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Converting Articles into Blog Posts: Do’s and Dont’s Pt.1
• Topic: Converting Articles into Blog Posts – Converting Blog Posts into Articles
•  Okay, so we focused on article marketing for the better part of the last 4 days. How much to write, how to beat writers block, and how article marketing can improve your SEO and Traffic. If by now you haven’t written and published an article shame on you! Well, as I say that shame on me – I haven’t either. Okay well since I haven’t lets get this rolling and learn how to take blog posts and publish effective unique articles.
  
     Firstly, I’m not going to sit here and say buy some article rewriting tool that is complete crap and won’t work anyways. What I am going to teach you is how to rewrite every single sentence to make it article worthy and keep your content unique for the search spiders. Let me first explain why you don’t want to republish the same exact content, word-for-word from your blog to your article. First, you don’t want to do this because many article directories, who are worth anything, will reject your article. That’s first and foremost. They have tools which roam the internet and checks sentences so you can’t publish someone else’s stuff. You can try to publish it word-for-word but I wouldn’t recommend it.
  
    Second, when you publish two articles exactly the same, and link them directly to each other without adding or removing content your search engine rank for that article actually goes down. Articles are content rich, which is why search engines love them, if a search engine spider realizes your content is copied all over it will negatively hurt your page rank.
  
    Third, and probably the most important, if your trying to attract new readers articles are 100% great! They clicked on your link for a reason and are now well on their way to reading more about what you have to say. Now put yourself in their shoes. They just followed your article link to your blogs post word-for-word exactly the same. Has your interest just been crushed? Unless you had something worth while for me to see, I would probably leave that page within the next minute.
  
    Last, but not least, Private Label Rights. Private Label Rights (PLR) articles and eBooks should never, ever, be used word-for-word to post a blog or article. Copy any sentence from a PLR article older than a week and it will be all over Google, already published. Back 2-3 years ago, I personally had to learn the hard way. I ran a PLR site and would publish many of these PLR articles on sites, while linking to the author and linking to my site as the presenter. Boy did my search engine page rank drop, lesson learned the hard way.
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Search Engine Optimization Basics #2
• SEO is relevant in all sites, these includes blogs/journals. To help facilitate some SEO knowledge I’d like to point out the fact that Wordpress has built in SEO tools you can use, and a few others you can download.
  1. SEO Titles & Tags
  2. SEO Widgets
  3. SEO Sitemap

• 1. Effective Use of Titles and Tags
When blogging it’s important to use your titles, headers(h1/h2), and tags effectively. Your blog post titles and page titles will be indexed out of the meta section of the page source and will be picked up by any search engine crawling software which passes by. Since a blog utilizes many blog titles everyday it’s important to leverage upon key phrases and use relevant keywords within your title. It goes without saying that at the same time you must also link up your title, in text keywords, and tags together. Tags are excellent tools to attribute to a post. Tags are words that specify key points within your blog post. Having tags which emphasize your in text keywords is essential to a better optimized blog.
• 2. Blog Plugins/Widgets
Using these free tools provided to you, courtesy of their authors, will help you edit and optimize your blogs better. Some key wordpress widgets which will help SEO your blog better are:
All in One SEO Pack : Found Here
Platinum SEO Pack: Found Here
• 3. SEO Site map
Having a major search engine compliant site map is critical in achieving a good Page Rank (pr). Without one you may never be as organized as you should be to take advantage of your true SEO potential. In conjunction with a fully working XML compliant site map, the user benefits from having stored cache files which will help major search engines, such as Google, keep records of your site.
An effective SEO site map plugin you can use is XML Site Maps: Found Here

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Search Engine Optimization Basics #1
• It’s no secret that everything revolves around SEO. To get any amount of traffic to your site you need to have a good Page Rank(PR) and be spread across a few highly targeted keywords. Conventional sites and blogs alike need to focus on a few main points when considering SEO.
  1. What is my niche?
  2. What are the keywords in my niche?
  3. How can I effectively leverage myself with those keywords?

• 1. What is my niche?
Well, a niche is basically a specific genre or theme your site will focus around. My theme is wealth generation online while leading an active and healthy lifestyle. I can be spread across a few financial niches, such as: make money online, affiliate marketing, network marketing, home based businesses, etc. At the same time my health niches, can and will be: yoga, TriVita, nutrition, heart health, stress, sex, tai chi, etc. Choosing your niche is just a matter of what you want to talk about and how you want to present that information.
• 2. What are the keywords in my niche?
Take the title of your site and plug them into a keyword search. Next take your subject/article headings and plug them in. Try to avoid general keywords. General keywords will provide a challenge because many individuals will be saturating that keyword already. It’s important to focus on a few keywords at a time, to build a strong foundation in each of those keywords.
Some sites to help you search for keywords:
www.google.com/sktool
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
• 3. Leveraging yourself on your keywords
Once you have found 3-4, I say 3-4 because I spend between 3-10 days on 3-4 keywords, highly targeted keywords begin to build upon them. By publishing quality content focused on those keywords your page rank will improve in due time. SEO isn’t a one night thing, it takes time to build certain keywords and takes even longer to reap the rewards of having a high PR. Some free things you can do to help your SEO for certain keywords is articles, tags, squidoo, ebooks, ezines, blog farms, directories, press releases, forums, etc.

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