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Ghost Writing : Article Writing Services and Article Submission

ARTICLE WRITING SERVICES

My Background

The article writing services I offer are detailed below. I have been a professional article ghostwriter for many years, having enjoyed a Scottish education that is very strong on the correct use of English grammar, informative punctuation and logical sentence construction.  However, due largely to my experience and pleasure of working for some time in Canada and the USA, I also have a good knowledge of American spelling, jargon and colloquialisms.  I can therefore write equally well for clients from both sides of The Pond and also worldwide. I generally use American spelling as standard unless requested not to.

I am a graduate of Edinburgh University in Scotland, majoring in Pure Chemistry with Math and Physics as minors. However, I am also the recipient of writing awards from my various schools, including the Royal High School of Edinburgh, and have written children's books and several eBooks.

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The article writing services I offer are detailed on the Home Page of this          website, although some of my prices are indicated to the left -you get full copyright to articles I write for you.

The main elements of a well-written article are detailed below, and I also have a list of interested people with whom I maintain contact and offer a free writing course.  If you wish to join them, a link to this is provided later on this page.

First, however, here are the elements of a well written article that should be effective in attracting traffic to your web pages or blog.  

1.  Keyword Research

My article writing services include free keyword research on request. The correct choice of keywords can be critical to your success, but first a brief résumé of what a keyword really is, using Google as an example of a search engine.  

If you are using Google to find information, you will normally type one or more words into the Google search box. I normally use 'locks' as a subject example, which can be locks of hair, canal locks or security locks - even flintlocks! If you type in 'locks' for a search, that word is known as a 'keyword': you will get information on all types of locks.  If you narrow your search down to 'history of locks', that is also a keyword - it is a phrase, but still referred to as a keyword.

To get the type of locks you want, you may have to narrow it down further to 'history of canal locks', for example.  This is also a keyword, and as the length of the phrase becomes longer, the keyword is referred to as a 'long-tailed keyword'.

It is important to carry out good keyword research so that you can focus your article on keywords that people use a lot when searching with Google but without too many competing web pages using the same keyword. The subject of keyword research is too vast for this article writing services page, but it is a very important factor to take into account when writing articles.

2.  Keyword Research Tools

There are many different keyword tools available, though many use the free Google Keyword Tool External (the Google Adwords tool). This is a tool developed by Google specifically for Adwords customers, and is designed to let users know what keywords Google customers are using to find information. It also lets you know roughly how much competition there is for them on other web pages. It's not particularly accurate, but it gives a rough approximation of the supply and demand for specific keywords.

The tools I use for the article writing services I offer are:

• Google Adwords Tool
• Keyword Elite (Brad Callen)
• Brainstormer (Ken Evoy - part of SiteBuildIt! Suite)
• Adwords Analyzer (Jeff Alderson)

There are others, but these are what I use when carrying out keyword research for my clients. Each of the above opens in a new window so you can check them pout without leaving this page. 

3.  Using Keywords

When Google reads a search term entered by a customer seeking information, it checks its index for the web pages calculated by the listing algorithm as relating most to that term. The algorithm  uses over 100 different factors, some on-site, such as keyword use, and others off-site, such as links from other pages to yours. Use of keywords is an important aspect of your listing position.

The days are over when 3% - 5% keyword density (KD) was considered necessary - or even acceptable. Now, such a high level of keyword use will result in your page not being listed. Even article directories such as Ezine Articles are refusing articles with over 2% KD for any major word used in the article.

More useful than keyword repetition is your use of vocabulary. The use of keywords became less important when Google adopted 'latent semantic analysis' as a tool, under the name of LSI (latent semantic indexing).

4.  LSI

You can read about LSI on this page of Article Services.  It opens in a new window, rather than me repeating it again here. It explains how a page can be listed for a specific keyword without that keyword ever appearing on the page. Nevertheless, keywords are important, because humans expect to see them and will judge an article or web page as being relevant to them according to the keywords used.

5.  Article Writing Services: Constructing Your Article

When you use our professional article writing services we will construct your article in such a way as to catch the eye of the reader, and perhaps also the Google indexing algorithm.

a)  The Title
Use the keyword close to the start of the title.  You can use two keywords in the title if you wish, with the secondary keyword towards the end of the title. Google will look on the first few words of the title as being the most important.

Also make the title to the point, for example "How to Use Article Writing Services to Get Traffic to Your Site:  Writing Articles for Profit".  Avoid superlatives and exclamation marks - Google does not always like these, and neither do article directories. You can make them short and catchy, such as "Writing Articles to Make Money".

b)  The Introductory Paragraph
The first paragraph is the most important. Google will judge the rest of the article on this, and your main keyword must appear within the first 100 characters, but no more than once in the first 100 words. Some may disagree with me there, but I find that I get best results by following that rule. As a guide to what 100 words look like, the first paragraph on this page contains 97 words.

c)  The Article Body
You should begin the next paragraph using the same keyword, but keeping the 100 word rule in mind. Google's algorithm appears to be programmed to offer highest relevance weighting to the text in the first third of your article, and again to the last paragraph. It's almost as if it reads the first third then the last paragraph, and pays little attention to the rest. Nobody but Google technicians knows the answer to that, but that's the way it seems to me.

That's the way I write my articles with respect to use of keywords. However, I also include a great deal of keyword relevance by using semantically related vocabulary in the text. Taking the 'locks' example again, were I writing about canal locks, I would use words such as 'canal', 'towpath', 'barge', 'narrowboat', history, old and so on.

The LSI algorithm is designed to associate word strings with the theme of the article or web page, and by using these words I can cut down on the use of the keyword 'history of locks' without losing relevance to that in the event of a Google customer using it with the search engine to find information about the history of canal locks.  

I then use the keyword itself once more each 300 words or part thereof, and one additional time in the last paragraph - generally toward the end, within the final sentence. In a 500 word article, say, I would have 5 keywords (excluding the title), so my KD would be 1.0%. For 800 words it would be 0.75%, though that would likely increase to 0.8% - 0.9% for single-word keywords. The remaining relevance comes from semantics to cater for LSI.

If these sound like low keyword densities to you, they appear to suit Google, because my articles often get high listing positions. That is one of the reasons why many of my clients retain my services. I always keep LSI in mind when writing, and the article writing services offered on this website are generally a combination of good keyword research, LSI-oriented writing and professional article submission services.

d)  The Resource
The resource section is where you offer a link to your web pages and say a bit about yourself or your products if you wish. Here is an example of one of my recent HTML resources:

Peter Nisbet is a professional article ghostwriter of many years good standing, operating from his #1 listed website [a href="http://www.article-services.com"]Article Services[/a]. Pete not only offers [a href="http://www.article-services.com/article-writing-services.html"]professional article writing services[/a] but also a free article writing course for those that want to learn.

Perhaps this is even the resource that you clicked to reach this page.  I am using square brackets here rather than HTML tags to prevent the links becoming links, and hiding their structure. Normally you would use the tags '<' and '>' rather than '[' and ']'.

Most directories permit two links, which can both be to the same web page if you do not have two pages relating to the article.  The links should ideally direct readers to a page that relates directly to the article.

Basically, that is what you get when you hire my professional article writing services. The keyword research, an article written using the principles above, and added to that I also provide the resource in both HTML and text formats, plus a Summary and a Keyword List, both required by article directories.

I also offer an article submission service, details of which are available here:
Article Services Article Submission Service.

Finally. . .

Professional article writing services can help you a great deal while you learn how to write your own articles. It is important that you learn how to use grammar and punctuation correctly, and that you have no spelling errors. Many article directories are now refusing to accept any errors in grammar, spelling or punctuation, and nor can you use articles for submission to advertise, except in the author's resource section.

Product reviews are permitted by some directories, provided that the resource link does not lead directly to a sales page for the product being reviewed, and geographical references can only be made in the title if the article body could not conceivable apply to any other geographical area.

Make sure that you read the Author Guidelines of any article directory you use, and also keep to their Terms and Conditions. Do all of that, and you should be successful in writing your own articles, and should require my professional article writing services for only a short period of time.

Note:  the Keyword density on this page is 0.82%

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