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So choose your first three or four title keywords carefully.

You can also get keyword and article topic ideas from other online writers. Online writing sites usually have forums, in which writers have stated which of their articles have generated the most page views.

Another important thing is to reproduce your own successes. If you see one article produce an enormous amount of page views, be sure to write another on the same topic with the same search engine optimization techniques. Again, it's important to work fast, especially when your topic is short-lived. Be sure to extrapolate on your successes. For example, my first success was a local holiday article. Now, I write a local interest article for just about every major holiday that rolls around.

Don't overlook potential places for extra keyword optimization. The "Interesting Facts" box is one of the best. Be sure that you use your best keywords in this section. Also, putting in a picture can help to optimize your articles when you put high-traffic keywords in the caption. Also, never neglect to use all five of your tags. Tags should be phrases of at least two, and preferably three or four keywords. Always take your keywords from the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Also, be sure to go back and make sure that all of those keywords are in your article.

Always, always link your articles to one another. Don't worry about putting too many links in your article. After all, the Link-in-ator will pepper your article with poor quality links, and putting in your own high-quality topical links will only help to slow it down. Be sure to link at least several different words together, and make absolutely certain that the article you're linking to is pertinent to the keywords you've selected. Most importantly, link with a phrase which grabs the reader's attention and gets them interested in the topic. This will help to ensure that your reader will actually click on the links rather than brushing by them.

Promotion is subordinate to all these techniques, and should be used as a last resort only. If your article is well-written for a popular topic and properly optimized, it will promote itself. Then you only have to promote when you have the time and inclination. Promoting your best articles, however, can really give your page views a boost. Attempting to promote a dud article probably will not increase its page views significantly. I blog about my articles, both on Blogger and MySpace. I use RSS feeds, and I promote on Yahoo! Answers. Many moons ago, I did an experiment which showed that promoting on Social Bookmarking sites was probably a waste of time. So I wouldn't bother with them unless you've got a really hot and timely topic to promote.

The only other trick is to keep on writing. Even if you're just taking shots in the dark, chances are you will hit on something that will bring you a deluge of page views. My husband wrote only on topics which interested him, and had many wild successes. Halloween Haunted Houses in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex: The Best of North Texas so far has 3552 page views. New Hidden Code in Da Vinci's Last Supper has 3260 page views. King Tut's Likeness Recreated Using Forensic Science and Egyptian Portraits currently has 3142 page views. Adobe CS3 Installation Failure: The Solution for Error 1714 has 2526 page views. This just goes to show that if you have an interest, a problem or a concern, somebody else probably shares it. And it will generate page views.

You can make money from your online writing. If you keep at it, you will succeed at generating page views, and that money will increase.

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