If you’ve been working online for any length of time you’ll know the benefits of submitting articles to the Article Directories:

Free Traffic
Boost Your Credibility
Build Your Brand
Increase Your Sales
Reach New Audiences
Get Yourself Recognised As An Expert

To name but a few…

Obviously the better the articles the better the results you’ll get from them and a little HTML in the right places can make your articles stand out from the crowd and get other people promoting your work.

Now you don’t have to be an HTML guru to get to grips with this, believe me, it’s easy to grasp and even easier to apply, as long as you know how that is…..and that’s where this post comes in ;)

Please Note: Whilst I’ll give examples of underlining text, it is not advisable to use it in your articles as people tend to think that underlined text is a hyperlink and with some words underlining them will make them difficult to read, for example blogging is difficult to read when underlined. But of course the use of underlined text is your choice.

OK let’s get started:

By typing <b>your text will become bold until you enter</b> as the addition of the forward slash ends the instruction.

If you swap the <b> for an <i>your text will become Italic, again until you enter</i> to end that instruction.

If you really want to underline a sentence then type in <u>and the text will be underlined until it finds</u> the end instruction, you knew that was coming didn’t you ;)

You can also combine these instructions in any way you choose but you must enter and end each instruction individually.

For Example:

<b><i><u>makes the text bold, italic and underlined</u> ends underlined but italic and bold continue until you end each</i> one of them</b> and continue with normal text.

Now let’s step up a gear and really make your articles stand out:

Creating Lists within your articles:

Your article may be a 5 step “How To” guide and you want to display each step as best as you can….easy!

A Numbered list is known as an Ordered List and uses <ol> to start and </ol> to end it, with additional list item instructions entered, <li> and </li>.

For Example:

<ol>

<li>Step 1:</li> Followed by details for each step

<li>Step 2:</li>

<li>Step 3:</li>

<li>Step 4:</li>

<li>Step 5:</li>

</ol> to close the list.

The example above will produce:

  1. Step 1: Followed by details for each step
  2. Step 2:
  3. Step 3:
  4. Step 4:
  5. Step 5:

A Bullet pointed list is known as an Un Ordered List and uses <ul> to start and </ul> to end it, again with the additional list item instructions entered, <li> and </li>.

For Example:

<ul>

<li>Bullet Point 1:</li>

<li>Bullet Point 2:</li>

<li>Bullet Point 3:</li>

<li>Bullet Point 4:</li>

<li>Bullet Point 5:</li>

</ul> to close list.

The example above will produce:

  • Bullet Point 1:
  • Bullet Point 2:
  • Bullet Point 3:
  • Bullet Point 4:
  • Bullet Point 5:

Obviously you wouldn’t use the terms Step 1 or Bullet Point 1 and would make the text keyword rich. You could also make them bold so as to stand out for both easy reading and SEO purposes. Again we do this as we did above, as the examples below demonstrate:

Ordered List <ol>:

<ol>

<li><b>Keyword Rich Title:</b></li> and continue to describe each step as normal

<li><b>Keyword Rich Title:</b></li> as above

</ol>

Which will then produce:

  1. Keyword Rich Title: and continue to describe each step as normal
  2. Keyword Rich Title: as above

Un Ordered List <ul>:

<ul>

<li><b>Keyword Rich Title:</b></li> Details of….

<li><b>Keyword Rich Title:</b></li> Details of….

</ul>

Which will then produce:

  • Keyword Rich Title: Details of….
  • Keyword Rich Title: Details of….

I’m sure that you’ll agree that a little HTML can improve the look of any plain text article and help get your work the results you desire and deserve.

I hope that you have found this post useful, if so please hit the Tweet Button and leave a comment below……… and if you have any other Html Tips that you could pass onto my readers please feel free to do so, but remember that if you enter any instructions within < and > it will insert the instruction on your comment, rather than display it, so to eliminate that please use ( and ) with the instructions within, thanks.

 

Until next time, take care

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