Could your business use some breakthrough article writing techniques that will turn boring articles that never get results to magnetic, attention-grabbing articles that get results instantly?
What can a popular article do for your business?An article that gets attention can...
1. Drive targeted traffic to your site 24-hours a day
2. Double, even triple your sales 3. Gain hundreds of valuable, incoming links to your website increasing your search engine position
4. Automatically fills your inbox with partnership and joint venture opportunities
5. Increases your personal branding and credibility - you can dominate your market
6. Springboard for more no-cost publicity such as interviews, magazine articles, profiles,
reviews, radio show coverage and more.
What's even more exciting is that you can accomplish so much of this with just one or two very hot articles.
Now, true it may take you a few tries to really hit with one of your articles, but there are some techniques that you can apply to increase attention to your articles.
ARTICLE WRITING SECRETS THAT WILL GET THEIR ATTENTION
1. Choose Your Topic Wisely. Sounds simple, but here's what you need to do. First, your topic must be relevant to what you are marketing. The problem you address in your article must be the same or at least closely related to the problem you are solving or desire you are fulfilling with your website. Second, your topic must be intriguing.
2. Stand Out From The Crowd. What is the unique perspective, experience, opinion, solution or value that you will bring to your topic? Publisher's seek out information that stands out. For instance, can you provide hard statistics based on testing? How about a detailed case study? Do you bring a fresh perspective that will make someone say "that's awesome!"? Are you targeting an area that is extremely popular, where the buzz factor is already peaking?
3. Writing Style. You may have thought professional writers have the edge here, in reality, the opposite is true. Often, an informal, conversational, simple style wins out over a general, fluffy or overly verbose style. Although they are professionals, ezine and magazine publishers are real people that "feel" the tone of an article and are always on the lookout for articles that will touch their readers as well as inform them.
4. Be Specific, Be Focused. The best article writing comes when you are addressing one main issue, problem or desire without losing focus and jumping around. If you are writing about dog training, then you are better to focus on one critical problem within dog training, don't try and cover the entire topic in a 800-word article.
5. Understand How To Write An Effective Resource Box. I have to admit, this one gets me every time. I am both a writer and ezine publisher, so often I have come across well written articles that I choose to publish that I know will not do a good job of delivering my reader to their website. After all, the entire intent of your article should be to capture publisher and reader attention, but ultimately, enticing them back to your website. How much time does the average writer spend on refining the 4-5 line resource box that follow their articles? In most cases, a few minutes, yet this is the most important part of your article. Test the first line, make it risk-free for your reader to visit your site, get their attention by creating a lop-sided value proposition by giving away valuable material.
6. Will They See It? Building a network of eager publishers for your articles will take some time. By following the steps above you will speed up progress significantly. If you are just starting out, then use a few of the more reputable article submission directories - they will mass blast your article out to a refined list of directories and publishers based on keywords and categories. Don't top there. You should constantly be seeking out high quality, high traffic, strategic sites in your market and contacting the publisher's directly with articles or proposals for articles. For your top-tier prospects, be open to customizing articles, committing to regular publishing schedules, incorporating an affiliate link in place of your link so that your publisher gets to share in the profit from any resulting product or service sales.
Article writing is most effective when you tap into an existing demand for information, position your approach as unique and valuable, keep it simple and even entertaining then making sure you get your article in front of the right eyeballs.
One final word of advice, be consistent and persistent. You may have to write 5 articles to have some initial successBusiness Management Articles, you may have to write 20. Fact is you will get better with each article you write and your chances of hitting it big increase each time.
By re-using each article on blogs and in separate article landing pages you will also continue to see advantages of generating content such as search engine optimization and added trust from your market.
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Saturday, May 5, 2007
7 Ways To Make Money With Articles
Are you leaving money on the table when it comes to profiting from your articles? Read this article to learn how to milk your articles for the most money.
If you write and submit articles on the Internet, you need to make sure you are getting the most money out of each article. Here are the 7 different ways to make money with articles:
1. Promote Your Website
Add your author bio at the end of each article with a short ad for your products or services and a link to your website. People who like your article and click on your link will be more ready to buy from you than a cold prospect.
2. Promote Affiliate Products
You can promote affiliate products in your author bio, and make commissions on all the sales you refer. Just register a domain name (so your link at the end of the article looks professional), and redirect it to your affiliate link.
3. Content Sites With Adsense
Use your articles to build content websites packed with useful information. Content websites are likely to get lots of free traffic from search engines. Place the Google Adsense advertisements on your pages, and get paid for each click.
4. Blogs
Start publishing a blog. Search engines love blogs because they are regularly updated with fresh content. Blogs tend to get a lot of traffic from search engines. Break-up your articles into smaller chunks and turn them into blog entries.
5. Mailing List
Collect your website visitors names and e-mail addresses – ask them to sign up for your newsletter. Regularly e-mail your articles to your newsletter subscribers, along with promotions for your website.
6. Information Products
When you accumulate enough articles, compile them into an e-book. Turn your articles into book chapters. Change a few things here and there, and you will have a new information product to sell.
7. Viral E-Books
Instead of selling the e-book that you made from your articles, you can also use a viral marketing approach. Add promotional copy to your e-book along with links to your website and affiliate links, and give it away. It will spread around the Internet like a virusHealth Fitness Articles, advertising your products and services and putting more money in your pocket.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melanie Mendelson will show you how to write money-making articles in 30 minutes – even if you can't write! Learn more about her 30 Minute Article Writing System at http://www.WriteArticles-GetWebsiteTraffic.com
If you write and submit articles on the Internet, you need to make sure you are getting the most money out of each article. Here are the 7 different ways to make money with articles:
1. Promote Your Website
Add your author bio at the end of each article with a short ad for your products or services and a link to your website. People who like your article and click on your link will be more ready to buy from you than a cold prospect.
2. Promote Affiliate Products
You can promote affiliate products in your author bio, and make commissions on all the sales you refer. Just register a domain name (so your link at the end of the article looks professional), and redirect it to your affiliate link.
3. Content Sites With Adsense
Use your articles to build content websites packed with useful information. Content websites are likely to get lots of free traffic from search engines. Place the Google Adsense advertisements on your pages, and get paid for each click.
4. Blogs
Start publishing a blog. Search engines love blogs because they are regularly updated with fresh content. Blogs tend to get a lot of traffic from search engines. Break-up your articles into smaller chunks and turn them into blog entries.
5. Mailing List
Collect your website visitors names and e-mail addresses – ask them to sign up for your newsletter. Regularly e-mail your articles to your newsletter subscribers, along with promotions for your website.
6. Information Products
When you accumulate enough articles, compile them into an e-book. Turn your articles into book chapters. Change a few things here and there, and you will have a new information product to sell.
7. Viral E-Books
Instead of selling the e-book that you made from your articles, you can also use a viral marketing approach. Add promotional copy to your e-book along with links to your website and affiliate links, and give it away. It will spread around the Internet like a virusHealth Fitness Articles, advertising your products and services and putting more money in your pocket.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melanie Mendelson will show you how to write money-making articles in 30 minutes – even if you can't write! Learn more about her 30 Minute Article Writing System at http://www.WriteArticles-GetWebsiteTraffic.com
How I Manage my List of Where I Post Articles Online
Article Marketing Connects you Directly to Readers Even brilliantly-written articles can’t "toot your horn" unless they get in front of people who’d care enough to read them. And widely posting articles online is the most direct way to make that occur. Posted articles bring a business many benefits http://www.promotewitharticles.com/benefits.html . Keyword-focused and information-rich articles appeal to both human readers and search engines.
Your List for Article Submissions is the Crucial Link that Makes it Work
The quality of your submission list determines how many people get to read your message. Unless places you submit to are in synch with your message, products and services, most of your efforts are wasted. It’s worth your time to
customize and polish your list.
1. Expanding the List
I spend at least as much time each week tweaking my list as writing articles to post. As I travel the Internet, my antenna stays tuned for suitable websites and ezines.
Assessing Websites
- Is this a quality, visitor-friendly site? - That’s
totally subjective - but if not, I won’t send articles
there
- Does it reach the readers I write for?
- Does it use articles? If so, are they by authors
unaffiliated with the site?
- Is there a submission form or author guidelines?
Their authors are considered. Am I familiar with their work?
Is it worthwhile? Sometimes I Google an author’s name to see what else they’ve written and where it appears. Often I discover a slew of appropriate websites unknown to me.
I regularly query search engines for targeted keywords, or the group I want to reach (chiropractors). From those results, I use Google’s "Search within Results" feature and type in phrases like, "Submit Article" or "Newsletters." That links me directly to possible candidates. I won’t include a site without visiting a website and feeling that it’s a match.
Whenever someone requests permission to post an article of mine I offer similar (and future) ones also. They found me! That’s another emotional payback from posting articles.
2. Culling and Upgrading Listed Sites
Starting a week after posting an article, I query Google with the title (in quotes) in the search box. I notice where it shows up, then re-check regularly. Results are logged for each article. When it appears on websites not already on my
list, they’re added.
Requests to be removed from the list are honored immediately. Addresses for undelivered submissions are updated or removed.
3. Organizing the Addresses on the List
I consider Ezine Announcer, http://tinyurl.com/53wo9 invaluable for posting articles. Its auto-fill feature completes online submission forms easily. And it does a good job sending customized email submissions. But I find its most important use to be mailing list management.
My own submission list exceeds 1000 addresses, so it became too difficult to keep organized and updated. Ezine Announcer comes with 1700 addresses included (plus purchasers receive future up-dates). That’s a good start if you haven’t developed your own list already. However, I found that my own tested list was much more extensive for topics where I submit the most. By merging my list with that one (and eliminating overlap) I’ve now got the best of both. And
they’re arranged logically.
Customized Categories Save Posting Time
Ezine Announcer has several general categories (like Article Directory) and numerous narrow topics (like Finance or Health). It’s a simple matter to move an address from one category to another, or to add additional categories.
I split the Article Directory into several parallel directories, which simplifies posting. Reorganizing categories further streamlined the posting process - saving hours on each article.
New Directory Categories
- My A list (and high Google Page Rank)
- Password required (which tend to have more complications)
- Submit by email
- Must exchange links
- Special requirements
- Many topics (not primarily business)
- Troubled sites (below)
When I encounter a site with problems (temporarily down, weird error messages) I move it into the troubled category. They can be checked or removed later. But such irregularities no longer delay the posting process. And I
can deal with them when convenient.
Speed up your Learning Curves
Article marketing is a potent method to promote yourself, your business, your website, and your book. However, there are plenty of tricks to achieving the most mileage from your efforts. Discover in-depth how-to for every step of the
process at http://www.promotewitharticles.com - Article Marketing Academy. You’ll get better with practice, and more momentum with every article you send out into the vast Internet. But you have to get started...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Lynella Grant http://www.promotewitharticles.com - Article Marketing Academy - Promote yourself, business, website, or book with articles posted online.
Author, Yellow Page Smarts, http://www.yellowpagesage.com/smarts.html (719) 395-9450
Your List for Article Submissions is the Crucial Link that Makes it Work
The quality of your submission list determines how many people get to read your message. Unless places you submit to are in synch with your message, products and services, most of your efforts are wasted. It’s worth your time to
customize and polish your list.
1. Expanding the List
I spend at least as much time each week tweaking my list as writing articles to post. As I travel the Internet, my antenna stays tuned for suitable websites and ezines.
Assessing Websites
- Is this a quality, visitor-friendly site? - That’s
totally subjective - but if not, I won’t send articles
there
- Does it reach the readers I write for?
- Does it use articles? If so, are they by authors
unaffiliated with the site?
- Is there a submission form or author guidelines?
Their authors are considered. Am I familiar with their work?
Is it worthwhile? Sometimes I Google an author’s name to see what else they’ve written and where it appears. Often I discover a slew of appropriate websites unknown to me.
I regularly query search engines for targeted keywords, or the group I want to reach (chiropractors). From those results, I use Google’s "Search within Results" feature and type in phrases like, "Submit Article" or "Newsletters." That links me directly to possible candidates. I won’t include a site without visiting a website and feeling that it’s a match.
Whenever someone requests permission to post an article of mine I offer similar (and future) ones also. They found me! That’s another emotional payback from posting articles.
2. Culling and Upgrading Listed Sites
Starting a week after posting an article, I query Google with the title (in quotes) in the search box. I notice where it shows up, then re-check regularly. Results are logged for each article. When it appears on websites not already on my
list, they’re added.
Requests to be removed from the list are honored immediately. Addresses for undelivered submissions are updated or removed.
3. Organizing the Addresses on the List
I consider Ezine Announcer, http://tinyurl.com/53wo9 invaluable for posting articles. Its auto-fill feature completes online submission forms easily. And it does a good job sending customized email submissions. But I find its most important use to be mailing list management.
My own submission list exceeds 1000 addresses, so it became too difficult to keep organized and updated. Ezine Announcer comes with 1700 addresses included (plus purchasers receive future up-dates). That’s a good start if you haven’t developed your own list already. However, I found that my own tested list was much more extensive for topics where I submit the most. By merging my list with that one (and eliminating overlap) I’ve now got the best of both. And
they’re arranged logically.
Customized Categories Save Posting Time
Ezine Announcer has several general categories (like Article Directory) and numerous narrow topics (like Finance or Health). It’s a simple matter to move an address from one category to another, or to add additional categories.
I split the Article Directory into several parallel directories, which simplifies posting. Reorganizing categories further streamlined the posting process - saving hours on each article.
New Directory Categories
- My A list (and high Google Page Rank)
- Password required (which tend to have more complications)
- Submit by email
- Must exchange links
- Special requirements
- Many topics (not primarily business)
- Troubled sites (below)
When I encounter a site with problems (temporarily down, weird error messages) I move it into the troubled category. They can be checked or removed later. But such irregularities no longer delay the posting process. And I
can deal with them when convenient.
Speed up your Learning Curves
Article marketing is a potent method to promote yourself, your business, your website, and your book. However, there are plenty of tricks to achieving the most mileage from your efforts. Discover in-depth how-to for every step of the
process at http://www.promotewitharticles.com - Article Marketing Academy. You’ll get better with practice, and more momentum with every article you send out into the vast Internet. But you have to get started...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Lynella Grant http://www.promotewitharticles.com - Article Marketing Academy - Promote yourself, business, website, or book with articles posted online.
Author, Yellow Page Smarts, http://www.yellowpagesage.com/smarts.html (719) 395-9450
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