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SEO Article Writing: 15 Tips For Writing Properly Optimized Articles

One of the most common areas of confusion when trying to incorporate keywords into your article marketing campaign is how to correctly do SEO article writing.

Do SEO article writing correctly, and you will make your article more appealing to readers, publishers and search engines.

Do it incorrectly, and the article ceases to make sense and appears to be of much lower quality.

Not sure how to write with keywords effectively?

Here are 15 tips to help you write properly optimized articles:

1 - Long tail keywords (usually non-competitive phrases that are 3-5 words long) should be used as the topic of your article.

2 - Use your main keyword phrases in the HTML resource box. Use the main phrase as the anchor text that forms the link going back to your website.

Your main keywords are competitive 2-3 word phrases. By "competitive", I mean that there are many people searching for this term associated with the topic of your website, but there are also many websites that are competing to satisfy the demand.

3 - Vary the keywords that you target in your HTML resource box. Create a list of 10 or so main keyword phrases and alternate using them.

4 - If you are doing local business article marketing, use the HTML resource box for the keyword phrases that specify your location. Don't worry so much about trying to incorporate your location into your title and article, but rather write the article on your general niche and put your location specific phrase in your HTML resource box.

5 - Create a spreadsheet or just use a pencil and pad of paper to list your long tail keyword terms. Next to each term, brainstorm article ideas and possible titles that use the term in a natural sounding way. One productive brainstorming session can give you enough keyword-rich article ideas for months.

6 - The term that you are targeting should fit naturally into the context of your article--don't force it! Always be sure that the key phrase makes sense within the context of your article and is grammatically correct in the sentence.

7 - What if one of your keyword terms contains a spelling or grammar error? Don't use it. Grammar and spelling errors in your article hurt the quality and make your article less appealing to publishers and readers.

8 - Incorporate your key phrase in the title, of course in a natural sounding way. If possible, try to use the phrase as close to the beginning of the title as you can. If you can get your targeted term within the first 3 words of your title, all the better!

10 - Make certain that your title makes sense and is free of spelling and grammar issues too. Remember, the title is meant to draw readers to your article, so you really want to create a title that is memorable, in addition to having your special phrase in there. You will not always be able to fit your keyword phrase in the first 3 words. If you can't, then just create a title that is appealing and makes sense and has the phrase in there somewhere.

11 - Your resource box should contain complete sentences, rather than just a hyperlinked key term.

12 - Also, try to work your special term into the first paragraph of your article.

13 - Target just one phrase per article and one phrase per resource box. Resist the urge to pepper your article with the term that you are targeting. That tactic is not necessary, and you end up compromising your article's quality.

14 - If you put the keyword phrase in the title, then the article must be about what the title indicates. The title must specifically relate to the article.

15 - Always remember that your primary audience is human readers--your article needs to provide valuable information that a person in your target market would find helpful. First and foremost, write for the real people who will be reading your articles, rather than for search engines.

As you are doing SEO article writing, focus on creating high quality articles that are interesting and helpful, and then you can target a particular keyword phrase in a subtle and natural sounding way using the 15 tips in this article.

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Writing Basic Html

Generate PDF from HTML with C# in ASP.NET

PDF Duo .Net is a converting component for use in ASP.NET (VB, C# etc.) and enables to convert HTML to PDF. The main class HtmlToPdf provides several methods and properties to enable multi-purpose customization of the resulting PDF. Main functions allow to convert HTML represented as a File, Page from Url address, Stream or as a String.

Developers can easily invoke the converting component in their own application or website projects on base of ASP.NET. To deploy the PDF Duo .Net component you will need only three lines of code. Installing package is provided with fully featured demos written in both C# and Visual Basic. Simple examples with source code help you using the PDF Duo .Net component to successfully convert HTML to PDF.

I have used PDFDuo-NET.dll (version 2.3) in my project which is very useful. First, you need to convert content of your ASPX to HTML and then converted that HTML content into a PDF file or another way which I use is to create a simple HTML string and then convert it.

See below C# code:
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.IO;
using DuoDimension;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string html = "<table width='240'>" +
"<tr style='background-color:#00AAFF'><td width='50%'>Product</td><td width='25%'>Quantity</td><td>Cost</td></tr>" +
"<tr><td>Product Name 1</td><td>5</td><td>$100</td></tr>" +
"<tr><td>Product Name 2</td><td>15</td><td>$300</td></tr>" +
"<tr><td>Product Name 3</td><td>55</td><td>$500</td></tr>" +
"</table>";
string pdf = "pdf_file.pdf";
DuoDimension.HtmlToPdf conv = new DuoDimension.HtmlToPdf();
conv.PageInfo.PageFormat = ePageFormat.A4;
conv.PdfDocumentInfo.Title = "Generate PDF from HTML source";
conv.Header = "<br><i>HTML table Example</i>";
try
{
conv.OpenHTML(html);
conv.SavePDF(MapPath("~/Reports/") + pdf);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
}
Adobe's PDF format is one of the most widely accepted document formats in use today. Most users and clients expect that the software you write will be able to generate and work with PDFs. Unfortunately, however, Adobe does not offer a free SDK that you can download and use; you have to pay to license the API.

Statically creating PDF files is quite simple. Applications, such as OpenOffice.org Writer, give the user options to export a word processor document as a PDF file. Users can even find utilities that allow them to "print" directly to a PDF file. Features like these are well-known to end users and are useful for creating a PDF based off a document originally created in another format.

But what about dynamic PDF generation? Some programs need to be able to write out PDF files. PDF Duo .NET alleviates this problem. It will give you the ability to add PDF functionality to your applications. Using PDF Duo .NET, you can create PDF by converting HTML string or file, so you can deliver the functionality your users expect.

It is up to you how you generate your HTML from your data source and then convert it to PDF or another option is to convert your ASPX to HTML first and then to PDF. This need to be done because PDF Duo .NET component can only works with clear html format. It did not support for asp:control and runat=server tag for now. You can apply styleshhet to tables, h1, h2, paragraph, and all others necessary stylesheet tag to complete your PDF.

PDF Duo .NET is absolutely independent, doesn't require any additional components and really appropriate for ASP.NET websites. The component is written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. PDF Duo .NET is a library that allows you to generate (convert) PDF documents from HTML web page.

For more information about the component please visit the product page:
http://www.duodimension.com/html_pdf_asp.net/component_html_pdf.aspx

If you have any questions or concerns about component, let us know:
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About the Author

Our goal is to provide high-quality components for converting between file formats. We develop tools that convert formats such as PDF, HTML, DOC, XLS, RTF, XML. Our long-term vision is to continually create new and innovative solutions featuring greater ease of use and higher quality than the competition.