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To me, written content has always been there more for the general value that it brings to the reader, rather than filling it up with keywords so that, fingers crossed, it might just fluke a page 1 ranking in Google.

I’m pretty sure it’s just been of recent, but not EzineArticles doesn’t let you submit an article with a vague title. They want keywords that make the article more search-friendly, at least for the internal search engine within EzineArticles.

I’m a firm believer in providing value before going for the peripheral and more often than not, ephemeral page rankings that might come with an article with good keyword density. As far as I’m concerned, keyword density is dead. I mean, even if your keywords were strategically placed so perfectly that they are on the first page for that keyword, the chances that it’ll stay there, due to lack of competition are almost nil, especially if it’s a good keyword.

I’m no where near a professional article writer. I wrote articles and shot them to one of my other blogs but I was playing the numbers game back then. I choose to outsource my article writing.

I’m sort of just going around in circles now (see, told you I wasn’t a good article writer =p) but the point I want to make before I wrap up this post is you should write for people to read first and not search engines to scan. The longer you write, the better you’ll get at it and the more successful your articles will be in the search engines as well as with people.