Thanks for reading my SEO Copywriting Tips. Mastering the skill of SEO Copywriting can turn out to be critical to your success in online marketing. SEO copyrighting is not the same as regular copywriting, which is concerned more with making a site successful and converting visitors to customers or subscribers. Search Engine Optimization Copywriting is concerned with getting people to visit your site by getting your site to rank higher in the search engines for particular keywords or search terms. The aim of SEO is to get your site to the top of Google and other search engines. Equally as important, your content should be written for human enjoyment as well. Your audience should find that your content is relevant to the topic at hand and provide information of value. But for now, we will just deal with making your content search engine friendly by utlizing SEO techniques on a few on-page elements.
The first thing you should do to optimize your site is to craft a good unique title. The title tag of your web page or article will determine your search engine ranking more than anything else on the page. You want to make sure that your title contains the keywords that you want to rank for. You should ensure that your title is descriptive and as unique as possible. When the spider crawls your page, it is going to look at your title to determine what the rest of your page is about. You also want to ensure that your title is enclosed in H1 tags, as Google and other search engines assume that what is enclosed in the H1 tags states what the page is all about.
It is important to optimize the Description as well. You should also place your keywords in the description. Most search engines treat the text between the Description meta tags as the snapshot for your webpage, and will often display this text on the SERP (search engine results page). So you see the description is important to the search engines, but it needs to be enticing enough for the person doing the search, that they will click the link to your site after reading the description. So tell them what they want to know or let them know that you have what they are looking for.
The Keywords meta-tag used to be pretty important, but a lot of search engines ignore this area now because people abused them by keyword stuffing. So the most important use of keywords after the title and description will be in your actual content. It is recommended that you put the keywords you want to rank for at the beginning of the first paragraph, near the end of the page, and maybe once or twice in the middle paragraphs. Don't make the mistake of overusing your keywords or the search engines may determine that you are trying to spam them. Bear in mind that your keyword phrase should not account for more than 2 percent of your total word count. It is preferable to utlilize synonyms or words with similar meanings to avoid keyword stuffing. Besides, the search engines love it when you use synonyms. This practice is known as 'latent semantic indexing'. This will actually qualify you for more search terms. Finally, like the H1 tags, the search engines treat text within header, bold and italics tags as important. So any bolded text, italized text, or other headers (H2 and H3) should contain keywords as well.
SEO Copywriter does have a downside, which is it doesn't work very well at all for very competitive search terms. So if you are looking for insurance, work from home, home business, etc., those would be pretty competitive terms and it would be pretty hard to get to the top of Google using those search terms. In this case, you would want to use long-tailed keywords, which are basically an expansion of your core keyword into a more specific combination of words.
If you get anything out of this article, the most important thing is that content is king. If you provide information that has value for your targeted audience, they will in turn share it with others, which will create inbound links to your site as well as increase your site popularity, which is what you want. So what you want to do, in my opinion, is to write good, persuasive, informative, and relevant content for humans and then optimize your page for the search engine spiders or crawlers. If the people appreciates your content, chances are the search engines will too. If you follow the above SEO Copywriting tips, they most certainly will.
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Reginald Liggins is an internet marketing trainer and coach who resides outside of Portland in Beaverton, Oregon. Reginald can be reached at: reggie@superbodymagic.com
