by Kerry Hosking

Created on: March 16, 2010   Last Updated: December 04, 2010

Writing web content for blog posts or full-length how-to articles requires knowledge of keyword research and search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. To be successful writing articles to make money online a combination of strategies is required, and the implementation of appropriate keywords in your article and your title will allow search engines to find you more easily. Unfortunately, there are many thousands of low-quality articles and blogs competing for a share of the web traffic. Some blogs contain nothing but trendy keywords to get one’s attention, while offering nothing whatsoever in the way of useful or well-written articles.

I recently found a blog containing a nonsensical mess of words that was difficult to read, and offered no information at all. I will refer to the article of interest in these writings, as "the article" since linking to it will only serve to fulfill the writer's goal of getting traffic to his page that this gentleman clearly did not earn. One must assume this fellow is being paid per page view rather than cashing a weekly paycheck on his Friday lunch break.

A prominent  news blog yesterday sported an article about Bank of America and their plans to scrap overdraft charges. I found it interesting that the statement, while true, was not a good example of how things really are, and I pointed out some of those things in a post on my own blog that you will need to do to keep from being lulled into a false sense of security.

 Realizing there would be some lingering stink to follow this awesome news from one of our fumbling financial institutions, I ventured to Google's current trend list the next day to see how far up the scale of popularity that particular topic was clinging. Of course, it was on the list, but nowhere near being in the top ten overnight search terms.

 One word which was being sought though,was the word "grifter" which I will also use only once in this writing, and not in my tags, or I will be guilty of that which I am about to complain. Seeing the word, and not being familiar with it, I decided to click on an article to find out in what context it was being used. Since I was now familiar with the BoFa story, I chose a link about that to seek out my answer.

 After arriving at the website, which incidentally is very well known and has an awesome reputation as a source of up-to-the-minute financial news, I read "the article" in it's entirety only to find that "that search term" was

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