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So your plan is this so far:
1) Build an authority website that gets lots of traffic.
2) Choose a topic.
3) Make a list of keywords based on that topic.
Now you have to actually write some articles.
How do you do this without creating a steamy pile of keyword-laden crap?
My suggestion for SEO is pretty simple. Basically, 90 percent of my SEO efforts focus on the post title. The article that you give your title is telling the search engine what keywords you are trying to rank for with that particular post.
In the post itself, do NOT get fancy. Use the main keyword just once, no more.
Article length:
I just completed some very in-depth research on my own flagship website, and I am convinced that there is absolutely no point in going longer than 2,500 words. In fact, I think Google probably ranks content higher if it is between 600 and 2,500 words in length. From what I can tell, they actually penalize the longer stuff.
So ideal length for each article is 600 to 1,000 words. If you want to be safe I would say shoot for 1,000 with each article that you publish. But 600 seems to be working fine at the moment. You just never know though because at some point Google has the option of changing their mind, changing the game, tweaking their algorithm, and so on.
Article volume:
The basic idea is that you want LOTS of articles on your website. If you have 100 articles and you are earning $200/month online, then guess what would make you earn $2,000/month instead? That’s right, having ten times more articles.
If your website has 1,000 articles on it then that is a whole different ballgame then a website with only 100 articles.
That said, keep in mind the following:
* You have to start somewhere. Grab your keyword list and just start publishing quality.
* Don’t trade volume for quality. Never pump out articles so fast that your quality slips. I have done it and I regret it.
Remember that Google did an update once (known as the Panda update) and that this update seemed to target medium to large websites that were going after mountains of long tail traffic by publishing lots of “me-too” articles.
That is our exact strategy here in order to build up an online income so the only saving grace that you have is if your articles are actually good, valuable, legit, helpful, useful, etc. If you publish junk then eventually Google will can your site.
Now what is acceptable quality?
My opinion is that the bar is being continuously raised based on massive outsourcing.
So what that means is that Google does not want a bunch of outsourced writing filling up their search results. It is quick, crappy, thin, and not what is considered to be “quality.” So ask yourself 2 questions before you publish your content:
1) Could this article have been written by a fairly cheap outsourcer?
2) Was this article written by an outsourcer who is not an expert on the topic?
If you can answer “yes” to either of those, I would not publish that article on your money site.
So that should give you an idea as to “quality.” It is not easy to define and as you can see I basically just pointed out what it is NOT here.
You can also take a look at the article that you are reading now and get an idea of what I consider to be “quality.” I could not have outsourced this article you are reading and if I did it would not have nearly the amount of personal references in it or personality to it. Obviously I am “speaking” here instead of just writing third person crap such as:
“Making money online is best done by targeting keywords in articles published on a website.” etc.
I am not just writing junk, I am actually talking to the audience (YOU) and sharing my experience. A subtle difference, but one that I think the search engines are picking up on.
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