Yes, if you're trying to trick search engines, THEN - they're out to get you - BIG TIME.

BUT, if you're willing to work with them and help them, then they can seriously be your business's best friend.

Here's how:

---------------------------------------- Writing Articles for Search Engines ----------------------------------------

Actually, you're writing articles for TWO people.

1. Search Engines 2. Your Potential Customers

. Why for Search Engines?

Because search engines love content, and it's that very content that let's you invite traffic from search engines.

These articles help you optimize your website for search engine rankings (more on this in a bit).

. Why for Potential Customers?

Because these articles are what your prospects are looking for on search engines - they land on that page, find information they need and then see your "recommendation" - aka affiliate link and they click, click BUY.

So, your articles eventually lead to sales and commission for you.

So once again, purpose of articles:

. Provide content/information for: . Search Engines . Potential customers . Promoting traffic to your affiliate program

---------------------------------------- Optimizing your Articles with Keywords ----------------------------------------

We don't want to make your head spin here, so we'll try to keep this AS simple as possible.

There are certain places you want to insert your keywords when building an article webpage.

Here they are:

. The title of page . The Description META Tag . The Keyword META Tag . In your Headline, use HTML Tag < h1 >< /h1 > . Your first line of text . Once or twice per paragraph . Once/Twice in bold . In text of a link

Some other tips:

. In your graphics - use keyword in HTML ALT tag . Use a secondary keyword also - a few times

Some Cautions:

. Don't Overkill - repeating your keyword an obsense number of times will not help you at all - it will hurt you. . Never hide keywords - never. . Nothing tricky - if it's tricky, don't do it. . Don't have a LONG keyword META tag

The above is how most search engines determine how relevant your webpage is to a specific keyword.

They also know that applying all SEO techniques in world will not in itself get their web pages spidered, indexed and listed. Yes, sure, a "perfect" page, once indexed and listed will surely rank high for its keywords but unless it is found by spiders, it is pretty useless.

It is no secret that process of a web page being found by spiders can be helped by placing links to that web site on other web sites (e.g. by doing a links exchange with other web sites, by putting one's URL in one's signature file when posting on a forum, by writing and submitting articles for free distribution and placing one's URL in author's resource block etc.) All of this will surely work but it can take months before anything happens. The webmaster has no option but to be patient and wait...and wait...and wait.

Now there is something very easy and very effective one can do to speed up this process. Actually, using this method, will get a web page indexed and listed in less than 48 hours. And whole process is controlled by webmaster. It is easy, fast in terms of setting it all up and what's more it is free!

Here is what one does: