Seo Article Writing: How to Write a Search Engine Friendly Article

Think seo article writing is beyond you or that you need to be a seo expert to get high rankings with your next article?

Think again. Believe it or not writing an article that’s search engine friendly isn’t rocket science but there are some rules you need to follow to get the best results.

Here are some tips you need to remember for your next seo article...

1. Although the idea of writing a seo article is to get high ranking in the search engines and free traffic to your website you should still remember that real people are going to be reading your article.

Think about it this way if I read your article and its complete gibberish with keywords throw in here and there, am I really going to want to click through to your site and take a look at what you’re trying to sell me on? I doubt it?

2. Put your main keywords at the very start of your articles headline. This is useful for two reasons it helps the search engines to know what the articles about and also your reader. People have become very selective in what they read online. If I’m looking for an article on “Dog Food” and I see it easily in the article title I’m probably going to read it.

But if your article title is cryptic or misleading I’ll probably just move on to the next thing in the search engine results instead.

3. Make a list of other keywords related to your main one and sprinkle these through out your article. For example if I read an article on “Dog food” and it constantly uses the same keyword over and over again it can be an overkill (and spamy) both for the search engines and your article reader.

Some people recommend a keyword density of about 3%. Which equates to about your main keyword being used about 3 times for every 100 words that you use.

4. If you’ve already done any article writing in the past you’ll know about using a working hyper link in your resource box linking to your website. To help make your article more search engine friendly you should use your main keyword that your article is targeting. For example if we use the keyword “Dog Food” again we’d have the keywords dog food as the clickable link to our site.

But a word of caution here, if your article has nothing in common with the hyperlink don’t use it. If you think about it, if I click a link for one thing and find your website hasn’t anything to do with it am I really going to want to stay around?

Finally,

Do be put off writing your next seo article, give it a go and see how you get on with it. If you don’t succeed the first time don’t give up keep at it even though you might not have written the best seo article you’ve probably put together a great article that still will send you free traffic to your website just because the search engines mightn’t like but that doesn’t mean your readers won’t enjoy it.

Article Submission - Top 7 Article Promotion Strategies To Full Throttle Your Website

Do you want to drive your site to the top 10 in Google and major search engines? Over the next few months, do you want to drive a boat load of traffic to your site? Sales a little slow. How about hearing that cash register ring like Santa's sleigh bells out of control? Follow these top 7 article submission strategies to give some gas to your website.

1. Every week, get your site in front of hungry customers.

As we all know, the internet is an information highway. You can find information on just about any topic you can think of, and you can find an equal amount of people surfing for it. There are plenty of hungry customers out there so each week you need to have an article ready to submit. High traffic ezines, newsletters, and major article directories are your best bet. They need articles so give them what they want. Be desciplined about submitting articles to this excellent source of pre-sold traffic. It's money in the bank.

2. An hour a day keeps the slow times away.

As I mentioned previously, the major sites need fresh content. This is what keeps their customers coming back. Don't think for a minute that your article isn't good enough. Get them submitted on a weekly basis. Set aside at least one hour a day to write. Writing two or more articles at the same time will maximize your time and efforts. The more articles you submit, the more publicity you'll receive. Soon you will be recognized as an expert in your field.

3. The World Wide Web is a haven for free publicity, you can't beat it with a stick.

Disciplining yourself to submit articles on a weekly basis will soon have your URL listed on hundred's of sites. After a several months you can count on a thousand other sites. After a few years your URL listing could reach five thousand sites, and in five years quite possibly you could reach one hundred thousand sites. Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants. Did you ever think you could have a thousand visitors a day? It's possible, but takes time.

4. PPC ads, PR sites, and link exchanges will be a thing of the past.

As you continually submit articles, over time more and more information hungry people will undoubtedly read your articles. Trust and confidence will develop from your readers. You will soon become an expert in your field. The result of this transformation and growth will lead to more sales. You sonn may forget there ever was PPC ads or link exchanges. This could take up to a year or more. Don't give up. As they say, quitters never win and winners never quit. Be patient and persistent as you reach for the golden ring.

5. Construct an article directory on your Website.

One of the best ways to enrich your site with original content is to archive your articles on your website with an article directory. Search engines love content rich sites, and new visitors will be attracted to your site by the fresh new articles. A key to successful article writing is to fill your article titles, article content, and resource box or bio rich with keywords.

6. New opportunities await you.

Over time, new opportunities will make their presence through your article submissions. This can be fantastic revenue sources for you. You will eventually come in contact with other publishers, ezine owners, and webmasters. Disect their establishment and determine how they could fit into your overall plan. Can you joint venture with them? Can they offer their readers an exclusive article or promotional piece about your product at special discount specifically for them? You will now have an opportunity to be in the spotlight to thousands of their readers. This could be the mother of all deals!

7. Be sure and say thanks.

There's nothing more satisfying after submitting a bunch of articles, and then one day you receive an email saying "We published your article in our ezine or website." Remember they are placing your article in front of many additional readers than just your submissions. It could well be an additional thousand readers. Be sure and email them back thanking them for their interest in your article. Ask them if they would like to receive more free content to use at their convenience, and if you could place them on your email list for future mailings. These can be golden.

Lastly, these top 7 article submission strategies have the ability to drive more traffic, and power your URL to the top ten search engine rankings. It is a major component for increasing sales. It takes time though, Rome wasn't built in a day.

To your success!

- Craig S. Andrews

Top 10 Open Source Stories Of 2008

The advent of Linux-powered netbooks, the launch of Google's Android and Chrome, and Nokia's move to snap up Symbian pushed open source further into the mainstream, despite ongoing legal wrangling.

BySerdar Yegulalp
InformationWeek

The year 2008 showed open source -- both in the form of Linux specifically and as a software development model generally -- coming into the mainstream like never before. When it wasn't powering new hardware niches like the netbook, it was forming the core of Google's new Android mobile operating system or its Chrome browser, and sitting at the center of legal wrangling with wide-ranging repercussions.

Here are the top highlights of the past year in the open source arena.

1. The Rise (And Falling Price) Of The Netbook

Linux-powered and budget-priced, the ASUS Eee PC and its successors proved that you didn't need a full-blown notebook computer to get work done. A netbook gets you Internet connectivity, word processing, and a slew of other common tasks -- all in a machine that cost around $350 or so. Even if later models of the Eee and other netbooks came with Windows XP as an option, that wasn't enough to kill the buzz for inexpensive Linux-powered devices. Netbooks also proved to be a better bet than Linux-powered desktop PCs at the same price point: why pay the same for a machine that doesn't even come with a display?

The race to the bottom with netbook prices hasn't stopped yet -- in fact, it's barely gotten started. As of this writing, consumer-electronics maker Coby is planning a $99 netbook. That's about a low a price floor as you can go to without subsidizing the sales in some fashion (e.g., a wireless data plan, as per cell phones).

2. Sun's Slow Spiraling Towards Nova

No, Sun hasn't gone nova quite yet, but it's getting mighty hot. Despite slumping sales, heavy layoffs, a tanking stock price, and customers hoofing it to other pastures (mainly Linux), Sun has beat relentlessly on its commitment to open solutions as a possible way out for both them and their stockholders.

One can't say they haven't tried. OpenOffice, under their sponsorship, released the long-awaited, if only incrementally revised, version 3. Solaris itself was open-sourced and, this year, released in a desktop-friendly implementation. And -- most significantly -- Sun bought MySQL AB, a move which ignited as much contention as it did enthusiasm among fans of both companies. Does this mean MySQL would go down with the ship if Sun implodes, or signal a change in direction for both companies?

3. The Release Of Ubuntu 8.10 And Fedora 10

Flagship distributions of Linux don't get any more prominent than Ubuntu and Fedora, and this year both of them hit major milestones. Ubuntu 8.10 brought the distribution -- one which for many people is Linux -- to a new level of usability and reliability, and added goodies like better mobile networking and the ability to build a mobile USB edition from an install CD.

Fedora, Red Hat (NYSE: RHT)'s non-commercial distribution, also got a new revision and now sports: a new startup system; better remote-provisioning features; wireless connection sharing; and Firstaidkit, a rescue utility designed to preserve as much user data as possible in the event of a system-gobbling disaster. If 2008 hasn't been the long-vaunted "year of the Linux desktop," it ought to be.

Fine-Tuning Your Filter for Online Information

By JOHN R. QUAIN

N the World Wide Web, people can track political polemics, movie star malapropisms and financial fiascos. The trouble is, hopping from site to site in search of the latest Mel Gibson bon mot can waste hours. Now there's a tool that promises to automatically capture just the information you want, when you want, from the Web.

Called R.S.S. (the initials are variously said to stand for Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication and more obscure formulations), this increasingly popular online tool turns a morass of disparate information sources into an automatically generated and neatly organized index of the latest articles and postings.

Based on a programming language (XML, or eXtensible Markup Language) already used to create many Web sites, R.S.S. enables Internet developers to post short site summaries describing recently added or updated items and links. Those postings are then scanned automatically by programs called R.S.S. readers to deliver specialized news-wire-style "feeds" to interested readers. These feeds, or news channels, are like personally tailored executive summaries containing dozens or even hundreds of headlines on a specific topic.

R.S.S. may sound suspiciously like the derided Pointcast service of the mid-1990's. Pointcast was a "push" application that broadcast a programmed and seemingly endless stream of headlines and advertising over the Internet. It tied up corporate networks and slowed personal computers. So it wasn't long before users got tired of being pushed around and dropped the service.

R.S.S. avoids Pointcast's pitfalls because it lets individuals request the information when they want it. The R.S.S. readers can be set to check for news every few minutes or every few days - or turned off completely. If a topic or R.S.S. news feed about Donald Rumsfeld begins to bore you, all you have to do is delete the channel. And with today's high-speed broadband connections, R.S.S. programs can scan for new items without hampering your work. They even work well over slower dial-up connections.

Feeders and Readers

Not every Web site offers an R.S.S. feed yet, but large news organizations like The New York Times (www.nytimes.com) and CNN (www.cnn.com) offer specific R.S.S. channels catering to interests ranging from movies to technology. There are foreign-language R.S.S. news feeds, too, and countless personal Web log updates that turn individuals into Internet syndicators.

R.S.S. can be used to track any information that changes frequently, from stock quotes to best-seller lists. Amazon has a welter of R.S.S. feeds featuring everything from top-selling folk music to popular dolls.

R.S.S. feeds also have the potential to serve more serious interests. There is an R.S.S. channel for information on missing children (www.teamamberalert.net) and several channels devoted to breast cancer news. Narrowly focused channels are also cropping up for medical specialties, like one for somnoplasty (a treatment for upper airway obstructions and severe cases of snoring).

To tap into this new font of information, all that is needed is an R.S.S. reader program to open the spigot. Dozens of reader programs are currently available. Some can be downloaded at no charge, while more elaborate readers with extensive customization settings charge for the software.

One of the simplest R.S.S. readers is the Dogpile Search Tool, available free from www.dogpile.com. The downloadable toolbar can be installed directly in Windows Internet Explorer and, as the name suggests, includes a search tool as well as an R.S.S. reader.

Dogpile's program creates a small ticker window in the browser to display a running list of the latest headlines from the R.S.S. site of your choosing. Click on a title as it scrolls by and the full article pops open in a separate browser window. The ticker can only show one R.S.S. feed at a time, however. To see all of your selected news channel updates, you have to go to a personalized contents page listing all of your channel subscriptions.

For inveterate news followers who want to manage an extensive range of R.S.S. sources, a better choice is NewsDesk (www.wildgrape.net). This free stand-alone Windows program uses a format that closely parallels those of popular e-mail programs. Channels are organized as a list of folders down the left side with headlines presented in an opposite facing pane. A third panel is used to display entire articles when desired. NewsDesk also tells readers when an article was posted and lets users specify how often each R.S.S. source should be checked, from once a month to every five minutes. Particularly helpful are more than 60 preinstalled news channels ranging from The Christian Science Monitor's Living section to articles from The Hindu, one of India's national newspapers.

If you want to integrate R.S.S. news into your e-mail program, there is NewsGator ($29; www.newsgator.com). It works in conjunction with Microsoft's popular Outlook program and is ideal for business users. NewsGator treats news feeds as e-mail, sorting, searching, organizing and forwarding items as the need arises. There is also a monthly $5.95 subscription service that can coordinate your news feeds across several devices - say, a cellphone, a home PC and an office computer - so that you never inadvertently read the same headline twice. It can even be directed to send traffic information only to your cellphone and movie news to your home computer.

The most promising NewsGator subscription feature, however, is its ability to create special channels or "watches" based on keywords. Create a watch for a name or topic and NewsGator will scour every available R.S.S. source to find your quarry. While this may be fun for the obsessive, it has a more practical application: in seconds, businesses can find the latest information on competitors, a task that could take hours to accomplish when using a conventional search site.

Growing Pains

R.S.S. may become an invaluable Web tool, but at the moment there are still a few kinks to work out. To add R.S.S. channels, for example, you have to look at Web sites for orange buttons labeled R.S.S. or XML. After you click on the button, you usually have to cut and paste the address of the feed into the reader software. Some reader programs can grab some feeds automatically, but it's hit or miss. Furthermore, finding new R.S.S. sources takes time.

The best approach is to visit special sites that list R.S.S. syndicators. The largest ones include Synidic8.com (www.syndic8.com), which has an extensive listing of R.S.S. blogs; Newsisfree (www.newsisfree.com), which also creates its own R.S.S. feeds from various sites; and Moreover (www .moreover.com), an R.S.S. company that has created scores of business-oriented channels.

As more sites adopt R.S.S., there is the potential for a new kind of information overload. Subscribe to enough R.S.S. feeds and you'll quickly find yourself consuming hours reading all the headlines and summaries. On the other hand, a tool is only as good as its owner's judgment. So if you can control yourself, you may find that R.S.S. is the best tool yet for taming the Web.