Some questions about outsourcing article (IM niche)

Hi, hope my answers help, although I'm no article expert. Cheers Dal.


1. Is there any "ideal" percentage of keyword density in an article ?
I heard that it's not important as long as some of the keywords are included in the
title and the article body...

I tend to go for 1 keyword phrase per 100 words. Just make sure you people can read your article, thats the main thing.

2. How long should the article be ?

I try and aim for around 250 words, so that the reader doesn't lose interest before seeing the resource box.

3. Which one is better, rewrite articles that have been proven to get thousands of views
or completely new one ?

I don't know exactly what you mean here. It might be an idea to look at the theme and the keyword phrase of a popular article do a bit of keyword research rather than just looking at a popular article first, because if you're referring to Ezine Articles, the most viewed section isn't always representative of a popular topic because people are artificially increasing their views using turks, and pay per click etc.

4. Should I manually submit them or should I use article submitter software. Any
recommendations for article submitter software ?

I outsource manual submissions. I don't have any experience of article submitters so I can't say recommend any.

5. Is it worth to pay more for LSI optimized articles ?
There has been articles about how search engines "like" LSI articles...

You don't need to pay more for LSI articles. Just use Google Keyword tool for related keyword phrases and incorporate a list of the popular related phases into your article. Using related keyword phrases is more important than frequency of keywords nowadays.

6. Where can I get templates for "good" author resource box that I can straight away copy and
modify a bit?

Try looking at the expert authors list on Ezine, and analyse their resource boxes.

7. If I submit articles to EZA, is it worth to become premium member to cut off article
approval time ?

Only you can answer that. I guess, if article marketing is your main traffic generator, and you're consistently submitting lots everyday, it might be worth exploring. I'm not a premium member by the way, but thats because I don't do too much article marketing.

Any advice/help/opinion/suggestions will be welcomed.

Thank you in advance !

I want to add something.

From my experience in the Internet marketing niche, and I have over 6 years of experience, I can tell you that if you'll spend your money on articles you'll not get it back.

Unfortunately, there are niches that article marketing is just not working.

Let me tell you why.

Most of the IM keywords have a lot of competitors, and to get high ranking on Google you need to have a lot of luck, and a professional article written.

When you write your articles, and when you do your keyword research, it's to get high ranking for the keywords you find. That's why you can understand that it will be very hard to get page one of Google for your keywords.

You should not count on people who search the EzineArticles directory because they are very poor.

What I want to make clear, is that YOU CAN find good keywords, but you'll have to digg in for a few hours of research.

Just trying to save you some money.

Mike G

Mike G is right,the internet marketing Niche is very competitive.Except you have years of experience,its hard to make money in it.But hey,dont let anyone tell you that you cant do,go and give it a try!

2% is about the highest you want to go, and generally a competent writer will hit a good level just in the course of writing the article. I almost never have to try for a specific keyword density.

Most of the articles I write for clients are 300-400 words; about a third of them are 500-800 words.

Actually, looking at my current orders, I have 40 out of the 60 articles in my backlog specified at 350 words... another twelve are "300-400" in length. So right now, my queue is about 87% in the 300-400 word range and the rest somewhat longer.

Completely new, IMO. (I personally charge the same either way, so there's no benefit to me in pushing one over the other. Actually, rewrites are easier.)

Doesn't matter. Never used any. Once the article's finished, it's not my job anymore.

No, it's not worth it. LSI is how Google determines whether a page is really just a bunch of garbage trying to rank for a keyword. You're ordering articles, not garbage. You know the difference.

Author resource boxes should flow out of the article, and seem like part of it. You should write a new one (or have one written) for every article.

I don't think it is. People who rely more on EZA might disagree.