.
Example:
<title>Green Widgets | The best green widgets
available</title>
Article optimization tactic
3: Utilize keyword in headline tags.
Using keywords in headline
tags will increase rankings of your web pages.
Ideally you would use the
keywords as the headline, but usually this doesn't look
natural.
Keep the h tags before
and after the entire headline.
Example:<h5>Green
widgets: We have the most affordable and powerful
green widget available anywhere, guaranteed!</h5>
Article optimization tactic
4: Utilize keywords in the 1st sentence of the initial
paragraph.
This an easily be accomplished
and still make the paragraph read well and in a natural
sounding tone if read back. Remember that you want your
reader to feel like they are being talked with not "at"
and you want your reader to not realize that your placement
of your keyword phrases might be planned.
Article optimization tactic
5: Utilize keywords in text with appropriate keyword
density.
After you write your article,
you can easily edit to try to obtain the best keyword
density for the search engines you'd like to target.
Google's optimum keyword
density is between 1.5% to 2.5% keyword density at the
time of this writing.
Once you have the article
written you can use GoRank's keyword optimization tool
http://www.gorank.com/seotools/
(new browser
opens) to check what the keyword density
is of the text of the article so you can edit accordingly.
Remember, you don't want
to 'stuff' the page with your chosen and targeted keyword
phrase but you do want to make sure that you utilize
your keywords when you can up to the required amount
for the desired keyword density.
Article optimization tactic
6: Bold or italicize keywords in text.
When bolding and italicizing
your keywords in your articles, it isn't necessary to
bold and/or italicize every keyword phrase. When the
reader comes across bolded and italicized words they
add emphasis to the text at the time they read those
words. So you should use your best judgment as to what
looks right and 'reads' right when you edit your article.
One key item to remember
to write naturally so you get your message across in
a human manner.
You want the reader to
click to your link at the end or in the body of the
article and the more human and conversational your article
comes across, the more likely that the reader will travel
to the URL you'd like them to see. Some marketers write
their articles without search engine optimization in
mind and then go back and edit them for the search engines.
After your article is
optimized, do all you can to get it posted to other
web sites so the number of relevant links pointing to
that article is heightened. If you get your article
posted to some of the heavier web sites that post articles
and have the correct categories where your article will
fit, the faster your article URL will get indexed by
the search engines.
Get "65
Answers To SEO Questions".
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