SEO writing is very different from content
writing, article writing, story writing
and news writing. When I first realized
my innate talent for writing stuff and
putting thoughts into words, I was still
reading Mills and Boons, and it was during
this time that my romance storybooks were
confiscated by my classroom teacher because
I was reading in class.
Writing is a very personal thing, I discovered.
Some people have the talent for writing
creative stuff. Some people have the talent
for writing ads. Some write excellent
factual stuff. Well, I fall into the factual
stuff category. The boring-writing-technical-mumbo-jumbo
writing stuff. How I fit into this category,
I don't know.
Well, SEO article writing is very much
like that. First, you decide what topic
or keyword that you want. For instance,
you're selling decorative lamps, right?
in the SEO article writing process, list
down 'decorative' and 'lamps'. Then think
about other words that relates to 'decorative'
and 'lamps'.words that people use all
the time to describe them. This is a very
important part of SEO article writing
because these are common words that your
potential site visitors will use to find
you.
How about 'light', 'bright', 'pretty',
'lighting'?
Ok, now your SEO article writing keywords
are:- decorative, lamps, light, bright,
pretty and lighting, right? So, on to
the SEO article writing process. First
you write everything that you need to
write down first. Beef up the article.
As a general rule of thumb, SEO articles
should be no less than 300 words and no
more than 500 words. Any more than that,
you're wasting your writing a novel for
your SEO article. Read through the SEO
article now and replace words and reword
sentences to fit in those keywords. Yes,
you'll have to restructure some the SEO
keywords here and there, but do it anyway.
Make sure the sentences make sense, ok?
Because although the search engines won't
know bad grammar from good grammar, your
site visitors will. And most of them,
site visitors who visit your website based
on those SEO keywords DO mind the bad
grammar. And once you turn them away,
it's almost impossible to bring them back!
The final step to SEO article writing
is...proofread your SEO article and make
sure they flow. The problem with SEO writing
is that your thoughts might come in buckets..a
splash here and a splash there. So, during
the SEO article proofreading process,
you'll have to make sure one paragraph
flows on to the next.
Good luck!
| About The Author
Marsha Maung is a freelance graphic
designer and copy writer who works
from home. She designs apparel and
premium items at http://www.allmomstuff.com
and is the author of "Raising little
magicians", and the popular "The
Lance in freelancing". More information
can be found at http://www.marshamaung.com.
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This article was posted on August
27, 2005
