writing good seo content???

‘How do i write content for SEO?’ or ‘How do i optimise my content for the search engines?’

Its not something, i’d really spend too much time thinking about, a naturally written article, with a few or no SEO considerations is likely to actually be the most optimised article, not least because its likely to flow and read much better for your visitors.

Some people worry about targetting an article to a specifically targetted phrase, spending time worrying about having a certain keyword percentage, worrying if they’ll be penalised for this or that, do they have too high a keyword percentage or worried that they won’t rank well if they only mention their keyword once or twice in an article, its just counter productive.

I’d love to be proved wrong, but try it for yourself, trying firing off an article about a subject you have a knowledge about, now trying writing another article but ‘deliberately’ optimise it, sticking to a certain keyword percentage, studying possible long-tail search phrases to include within the article, how long does the second article take to write compared to the first?

Which performs better in the search engines? Which is more optimised? and which is more SEO friendly?