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Get More Views on Triond Now! – How to be a Google Favorite, and Your Guide to Formatting

Did you know it’s not just about what you write, but how you write that allows affects how Google treats your articles in the search engines?

How you Format is IMPORTANT To Google!

Before we begin, I just want to say that I am quite delighted with the responses about my Free PDF/e-Book, and am currently in the process of creating it now. I don’t know when it will be finished (I’m find myself adding more and more things I learn every day), but I’ll be sure to have an ETA soon. So thank you for your comments and I hope you enjoy my soon-to-be PDF.

Next, I’d like to apologize. Yes, apologize. Not because I’ve done anything wrong necessarily, but you might find that this guide is a little on the short side (hence the title “Minitip”). But I REALLY wanted to share this information because I think it’s important. 

So, listen up! :)

How Google Reads Your Article

There is actually a hierarchy of importance when it comes to Search Engine scanning. Based on how you emphasize things, the way your article is formatted can really make your article a winner or screw yourself over.

This is how Google reads your article:

  1. Whatever is in “Heading 1″ is of the utmost importance to Google. Your “Heading 1″ is the title of your article (it’s in major huge letters at the top of every article). This is why you not only have create a catchy title to hook your readers, but you also must have KEYWORDS in it as well (more on that later). 
  2. Google continues to read your article with Heading 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, 6 being the least important. Because there is only Heading 1 (title of article), Heading 2 (description), Heading 3 (Topics), and Heading 4 (Sub Topics), you will only have to worry about Headings 1-4.
  3. Anything bold and italicized is taken into consideration after the Headings.
  4. Last but not least, any “normal text” (any text that hasn’t been touched by formatting) is read last.

So for those of you who are writing articles without any formatting, I think it’s high time to start! 

How to Format Your Article 101 & How to Optimize it for Google

Your Title

As I mentioned before, your title is considered as the property “Heading 1″ for google, or “The most Friggin’ most IMPORTANT thing on this article”. Because of this, you want to make your article have an abudance of keywords while keeping it relatively short

So let’s say I wrote a guide on triond about Vegetable Gardens, and my title was the following:

How to create a Flourishing Vegetable Garden

While that title is perfectly fine, I am still missing some valuable keywords. What if someone wanted to know what tools to use, what seeds to plant, or even what fertilizer to enhance their plant’s growth? Instead, I would make the title like this:

How to Create a Flourishing Vegetable Garden – Your Guide to Gardening Tools, Plant Seeds, Fertlizers.

As you can see from the above, the title is not too long, but I was still able to include the valuable keywords that would rank my article higher in the Search Engine Rankings.

Your Description

You want to make your description short and sweet, and to the point. NEVER simply copy and paste your introduction paragraph of your article and paste it as your description – Google may just see it as duplication and consider your article low quality. Instead, tell your audience exactly what they will find in yourarticle. Don’t try to be fluffy or fancy, either, that just ends up pissing off more people than you know. 

A perfect example of a description for my Gardening example would be the following:

Learn how to create an all natural garden with simple tips and tricks that are proven to work. Also learn about today’s best gardening tools and fertilizers, and which plant seeds are worth planting!

The description is only a couple sentences, is short and to the point, and defines exactly what will be in the article. As a person searching Google you will only be able to see the first two sentences of the website anyway. That is why it’s important to make those two sentences count!

Heading 3 & Heading 4

Using Heading 3 and 4 is relatively easy to understand.

Format all Topics and Subject titles as Heading 3. (Gardening Tools, Plant Seeds, Fertilizers)

Format all subtopics as Heading 4. (Pumpkin Seeds, Carrot Seeds, Potato Seeds)

Bolds and Italics

This can get a bit tricky.

I see a lot of people abusing these two formatting options and bolding and italicizing all the wrong things.

Typically, you want to Bold things that are important. For example, “Do Not Put Your Foot in Your Lawn Mower” may be something you want to put in bold.

Italics are something you reserve for emphasis (on a lesser level than bolding), or if a certain word is expected to be spoken different in english. So for example, there’s a difference between “Did he really put his foot in the lawn mower?” versus “Did he really put his foot in the lawn mower?”.

Need Personal Help with Triond? Send me an Email!

If you have any questions about Triond – perhaps you don’t know if your Article is correctly formatted for Google, or you don’t know what tags to use for your articles, feel free to send me an email at jaytriond@gmail.com. All I need to know is your first name (so I know what the heck to call you).

If you don’t have any questions, then you can be a part of my Triond Writers Club! Just simply send me an email with your name with the subject “I want to be part of your Club!” and I’ll send you tips and stuff that would really help you with online money making. I will focus mainly on Article Writing and Triond profit making, but sometimes I will give you access to FREE eBooks and amazing stuff that I thought is helpful online. 

If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about and you don’t know what Triond is, why not start writing now? You can make money online every month!

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Good luck everyone!

(note: Ok I guess this article wasn’t as short as I thought it would be. Oops! ;) )

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