Serious About Article Writing? 7 Steps To Speedily Produce High Quality Material Every Time!

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I've been writing articles for a while and at one point I read so much on the subject that I suffered from information overload. There's so much conflicting information out there that it gave me a headache. I'm writing this thread to tell you what actually works for me. It may not work for you but you'll never know unless you try it.


Here goes


Keyword Research - Always write an article around a specific keyword. I use keyword elite to save time but the google keyword tool will do the same job. Find a keyword related to your niche and write an article around it.


For article purposes Igenerally try for keywords around 500 searched per month, with less than 25,000 competing pages in quotes and I litter the article with around 5 to 10 LSI keywords. To find these just put your main keyword into the google keyword tool and in the results section you'll find the words you should include in your article.


Writing - First I just write the article as it comes to me in my head. Very conversational in style. My first job is to get what's in my head, out and onto the computer. After this I read what I've written and insert my keyword and LSI keywords into the article.


A few more tips on writing. I usually go for an article length of 400 - 500 words, I insert my main keyword at about 1%, that's once for every 100 words. Don't write a complete article, tease them with enough information to make them know you have the answer they're looking for at your website and entice the reader to click on the resource box at the end.


Spinning - this is a term used for changing the content slightly so that it looks like a brand new article. To do this you should change the title completely. Completely rework the first paragraph and in each subsequent paragraph replace one or two words. This is usually enough to make it unique to the search engines.


The Title - This has to be impactful with a few powerful words and it MUST contain your main keyword.


'Who Else Want To Learn Article Marketing' just won't do.


'A Startling Fact About Article Marketing - How YOU Can Produce High Quality Articles That Will Have Your Readers Begging To Find Out More' - This is much more catchy even if it is a little long winded.


Submission - Get your content in as many places as you can. This means not just article submission sites like ezinearticles, goarticles and articlebase. Split your article down and make a squidoo page, a hubpage and a tumblr page. Submit to document sharing sites like scribed.com and docshare. There are many more ways just use your imagination.


Automation - There are many ways to automate just about every part of the process from choosing an impactful title to multiple submissions. Choosing the best ones can be very difficult. I'd suggest you utilise the warrior forum members for this. Research the possiblilities and look or ask for a review form the forum.


Try to automate as much as possible, the more articles you write the more money you'll make.


Give it a go. - Just writing 10 articles and having no or little results then giving up isn't the way to go. Thomas Eddison attempted to invent the light bulb about 10,000 times before he did it. Knowing this do you really think writing 10 articles without any results is enough?


The top guy at ezinearticles says a minimum of 250 articles is a good guide for giving it a good go. This doesn't mean write 250 articles and then move on, it's a minimum not a maximum.


That's it for now, hope you've found it useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author timelessreader
    Thanks for sharing. So if you use a keyword of ~500 searches, use the keyword 5 times, use 5-10 LSI keywords, you find your article ranks in google consistently for that keyword?

    I've written a few dozen articles for Ezinearticles without paying attention to this stuff, and by accident one of my articles is on the front page of google for a certain keyword. How long might I expect it to remain there? ie, how long do your articles remain there?
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    • Profile picture of the author Darren Hodgson
      Originally Posted by timelessreader View Post

      So if you use a keyword of ~500 searches, use the keyword 5 times, use 5-10 LSI keywords, you find your article ranks in google consistently for that keyword?
      Consistantly, yes, with every article, no. It all depends on the competition, the smaller the competing webpages the higher the chance you have of making it up to the 1st page.

      Originally Posted by timelessreader View Post

      I've written a few dozen articles for Ezinearticles without paying attention to this stuff, and by accident one of my articles is on the front page of google for a certain keyword. How long might I expect it to remain there? ie, how long do your articles remain there?
      I've had one of mine up there for months, It's had around 3,000 views. If an article of mine falls down a few spots or I think I can get it number 1 I try a bit of backlinking. Usually social bookmarking. Try socialmarker.com, select do follow and sign up for all of the sites. It takes a while the first go but after the initial signup process it's alot quicker.

      Another method is to type in 'do follow diver' into google and click on the 1st result. Type in your keyword into the search box, this will bring up a list of do follow blogs related to your topic where you can leave keyword text links to your site.

      Submit to at least 10 and copy the URLs. The go to html2rss.com create an account and create an RSS feed from the URLs and submit this to a few good aggregators such as pingoat.com, feedping.com and feedage.com. This will get the pages indexed quicker.

      It may seem a bit drawn out but once you've done it a few times it doesn't take long and if it keeps your article up there for longer it'll be well worth this small amount of effort
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      • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
        Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson View Post

        the smaller the competing webpages the higher the chance you have of making it up to the 1st page.
        This is not always the case. Your advice on everything else was solid, but this can be misleading. In addition to your other suggestions, I would recommend getting a free piece of software - Free SEO Software | The Best PPC & SEO Management Tool -Traffic Travis - and using it to quickly scope out the Top 10 competition at Google for any given keyword before you write that article. It will show you what you need to know without spending a lot of time. Look for a Top 10 that isn't full of top level domains, high PR numbers, and on-page SEO (green checkmarks under Title, Desc, H1 Tag). Then you'll know you're in good shape to crack the Top 10 at Google.

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        • Profile picture of the author Darren Hodgson
          Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

          This is not always the case. Your advice on everything else was solid, but this can be misleading. In addition to your other suggestions, I would recommend getting a free piece of software - Free SEO Software | The Best PPC & SEO Management Tool -Traffic Travis - and using it to quickly scope out the Top 10 competition at Google for any given keyword before you write that article. It will show you what you need to know without spending a lot of time. Look for a Top 10 that isn't full of top level domains, high PR numbers, and on-page SEO (green checkmarks under Title, Desc, H1 Tag). Then you'll know you're in good shape to crack the Top 10 at Google.

          John
          Thanks for the correction. I missed this, I entirely agree with you. As I said I use KE2 to check out competition, I'll check out the tool you recommended as well, it sounds quite good
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          • Profile picture of the author simba
            As a professional IM writer, I completely agree with what you've said. I only thought I'd say a bit about keyword density. It depends on what you're writing about and what your keyword is. For example, I wrote an article this morning, whose keyword was "how to tell that your ex still likes you". KWD is 1% i.e. once every 100 words and its a 400 word article. Now, if you follow this to the rule, you'll end up with an indigestible article. You have to be sort of clever about it and the way you pepper the KW may require you to re-arrange the words in it to make sense.

            I sometimes get requests from clients that I see right off would not produce readable/digestible material - I get back to them and let them know that maybe they need to do their KW research again, considering that the articles are to be read by humans not machines.

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            • Profile picture of the author arttse
              I think its important to have unique resource boxes (including anchor texts) if you're spinning articles.
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            • Profile picture of the author Darren Hodgson
              Originally Posted by simba View Post

              I sometimes get requests from clients that I see right off would not produce readable/digestible material - I get back to them and let them know that maybe they need to do their KW research again, considering that the articles are to be read by humans not machines.

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              Excellent point, I agree, when doing your keyword research it's always important to analyse whether or not you can realistically fit the keyword into your article without it sounding disjointed. If your article doesn't flow off the page the reader may click off before they reach the bottom where your resource box is
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson View Post


    Keyword Research - ... the google keyword tool will do the same job. Find a keyword related to your niche and write an article around it.

    I agree. The GKWT can really tell you a lot. I try to use it in conjuction with other methods as well in order to confirm what I am looking at is true.
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    • Profile picture of the author Darren Hodgson
      Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

      I agree. The GKWT can really tell you a lot. I try to use it in conjuction with other methods as well in order to confirm what I am looking at is true.
      I also use the following SEO Book.com ~ SEO Training Made Easy. you need to sign up for an account but it's good for crosschecking the GKWT.

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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    Also, where you put that article has a lot to do with how it ranks. Established authorities like EzineArticles.com will pass along serious ranking juice to any article in its inventory. With the right keyword choice and the advice Darren lays out in the OP, in many cases you can score a Top 10 at EZA without a single backlink. That isn't usually gonna happen if you put that article on your own site (only) or use a lesser known article directory.

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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Bainbridge
    Originally Posted by Darren Hodgson View Post

    Give it a go. - Just writing 10 articles and having no or little results then giving up isn't the way to go. Thomas Eddison attempted to invent the light bulb about 10,000 times before he did it. Knowing this do you really think writing 10 articles without any results is enough?

    The top guy at ezinearticles says a minimum of 250 articles is a good guide for giving it a good go. This doesn't mean write 250 articles and then move on, it's a minimum not a maximum.
    Great article - for me this is the key - too many people write one or two articles, send 13 hops and wonder why they are not successful - if you are brand new then write 10 a day for a while, and you will soon see some bigger stats, LEARN A TON, and be able to tweak your approach and do more of what works for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jerry Pierce
    I am just starting article marketing and would not have thought to do all the behind the scenes steps. Thanks for the info. If you take the time to write quality articles, nice to have them higher on the list.
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    • Profile picture of the author Darren Hodgson
      Originally Posted by Jerry Pierce View Post

      If you take the time to write quality articles, nice to have them higher on the list.
      It is more rewarding to see your good quality articles somewhere at the top of the search engines and getting there can mean the difference between a few thousand views and a few hundred views. That's why I spend the extra time doing it.
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