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Using Subheaders

Subheaders are a great way to repeat a keyword which doesn't fit anywhere else. Your writing will still be as readable as if it had not been optimized.

Optimize Using Tags

A properly tagged article can help people find you. Tags are not visible to browsers, but do come up in searches. Tags will not remedy a poorly optimized text, but they will increase your traffic.

Scan Your Article for Keyword Optimization Opportunities

Never write for search engines. Instead, write your article the way you feel it should be written. Then, after you finish, scan the text to see which important keywords seem to feature prominently in your writing.

Inevitably, you will always see places where a keyword could have been used, but was left out. For example, in my article about healthy baking, I found a few places where I'd written the word "wheat" but had left out the word "whole." However, there were several places where "whole" simply didn't belong. I only placed the word "whole" where it really made sense.

If you look at every one of your articles in this manner prior to upload, you will notice a lot of these missed opportunities. Try to group keywords together in patterns you know are searched. For example I wrote an article on The Best Fourth of July Fireworks in Dallas, Texas. I tried to use both Dallas and Texas together whenever possible. I also used the keywords free, fireworks and fourth prominently. This article generated an enormous amount of traffic in the few days before the fireworks extravaganzas in my area took place, because it used a grouping of highly targeted keywords that people tend to search on before the fourth of July.

Be careful to optimize only the right words. If you find that a certain keyword or keyword combination won't get you traffic, don't bother with it. Switch it to a different keyword combination. For example, when I was writing an article about How to Sell Your House Quickly, I checked the Omniture Keyword Selector Tool, which showed me that more people were searching on Sell Your House Fast. So I changed my title to this, and optimized my text for fast rather than quickly. I also tried to use the keyword house more than home. But when house started getting a little too dominant, I replaced it with some different keywords.

Trim

After you've finished writing, trim the deadwood from your article. You may want to get in the habit of letting your articles sit on the computer for a couple of days before you submit them. This way, you'll

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