Most people think that writing for the web is same thing as writing a high school essay or writing to friends, but it really isn't. When you write content for the web you should be on the lookout for a number of things you would not usually be concerned with in any other written document; as well as things you would be. You need to ensure that your web content not only makes sense to human beings but also to search engines. Human beings are looking for information in your web content while search engines, on the other hand, are looking for anything that shows that the information you have to share is relevant enough to be included in their list of search results for related information.
Keywords are one way of ensuring that search engines successfully index your web content. Keywords are specific phrases that humans use in search engines when searching for information about particular subject topics. Keywords should be used reasonably in web content material and being reasonable usually requires anything from 1 to 3 keywords per 100 words (this is ?keyword density?). You should also avoid creating content that is keyword-laden for search engines but makes a boring read for human beings. Good web content must satisfy both purposes in order to make your content a success on the web.
You will need to avoid duplicate content where search engines are concerned. Just as human beings are concerned about plagiarism, search engines don't tend to look too favorably on you when your content looks like it was lifted from somewhere else. Your content may read properly and have all the required keywords and meet other search engine requirements but it may suffer by being inappropriately ranked, a punishment certain search engines use for suspected duplicate content.
When writing, other than making sure your content has the right keywords to be noticed by search engines, and avoiding duplicate content; you also need to be concerned with readability. You will need to format your content in a way that makes it easy to read with the right punctuation, and you need to format blocks of content separately in relevant paragraphs. Never lump your content together in a way that makes it difficult to read and discern the various sub-topics in the same content. It can be annoying and a reader will simply choose to seek for their information elsewhere. This is true in all writing, but web surfers are a notoriously picky bunch.
You should take the appropriate care to tailor your content to meet your audience's needs. If you are writing stuff that people with only a high school education will read, don't make it sound like a college thesis. On the other hand, if you are writing material for a highly technical audience, maintain a professional literary standard.
The ultimate way to write successfully for the web is to strike a balance between what your human readers want and what search engines are looking for. Search engine requirements tend to differ from Google to Yahoo and in certain other aspects they share similar characteristics, there is a tendency for these requirements to evolve so you need to keep yourself informed of search engine news, and incorporate these new developments into your content, in order to make sure you are always tagged as relevant.
By Mike Dias http://www.m6.net/
So, just what is linking? Well, put simply, it's the online equivalent of getting "votes" for your website, and getting those links is a lot easier than you might think.
Right, if I seem to digress a little here, trust me, it is relevant. To understand linking you need to know a little bit about "spiders" and their purpose. Spiders are programs that "crawl" sites and report back to their search engine what their findings are. Their purpose is to make it easy for sites to get listed in their search engine.
Spiders work by finding links (see, I told you it was relevant) to websites, visiting those websites, going through the content, and then reporting the findings back to the site for which they are working. I.E. Google spiders crawl sites and report back to the main database. From there the information is added to the search engine, and the site shows up in Google search results. The same happens with pretty much any search engine.
OK, that's the basic nuts and bolts. So what does it mean to you and how can you use it to increase your rankings? Well, essentally, by having good quality and relevant content on your website (your optimised articles) you'll be pleasing the spiders. Now if you have links from other sites related to your content as well then, you're way ahead of the game. Spiders love links.
Now here's the good bit. All you need to do in order to get links back to your website is submit articles to article directories, or write a press release related to your niche market. You link back to your site from the resource box at the bottom of your article or press release.
Other website owners in your niche will be on the lookout for content to add to their own site, and will visit article directories to do so. They'll pick up on your article, add it to their site ( they legally have to keep the resource box with your link intact) so now you have other sites linking to yours all over the place. This will really impress the spiders and your rankings will start to shoot up.
To find article directories simply go to your favourite search engine and type in "article directories" you will find loads. They are the life blood of the net.
As I mentioned before, press releases are another great way to get links back to your site. Not only that, they are a brilliant way to get free publicity for your ebook or site. It's easy, just go to prweb.com and submit your press release to them. It will cost a small amount to have them blast it all over the internet, but it will mean that you get dozens, hundreds, or even thousands, of one way links back to you site. What do you think that will do to your rankings?
OK, there you have it, all that remains is for you to go out and do it. Trust me, it's not only easy, it's fun, and it does work. Enjoy.
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