Why is Article Writing Beneficial for Your Website?

Ever wonder what an article would do for your boutique website?

Let's pretend you make and sell girls hair bows.  How in the world could an article help your website?

Let's explore! Pretend you write a wonderful article titled, "How to Create Little Girls Bows".  One of the main keywords on your website you target is "Little Girls Bows".  You article goes on and on with great instructions and reason why girls need bows.  At the end of the article you create just one text link. You link only the phrase: little girls bows, to your website.  This is called anchor text.  You can link it to your home page if that's a keyword your target to your home page or to your category which has little girls bows.

You submit your article to Ezine Articles, which is the largest and highest quality article directory.  Once published, you now have a text link or one way link to your site.  Now, you can change your article around a little bit and submit it to another article directory.  Now you have two text links.

Here's the really cool part.  Let's pretend that a craft blog now goes to Ezine looking for something to use on their blog.  They take your article and publish it.  Viola, you now have three text links to your website.

This does happen very frequently.  I've seen strange URL's linking to my sites in my stats and when I see what they have linking to me, it's my article published on Ezine.  Ezine is a place to take content to publish but you have to leave the links intact.  The next time you want to publish a blog but don't feel like writing, go to Ezine and search for a topic that would interest your readers and publish someone else's article on your blog.

What is the importance of these one way text links, you ask? The search bots see that Ezine and this craft blog have your site linked when they talk about "little girls bows".  So they assume that your site must be important to that search term.  The next time someone sits down at their computer and types in "little girls bows" into Google, Google will rank you site a little bit higher in the results.

I hope this helps answer why you should consider an article writing campaign for you boutique website.  It can, and will help by giving valuable one way links.  It needs to be done with the perfect keywords and it needs to be well written so the chances of it getting published by others is great.

Here are some of my articles published on Ezine.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Celebrate-Your-Childs-First-Birthday-With-a-Custom-Made-Birthday-Outfit&id=6592895
http://ezinearticles.com/?Designer-Maternity-Hospital-Gowns---Are-They-For-You?&id=4944943
http://ezinearticles.com/?Bamboo-Baby-Blankets---The-Perfect-Organic-Baby-Gift&id=4904297

A link to my article writing services.  :)

Squidoo for SEO

Using Squidoo is great for SEO. Squidoo is a website where you can sign up and create lenses. A lense is basically a place for rich content about anything. You can write about your website, your products or anything that comes to mind. It's a perfect tool for SEO. Within your lens you can use various ways to write such as lists, blocks of content or you can pull photos and place them in your lens.

This is a great place for you to create back links to your site, content or products. There are even ways to pull your blogs RSS feed within the lens.

Creating a lens for the first time can be a bit challenging. Learning the different terms for the different widgets and modules to write can be time consuming. Once you have a basic understanding of the concept, it becomes very quick to write some good content and create an award winning lens.

The reason I love Squidoo is that you can place so many great backlinks to your site or content from one lens. It will just take a few minutes and you can always add more at a later time!

Fresh Content Makes the World Wide Web Go Round

How long has it been since you have written something new on your website? Weeks, months, days? Googlebots thrive on fresh content and they will love your website more if they find something new there. Keep it fresh and keep it new.

Detailed product descriptions are great. Avoid using duplicate content if you wholesale or dropship from other vendors. Give their products your own description and details.

Add an article to your website. A simple article can do so much. It can give the bots new page and new content to crawl. It can also give new visitors a way to get to your site. If they like it enough, they may even give you a natural back link to your article from their site or blog. That's what makes the web go round.