Search Engine Optimization Research and Why You Should be Doing it

Search engine optimization research . . . do I really HAVE to do it?  ??? ????  ??????

If you have been busy creating online articles, one of the best things you can do to increase your monthly earnings is to set aside time each week to bone up on good SEO practices. Buying out time to do your own search engine optimization research will pay off in terms of your earning capability and thus, your actual earnings over the long-term.

Making SEO changes to both your published articles and to any future articles you write will make a real difference to your earnings. It is not enough to know how to write good articles--especially if you are trying to carve out a niche for yourself as an online writer.

Search engine optimization research is key to opening a window on effective SEO practices and how they apply to online writing.

It has been said that the best writers are also readers. This is perhaps even truer for those who write online. Reading helps you to keep your skill-set up to date.

I try to read each week, specifically about how to make my articles more profitable, and occasionally, I come across new information that I apply to my writing.

Search Engine Optimization Research

Some of the most important information I've uncovered and applied in my online writing has been:

1. Checking CPC/search volume/additional terms before writing any article--why write an article around a term that gets $.05 when you can choose profitable keywords that may net you $5.00, $10.00 or even more?
2. Keywords--what they are and why you should be using them for your online articles.
3. Where to place keywords in every article--why strategic placement of keywords can make a big difference in how your articles are indexed, where they show in search results, and your subsequent traffic and earnings.
4. How to SEO images--why even images can help your article traffic if you know how to SEO them.
5. Article directories and why you should harness their power--the importance of creating articles at free directories and including outbound links, with chosen keywords as anchor text, that point to your revenue-generating articles and how this can significantly increase your earnings.
6. Content trees or webs--how content trees/content webs can help you to almost "own" a topic.

If you want to write articles online, you simply cannot turn a blind eye to SEO and the important role it plays in relation to article profitability: ignore it and you are pretty much spinning your wheels; do your own search engine optimization research on a regular basis, apply it, and watch your earnings grow!

Further reading:

SEO Tactics: How to Earn $100.00 for Each Triond Article--nuts and bolts of how to earn $100.00 from a single article, then repeat the process to make additional income from your other online articles. While this article discusses Triond articles, these SEO techniques can be used for your other online articles. Print off the list and use it to tweak your existing articles and when creating of new articles.