The results are in!

I nearly fell off my chair when I found this tool.  It’s my dream come true when it comes to SEO, keywords and writing articles.

I’m the kind of guy that loves to crunch numbers,  I also don’t give up until I get it right.  So when I found this tool I started analyzing my articles and made some startling discoveries, both about the mistakes I’ve been making and the interesting quirks about eHow articles.

With that being said, go to the tool here (make sure you bookmark it).

Open up a new window, go to one of your articles and cut and past the URL into the box on the Analyzer page, you’ll also need to answer (the amazingly weak) security question below it.

There’s only two things we need to look at once the results page comes up.  We aren’t building a website, just a one page article.  I’ll touch upon the relevant sections.

On the results menu, click on ‘Meta tag analysis’  Here the tool will tell you how well you did with your article in terms of relevancy and making it robot friendly.

Check out the results above for one of my best paying articles.

As you can see for title I did very good, probably didn’t get 100% because I didn’t use the phrase ‘best price’ in my article.  Description was at 98% which is excellent.  I want to point out something VERY IMPORTANT here, it says robots generally don’t read past the 200th character in the description.  So, you eHow’ers who write novels for your description keep in mind any keywords you put in after the 200th character will NOT be seen by the search engines.  Keep it short, even better put your keywords as early as possible in your description!  I also want to point out where it says ‘No Keyword Meta Data Found!’

Now, here are two quirks about ehow.

1. Even though the eHow article writing page has an area to enter keywords, it DOES not show up for search engine robots!!  This is an error with how the page was programmed, maybe they’ll fix it one day so make sure you use it, but don’t rely on it to get odd keywords onto your page, use the photo trick here.
2. Further analyses of an eHow article page shows the h2 and h3 tags are NOT being used properly.  The h1 tag is the article title and that works OK.  h2 is always where it says ‘Instructions’ on the article page.  h3 is, amazingly the comments section!!, specifically the first comment written.  Once again, you can’t rely on these for page ranking.

Hit the back button to get back to the menu, then click on ‘Keywords found on the page’.  Here’s the sweet part.

On the list that comes up scroll past the one word keywords, you certainly didn’t use those, go to the two and three word sections and look for your intended keywords.  Hopefully you were able to get to 2% on your targeted keywords.  If not, edit your article and improve it.  Here’s my results for my article on electric space heater.

1.9% not bad at all

This is an amazing tool, use it after you publish your article to make it as robot friendly as possible as well as to adjust your keyword density.

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