Thursday, October 04, 2007

Consider LSI When Writing Articles

Internet marketing online has many different facets. Affiliate
marketing, information publishing, list building and software
creation are just a few examples of the type of business model
you may choose to pursue.

No matter which model you choose, one thing remains constant.
You must bring customers to your site.

One of the best forms of traffic generation is writing and
submitting articles to directories and ezines. However, things
have changed recently in the search engine optimization (SEO)
game.

Here's an article that will change the way you write your articles
when considering internet marketing online.

Consider LSI When Writing Articles


Writing articles has played a major role for years now in
internet marketing online when promoting products and websites. These
articles were written with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in
mind which meant that they targeted certain keywords by including
them at a specific amount of times in the article. Optimized
articles usually had the targeted keyword at 3% of the total
number of words to gain the most favor from search engines.

Google and other search engines have recently changed the way
they rank these types of articles and web sites in general. The
newest twist in SEO is what is called LSI or Latent Semantic
Indexing. LSI actually takes into account not just a specific
keyword but all the different yet similar keywords and phrases
that match the original.

As an example, if you were to write an article of 500 words that
targeted the keyword phrase "internet marketing online" for
traditional search engine optimization you would want to include
that phrase approximately 15 times. Now if you consider the LSI
aspect you would also want to include similar phrases such as
"internet marketing", "internet marketing strategy",
"internet marketing solution" and "internet marketing business".
By including such secondary terms your articles will have a
better LSI ranking thus a better natural search engine ranking.

When incorporating article writing in your internet marketing
online efforts you must consider both traditonal SEO and LSI.
It is always hard to pinpoint exactly what Google is looking for
so by doing both you can make sure to cover all bases.

You must also remember to not only write keyword and phrase
targetd articles but actual informative articles that real people
will want to read. The people reading your articles are, after
all, the focus of why you wrote the article in the first place.

It does you no good to write and submit articles that the search
engines love if readers cannot finish what you are writing. The
whole point of writing for internet marketing online is to get
your readers to click through to your site.

Another benefit of writing good articles is the viral effect they
create by having site owners and ezine publishers placing your
articles on their sites. Only good articles make the cut on most
of these sites.

In conclusion there are many things to consider when writing
articles for internet marketing purposes including LSI, SEO
and quality. When all aspects are there, you have a winning article.

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