Writing Articles for Instant SEO Traffic
It used to be that writing articles was the least known form of traffic to your website. However, people’s opinions have changed as they see that articles can bring lots of traffic to their sites. So I’m going to give you some quick SEO article writing tips that you can easily use to harness the process of getting more traffic to your site.
First of all, it’s a myth that once you finish writing and publishing an article that your work is done; this is so far from the truth. Albeit a well written and popular article will remain highly ranked in the search engines, the key for you is consistency. The more you write articles and publish to directories, the higher you will climb in the rankings. We should clearly understand which elements in our article writing process the search engines look for.
One of the items that search engines analyze is the keyword density, or the number of times your keyword appears in comparison to the total number of words. Preferably and for optimum rankings when writing articles; keep this percentage in the range between 1% and 3% in the body. This would be considered the simple version of calculating keyword density.
But, there is a second calculation that search engines use in their algorithm. It takes into consideration all the other elements such as the Title, meta tags, Alt tags, etc. and includes these in the final numbers. For example, if you have 600 words in the body and the keyword appears 6 times; then that would equal 1% density (6/600*100=1). And if your title, meta and alt tags totaled 150 words and the keyword appears 20 times, it totals to a different number.
Here would be the new calculation:
Words: 600+150=750
Keywords 6+20=26
Calculation: 26/750*100= 3.5%
So the simple calculation is 1% and the complex calculation is 3.5%. This is very good information to know because now you are in possession of key factors on how to write a good article. So if your article doesn’t rank well, you can use this a test factor when writing articles by simply increasing or decreasing the keyword density.
Now I have been hearing totally different thoughts on another concept of writing articles that I have to let you know about it. Some of the experts have been saying not to give a hoot about keyword density. And that if you write a well written article that flows well, Google will reward you. I have heard claims of as high as 33% keyword density and still having a highly ranked article. I am sure that there is much more to this than meets the eye, and I will definitely continue this conversation in the future.
For now, just try to stick between 1% and 3% keyword density when writing articles. Many have already been down this road and it has proven to be the right “thing to do” now.
Let’s move on to submitting your articles to the directories. Listen, even if you are a great writer, you still need to proof your work BEFORE submission to article directories. Proof meaning reading your article to weed out grammatical and sentence structure errors. When writing articles I personally tend to write like I speak so don’t look for the scholar version here 
Article directories are depositories where these articles are submitted, and in turn the search engines usually pick these up. Many article directories will let you put a resource box at the end of your articles. This can have a little about you and what you do and whatever you are promoting. And most of them will let you put in a url of your web site.
The importance of the resource box is that people will read and then click on the links, and guess what? You’ve got traffic to your site! And the more article directories that your articles wind up on, the more traffic you get. Simple eh? But it goes one step farther. If someone wants to use your article from one of these directories, they must leave your resource box intact. Soooo, now you get more traffic from even more different sources. It’s a definitely a win-win situation for all.
This is a very low cost and efficient way to start getting traffic by just writing articles. It’s just a matter of getting the ball rolling with writing articles on a consistent basis and submitting them to the directories.
