Question on writing articles

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Can someone please suggestions on how to write articles to accompany pictures? I want to eventually have a website or blog that has picture on each page with descriptive articles about the subjects. However, I need to target keyword searches that have 'pictures of (longail phrase') to rank in the search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken Leatherman
    If I'm understanding what your asking, you would want to make sure the article is closely related to what the picture reflects. Or the other way around with the picture closely related to the article.

    A closely related picture can speak volumes for the point your trying to make. Therefore your article can be direct and to the point, instead of meandering all over the place.

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  • Profile picture of the author Sharyn Sheldon
    What kind of pictures are you talking about? Usually it's the other way around. You pick a keyword/topic, write the article, then pick an image that complements the article.

    If you are writing an article to describe the significance of the picture, I would still try to focus on a keyword that reflect the point you want to make about the image. You don't have to write a lot. Just make it relevant.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea21
    Thanks, I want to write articles to accompany pictures of animals, nature and so on. So the title of the articles will be something like, 'Pictures of (longtail phrase). I will be researching keywords that contain the words pictures, photos, images, posters and other related keywords.

    I then want to link them to my site that will be about the subject of the pictures.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    Are you talking about your characters and products site?

    You have a good example of how an article accompanies a photo.

    I clicked on Winnie and you have a link to an article relating to Winnie the Pooh. What exactly are you trying to do?
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  • Profile picture of the author Lori Kelly
    Are you a writer or do you outsource you writing?

    For a nature article, instead of "Pictures of nature," you could use something more creative, like [photo of path through a forest] "Imagine yourself walking down this path and enjoying the luscious green grass, smelling the fragrance of the vibrant flowers and experiencing the serenity of this gorgeous landscape." Something like that.

    If you're a writer, you can do this. If not, hire one.

    Good luck Andrea.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea21
    Hi

    I would like to write lots of articles containing titles of 'Pictures of (longtail phrases)' relating to animals, nature e.g 'Pictures of (breed dog)', then write an accompanying article so that the picture rank well in the search engines. I will then post the articles on a revenue share site and link them back to a website that is on a similar theme. I hope you understand what I am trying to do.

    I suppose I could do similar thing with pictures of children's characters on my current website.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Andrea21 View Post

      I will then post the articles on a revenue share site and link them back to a website that is on a similar theme. I hope you understand what I am trying to do.
      I don't know whether I do ...

      For me, it's not easy to imagine the benefit of doing it that way round rather than the other way round: why would you want to share the revenue rather than just doing that on your own site and keeping it all yourself? I confess I'm finding it far easier to envisage where you're losing than where you're gaining. (You don't expect to get extra traffic, that way, just by using pages hosted on someone else's site rather than on your own, I think? You're not confusing the page ranks of your own pages with the page rank of such a site's own home page or imagining that that will somehow increase your income?).

      Originally Posted by Andrea21 View Post

      I think I need to write articles that target keywords that people are searching for. What do you think?
      If I were going to do that, in an attempt to attract search engine traffic, I certainly wouldn't want to send all that traffic to a page on someone else's site, which I can never myself own or control. That would make little sense to me ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea21
    Yes, I agree with using something more creative as titles for articles but I think I need to write articles that target keywords that people are searching for. What do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea21
    Hi

    I agree it's a better idea to post the articles on my own site but they'll never rank as quickly as they do on a revenue share site and I am looking for a way to find out which keywords I enjoy writing about and those that provide the most income.

    I want to create a type of website that has a variety of images with descriptive information about them. If there is a quicker way to earn an income doing this than posting on revenue share sites, I am interested to know about it.

    I realise the CTR on a website or blog about pictures is going to be lower than on a product site but I hope that I can still earn some income from doing something like this.

    So, can someone provide suggestions on how to approach writing articles with titles like 'Pictures of (longtail phrase)'? How would I start an article using these keywords in order to benefit from on page SEO?
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Andrea21 View Post

      I agree it's a better idea to post the articles on my own site but they'll never rank as quickly as they do on a revenue share site
      Sorry ... call me a skepchick but I find this really difficult to accept. It's certainly not what I've found, myself, at all. (It even reminds me a little of people imagining that their articles will rank better in Ezine Articles than on their own sites - which is completely wrong unless they shoot their own sites in the foot by giving away all their initial indexation-rights to article directories.) It's what many people believe, I know, but I think that their typical reasons for believing it don't actually stand up to examination (and are often based on mistaken premises), and the reality's usually completely different anyway. That's why I more or less stopped using revenue-sharing sites nearly two years ago. And I now own and control all my own pages, myself, and have no further problems with other people's ever-changeable terms of service, nor with their often inconsistent and idiosyncratic interpretations of them.

      I do very, very little SEO for my own sites and still find it trivially easy to outrank equivalent pages on sites like Squidoo, HubPages and Blogger. The fact that their own home pages might have high page ranks never helped my pages on their sites to rank much (and why would it - especially these days, with page ranks counting for so little?).

      There may have been recent changes I don't know about, it's true. (Though my guess, in so far as they relate to keywords and ranking, is that they'd be more in favour of not using revenue-sharing sites). And I have no experience at all of doing exactly what you're asking about, with images - sorry.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea21
    I'm really confused about how to go about doing this because I'm not certain what types of images niche I want to concentrate on, which is why I thought I would target different subjects with articles on a revenue share site, then I could post those type of pictures on a website.

    Is there another way to achieve this without getting an exact match domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Is something that you're trying to do similar to creating a food blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author TopBackBuilder
    Instead of limiting yourself to a specific picture, pick the animal or topic relating to nature, write about it, then find a picture related to it. Using stock photos are always the best ideas to avoid copyright infringement.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea21
    What I'm hoping to do is research what keywords are being used to search for pictures of specific animals and then write an article with information about each animal to go alongside the pictures.

    Then if I discover that a particular type of animal is getting more searches, I could then write more articles about that animal.

    So, in that case should I concentrate on one website to target all animals or a separate website for each type of animal?

    Also, can I promote stuffed toys and other related products on a pictures site?
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