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Writing long tail articles

May 3rd, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

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Writing for the Web means writing for search engine traffic, and getting that traffic is very competitive.

Most of your clients won’t know much about search engine optimization. You don’t need to know much either. However you do need to know a little about keywords, and also about long tail keywords.

“Long tail” Keywords Keywords which very few people actually type into the search engines. However although those search terms may get only a few queries each month, those queries mount up over the months and years.

So how do you find those long tail keywords?

The first place to start is in your client’s Web site referrer logs.

Make a list of the search terms that you find. You can then begin a campaign of writing articles which target those keywords.

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Marketing Your New Web Site With Articles: Get Traffic And Credibility

June 6th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

You’ve created a brand new Web site. You hope that within a few days you’ll get lots of traffic. But days pass into weeks, and then into months, and on a good day, three people visit your site. You’ve got a great site, but no traffic.

What’s the traffic-building secret?

While there are dozens of ways you can market your new Web site to increase traffic, one marketing strategy stands out: article marketing. When you market your site with articles, you’re providing free content for other sites to use, as long as they include your “resource box”, with links back to your site. The more your articles are used on other sites, the more signposts you have to your site, and the more traffic you’ll get.

Article marketing helps your site in another way: it builds trust and credibility for you. The search engines will rank you according to the amount of “trust” - links pointing to your site, that your site has. However, it’s important that these links are relevant, that is, they’re from sites which are on the same topic as your site. It’s also vital that you gain some trusted links: links from sites with trust and longevity.

Therefore, as you continue to market your site with articles, soon your site develops lots of links, and lots of trust, all of which translates into traffic.

Develop An Article Marketing Plan For Never-ending Traffic

Your article marketing starts with a plan. The more articles you write and post on article directories, the more signposts point to your site, and the more trust you gain, so writing lots of articles is vital.

Unfortunately life gets in the way of our good intentions, unless you commit to article marketing with a plan. Decide how many articles you will write (or have someone else write) for your site over the next three months.

Both quality and quantity count. You need to aim to create quality article content: the higher the quality, the more sites will use your articles. However, one fantastic article a month is a slow way to build traffic.

Decide how many articles you’ll write for your site per month, and schedule those articles, right now. Take half an hour to decide on article topics, and write the titles. Then get out your calendar, and schedule the articles.

Three months from today, you’ll have traffic which increases daily, and article marketing will become your favorite Web site marketing method.

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Web writing: get your Web sites indexed more quickly

April 26th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

When you’re writing for the Web, the search engines are hugely important: they bring you traffic, and you (or your client), sales.

Unfortunately, it can take a while for new sites to be indexed, and to starting coming up when people type queries into the search engines’ query box. Some sites can take up to a year (longer, sometimes) to become indexed.

Blogs get indexed fast

This is where a blog is useful, because blogs often only take a few days to start appearing in the search engines.

I always suggest to clients that to speed the indexing of their site, they include a blog. When the blog has links back to the main site, the site will get traffic much more quickly.

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