Successful article marketing demands keyword rich articles. While your article must be stimulating, informative and provide a solution to a problem it should always be keyword dense if one of your aims is to get free web traffic.

So how do you go about this? The first thing I do is try and get inside the mind of someone using the internet to find information. How do people interact with the internet. In most cases they just type in the words that relate to what they’re looking for such as “get free web traffic”. So when you’re thinking of keywords try to imagine what you’d use if you were searching.
What you want to try and achieve is to get your article listed on either page 1 or 2 of Google. Now that’s easily said and a bit more difficult to do. This is where you need to think smart and find key words that have high search demand but low competition.

One method of doing this is using seobook.com. It’s free to use and provides you with a powerful keyword tool that you can use in your campaign to get free web traffic.

1) Register on seobook.com, then click on the keyword tool.
2) Enter your chosen keyword(s) into the box and submit. You’ll be then presented with a list of variations of your keywords with piles of other information. The stuff you want to look for is the number of times that the words or phrases are searched for on a daily basis on Yahoo, MSN and most importantly Google.
3) Choosing the phrases with the highest search (demand) will result, in almost every case, in having high competition. As what we’re looking for is high demand and low competition, choose keywords with a monthly Google demand of about 100 or slightly higher.
4) Make a note of the keywords that fall into this category.
5) Repeat this exercise for a variety of keyword phrases.
6) Now go to Google and submit each phrase with quotation marks at the beginning and end. Google will show you how many results there are. Ideally you’d want 20,000 or less results for your chosen keywords. Once you’ve completed this exercise for the list you created you should have a list of keywords around which you can write articles.

The above should result in a Google page one or two listing on the basis of one article submitted to, say, Ezine.com. and should help you get free web traffic to your site.
The parameters will vary depending on how many articles you plan to write. If you plan to write say 20 – 30 articles on the same keywords you can go for bigger demand / competition numbers.

When writing you article be sure to include the keywords in your title and at least three to four times throughout the article, bolding where appropriate.

So it’s up to you now. This stuff really works!