A look at where to place keywords for the best search engine results.
Search engine keyword placement is an important part of SEO writing. If you spend time writing for the web, you do well to make sure your articles perform to their best advantage. One way of playing tag with the search engines is to pay attention to where you place your keywords.
Learning how to write your web articles using good search engine keyword placement isn’t overly difficult. It may seem confusing at first but once you learn the basics of article SEO, it is reasonably easy to write most, if not all of your online articles using good keyword placement.
Search Engine Keyword Placement
- If you look at the title of this article, the keywords I’m writing it around are “search engine keyword placement.” I already did my keyword research using the Google AdWords keyword tool. Next, I used the keywords at the beginning of my title because this is the best placement for SEO purposes.
- I followed this by making sure I used the keywords in my first paragraph. And you’ll notice other related words.
- I also used the keyword phrase in my subheading.
You can see from these examples that it takes only minutes to keyword-optimize your articles for search engine placement. With practice, this process becomes easier.
You will want to place your keyword phrase throughout the remainder of your article but take care to avoid keyword stuffing. If the article doesn’t read naturally, you’ve probably used your keywords too often. Show consideration for your human readers.
Writing for the web is different from writing for print publications and writers do well to learn basic search engine keyword placement so that their online articles, via the help of the search engines, ultimately meet up with a larger audience. Think of the search engines as a tool to further your article writing and fuel your writing earnings.
To illustrate: if you had a box of index cards, you would label them so that you could see at a glance what the cards contained. Using the labels you would organize the cards, without stopping to read everything on all the cards. In like fashion, a search engine will key in on keywords in your article. If placement of these keywords includes strategic locations, your article is easier to index because the keywords are markers as to what the article is about.
I’ve bolded the keywords in this article so that you can see where they appear. Try to pretend, for a minute, that you are a search engine looking for each keyword. Now, run your eyes over the page. As you key in on the keywords, it becomes obvious what this article is about. This is how your articles should appear to a search engine.
This winds up this article about search engine keyword placement. (You’ll notice I’ve used the keyword phrase one last time in this concluding paragraph.) Use these keyword SEO tips when you write your next article.
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June 19th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Never read this before……..nice article………
June 19th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Understood how important search engine placements are from this article.
June 19th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Thanks for sharing this. Very useful info.
June 19th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
yes, if you want to earn more from your articles, it really helps to practice search engine keyword placement.
June 28th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Thanks for the good information.
June 28th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Hi Pam,
Sometimes just making small changes makes a big difference to our earnings from online articles. Utilizing search engine keyword placement makes sense if we want our articles to rank and be read.
May 25th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Hands down the most useful article I have ever read. Thank you so much for your tips.