Whats happened to ezine articles?

Tim, I think what I might do is post a "mock" article with a keyword
phrase that's almost impossible to keep from including in your article too
many times and show people how to "intelligently" use substitutes.

For one thing, you don't want to repeat a lot of words in your article
as it tends to make it sound, for the lack of a better term, unpolished.

Words have a feel to them that go way beyond their meaning. Some words
just sound better than others as well as some sounding just plain awkward.

Naturally, this depends on what you're writing about and you do have to
develop an "ear" for these things, but eventually, you just know when
something sounds horrible, like when you're writing an article about
how to clean your gun and you can't help but use the word "gun" over
and over because, let's face it, that's what you're talking about.

That's when you have to do a little planning.

What I do is make a list of synonyms before I start writing and then replace
my main keyword with that synonym.

For example, for gun, I might use:

weapon
piece
fire arm
rifle
pistol

And so on.

If you don't know any synonyms off the top of your head, just go to
Google and type in "synonyms for " and then your keyword. You'll get
plenty.

Point is, there is never a reason for an article to be keyword saturated no
matter how common the keyword or phrase is.