Writing Search Engine Optimized Articles

In order to show you exactly how best to write search engine optimized articles, this tutorial will be in the form of a well optimized article itself. First things first, we need to make sure our title contains our keyword, in this case it would be search engine optimized articles. Next we need to make sure that our keyword is mentioned in the first sentence of our article. Our keyword should also be contained at least once in every paragraph of a properly written search engine optimized article. For the sake of instruction, it is a good idea to use the keyword with some variations of long tailed keywords, for example: our title becomes a long tailed keyword by adding "writing" to our initial keyword of search engine optimized articles, we could also add variations like, best search engine optimized articles or tips for writing search engine optimized articles.

The main keyword of your article should be used 2-3% of the time within the article, this is known as keyword density. So, if you are writing a 500 word article, you would want to mention your keyword 10-15 times. This will ensure that you have written an article that will get noticed by the search engines, including Google, Bing, Ask, Altavista, and Yahoo, not to mention a plethura of others. When possible, the keyword should be in the first and last sentence, this helps the search engines to know exactly what your article is about. Since search engines do not have people manually reviewing the content of every article, it is essential that every piece of content you publish is a search engine optimized article that the Google spiders (or bots) will detect and properly categorize your article.

When stuck for something to write about your chosen keyword, there are a couple ways to get some great ideas for your next search engine optimized article. Obviously we can go to Google and search for the given keyword, then study different sites that come up on their search. After reading and researching the given keyword, we should be able to come up with some great ideas for content. If you are still stuck after checking out Google search, you can go to Ezinearticles.com and on your left hand side of the page you will see a search box that will allow you to search articles published on Ezinearticles. This is a great way to get ideas, since most subjects will have many, many articles that you can peruse to get great ideas for content.

Note: I am sure this goes without saying, but, never copy other content word for word. The idea of looking these subjects up is to get ideas and use your own creativity to write unique articles. copied articles will do you absolutey no good as a publisher. With search engine article marketing, unique content is king, so make sure you use your own words to express your message, even though the idea is not unique, it is the content that will be unique this way.

When writing the titles for your search engine optimized articles, you can add titles like "5 best ways to", "7 tips for", "8 greatest methods of", or as simple as "review" or "reviews" to catch users attention. Not only will these titles capture the attention of readers, but search engines absolutely love them! When you write search engine optimized articles, it is only a matter of time before your articles start ranking well in the search engines.