Keyword Articles: An Overview

Writers who have deigned to the mass production of brief, poorly researched and undocumented SEO keyword articles for the sole purpose of generating online traffic and advertising revenue have given the entire corps of contemporary digital authors a bad name and have cheapened the process of SEO, or search engine optimization. In essence, they have become the blood-sucking leaches and junk bond salesmen of the internet writing community.

Some American authors have actually compared them to the greedy people who have "flipped" house after house in the real estate market and contributed to the crash of housing values. Because of those who mass-produce, or flip, keyword articles, the advertising revenue for the worthy, well-written articles has plummeted.

The writing of keyword articles involves the futile use of search engine optimization- the continuing process of making an article or website more likely to be placed near the coveted and highly visible top of search engine results. This is most commonly attempted through the diverse placement of popularly searched words or terms called keywords.

MICHELLE L. DEVON, a helium.com authoress, has written "On the internet, where content is king, you are competing with every other website that has ever used those keywords you have used in your article or content."