I recently found out that a friend of mine has an online business 
that I was not aware of. She said that she sells beads and 
jewelry accessories. She sent me the link to her site and I gave 
it a cursory glance. I asked her how business was and she told 
me that business is ok, but that she would like to have more 
customers. I then asked her about her marketing and what all it 
consists of. She told me that she does not bother with it because 
her business is part of a franchise. I recommended to her that 
she use some keyword rich articles to improve her search engine 
results and she told me that she does not want to spend the money 
on it and that "business will pick up soon". She had no strategic 
plan of how her business would "pick up" though. 

This is an all too common conversation I have with people when 
talking to them about search engine optimization through the use 
of keyword articles. Many of the people I talk to do not really 
know what search engine optimization is, much less what keyword 
articles are. Too often I see people who turn to the Internet as 
a way to make money but do not understand how to go from making 
a little money to having a booming business. Internet businesses 
are often times rather easy to operate and generate a good return 
on investment, but what if those returns on investment could 
double? Triple? More? 

Consider this, when I did a search for "jewelry accessories" on 
Google there are 23,500,000 results listed at the time of this 
article writing. After looking at about three pages I stopped 
looking to see if her website was listed. This is typical for 
people who do searches for keywords like jewelry accessories. 
If they do not find what they are looking for in the first two 
or three pages they will generally stop looking and try other 
keyword combinations. Most people are not going to sift through 
235 sites, much less 23,500,000 listings. The more you sift 
through the sites the less likely they are to be good matches 
to what you were looking for anyway.

Keyword articles could improve her search engine results a great 
deal. Keyword articles most often come up when someone types in 
"jewelry accessories" and other relevant keyword combinations. 
Creating articles that provide information, as well as adhere to 
a keyword density formula, is a major component as to how your 
website will get ranked higher in the search engine results.

Most often, it does take some time for Google and Yahoo to crawl 
the keyword articles on your website. You will not see an instant 
ranking increase the day you post these articles on your website. 
The major search engine companies prefer to find a website by way 
of a "natural" search. This is why inbound links to your site are 
also important. You can set the Revisit meta tag on your sitemap 
page to better represent the frequency by which you add new 
content to your site. Try to be accurate with this setting --- 
if you try to cheat the system, the search engine robots will 
eventually stop coming.

Sites that are discovered by the search engine robots through a 
natural search --- links from another website --- will be crawled 
far sooner than the site whose webmaster uses the Add URL link at 
the search engine's main website.

My friend did not realize the potential increase keyword-rich 
articles could have on her business and did not want to invest 
the money into developing this content. She was more concerned 
with the "now" and not the future returns that she could get from 
investing now in strategic marketing activities. It does cost 
some money to have keyword densities developed as well as having 
the articles written. It is also important to know what keywords 
to use. Keyword combinations can easily be researched on the 
Internet by using sites such as http://www.wordtracker.com. Once 
all of this is determined, the articles can be written and then 
posted to the website. There are many companies, such as 
http://www.keywordtext.com, that offer these types of services 
for a reasonable price.

Is the cost of doing this type of marketing worthwhile? Well that 
is up to the website owner to decide. If the website owner wants 
to see strong gains in the amount of hits his or her website is 
getting, then yes. The more people who visit your website, the 
more likely you are to sell your product or service. You may have 
a wonderful website and sell a great product or service, but if 
no one can find it, you are not meeting your potential. 

How do you find products or services that you need? Do you look 
on the Internet? The phone book? Newspapers? Whatever method you 
choose to do your own shopping, you know that advertising and 
marketing produces results. You do not purchase goods and 
services from companies you cannot find. Do yourself and your 
business a favor and get some keyword articles written, so that 
you can watch your website traffic and sales soar. 
 

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