The thing to bare in mind is that I’m not only writing for human viewers but to Search Engine Robots as well
After getting my feet wet writing a few Squidoo pages, I’ve learned that there’s a sound structure which some Gred A’s lenses deploy. I studied some of them (in the Top 100 lens for different categories) and with the knowledge that I have about SEO and stuff, I concluded that here’s a structure I’m going to use for every article I’ll post on my crap Article Directory Project:
Permalink
I have to stay sober that I’m posting on blog which means the permalink, similar to a Squidoo page Url, is the article address.
Take a look at one of the articles I slapped up after I learned this lesson >>
5 Ways to Use PLR Content
Now, I know for a fact that the url needs to be:
- Short
- Easy to remember/Impactful
- Relevant
If I can turn back-time just a bit for this particular article, I would’ve rephrase the permalink to something like: “plr-contents”.
Short and sweet. And relevant to the subject I’m referring to.
The Article Title
I’ll expand something from the url or vice versa. I find it much easier to think about the headline i.e. article title before I trim it to form an url.
In the example above I used ’5 ways to use plr content’ as the headline/title and permalink url. Like I said, I prefer to shorten the url and keep the headline.
I think it sounds just nice – for me while reading it alound and (I hope) for the robots when they crawl it!
The Sub-Headline
Maybe this is not important but my observation of many Squidoo lenses found that sub headline immediately, sort of, summarizing what the whole article is about.
In writing Copy terms, it qualifies the browsers, and if this is something they’re looking for, they’re sure to dive right in.
Save their time and save our time getting to the right people.
In the ‘use-plr-content’ example, I used: “Boost your traffic and reputation using private label rights material correctly.”
Now, here’s a all-too-common concern: Keyword Density
You see, blogs and themes when combined have funny effect to you whole post (or article in our case). And of course, we can’t write and count at the same time more than we can swallow and breathe together.
So maybe some folks being Techy and all, have this Plug-in installed and do the math for them but for the rest ‘lazy headed’ like me, I just use a simple ‘Reread and Trim’ method: If it’s sound to my ears and ease my eyes, that’s fine.
I won’t slaught myself counting total words and divide by targeted keywords because I end up losing consiousness (it just like counting sheeps jumping over fences when I can’t sleep. Hard work!).
Well that’s it.
That’s how I will structure my upcoming craps articles and give ‘other established’ article directories helluva backside beats.
And I think it might work. What say you?