When you write your articles, hopefully you are using good search engine optimization strategies by making sure that your main keyword phrase is being emphasized and highlighted throughout the body of your article.
While this won’t guarantee you the #1 spot in the search engines, research has shown that by highlighting your keyword phrases in a natural way, that they carry more weight and more clout in the search engines.
Article Marketing Tip 1 – Use html to make your keyword phrase bold or strong. The proper form for the html would be:
<strong> BOLD </strong> or <strong> STRONG </strong>.
Using either bold or strong will make the text in between the html code above look bold in an article. You just have to take a look at what kind of html the site your are submitting your article to permits. Some allow the <b> </b> and some only permit the <strong> </strong>.
Article Marketing Tip 2 – Use html to make your keyword phrase italicized. The proper form for the html would be:
<i> ITALICIZED </i>
The use of italicizing words permits you to highlight your keyword phrases subtly without being too obvious, but still giving them weight in the search engines.
Highlighting I Avoid:
I usually avoid highlighting keyword phrases with header html code such as <H1> <H2> and so on. The reasons why are that many article directories do not permit the use of heading html code and publishing formats such as wordpress don’t format the header codes well within a post body, and so your posts start looking a little “funky”.
Most places that you are submitting your articles to have all of the header code set up already. For example, the title of this blog article will have an H1 heading automatically – and that’s good enough. There’s no need to add a bunch of additional header codes in the article – because while they do hold some weight with the search engines, it starts to make your articles look a little unnatural. And appealing to your readers is what’s most important.
Do you have any tricks of the trade for making your keyword phrases stand out in the search engines?
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Hi, I'm Lisa Angelettie and I'm a wife, mom, & article marketing evangelist! I make a great living writing articles & infoproducts and coaching others on how to do the same.Read more of my story at: 
