Keyword Articles, Web copy, SEO
Articles - What Are They,
And How Do They Benefit You
By
Michelle L Devon
So
you want to know what keyword density and SEO are. Yeah,
so did I when I first started building my web presence. Everywhere I
looked,
they said, "You have to have good keyword density. SEO is critical to
Google and Yahoo! search engine and directory placement. Articles,
articles,
articles...
What?
Articles? What does that have to do with keyword
density and SEO? Glad you asked! The best way to get good search engine
and
directory placement for your website is to have valuable content on
your site.
What is valuable content? Well, most people use web copy to provide
this content.
Now,
this web copy can definitely be the description of your
site, your services, etc., but one valuable resource for web copy is
the use of
informational articles. The more content and articles you have, the
more
keywords you can use, and the more likely your site will be indexed
under a
variety of different keywords and phrases.
I'm
not really big on the technical end of how it all works,
and I'm not sure anyone, including Google, knows exactly how Google
determines
who gets placed where by what keywords, but here what I do know is:
articles
and REAL content information with proper keywords makes all the
difference to
your site's ranking and placement. But not just any old article will do
the
trick!
This
is one misconception I've seen among people who have
hired me to write keyword articles for them. Many think that just
making sure I
use the keywords they have given me as many times as possible will
increase
their rankings, and that's all there is to it.
It
might be if the website is only using ONE keyword or
keyword phrase, and the article contains no other index-able words, but
most
companies don't have just one product or just one service, and focusing
on just
one keyword or one phrase will not do the trick for any other search
terms a
user might use to find the site. Additionally, using too many of the
same
keywords can cause some indexers to reject the keyword completely,
considered
keyword stuffing, not to mention the fact that the article will not
read well,
and that reflects poorly on your site. Plus, keyword density is
determined by
scanning index-able words and calculating how many time your keywords
appears
among those index-able words.
There
is truly an art to SEO and keyword density that should
be learned. Even words you do not put in your alt or meta tags but that
appear
repeatedly on your page will be used to index your site, sometimes
whether you
want them to be used or not! Making sure your content has properly
optimized
keyword density for your site is crucial.
While
you can indeed find free articles on the web to use as
content for your site, and I definitely don't discourage this, be sure
to check
the author's suggested keywords and make sure that they are relevant to
the
keywords you will be using on your site. Just throwing up a series of
articles
that aren't related to your site will do little to increase your
rankings and
site placement, and definitely won't bring
TARGETED
traffic to your pages. It is, after all, targeted
traffic that converts to sales or ad clicks - and that is what makes
you money!
If
you really want to make sure your site has good keyword
density and proper SEO, you might want to consider hiring an article
writer to
provide unique keyword articles for your product, service, or website.
These
services are usually relatively inexpensive and you can be assured good
keyword
density for your site and /or your products or services.