How to Write an Article That Gets Great Rankings
As you have seen in earlier posts I am building a passive income online currently by making niche websites. I get all of my traffic from Article Marketing and I wanted to share with you the tactics I have found to work best when it comes to writing an article that ranks well.
1. Use your keyword phrase. In this post I showed how I chose keywords to write on. It is important that the exact keyword phrase appears in your article. If it is not in there at all, you wont rank in the search engines for it.
2. Don’t over do it on the keyword. I have found the best keyword density to be once for every 100 words. So if I have a 400 word article I usually put my keyword in there about 4 times. (3 times for a 300 word article). If you put it in there too much it would be considered keyword spamming and your article can actually not rank as well. There is a fine balance here you need to look for.
3. Pay attention to LSI. This is a new ranking technique employed by google called Latent Semantic Indexing. It basically means that google is looking for words in your article that relate to your main keyword to determine if your article is really based on your keyword or not. So if your article was about cooking it would be looking for related for related keywords such as recipes, meals, dishes, etc… Use synonyms of your keywords wherever possible.
4. Pay attention to length. Keep your articles between 350- 500 words. Anything shorter or longer does not tend to do as well from my experiences.
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All great points regarding article-writing. I particularly like the point about keeping keyword usage to a minimum. Sometimes I read an article and keywords are so overused you can tell the only point was to promote on the search engines, to heck with editorial content.
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Hey Amy,
So the only type of promotion you do to get traffic is through article marketing? You don’t do any other sort of link building of anything?
Also how many articles do you usually write for each site?
I’m definitely thinking of making some niche websites, but I’m wondering how much work it is going to take to get a site making $2-$5 a day like yours are.
Thanks a ton!! Love the site
Rory
Rory – I mainly use article marketing because it is free and has long lasting effects.
How many articles do you typically write to promote each site?
And do you simply submit each article to a site and then do nothing else? Or do you link articles and do something to raise article rankings?
I guess it seems like making a site, then writing 20 articles each with a link to promote the site and then you suddenly have a mini niche site that earns you $2-$5 a day is too easy. Haha. Or am I wrong? Is that basically what you do?
Sorry for all the questions!
Thanks!
Rory
Rory – I write several articles to promote each site, but I submit them to different places. I don’t build backlinks to my marketing articles.
And last question I promise.
Do you build backlinks to individual pages or just to the main page?
Rory
I build to all my pages.