SEO Tips For Beginners Part 2: 7 Tips For Article Writers
January 29, 2011 
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In this article I’ll give some SEO tips for editors and article writers, because good SEO is not only the responsability of webdesigners. Also article writers have to follow some rules to optimize a page for good SEO results.
This article is for editors, for people that write articles. If you are a webdesigner or if you create WordPress themes, then take a look at the following article: SEO Tips For Beginners: 4 Tips For Webdesigners.
Finding the right keyword(s)
The very first step of writing an article, is finding the right keyword(s). But what is a keyword? A keyword is a word that other people will use in google to search something. In other words, you have to guess the words that people will use in Google to find your article! This might seem difficult in the beginning, but it’s a very important first step of writing a good SEO-optimized article. A good help for finding the right keywords is the Google Keyword Tool.
Title
The title tag is one of the most important indicators for Google to know what a page is about. When using WordPress, you don’t have to care about this. You just have to choose a good title for you article. A good article title tells what your page is about AND also has your keyword(s) in it.
Right use of header tags (H1, H2 & H3)
The H1 header
Especially the H1 header is a very important tag! One of the first things Google checks when crawling a page of your website, is the title between the H1 tags. Normally, in WordPress, you don’t have to use this tag. When publishing an article, WordPress will use your article title as a title between the H1 tags.
The H2 header
Use this H2 header for titles inside your article. A lot of people just place the titles inside an article in bold. That’s ok, but a title between these H2 header tags tells Google that this is an important title.
The H3 Header
Use this H3 Header for subtitles inside you article.
Images and SEO
An image tells more then 1000 words. Images really add value to an article. That’s why it’s important to add relevant images to an article. However, keep in mind that you have to describe your images, you have to fill in the Alt and Title tags of images. If you’re using WordPress, you have to use the “Title” and “Alternate Text” fields when inserting an image:
Get some SEO tips from SEOPressor
A great tool to help you with writing SEO friendly articles, is SEOPressor. While writing your article, SEOPressor analyses your page and gives some SEO tips where needed. SEOPressor is like an SEO consultant standing next to you, giving you some valuable SEO tips:
As you can see, SEOPressor gives your page a score and tells you what you have to do to make your SEO score better.
SEOPressor is not difficult to use, but it’s a commercial plugin.
Write for your visitors, not for search engines!
When writing articles for you blog or website, it’s always important to remember who your visitors are. Your visitors are human, and not search engines. What I want to say is that it’s important to optimize your pages for SEO, but at the end, your article must be nice readable for your (human) visitors.
Write unique content
One last SEO tip I want to give you is the following golden tip: write unique content. Write content that your readers will not find elsewhere. Or write better articles then the other blogs. Don’t just copy content from other blogs or websites. Duplicate content is very bad for SEO.
Conclusion
These SEO tips might seem simple, but if you’re a beginner these SEO tips are an important guide to write your first SEO friendly articles.
