Showing posts with label article. Show all posts
Showing posts with label article. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A few tips about the keywords

keywords, words, labels, blogIn order to make your posts easier to find for the search engines, you must think about trying new techniques in the writing process of your posts, beside the good old figures of speech.
The most important of this techniques should be the managing of the keywords. On the web, keywords aren’t the words used to reveal the internal structure of the author’s reasoning, they are the tools used to be noticed by the search engines.
With the help of keywords, you may control how people will find the post in search engines or what they will have to type to find your information, but you also should ask yourself what keywords others are using, because if your keywords are very common, your information will be lost between thousands of posts with similar ones.
For a better result, you may use keywords in titles, tags and links, but you should use them in the content of the post too. You must be careful though and try not to overreact and ruin the post’s content and the reader’s pleasure. The overfilling of the text with keywords is also called keyword stuffing and everyone agrees that loading your page in attempt to manipulate is more often causing a negative effect. SEO experts suggests that the density of the keywords should be somewhere between 5 % and 20%, but I prefer the lower limit for the content’s sake.
Some people like to find keywords, then write an article that could contain those words, but you can try to reverse the approach, by writing a good article, then figure out how to integrate the keywords, you can find it sometimes easier and it usually works for me. This way, your text won’t seem artificial and it won’t offend your reader’s intelligence.
You can check at all time your progress of the post’s optimizing process with a keyword density analyzer.
With all this been said, just remember that most of the times, it’s best to have quality rather than quantity.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan

Friday, June 20, 2008

How to write catchy posts that will draw people’s interest

How to write catchy posts
As easy at it seems, people developed a real science around this topic with tones of rules and suggestions, but they usually forget that the readers are human beings and they just want something interesting, not a 10000 words post about the sound of the growing grass.
Before writing an article, you must pay attention to some elements that will interfere, such as:
-you must identify your reader’s comprehension level
-you must make short and on the topic posts
-you can “spice up” the text with a bit of humor
-you must teach users how to trust and keep that trust trough good content
Also the rules of common sense should be applied and you should not write prejudicial posts to others.
A very important feature of a post is the headline, this is a great tool and it can be used to make the visitor curious and eager to read more. After you catch his attention, you must deliver the content, which should be useful and related to the headline. You can’t write a headline about visa credit cards and then talk about what your pet iguana had for breakfast, because you might even get the “performance” to get the reader angry.
You must also remember that good posts will make people happy and happy people will make you happy, by paying regular visits to your blog. But if you want to be visited more often you should write more often.
At least but not last, try to be original, it is a very appreciated quality and it can excuse sometimes the clumsiness of the article, like this one’s for example.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan