Kila Morton from PureBlogic posted a very useful article on how to write a search engine friendly post.
Writing articles that are search engine friendly is very easy to do if you know the right ingredients to use. We are going to examine some of the techniques you should employ in your articles to make optimize them for search engines and to help them index well. Instead of giving you my usual long article about who, what, where and why, I’m going to give you a nice little list that you can print out and go through.
I’m going to make a few assumptions. First, I’m going to assume that you already have search engine friendly urls set up for your article. You will notice, if you clicked on the title to this article, that the title of the article is also the url of the article. This is easy to replicate if you are using WordPress, Joomla or many of the other available blogging platforms. I’m also going to assume that your article is about something related to what your blog is about. If your blog is about making money blogging, then I’m going to assume that your article content is about the same thing. Now that we have my basic assumptions out of the way, let’s get on with it.
DECIDE ON THE KEYWORDS YOU ARE GOING TO USE IN YOUR ARTICLE
If you are really into trying to get organic traffic, you need to be sure that all of your articles contain the same keywords. This type of repetitive use of keywords helps your articles to rank well when they are searched for. This helps you drive organic traffic to your site. For more information on how to drive organic or search engine traffic to your site, visit PureBlogic’s article on how to drive search engine traffic. That article is part of a series of articles that may prove helpful to you when you are trying to decide what to do to drive traffic.
CREATE KEYWORD AND PHRASE LINKS TO YOUR PRIOR ARTICLES INSIDE OF YOUR CURRENT ARTICLE
When you write an article, you need to make sure that you create a keyword or phrase link back to your prior articles. For instance, in the prior paragraph I have linked to an article that I wrote about generating search engine traffic. That article links to several additional articles. Those articles link to several other articles. Each article is tied to the other articles with keywords and anchor phrases. This is done for an important reason. You can often get multiple pages ranked at the same time. As the search engine bots crawl your site and follow the links, your keywords and phrases will be indexed along with the actual article you submitted. Make sure that your keywords and link phrases all contain your keywords.
