Got content? If you regularly provide tips, advice, case studies or the like in a free newsletter or ezine or on your blog, you may be able to repackage these articles into a free-standing product that readers would happily pay for.
Whether your audience is parakeet owners, paralegals or paranoid landlords, if your information can hang together usefully for that group, and they are willing to spend money on learning what to do better, you can compile previously published material that was and maybe still is free into a paid book, report, ebook or course. Here's how.
Step 1. Get clear on the audience for your product. (Sometimes you've already done this in focusing your newsletter or blog.) Identify a specific kind of person and something they want to accomplish, such as landlords who want to avoid troublesome tenants.
Step 2. Select articles that fit the focus arrived at in Step 1. Put aside anything that isn't directly relevant – perhaps you can use those for a different compilation next year.
Step 3. Create a structure for the articles that makes sense for the reader and fits the contents you have on hand. This order might be chronological, according to a series of steps. Or you might be able to group your content under a number of topical headings. Above all, avoid a helter-skelter miscellany. What works best is a structure that looks like it could have been planned that way from scratch.
Step 4. After determining the organization and order of the articles, go through a printout of the entire text and edit with a critical eye – or have someone with good editing skills do that for you. Certain things that seemed fine in the newsletter or on the web may become annoying or nonsensical here.
For instance, one collection I was asked to comment on had many overly long paragraphs and weak closings on the articles. The author also had several passages where it looked like she wasn't following her own advice elsewhere in the collection. Another collection contained predictions and observations that now seemed old and off the mark. Leave time in your production schedule to improve the text. Again, you want readers to feel you've taken care with your product instead of just tossing previously published things together.
Step 5. Add exclusives. Provide a foreword that's new, a newly compiled resource list, to-do suggestions or a few never-published articles – things that go above and beyond what people following you have already seen or received.
Step 6. Reread every page of your text one more time, looking for and fixing anything that might have made sense in your ezine or on your blog but doesn't fit the new context. This includes time-based references like "this week" and references to current events that will seem dated in a year or two, as well as spatial references like "the box on the right" that no longer apply. If you plan to sell a printed version of the collection, include URLs that are fully written out rather than links consisting of just underlined anchor text.
If nearly all the content from your to-be-published collection is archived on your web site, consider removing some of it, so regular visitors to the site are less likely to feel you're asking them to pay for something anyone can access for free. Even so, if you follow the steps above, the product will have coherence that influences those who buy to feel they've purchased an item of quality. And instead of returns and refund requests, you receive thank-you's, testimonials and readers recommending your product to colleagues and friends.
About the Author:
The author of 11 books and five multimedia home-study courses, Marcia Yudkin has been selling information since 1981. Download a free recording of answers to commonly asked questions about information marketing by entering your information into the box at http://www.yudkin.com/informationempire.htm
Keyword tags: writing,anthology,articles,collection,compile,book,ebook,manual,course,publish,write
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Write and Publish Your Own Articles
Writing articles positions you as an authority fast. You can send waves of traffic to affiliate products or you can promote your own products and services and send waves of traffic to those.
It is the most cost effective way to market yourself 100% free. For those of you who have been around the internet market community for some time, and think articles are not as powerful as they once were, that is 100% false.
Articles are more powerful and more effective than they have ever been because of all the social bookmarking and other ways you can support your articles. You write your articles and forget them. You leave them out there, and you will have customers coming from your articles everyday for months and years to come.
If you get marketing with one product, you can write several articles, put them on the internet and jump to another product, write several other articles, put them on the internet, and you can keep rinse and repeating that over and over again. This will bring you multiple streams of income, especially if you have a product that has a recurring membership base.
Writing Guidelines
The best Articles should be between 400 – 800 words. Write for a second grader. You don't want to come off as a guru or teacher or someone who knows everything with hard to understand terms.
You don't want to appear you are talking down to them or intimidating or talking down to someone reading your article. You can make the article fun or helpful.
You can give power headlines and give the reader your cta (call to action) in your bio box. When someone is reading your article, you want to make money off that person. So you put a cta in your bio box that talk about going to your website to get free tips or testimonials. Give them some kind of action you're calling them to take after reading your article.
Top Publishing Directories
There are hundreds of ezines,(electronic magazines), and electronic directories of there that you can promote on.
A lot of people get hung up on trying to publish on all these places. All you need to do is stick with the these Top 3, and you will do just fine; you'll bring in several sales a day.
Ezines Articles
Amazines
ArticleAlley
Promoting Methods
Once you have your articles written and you've followed the writing guidelines, put it in the top publishing directories, then you want to add promotional methods to let the world know about it.
When you create your own blog with Wordpress.org or Blogger.com, the problem is that you have to send traffic to it which compounds on the work you have to do.
Find blogs and networks that are already out there. You can create a profile, have a blog going, find people with similar interests, and add them as a friend. They will automatically see your blog.
Forum and Email Signatures, Google Groups, and You Tube videos are amazing ways to promote your articles. You can actually have a video of you reading your article or your face on your camera reciting your article. You put it out on You Tube and promote your You Tube video on blogs or forums and email signatures.
Social bookmarking is a fabulous way to promote articles. Drive traffic to your articles to promote your products or other people's products. You establish credibility, build an army of followers, and at the same time create and distribute your products or articles.
About the Author:
Take an important step of your journey. Finally, discover the industry that allows you to earn insane profits. Learn lifelong tools. Training and mentoring all available to support and keep you on track. Get your FREE step-by-step tutorials here. http://www.MaverickMoneyMakerishot.com
Keyword tags: steps,to,internet,success,website,online,business,internet business,make money, making money
It is the most cost effective way to market yourself 100% free. For those of you who have been around the internet market community for some time, and think articles are not as powerful as they once were, that is 100% false.
Articles are more powerful and more effective than they have ever been because of all the social bookmarking and other ways you can support your articles. You write your articles and forget them. You leave them out there, and you will have customers coming from your articles everyday for months and years to come.
If you get marketing with one product, you can write several articles, put them on the internet and jump to another product, write several other articles, put them on the internet, and you can keep rinse and repeating that over and over again. This will bring you multiple streams of income, especially if you have a product that has a recurring membership base.
Writing Guidelines
The best Articles should be between 400 – 800 words. Write for a second grader. You don't want to come off as a guru or teacher or someone who knows everything with hard to understand terms.
You don't want to appear you are talking down to them or intimidating or talking down to someone reading your article. You can make the article fun or helpful.
You can give power headlines and give the reader your cta (call to action) in your bio box. When someone is reading your article, you want to make money off that person. So you put a cta in your bio box that talk about going to your website to get free tips or testimonials. Give them some kind of action you're calling them to take after reading your article.
Top Publishing Directories
There are hundreds of ezines,(electronic magazines), and electronic directories of there that you can promote on.
A lot of people get hung up on trying to publish on all these places. All you need to do is stick with the these Top 3, and you will do just fine; you'll bring in several sales a day.
Ezines Articles
Amazines
ArticleAlley
Promoting Methods
Once you have your articles written and you've followed the writing guidelines, put it in the top publishing directories, then you want to add promotional methods to let the world know about it.
When you create your own blog with Wordpress.org or Blogger.com, the problem is that you have to send traffic to it which compounds on the work you have to do.
Find blogs and networks that are already out there. You can create a profile, have a blog going, find people with similar interests, and add them as a friend. They will automatically see your blog.
Forum and Email Signatures, Google Groups, and You Tube videos are amazing ways to promote your articles. You can actually have a video of you reading your article or your face on your camera reciting your article. You put it out on You Tube and promote your You Tube video on blogs or forums and email signatures.
Social bookmarking is a fabulous way to promote articles. Drive traffic to your articles to promote your products or other people's products. You establish credibility, build an army of followers, and at the same time create and distribute your products or articles.
About the Author:
Take an important step of your journey. Finally, discover the industry that allows you to earn insane profits. Learn lifelong tools. Training and mentoring all available to support and keep you on track. Get your FREE step-by-step tutorials here. http://www.MaverickMoneyMakerishot.com
Keyword tags: steps,to,internet,success,website,online,business,internet business,make money, making money
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Freelance Writing Opportunities - Opportunities Online For Freelance Writers
Freelance writing opportunities are on a rapid rise these days and one may think that is a crazy statement since newspapers and magazines are going out of business in record numbers.
The reason I say that freelance writing opportunities are on the rise is due to the sheer amount of content on the internet.
Think about the billions of websites and blogs online that require a constant feed of written content to keep visitors coming on a daily basis. This actually presents more opportunities in freelance writing than were ever available in the off line print world.
The key is finding legitimate opportunities that require writing work from freelance writers. There is actually more work out there than most people realize and the reason you cannot find it is because you have to weed through the maze of scams and junk.
Many online business owners and even bloggers these days rely on the skills of freelance writers to provide a daily stream of content to their sites and blogs.
The reason for this of course is because we have become and "instant society". The second a news story breaks or anything happens anywhere we want to know right now.
We also turn to the internet for information about a wide range of things we are interested in or want to learn.
Writers have to create all this content. Now maybe you can start to see there are an incredible amount of opportunities for freelance writing and beyond writing for others you can use your skill or passion for writing to make money in tons of other ways.
A great way to start taking advantage of freelance writing opportunities is to find a group of online business owners or site designers that simply do not have the time or skill to write their site content.
You can simply perform the topic research and craft article content for those business owners on a pay per submission basis. This approach alone could keep a writer busy on a full time basis while earning a very nice income.
Blogging about any topics you desire and adding in some paid advertisments can bring in a nice part time income and even grow into a six figure business as has been the case for many who started out freelance writing.
You have to be careful because there are a ton of "online informercial" type programs that target those who are looking to get paid as writers with opportunities that are not so great.
Either they pay pennies and you will literally have to write 10-12 hours a day to equal even a low paying hourly wage or they are simply a waste of time.
Just remember there is an entire world of website and blogs out there. Someone has to provide the content that visitors come to read. This means an incredible amount for real and legitimate freelance writing opportunities for skilled writers as well as those who simply have a passion for writing.
It can be a awesome way to make a living.
About the Author:
Steve Phipps is an online business man that got his start as an online freelance writer. He has put together a nice video site and free newsletter for anyone interested in real legitimate freelance writing opportunities. You can visit his site at: http://www.authorsnook.com
Keyword tags:
The reason I say that freelance writing opportunities are on the rise is due to the sheer amount of content on the internet.
Think about the billions of websites and blogs online that require a constant feed of written content to keep visitors coming on a daily basis. This actually presents more opportunities in freelance writing than were ever available in the off line print world.
The key is finding legitimate opportunities that require writing work from freelance writers. There is actually more work out there than most people realize and the reason you cannot find it is because you have to weed through the maze of scams and junk.
Many online business owners and even bloggers these days rely on the skills of freelance writers to provide a daily stream of content to their sites and blogs.
The reason for this of course is because we have become and "instant society". The second a news story breaks or anything happens anywhere we want to know right now.
We also turn to the internet for information about a wide range of things we are interested in or want to learn.
Writers have to create all this content. Now maybe you can start to see there are an incredible amount of opportunities for freelance writing and beyond writing for others you can use your skill or passion for writing to make money in tons of other ways.
A great way to start taking advantage of freelance writing opportunities is to find a group of online business owners or site designers that simply do not have the time or skill to write their site content.
You can simply perform the topic research and craft article content for those business owners on a pay per submission basis. This approach alone could keep a writer busy on a full time basis while earning a very nice income.
Blogging about any topics you desire and adding in some paid advertisments can bring in a nice part time income and even grow into a six figure business as has been the case for many who started out freelance writing.
You have to be careful because there are a ton of "online informercial" type programs that target those who are looking to get paid as writers with opportunities that are not so great.
Either they pay pennies and you will literally have to write 10-12 hours a day to equal even a low paying hourly wage or they are simply a waste of time.
Just remember there is an entire world of website and blogs out there. Someone has to provide the content that visitors come to read. This means an incredible amount for real and legitimate freelance writing opportunities for skilled writers as well as those who simply have a passion for writing.
It can be a awesome way to make a living.
About the Author:
Steve Phipps is an online business man that got his start as an online freelance writer. He has put together a nice video site and free newsletter for anyone interested in real legitimate freelance writing opportunities. You can visit his site at: http://www.authorsnook.com
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Vail Valley Getaway
As it is right in the middle of the winter here in Australia, but living in a sub-tropical climate zone, my thoughts are often on Ski resorts and vacations.
Having travelled to the USA in the past, I decided to research US ski resorts. Vail, Colorado is well known all over the world for its snow fields equal to the best in the world.
Beaver Creek,Vail valley is the Best of the best in Vail valley,Colorado. offering affordable vail vacation rentals without the inflated costs of some other destinations. Beaver creek is the nicest little community in Vail Valley. The level of comfort in your typical beaver creek vacation rentals exceeds all expectations. Nearby facilities include world-class golf Courses, shopping and many restaurants. Vail Valley and especially Beaver Creek is definitely on my short list for my next vacation. Beaver Creek, vail rentals are the best option for affordable family travel and enjoyment.
Having travelled to the USA in the past, I decided to research US ski resorts. Vail, Colorado is well known all over the world for its snow fields equal to the best in the world.
Beaver Creek,Vail valley is the Best of the best in Vail valley,Colorado. offering affordable vail vacation rentals without the inflated costs of some other destinations. Beaver creek is the nicest little community in Vail Valley. The level of comfort in your typical beaver creek vacation rentals exceeds all expectations. Nearby facilities include world-class golf Courses, shopping and many restaurants. Vail Valley and especially Beaver Creek is definitely on my short list for my next vacation. Beaver Creek, vail rentals are the best option for affordable family travel and enjoyment.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Freelance Writing Opportunities - Opportunities Online For Freelance Writers
Freelance writing opportunities are on a rapid rise these days and one may think that is a crazy statement since newspapers and magazines are going out of business in record numbers.
The reason I say that freelance writing opportunities are on the rise is due to the sheer amoutn of content on the internet.
Think about the billions of websites and blogs online that require a constant feed of written content to keep visitors coming on a daily basis. This actually presents more opportunities in freelance writing than were ever available in the off line print world.
The key is finding legitimate opportunities that require writing work from freelance writers. There is actually more work out there than most people realize and the reason you cannot find it is because you have to weed through the maze of scams and junk.
Many online business owners and even bloggers these days rely on the skills of freelance writers to provide a daily stream of content to their sites and blogs.
The reason for this of course is because we have become and "instant society". The second a news story breaks or anything happens anywhere we want to know right now.
We also turn to the internet for information about a wide range of things we are interested in or want to learn.
Writers have to create all this content. Now maybe you can start to see there are an incredible amount of opportunities for freelance writing and beyond writing for others you can use your skill or passion for writing to make money in tons of other ways.
A great way to start taking advantage of freelance writing opportunities is to find a group of online business owners or site designers that simply do not have the time or skill to write their site content.
You can simply perform the topic research and craft article content for those business owners on a pay per submission basis. This approach alone could keep a writer busy on a full time basis while earning a very nice income.
Blogging about any topics you desire and adding in some paid advertisments can bring in a nice part time income and even grow into a six figure business as has been the case for many who started out freelance writing.
You have to be careful because there are a ton of "online informercial" type programs that target those who are looking to get paid as writers with opportunities that are not so great.
Either they pay pennies and you will literally have to write 10-12 hours a day to equal even a low paying hourly wage or they are simply a waste of time.
Just remember there is an entire world of website and blogs out there. Someone has to provide the content that visitors come to read. This means an incredible amount fo real and legitimate freelance writing oppotunities for skilled writers as well as those who simply have a passion for writing.
It can be a awesome way to make a living.
About the Author:
Steve Phipps is an online business man that got his start as an online freelance writer. He has put together a nice video site and free newsletter for anyone interested in real legitimate freelance writing opportunities. You can visit his site at: http://www.authorsnook.com
Keyword tags:
The reason I say that freelance writing opportunities are on the rise is due to the sheer amoutn of content on the internet.
Think about the billions of websites and blogs online that require a constant feed of written content to keep visitors coming on a daily basis. This actually presents more opportunities in freelance writing than were ever available in the off line print world.
The key is finding legitimate opportunities that require writing work from freelance writers. There is actually more work out there than most people realize and the reason you cannot find it is because you have to weed through the maze of scams and junk.
Many online business owners and even bloggers these days rely on the skills of freelance writers to provide a daily stream of content to their sites and blogs.
The reason for this of course is because we have become and "instant society". The second a news story breaks or anything happens anywhere we want to know right now.
We also turn to the internet for information about a wide range of things we are interested in or want to learn.
Writers have to create all this content. Now maybe you can start to see there are an incredible amount of opportunities for freelance writing and beyond writing for others you can use your skill or passion for writing to make money in tons of other ways.
A great way to start taking advantage of freelance writing opportunities is to find a group of online business owners or site designers that simply do not have the time or skill to write their site content.
You can simply perform the topic research and craft article content for those business owners on a pay per submission basis. This approach alone could keep a writer busy on a full time basis while earning a very nice income.
Blogging about any topics you desire and adding in some paid advertisments can bring in a nice part time income and even grow into a six figure business as has been the case for many who started out freelance writing.
You have to be careful because there are a ton of "online informercial" type programs that target those who are looking to get paid as writers with opportunities that are not so great.
Either they pay pennies and you will literally have to write 10-12 hours a day to equal even a low paying hourly wage or they are simply a waste of time.
Just remember there is an entire world of website and blogs out there. Someone has to provide the content that visitors come to read. This means an incredible amount fo real and legitimate freelance writing oppotunities for skilled writers as well as those who simply have a passion for writing.
It can be a awesome way to make a living.
About the Author:
Steve Phipps is an online business man that got his start as an online freelance writer. He has put together a nice video site and free newsletter for anyone interested in real legitimate freelance writing opportunities. You can visit his site at: http://www.authorsnook.com
Keyword tags:
Saturday, May 23, 2009
The Easy Way to Promote a Product by Writing Articles
Writing articles is a skill that everybody can learn. Article marketing is a skill that everybody can learn. Put the two together and you have a powerful tool to promote a product.
Your objectives in online marketing are promoting your website and selling your products. By 'website' I mean any web presence: a regular website, your Facebook page profile, your Squidoo lens, your YouTube video, your Blog, and any other way in which you use the internet to make money.
You Must Connect!
Without promotion you will be failing to connect with most of your potential customers. Even with promotion, you will fail to connect with most of them, but you will do better than if you do not.
Writing articles on a topic that interests people who might be interested in your product is sure-fire way of getting your products in front of your prospects. Who are your prospects? People who are interested in your niche or the topic of your article enough to buy your product.
Marketing is easy in theory, and involves these steps:
1. Find a product to market - yours or somebody else's on commission.
2. Bring the product to the attention of interested people
3. Persuade them to buy.
So where does writing articles fit in to this simplified process? At stages 2 and 3!
Catch their Eye!
The title of your article must catch your prospective customer's eye. It must interest them - perhaps offer the promise to solve a problem they have, offer to make them money or save them time, or offer some new information on the subject. Anything to start them reading!
Keep them Interested
Then you have to interest them. Don't lose them after the first couple of sentences. Expand on the title: if your title is 'How to Breed Championship-Winning Dogs', don't begin with a sentence or two on dog food. It might be relevant to the breeding process, but it will seem like an advert, and the reader will stop reading.
Expand on the title: "By using a new technique it easier now to breed championship-winning dogs than it ever has been". I know nothing about breeding dogs, but that would work better than "The food you feed your dog is important. . ."
Once you have them reading, then you can propose the main problem and present your solution, full details of which can be found by clicking on the link in your resource. You can't say that of course, but you can infer it in the final summing up paragraph of your article, and leave the reader with nothing more to do than either leave the page or click on the link.
Persuasion is Key
The third action - persuading them to buy - is done on your website, once they have made that all-important click. So the simplified marketing process above can work if you know how to write articles properly, by baiting the hook with a good title, retaining interest with your first couple of sentences and then offering no option at the end but to click to your website to find out more information.
As I wrote in the first sentence, 'writing articles is a skill', but one that can be taught, so if you want to learn how to market a product the easy way, you should learn how to write articles and how to use article marketing the way the professionals do.
You will find marketing your product a lot easier by doing so.
About the Author:
Pete is a professional article ghost writer. For a free course on how to write articles, visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where Pete will give you a free gift just for looking. Visit his website at http://www.article-services.com
Keyword tags: Writing articles, article marketing, article writing, online marketing, promote a product, how to wr
Your objectives in online marketing are promoting your website and selling your products. By 'website' I mean any web presence: a regular website, your Facebook page profile, your Squidoo lens, your YouTube video, your Blog, and any other way in which you use the internet to make money.
You Must Connect!
Without promotion you will be failing to connect with most of your potential customers. Even with promotion, you will fail to connect with most of them, but you will do better than if you do not.
Writing articles on a topic that interests people who might be interested in your product is sure-fire way of getting your products in front of your prospects. Who are your prospects? People who are interested in your niche or the topic of your article enough to buy your product.
Marketing is easy in theory, and involves these steps:
1. Find a product to market - yours or somebody else's on commission.
2. Bring the product to the attention of interested people
3. Persuade them to buy.
So where does writing articles fit in to this simplified process? At stages 2 and 3!
Catch their Eye!
The title of your article must catch your prospective customer's eye. It must interest them - perhaps offer the promise to solve a problem they have, offer to make them money or save them time, or offer some new information on the subject. Anything to start them reading!
Keep them Interested
Then you have to interest them. Don't lose them after the first couple of sentences. Expand on the title: if your title is 'How to Breed Championship-Winning Dogs', don't begin with a sentence or two on dog food. It might be relevant to the breeding process, but it will seem like an advert, and the reader will stop reading.
Expand on the title: "By using a new technique it easier now to breed championship-winning dogs than it ever has been". I know nothing about breeding dogs, but that would work better than "The food you feed your dog is important. . ."
Once you have them reading, then you can propose the main problem and present your solution, full details of which can be found by clicking on the link in your resource. You can't say that of course, but you can infer it in the final summing up paragraph of your article, and leave the reader with nothing more to do than either leave the page or click on the link.
Persuasion is Key
The third action - persuading them to buy - is done on your website, once they have made that all-important click. So the simplified marketing process above can work if you know how to write articles properly, by baiting the hook with a good title, retaining interest with your first couple of sentences and then offering no option at the end but to click to your website to find out more information.
As I wrote in the first sentence, 'writing articles is a skill', but one that can be taught, so if you want to learn how to market a product the easy way, you should learn how to write articles and how to use article marketing the way the professionals do.
You will find marketing your product a lot easier by doing so.
About the Author:
Pete is a professional article ghost writer. For a free course on how to write articles, visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where Pete will give you a free gift just for looking. Visit his website at http://www.article-services.com
Keyword tags: Writing articles, article marketing, article writing, online marketing, promote a product, how to wr
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Make Money by Writing Articles and Generating Traffic With Article Marketing
Generating traffic by writing articles might seem a good way of using article marketing to your advantage, but it takes just a little knowledge and a smattering of ability to do it properly. By properly, I mean by actually getting traffic through article writing and using the articles wisely.
Most people believe writing articles to be easy - and reading many of those currently accepted by article directories, I am beginning to agree with them. The standard accepted these days is very poor, and perhaps some directories should review their acceptance criteria. However, that is another subject.
You can make money by writing articles if you know how to write them properly, and know how to use them to generate traffic. Article marketing is one of the big three internet marketing promotional techniques, the others being search engine marketing and list building. It can also be argued that article marketing forms an element of both these other two, and can also be used to build lists and get your website promoted online. Here is why.
1. Your article can be listed on Google and other search engines. Once accepted by an article directory, your article will be published on its own web page, with that page optimized for your keywords, particularly your main keyword that will be included in your title and in the first few words of your article. It is then liable to be spidered just like any other web page, and listed in the search engine index for your keyword.
2. When writing articles, you should include a link to your website in the 'author's resource' section. Why not make that a link to a squeeze page, designed to collect the name and address of readers? You could offer something free in exchange for the details, such as a free course or even a free report or eBook. That's a great way of building a list, and every article you write could lead first to your squeeze page, and after that, another page offering content useful to the reader.
In doing that, you are using article marketing in its own right, and also as a means of search engine marketing and list building. It helps f you know how to write articles in such a way as keep your readers interested, mainly by offering them useful, free information. If you can tell them something about their niche that they didn't know, then will respect you and perhaps want to read more of your work.
If you persuade your readers that you can help them make money, then they will continue to read. I sure would. It is beyond the scope of this article to teach you how to write articles, but I can give you some tips on how to make best of use of the articles that you do write.
Many people are under the impression that one article should be submitted to only one directory, and I am frequently asked what directory that should be. By many, I mean around 10 such questions each month. That is 10 too many that do not understand article marketing, or understand what Google mean by their 'duplicate content penalty'.
You can submit each article to 100 directories: personally, I do so to over 400 directories and ezines, and I do so over a period of 2 - 4 weeks. Not all at once. I will get a gradual increase in traffic over that period, and my websites improve in their listing positions. If I then left that for about two or three months, everything would slow down again, because the duplicate content penalty would be kicking in, and the publications on the lesser ezines and directories would begin to be dropped off by Google.
However, by doing that every week: by writing an article every week, and submitting to over 400 publications over a period of around 4 weeks, not only is there no net slow-down, but everything accelerates: the traffic, the listing positions and the income.
So, you can make money by writing articles, and generating traffic using article marketing is not pie-in-the-sky. Not if you do it right and understand exactly how Google looks on your article submissions, the time periods over which they are made, and after how long they invoke the so-called 'duplicate content penalty', which is not really a penalty at all.
About the Author:
If you are interested in a free article marketing course that shows you how to make money writing articles and using them properly, then visit http://www.articleczar.com/gift.html where you will also finds other free gifts available for you. http://www.article-services.com is useful if you want your article professionally written.
Keyword tags: Article marketing,writing articles,write articles,generating traffic,make money,how to write article
Most people believe writing articles to be easy - and reading many of those currently accepted by article directories, I am beginning to agree with them. The standard accepted these days is very poor, and perhaps some directories should review their acceptance criteria. However, that is another subject.
You can make money by writing articles if you know how to write them properly, and know how to use them to generate traffic. Article marketing is one of the big three internet marketing promotional techniques, the others being search engine marketing and list building. It can also be argued that article marketing forms an element of both these other two, and can also be used to build lists and get your website promoted online. Here is why.
1. Your article can be listed on Google and other search engines. Once accepted by an article directory, your article will be published on its own web page, with that page optimized for your keywords, particularly your main keyword that will be included in your title and in the first few words of your article. It is then liable to be spidered just like any other web page, and listed in the search engine index for your keyword.
2. When writing articles, you should include a link to your website in the 'author's resource' section. Why not make that a link to a squeeze page, designed to collect the name and address of readers? You could offer something free in exchange for the details, such as a free course or even a free report or eBook. That's a great way of building a list, and every article you write could lead first to your squeeze page, and after that, another page offering content useful to the reader.
In doing that, you are using article marketing in its own right, and also as a means of search engine marketing and list building. It helps f you know how to write articles in such a way as keep your readers interested, mainly by offering them useful, free information. If you can tell them something about their niche that they didn't know, then will respect you and perhaps want to read more of your work.
If you persuade your readers that you can help them make money, then they will continue to read. I sure would. It is beyond the scope of this article to teach you how to write articles, but I can give you some tips on how to make best of use of the articles that you do write.
Many people are under the impression that one article should be submitted to only one directory, and I am frequently asked what directory that should be. By many, I mean around 10 such questions each month. That is 10 too many that do not understand article marketing, or understand what Google mean by their 'duplicate content penalty'.
You can submit each article to 100 directories: personally, I do so to over 400 directories and ezines, and I do so over a period of 2 - 4 weeks. Not all at once. I will get a gradual increase in traffic over that period, and my websites improve in their listing positions. If I then left that for about two or three months, everything would slow down again, because the duplicate content penalty would be kicking in, and the publications on the lesser ezines and directories would begin to be dropped off by Google.
However, by doing that every week: by writing an article every week, and submitting to over 400 publications over a period of around 4 weeks, not only is there no net slow-down, but everything accelerates: the traffic, the listing positions and the income.
So, you can make money by writing articles, and generating traffic using article marketing is not pie-in-the-sky. Not if you do it right and understand exactly how Google looks on your article submissions, the time periods over which they are made, and after how long they invoke the so-called 'duplicate content penalty', which is not really a penalty at all.
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