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Writing SEO Articles – 10 Crucial Rules We Should Stick To

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Writing SEO articles will help you to increase your website traffic quickly. That’s because SEO articles that are optimized for certain keywords will get picked by search engines quicker than regular non-SEO articles. But, you need to know the rules so that you can effectively grab the top spot in the search engine result. Here are 10 main rules that you need to adhere when writing SEO articles:

#1. The Information You Present Must Be High Quality

First of all, you need to take a look at the quality of your article. High quality content is in-demand right now. Search engines are looking for high quality content, and search engines are constantly banishing low quality content from their search result. The quality of your article has a lot to do with the information that you present. Provide interesting information in your article that people will like to read and learn.

#2. It Must Be Unique

Your article must not be re-written from other articles. It must be uniquely yours, and written in a unique voice. Don’t try to be someone else when you write your articles. SEO articles need to be unique and fresh. If you want to present an idea, make it unique and different from the rest. It will help your ranking.

#3.Include Only Relevant Links

If you want to put some links in your article, you need to include only relevant links. Why? Relevancy is important for search engines. If you give links that are irrelevant to your article topic, then those links will be regarded as spam links. Search engines will detect those links and they will regard your article as spam as well.

#4. It Must Flow Naturally

Don’t write like a robot. Write like a human being. Write like you talk. Remember that your readers will be human, so you need to make your article to flow naturally. If you can’t do this, people can’t read your article properly. If people don’t read it, why would you expect the search engines to rank your article? If it doesn’t have a good flow, it won’t rank high and dominate the search engines.

#5. The Keywords Must Be Placed Throughout Your Article

Don’t place your keywords only in one place within your article. For instance, you can’t place your keywords only on the third paragraph within your article. This will be regarded as keyword stuffing, and it is not a good way to do SEO. If you want to write good SEO articles, you have to make sure that your keywords are placed throughout your article.

SEOPressor V5 is an amazing WordPress plugin that will help you have the right mix of keywords and stop you from over doing it. this plugin also allows you to edit rich snippets for the search engines and automatic smart linking for great SEO.

#6. Target Relevant Keywords As Well

Don’t just target a single keyword. Search engines are beginning to rank high articles that have LSI keywords in it. It means that if you include relevant keywords as well, your articles will get ranked higher by the search engines. So, you must include one main keyword and several relevant keywords in your SEO article.

#7. Write Like You Talk when Writing SEO Articles

In order to make your article to flow naturally, you need to write like you talk. Don’t separate the way you talk with the way you write. Your writing will have a unique voice if you can write like you talk. People will be engaged more in your writing if you have this unique voice. It is important for SEO. SEO article needs to be written in a way that will engage your readers.

#8. Provide In-Depth Information

Articles with in-depth information are getting ranked high very quickly. So, rather than writing a 300-word article, you should aim to write for a 750-word article or more. It will allow you to present in-depth information in your SEO article. This in-depth information will help your readers more to understand about what you’re trying to say.

#9. Edit And Proofread Your Article

Search engines generally won’t rank the article that has bad spelling and grammatical errors. Search engines have a sophisticated method to recognize articles that have bad spelling and grammatical errors. They will regard such article as low quality. So, it is always important for you to edit and proofread your SEO article before you publish it online.

#10. Help Your Readers

In the end, the goal for you in writing your SEO article is to help your readers. So, make sure that you can accomplish this goal. Don’t just focus on the SEO aspect of your article, but focus more on the way you help your readers with your article. Helpful article will get good amount of traffic for a long time.

Those are the main rules that you need to adhere when writing SEO article. SEO is not just about optimizing your content for the search engine, but it is also about how you communicate your thoughts to your readers.

Deborah D. blogs and writes about search engine optimization and online reputation related topics. She works as a freelance writer in one of the leading SEO companies in Irvine.

Comments

  3. These tips must be take in mind while writing the post. Content must be unique and high quality.
    Nice post.

  5. I totally agree with your post! It is unfortunate that many think that SEO writing is just about trying to get search rankings through links. The 5th point you have mentioned is very important, yet very few people pay attention to it . All of the things you mentioned are great. Thank you for reminding us. I’m looking forward for more updates from you.
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  6. Hey !
    Well awesome post. I totally agree with you that content should be unique. I have read many post which has the same concept with just different wordings. I think different writers should write different ideas so that readers could get variety of ideas.
    Thanks.
    Matt
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    • Yes but these posts with the same concept do not make the big time because someone has been there and done that. Unless you do it with a new original twist. 🙂

  7. Flow of the content is the most vital thing here because many writers lack in maintaining consistency in their article which sometimes frustrates audience to read the entire article. The article should be written in such a way that it catches the reader’s mind and interest. You have well said “Write like you talk”…. So that audience feels that you as an author are talking to them. Masterpiece, chap! Thanks for the share!
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  8. Using more than 3 keywords is also a bad idea! Well said, for good SEO practices, the keywords should be evenly distributed in the entire article. I completely agree on your #3 point, only relevant links should be used to save your blog become spam. Very well-written and fantastic post by you!

  9. I am still learning and working hard to become a better blogger. Thanks for sharing this information. Great article…will be changing some of my strategies to target the right audience.

  10. Thanks i am new in the world of seo but it will help me alot to perofrm better and to provide more quality articles to my readers through my blog.

  12. Good post, our articles can do a lot more work than providing backlinks when you make sure they are optimized for search engines, and the best part its easy to make SEO article friendly.

  13. It’s very important to choose the right keywords that you can use in your posts. and that’s great that today there is a number of tools that can help to find the most necessary ones

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  16. Good advice, the content around keywords and links is just as important as the keywords and links themselves for SEO purposes. Producing creative content & better seo techniques will really work out. Good post, thanks for sharing.

  17. Very informative, SEO content writing is actually what drives the internet. If you cannot write for the search engines and human visitors then you have not really started writing for the web. Thanks for these tips.I wish this list was updated, Still informative

  18. I also use SEOpressor…It’s a great tool…Helps me draw the line between keyword inclusion and keyword spamming….Indepth information like you said is really important IMO…details get the visitor hooked to the post…It also reduces the bounce rate as the visitor will be prompted to look other pages in the site for relevant information.
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  19. Hi there. Amazing post that how to write an article. Mostly people try to spam by posting articles but if they just follow your post then must we build a spam free SEO world. We can use also semantically related keywords to reduce keyword density. Thanks.

  20. wow. brief yet very helpful tips. I really have some problems with doing seo on my little blog. somehow, i think with this, i can do better SEO on my blog.Content should be unique and real. Good content brings traffic to our site
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  21. Being unique sets you apart from the crowd. You’ll be easily identified for being creative, interesting and informative. So, its must be a mantra to always be unique.

  22. Very useful tips for beginners. I read that each post should be long 300-500 words with 5-8% keyword density. I recommend each article to share on social networks like twitter or facebook.It is also good to draw attention to a new article on Squidoo or Hubpages.
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  23. In general, it should be mentioned that modern SEO articles should be aimed not only at Google robots, but at regular readers as well, they should be useful and have some value. That’s the reality of modern SEO.

  25. We hardly do any of the old SEO stuff. It still brings results, but not like it used to. Google is pulling the rug out to provide better search for their audience. They are routing out the counterfeiters. Now it must be real, valuable, content, and lots of community value and interaction.
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  28. Hi Mitz,

    Many a times, the information you’re sharing is not unique as many people have already mentioned it. So I think you can use your own writing style to make the article different from others, even though you’re saying same thing. Isn’t it a correct way?
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    • Yes you need to cover each required topic for your niche.. If your site is about website traffic then you need to cover all ways to get that.. Just because someone else has it that does not matter. You want your blog to be a one stop shop.. 🙂
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  29. Thanks for the well detailed explanations! I agree with you that whenever you are writing an article, it must be unique and must be relevant to your niche. So as for me, though I buy articles but I make sure that it has passed the copyscape or put to a plagiarism checker tool. This is the way I find if my article is unique and has no duplicate content.
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    • Good tip rusty. I never check my own articles though as I know they are written by me…but when you buy articles you must check them!

  30. Good advise. There are several wordpress plugins that can help a webmaster or a blogger to “seo” a blog post. Some are even free. (just do a search in wordpress.org). I have also noticed that posts larger than 500 words and posts with a keyword density of around 2-4% is very popular with google. A keyword density of 2-4% means that your keyword should pop up 2-4 times pr 100 word you write.

  31. These are some good suggestions, I’ll be referencing this post every now and then when writing articles to make sure I’m doing the SEO part properly. Thanks for the help and advice!
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  34. Hi Deborah,

    I agree totally with your post. It is unfortunate that many think SEO writing is just about trying to get search rankings through links. SEO content writing is actually what drives the internet. If you cannot write for the search engines and human visitors then you have not really started writing for the web. Thanks for these tips.
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  36. The tips are really useful even for experienced bloggers. But the only one thing bothers me – it is REALLY hard to write a Unique topic. Yeah, i can use professional terms, add some stunning metaphors and so on but everything that can be written is already discussed, so and we can only rewrite with adding our personal experience.
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  37. Performing internal and external linking to important pages and authority websites can also help you in your SERP. Considering the keywords, the keyword density is no more important nowadays. What really matters is its position and the related words. So its important to consider the LSI and long tail keywords.

    Thanks for this great article, very informative.
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