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How To Write A SEO Optimized Article For EzineArticles
In recent times Ezinearticles has come under a lot of controversy. The most successful article directory on the web has started rejecting more articles than ever before, even though those articles are of the same standard as those that were being accepted not so long ago. Traditional wisdom has always had it that you should include your main keywords in the article at around 3%. That is now being questioned in the light of the latest rejections. Now, it seems as though you need to put the main keywords in the title only, and use other words which mean the same in the main body of the article.
Of course the most important concept for both search engines and humans is relevance. Make sure you write a top quality article with no filler or padding. Search engine algorithms are getting more advanced all the time, and the developers are always looking for ways to make sure that the engines are returning the most accurate results possible. If you just write a quality article, you should not run into any serious problems. Do make sure that you are not inadvertently placing keywords into the article that are already in the title of the article.
One of the hot phrases in the search engine optimization world right now is Latent Semantic Indexing. What that basically means is that the engines are now looking for words and phrases which mean the same as other words and phrases. This is why keyword stuffing is now such a bad idea, and why Ezinearticles has become far more strict. Bear Latent Semantic Indexing in mind when you try to write search engine optimized articles for Ezinearticles.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make with these articles is to stuff them with unnecessary keywords. Firstly, there is now a very good chance that your article will be rejected by Ezinearticles, who have now become far more strict on keywords. Secondly, even if your article does slip through the net, your rankings will be adversely affected by the new search engine algorithms. Finally, your article needs to be readable by humans, and they are the ones who will either click through from you resource box, or not. In the end, it is humans who will either make your article a success, or not.
There is one part of the article which we have not yet mentioned, and that is the resource box. Your resource box is probably the most important part of the entire article, as it needs to sell the reader on the idea of clicking through. The best resource boxes have two links to your site. The first link uses your main keywords as anchor text, for search engine optimization purposes, and the second uses the full URL. In this way, if someone takes the article and uses it on their own site, but for some reason the links are not live, the reader can still see the URL, and can paste it into the browser to go to your website. This gives you the optimum chance of a positive result from your resource box.
Tags: ezinearticles, article marketing, seo optimized article, generating traffic
How To Use YouTube To Drive Traffic To Your Blog
Once you have your blog set up, you will want to drive as much traffic to it as possible, preferably high quality buying traffic. One way this can be done is by creating videos and uploading them to video sharing sites such as YouTube. These sites have become incredibly popular, and YouTube itself was even bought out by Google. The first step is to sign up for a YouTube account. On the YouTube homepage, you will see a link saying “sign up”. Click this link, and you are taken to the page where you can sign up. You will need to select an account type, and there are special account types for different types of people. If you are a director, musician, comedian, or guru, you can create that type of account. If in doubt, choose the standard account.
As with most sign-ups to Internet services, you will need to provide an e-mail address and choose a password. You will then need to select a YouTube username, which can only contain the letters A-Z, and the numbers 0-9. You also need to tell them which country you are in, and in certain cases, you need to provide a postcode. You also need to tell them which gender and give your date of birth. Once this is done, you are then able to upload videos to YouTube, where they can be seen by the entire Internet community. If you wish to record a standard video, you will need a video camera or a web cam and recording software.
You can create other types of video without these. By getting hold of some screen capture software, such as Camtasia, you can create videos based on what is on your computer screen. This format is ideal if you are selling instructional material on Internet related subjects. Even if you are not, it is still possible to use pictures and websites to create a kind of infomercial, which you can use to inform people of your products and services, with the idea of driving the traffic to your own website.
Having created your video, you now need to upload it. You will need to provide a title, which should of course be search engine optimized, and also a brief description of your video. You can also provide tags, which will help other YouTube uses to find your video. You will need to select a category for your video, which you would want to do anyway as it increases the chances of other uses finding it. Once you have done this, your video should be uploaded and visible to the world, provided you have not made the mistake of choosing to keep it private!
Once the video is up on the Internet, it should attract a certain amount of traffic on its own. Other YouTube users should find the video purely through the tags you have set. Unless you are in a super competitive niche, you should also attract some traffic from the organic search engine listings. That is not all you can do to promote the video. You can write articles and submit them to directories, you can make comments on other people’s blogs with a link back to your video, and you can submit to the social bookmarking sites.
Tags: generate traffic, traffic using youtube, blog traffic
