How To Use Search Engine Optimization to Make Money Writing Online

It takes time and a lot of hard work but if you know the rules of Search Engine Optimization then you have found the secret to getting your articles and blogs high up there on the search engines' first page.

This is something you should learn in order to get organic traffic to your articles. Getting more readers is one of the best ways to make more money writing online.

What is Google Adsense and how to use it on your articles ?

You do this by getting loads of readers through proper use of SEO. When readers then click on your Google Adsense Ads you make money. They do not have to buy or join anything for you to make money. .

I will leave the writing of the articles, short stories and poetry to you. But once you are a good writer you really only need to learn how to optimise your chances of getting to Google and other search engines' top page.

Making money writing articles online needs more than just good writing. Be honest how often do you go beyond the first page of a search engine when looking for information on blogs and websites. I very rarely do.

So you will have to learn how to get your article or blog post right up there in front on the first page of the search engine. You do this by learning the rules of SEO. This is all explained below.

Rules and tips of Google and SEO. Search Engine Optimization

Most writers write because they love the art of writing. Whether the form of writing is articles, poems or fiction the writer needs to create something and give it life. It is very time consuming and hard work but like everything in life if you love what you do it is worth the effort.

Apart from the very talented and very lucky most writers could not earn a living from their craft. That has all changed now. With the advances in the internet writers have been given the chance to showcase their art to millions of people all over the world.

If the writer is prepared to learn and follow a few basic internet rules then it is possible for them to join the growing number of writers who make money writing articles online.

Google and Search Engine Optimization

How to get ranked higher in the search engine pages.

The top three websites on Google’s first page are the most clicked on and read so this is where you want your article to be.

The first paragraph in your article is important to get right

The rules are clear. Whatever your keywords are they should be in your url and title.

These same keywords, but not exactly in the same sentence should also be in your first paragraph. The first fifty words of this paragraph are all that Google and other search engines will see when evaluating your words for SEO.

For Google Adsense:

It can be hard sometimes to include all the keywords without your article looking like it is repeating itself. With practice this can be achieved. If you pick two or three main keywords then you can re arrange them to make them look natural.

Then to let Google know what keywords you are targeting always give them a boost and make them stand out. This is achieved by putting the keyword in either underline, bold or italics. This only needs to be done once for each keyword. Bold and italics are the best and italics looks less messy on the page.

For the reader:

If you satisfy the reader that this article is interesting, easy and clear to read then you have captured your audience. So that they can see if this article is indeed what they want to read you must pique their interest immediately. They arrived at your article because they did a search for that particular subject. It is your job to keep them there.

If this is a How to article like How to change a plug, How to write the perfect CV etc then explain in the first paragraph exactly how you are going to do this. Writing style is also extremely important. The typical reader who searches for information on a particular subject is not an expert in this field.

Satisfy both the reader and Google and you optimize your chances of earning money from writing articles online.

Who are your targeted readers? Visitors to your article want to able to read the information in your article without having to go to a dictionary to look up the terms you use.

Clear, precise and non technical language is what they want to read if it is a How To article.

Articles on history and politics can die a death very quickly unless you make it touch a nerve with the reader.

Make them curious, sympathetic or outraged about the subject, it does not matter as long as you stir their emotions

Health and living style articles need the facts to be correct, informative and easy to understand.

If the reader is looking up articles about cancer, different types of mental illness, healthy living, diets etc then they do not want to read the facts as they are written in a medical dictionary.

The facts are extremely important with this type of article but you need to make the reader feel they are talking to a knowledgeable friend and not their doctor.

Always where possible include links for support groups on the subject. There a numerous websites both Government and community for these health issues.

And remember that you are writing for the world market when you write online so include the websites of as many of the major countries as possible.

The reader will know they have landed on the correct article and therefore stay with you.

Increase your ranking on the search engines

There are rules for the last paragraph in your article must be followed too in order to increase your chances of a high ranking on the search engines too.

Any good information article will have a summary of the points that were discussed in the body of the article.

To make money writing articles online you need to increase your chances of achieving this high rank on the search engines.

This last paragraph must include all the keywords you have used in your first paragraph. Make it read as natural as possible in this summing up paragraph.

Search Engine Optimization

Once you know the rules of SEO and follow them you will optimise your chances of readers finding your articles. The more readers you have then you have a better chance that they will click on the Google Adsense Ads on your web page.

This is one of the best ways of making money online by writing articles that get to the first page of the search engines.

Then by making your articles, short stories, poetry and blog posts interesting and informative you will keep the reader with you. They will know they have landed on the correct article and therefore stay with you. It is when they decide to click on the adverts on your page from Google that you earn money writing online. 

The more readers you can get to read your articles then you have a better chance of more clicks on your Google Adsense ads. This gives you the opportunity to make money writing online.

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