Syndication Article Marketers - Question About Keyword Choice

I have always believed that providing quality is better than quantity. Obviously, this can vary from person to person, but in my tests, quality wins out!

You misunderstood the question, Tiggereyes. The thread is about writing articles that other people will syndicate, not about syndicating articles which other people have written.

Sorry if I'm slow on the uptake here, but are you saying you wouldn't be using "SEO exclusively" (i.e. you'd be using other things too) in order to get traffic, or that you wouldn't be using SEO "exclusively to get traffic" (i.e. you'd be using it for other reasons, too?) :confused:

I think the answer is something like "No, not necessarily", or at least "No, not to the same extent that other article marketers do, anyway".

Because in writing for syndication, quality and interest and "desirability"/"readability" (in the broadest sense) of your work are proportionally more important, and SEO a little bit less important. That's my view, anyway. And I think you'll find it's also Bill Platt's view (which of course carries a lot more weight!).

I don't hesitate to do this, myself.

Titles are "different": in a way they're perhaps "copywriting" more than "article writing".

Without a good/interesting title to make people want to read on, it's not that important how much traffic you get, in a sense.

I do some articles on which I try to put the major keyword at the start, some on which I try to get the major keyword in twice (shhhhh!) and a lot more on which I use what I think is a "gripping title" without being too concerned about keywords, word order, and so on.

Also: don't forget that there's no law that says you have to use the same title everywhere you use the same article.

Personally, I like alliterative titles listing together three apparently entirely unassociated things (often one a keyword and two others from a quotation, book title, or whatever else a reasonably literate reader might just about be expected to have heard of enough for it to "ring a bell" on some level). So, for my cauliflower soup recipes niche, I'd think "Cauliflower, Cabbages and Kings" might be a good title (I'm quickly plucking a silly/fictitious one out of the air, not altogether successfully, just to try to illustrate the point that you can get a keyword in and still come up with a catchy/unusual/intriguing title, too - which will perhaps appeal, in this case, to anyone who's read Lewis Carroll and has heard of "Cabbages & Kings" ).