Are you a freelance article writer who would like to also get started in providing SEO content writing services to your clients? If yes then you should start learning how you can write good optimized articles for the search engines to easily find them. It is actually very easy once you have understood the basics of it.

What is SEO in the first place? Search engine optimization is the way webmasters or anyone involved in maintaining or promoting a website to make sure that their website pages are being found by the spiders sent out by the search engines to retrieve data across the web. And since we are dealing with the written text here, it is with text which we will be basing our SEO discussion.

Here are a few quick tips on SEO writing which you should know especially if you are active in any internet marketing Philippines activities.

Do your keyword research first. Every SEO process or campaign starts with determining the best keywords to be used to help optimize any website. So since you are writing just a single article, it should be a lot easier. However, the harder part is determining what keywords you should target that are easy for you to rank well.

So now that you have selected your keyword, what should you do with it? With the right keyword in your hand, you can then help make your article easily and quickly recognized or found by the search engines. And the best place to use your keyword is the title, or if you are familiar with HTML, the title tag. Most search engine experts would agree that this is the most optimum placement of any keyword.

Next it is a good idea to put your selected keyword a few times within your article. For an article that has less than 500 words I suggest you go for at least two with a maximum of four keyword placements. But make sure you put your keywords in the first and the final paragraphs. Of course this can vary depending on your preference or which SEO specialist you would decide to follow. One more tip, ensure that they keywords are smoothly placed in the sentences.

So there you go. These are just some of the basic SEO writing tips that you should know about to help you get started in this field. I would also suggest that you study an SEO course, maybe not everything about it but at least the basics of it so you will have a good understanding of how it really works.