SEO article writing or Search Engine Optimization article writing is the biggest thing to hit the internet since…well…search engines! It is the way that website owners have found to help rank their pages higher in the lists. Some people try to do it themselves only to find out that SEO article writing is not as easy as it seems. The content must be good. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling must be spot on and keywords are of the utmost importance.

SEO Article Writing vs. Content Writing

Some people will argue that SEO article writing is totally different that normal content writing. To a point that is true. Content writing must be well thought out and researched, so must SEO article writing. Content writing must have good grammar and spelling, so must SEO article writing. Content writing must be engaging, informative, relevant, and entertaining, so must SEO article writing. Content writing doesn’t have to worry about using keywords at a specific density to optimize the web page for search engines to help increase page rank, SEO article writing does. That is the main difference between content writing and SEO article writing. SEO article writing, at least good SEO article writing has to be everything that standard content article writing is and then some. SEO article writing can prove to be difficult, especially when the keywords or keyword phrases aren’t something that a normal speaker or writer would say or write. The words must flow and appear natural but still fit the requirements of SEO article writing. Only truly talented writers can operate successfully in SEO article writing.

Good SEO Article Writing

Before you need to know how to find good SEO article writing you need to know what good SEO article writing looks like. You need to know what type of content you need and how long the article should be. Most companies that specialize in SEO article writing will tell you that SEO articles should be between 300 and 600 words. The average length of article is 500 words. Then depending upon the type of content and where it will be used, you will determine your keyword density. Standard rules of SEO article writing would say that for a web page or blog of 500 words you should have a keyword density of around 3%-4%. That means good SEO article writing would give you between 15 and 22 keywords for a 500 word article. That’s a lot more than you think it is. If you don’t think it sound like it is difficult, go ahead, give it a try. You will most likely be surprised at how difficult SEO article writing really is.

That is also a great way to start finding a company that is truly good at SEO article writing. Once you know how difficult SEO article writing is, when you see a company that can do it well and deliver quality articles quickly, you will know you have found a gem. It will also help you in understanding why companies that offer SEO article writing charge the fees per article they do. It takes a very special writer indeed to do SEO article writing.

Take for example this article; do you realize that the keyword phrase used in this article is SEO article writing? The total number of words for this article is 589 and the number of times the keyword phrase was used was 26 times, for a keyword density of 4.414%. Something to think about in your search.

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The Real Truth About Duplicate Content

It is simply amazing how people will get ideas in their head and no matter what you tell them, they can’t rid of those ideas…no matter how ridiculous they are. One of these, and probably one of the biggest myths in all of Internet marketing, is the one about duplicate content and so called “penalties.” 97% of the marketers online are convinced that if you put your content on more than one site, you’re screwed. So it’s time to set the record straight once and for all, because this is ridiculous.

For starters, let’s take a look at the article directory model. How do these people make their money? They make it by providing content to web site publishers who are looking for content on specific topics. Now, do you really think that web site A, who takes an article from say, Ezine Articles on acne is the ONLY web site to use that article? Of course not. Some articles get picked up by web site B all the way through Z and beyond…especially if it’s good. Do you NOT think that these articles ALSO get indexed? If they didn’t, then the article directories would go out of business from providing a service that was WORTHLESS.

I mean come on folks…use a little common sense. Ezine Articles probably makes millions each year in Adsense revenue. But if that isn’t enough to convince you, go to Google and look up my friend Steven Wagenheim. You will notice thousands of pages on him. You will also notice quite a few of his Ezine Articles on OTHER sites…also indexed. If there was such a thing as duplicate content OR a penalty, don’t you think that there would only be ONE copy of that article indexed? Again, another reason why this myth is so ridiculous.

But if all that isn’t good enough for you, try this on for size. Google itself, has come out and said, “There is no such thing as duplicate content or a penalty for it.”  Essentially, the only thing that will happen is this. If you have an article and put it on two separate pages on the same domain, it will ONLY be indexed on ONE of those pages. However, you will NOT receive any kind of a penalty because you had the article on two pages. Now, is it smart to put the same article on two separate pages on the same domain? Of course not. Why would you even do it anyway?

Point is, this whole thing about duplicate content has been blown WAY out of proportion, mostly by people who want to sell you some worthless article spinner that you DON’T need.

Okay, hopefully, this article will have put this issue to bed…once and for all.