As Factoidz Admin work hard to get us more revenue for our factoids by giving us this very motivating one-a-day bonus, as they tweak things to get more click-throughs, what can we do to as Factoiders, to get more traffic to our factoids?
You know what I am going to say: SEO. I think we have to learn and put in practice a few SEO writing techniques to draw the traffic. I say “a few” because although there are many tricks of the trade, only a small percentage of those stop short of ruining a writer’s work or making the work unbearably boring and uncreative. Some of these many tricks come close to the line of plagiarism even if it’s just article spinning.
For my “factoid-a-day” bonus, here is the first in a series of seven lessons for very white hat, non-polluting ways to draw traffic to your factoids:
Lesson #1 Targeting the topic and keyword use with explanation of LSI
Ideas and inspiration can come from anywhere concerning a topic choice. Collect them. I keep a little note book in my back pocket and I write topic ideas down as soon as they come to me. Then I write. But I’m missing an important step in between. I’m not running any checks before I pick the best, as far as potential for revenue is concerned, topic to write about. So far, it’s all by my mood. Now with the stakes a little higher here at Factoidz.com, I think we should get a little strategic with our writing approach…But by no means should we get an “EzineArticles.com” attitude of “let’s spin and post till our heads pop off!” (for no more than a link to our Website) Please let’s keep the quality where it is. I want to keep this the place where I do my writing AND my reading. We’re awesome!
-Congrats Mr. Wizard, #1 Pro, Sir!
1. Find out the niche value of your topic: Go to a Google search box near you and type:
allintitle: keyword phrase
Replace “keyword phrase” with any keywords or phrase that you think would be searchable. When you hit “enter” you will get a number of results returned. This tells you how many other sites are optimized for these keywords. Somewhere fewer than 1,000 results is excellent, the lower the better as far as a niche keyword is concerned.
2. Be sure not to overuse keywords: Check your article when it is complete to see the ratio of keywords to overall text is not to dense. Here is a site you can use: http://www.freekeywordcounter.com/ Less than two percent is good. Don’t go out of your way, but if you can place the keywords in the first and last sentences, do so. Be sure to use the keywords in the title.
3. Listen to this good news about Google: Their robots caught on to the spammers. A bunch of keywords stuck into just the right amount of near-nonsense words would qualify for the robot’s attention, before recent developments in, ahem…Latent Semantic Indexing/Analytics. Let’s just say LSI LSA, deal? All this three cent term means is that the robots are now looking for other words that are in context with the keywords. One more step and they will be judging the context like a human consensus! This is the future of seo. That is why voting up articles and expert tags, and commenting using a keyword in the comment are the “seeds” that will grow up into these robots that will judge content like humans. So let’s keep doing that for each other. You will naturally write contextually to the keywords, but if you want to check for LSI keywords: Go to a Google search box near you and type:
~target keyword –target keyword
e.g.:
~fishing tackle –fishing tackle
You will see in bold any keywords, LSI keywords that is, that the robots will be looking for to qualify your article as relevant. I know -it sucks to be judged by a robot. Just write naturally, but before you start and after you finish, check these things. It usually doesn’t take much adjustment to your work to make it fit the spider criteria.
