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As you probably know article writing has two objectives (well, actually three, or maybe 4 or 5):

1. Drive traffic to your target sites.
2. Establish your reputation as a trustworthy authority.
3. Increase your search engine ranking by building relevant links.

All of these are important, but the last one - which we might call the SEO objective - is possibly the most important long term strategy. So don’t squander the SEO opportunities presented to you by article writing. Here are a number of things you should do to maximize the SEO value of your articles.

1. Include your target keyword phrase in the title.

2. Include your target keyword phrase in the anchor text of the link in your resource box.

3. If you have other links in the body of your article, use relevant anchor text.

4. Optimize the text of your article by including the target keyword phrase a number of times
throughout the article - especially in the first paragraph.

5. Optimize your article summary (include your target keyword phrase) because this will show up in short excerpts of your article and is what the SEs will use to classify your article.

6. Be sure to place your article in the most important article directories. Some are more “important” than others because the search engines consider them authorities. For more information see this article on SEO and Article Marketing.

7. Write a number of different versions of your article with different titles, and distribute these to different directories. Or you may want to take the same article, make modifications, give it a slightly different slant, and submit it to the same (authority) article directory as a new article.

Publishing Articles In Order to Drive Traffic

It is well known that an informative article distributed to the right sites on the web will get you a lot of attention and pull visitors to your site.

But everyone does not have the time to create articles, and many people do not have the experience to put an article together correctly - so it gets the most effective kind of attention both from human readers and search engines.

If you lack either the resources or the time to do your own article marketing you should look for a company with extensive article marketing experience. They will be able to create tightly focused articles and distribute them in the most effective way.

Here’s one source of expert advice and professional article marketing expertise.

The most effective way is to either create or have a professional writer create an article for you that focuses on a topic in such a way that it emphasizes the correct keywords. Your article should be interesting, readable with a catchy title, and it should be search engine friendly. It should also have the right mixture of keywords placed in the most effective places.

Distribution is also important. Your article should be distributed to as many unique article sites as you can so you get the greatest amount of exposure. There are hundreds of article sites and article archives that will publish your article. The result is almost guaranteed to give you significant exposure and many inbound links to your web site. Inbound links are important in order to influence the search engines to give you higher rankings in searches.

You should also take the measures necessary to avoid the duplicate content filter. This is a process used by the major search engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN to determine if articles are simply duplicates of each other. When the search engines find hundreds of duplicates of your articles you will not get credit for the links on most of the articles and this will seriously limit the impact of your article marketing.

Article Marketing Part of Bigger Strategy

If you think that writing a few articles and building in some links will push your website to the number one position for your primary keywords you’re almost certainly wrong. Life is not that simple. The odds are very good it won’t happen.

Effective article marketing must be part of a larger, more comprehensive strategy that includes “on page SEO”, and a bunch of other things too.

The first thing you should do is learn how to optimize your web pages for specific keywords. Many people who promote article marketing as a wonder cure to generate traffic and get search engine ranking do not seem to realize this.