Keywords and Tags

Keywords are the terms you would use in a search engine to find your article.  Keywords therefore generally reflect the main topic of the article and are usually found in the title and opening paragraph of most articles to get the readers attention and convey the subject of the article.  It is also good practice to use your keywords throughout the body of the article, though not too densly.

Tags are similar to keywords although some sites may treat them differently.  Tags are often used to classify an article according to its topic and identify related articles.  They are most often found as links to related content near the article.

The same words and phrases may be used as both tags and keywords.  At earnwrite, the tags you enter will be used to classify your article and make it easier for users and search engines to find your content through the links automatically provided. 

Keyword Phrases

When using a search engine, most people generally type three or more words, rarely would you expect to find relevant results when searching with only one term.  Searching with single terms yields many irrelevant results, but when you use phrases for your searches, you will get fewer but much more relevant results.

Your articles will generally perform better if you use keyword phrases instead of only single keywords - this is because your article will show up as a highly relevant result when your keyword phrase is searched for.  One of the first steps in writing on the internet should be to identify which phrases will readers use to find your article - these phrases will lead you to your keyword phrases.

Another common technique for increasing your keyword effectivenes is to use synonyms for your keywords as keywords and in the body of your article - although not as heavily as your main keywords.  Doing that allows your article to be found through a variety of keywords and related keyword combinations.  Having topic and summary sentences in your opening and closing paragraphs using both your main keyphrase and some synonyms may prove very effective.

Keyword Research

You can use adsense keyword tool to identify popular search terms and related costs for keywords.  To make the most money you would want to identify keywords that have a high cost per click and high search volume, but relativly low competition.

How Tags Are Used on Earnwrite.com

When you enter your keywords in the keyword/tags field when writing articles these First, tags for your articles are put into an index, this allows your article to be associated with other articles that use the same tag, therefore allowing similar articles to be identified by the user and search engine through the tag index.

Tags are used with Amazon, unless you specify specific Amazon ASIN values for each article, the tags for the article are used to search for related products to display along with your article on earnwrite,com  For more information on using Amazon ASIN numbers with your articles see this article.

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