Search Engine Optimization is often seen as some magical thing that is done to a website. The fact is that SEO consists of a series of important steps, each of which builds up different characteristics that Google uses to determine where your site winds up in search results. Article marketing targets two of these important areas: backlinks and authority status. Writing articles and publishing them online is a great way to build links that go back to your website and to establish yourself as an authority in your field, both of which directly contribute to better search results and more traffic.
Article Marketing is as simple as writing a few hundred words about a topic related to your business and posting it on a blog or submitting it to a website that will publish it online. Many websites have a minimum word count of 500 to 600 words, although others will allow any length. It’s important to make sure that any articles you publish are well thought out, complete, and free of errors such as typos. Quality writing is important in these articles, as it could be the first way a customer hears about your company. Your content should be clean, unique, and useful. Duplicate content will not only hurt your credibility with readers, it will also hurt your search results.
Another important thing to consider when writing your articles is the title choice. Using a title that includes the keywords you want to target (the words that people will be typing into search engines) will help connect your company to those terms. You should also use keywords as the text for links back to your website within the article if you are able to. Some sites do not allow links inside the article, but do allow them in an author information area or resource box, where you can use the keywords as anchor text too.
Getting started as an article writer isn’t always easy, which is why Local SEO Company offers article marketing services for your company as part of our comprehensive SEO packages. We can offer anything from article submissions to hundreds of sites to creating unique, targeted content for your articles.
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Someone taught me that if you are going to submit articles to high traffic article directories, you should spin it, then submit the article versions and wait until you receive the confirmation email that indicates the article has been published on the web. You can then add that article to your blog or web site. He said that it must be done in this order because article directories use Copyscape to make sure there isn’t already duplicate content existing in cyberspace.