Writing Articles For SEO Purposes

The main reason for writing articles is for the
backlinks and secondary reason of presenting yourself
as an authority on the subject.

When they read your article and like the way you
present the information they will trust that you know
what you are talking about and go through the link in
the resource box to your site.

Articles equal traffic in 3 ways. First by the link in
the article to your site. I receive about 6-10% of my
traffic from the link in the articles I have written
and submitted to various high traffic directories
(ezinearticles, goarticles, etc.).

Second is from various sites that have published your
article because of its relevancy to their site subject.


*tip* go to Google and type in the title of your
article in quotations to see how many sites have
published it. Oh yea, make the titles of your articles
unique enough not to be mistaken for other results. For
instance one article I wrote has the title...
"Professional Article Writing, From Hobby To Income",
when entered into Google it shows 243 results. As I
scroll through the results I can find all the different
sites that published my article.

Traffic from published articles does not amount to a
whole lot but you do get the backlink from "related"
sites, a very good thing.

Third is search engine traffic. After you have
submitted a few articles and they get picked up by
dozens of sites, your backlinks will start to grow.
Backlinks are what will get you in the first page of
the S.E.s results for the keywords in the title of the
articles.

*tip* obviously, put relevant keywords in the title of
your articles.

The more backlinks, the more traffic. Simple.

Google ranks you according to your backlinks. Yahoo
ranks you according to your unique content. MSN ranks
you with a combination

In order to get your site ranked highly in all three
you must have unique content and many backlinks.

For writing articles about subjects that I know very
little I use Instant Article Wizzard


Within a few minutes you can create great articles for
your niche sites without all the time consuming
research needed normally.

I use it regularly and have gained "Expert Writer
Status" at the directories with it. Obviously it
produces good articles. Yes you will need to add some
of your own flare to the articles so they sound like
you wrote them but that part is a peice of cake!

Thanks for reading, untill the next post
Brian Ankner (non-guru)
Article Writing