Steps to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Article

Writing a Search Engine Friendly (SEF) content article

Pick 2-3 main keywords and 4-7 supporting keywords

Keyword help sites:

Google’s Keyword Planner:

https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner

Keyword Tool

http://keywordtool.io/

Main Keywords:

• Are in the Meta Title
• Are in the Meta Description
• Are in the Page (H1) Title
• Are in the first sentence of the first paragraph
• Repeated twice in the article afterwords
• can be linkable to the main article or similar articles and websites

Supporting Keywords are:

• not the main keyword but help explain the main keyword
• are synonyms to the main keywords
• can be linkable to other pages in the website or other external websites related to the subject
• can be linkable to advertising

Write your meta information first:

• Meta Title, no more than 55 characters
• Meta Description, no more than 155 characters
• Page Title, no more than 55 characters 
  **Note the page title should not say welcome or home or generic phrases

Free program to count your words:

http://www.lettercount.com/

Articles should be 400-600 or 1100 to 1300 words -1300 is optimal for Google

• All of your content should be 100% original and not copied from other sources.  
• Possibly include a bulleted or un-bulleted list
• Include a picture related to the topic
  **Note, rename the filename of your image to reflect the keyword.
  **Note, link your image to your website.
• Can include a video of the topic 
  **Note, the video will be viewed before the article is read most of the time.