How To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking With Article Marketing
I talk to a lot of website owners in the course of my work and there is one question I ask many of these people: I ask them what their goals are in using article submissions. Most of these site owners will mention at least one of the following:
A higher search engine rank for their most important keywords, a reputation as an authoritative source of information in their field or more traffic due to people clicking the links to their site in the articles.
In my opinion, the greatest reward of Article Marketing comes in terms of SEO-having a higher search engine ranking for your keyword terms.
SEO techniques are all designed to do the same thing: get more traffic to your site, especially from the people in your target market or audience. Article marketing is one of the more effective ways of getting your content to the people you want to reach.
Just like you, your target audience uses Google, Yahoo and other search engines when they’re looking for information online.
As a website owner, your goal is to be one of the top results when your customers type their search terms into Google. By being listed at or towards the top of the results pages, you increase your chances of the potential customer clicking through to your website. That is what called “targeted traffic”.
Targeted traffic is exactly what you want – these are the people who are the most likely to be interested in what your site has to offer. The following SEO techniques are ones which can help your site to get a higher ranking in the search results returned by Google and other engines:
1- Figure out what your keywords are. Your keywords are not only words that classify the content of your website, but they are the very words that your target market most often types into Google when they are searching for a site like yours.
When you know what those special words are, then you can work to position your website to satisfy those search terms. It isn’t hard to figure out what your keywords are, but it does require a bit of basic research. There are many great keyword suggestion tools on the web, both paid and free. To start with you can look at the Google Keywords Tool, WordTracker Keyword Suggestion Tool, Keyword Discovery, and Overture.
2- Write articles on the topic of your website. Oftentimes as you’re writing you will naturally use your keywords in your article, title and resource box, but it may be helpful to read back over your article after you’ve finished writing it, and see if there are any places where it would be appropriate to subtly use your keyword terms.
Though it is important to use your keywords in this content, you should aim at keeping your articles easy to read and natural-sounding above all. Remember that you are writing primarily for your readers, with search engines second in importance. Avoid stuffing your articles with keywords, keeping the density of keywords at 3% or less.
3- Keep submitting articles regularly. A few per month is fine, but you need to do this each and every month. This is where a lot of website owners fail; but keeping at your article marketing efforts is important if you want to see results.
Article Marketing requires steadiness of purpose, doing the same action over and over again to reap cumulative results that can be quite astounding. The hardest part about writing and submitting articles is just sticking with it-if you can develop consist article submission habits, you can see dramatic results over time.
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You brought up a good point about the alt tags in images. I am still floored at how many people don’t or neglect their images and do not relize that image search is a very good method of traffic generation. In fact some of my sites receive more traffic from the Google Images than any organic listing in the serps that those sites produce. It’s amazing at the amount of traffic you can generate with appropriate titles and alt tags on the images. This is something that should be taken seriously.