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Directing traffic to your website has created a whole industry but a free and effective method of ensuring your website has promotion is the easy one of article writing. You can create unique content which then acts as a magnet to send targeted traffic to your website.

There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt to drive traffic to your website, from advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require some form of payment. However, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Read the rest of this entry »

As an editor, I can tell you that one of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when a writer “pesters” me every other day or once a week about his (or her) submission. I don’t mind if it’s a viable question, but what I hate is when the writer’s impatience takes hold and I feel “squeezed” as if the writer’s pestering is going to make me accept his (or her) submission faster.

I think new writers, or writers with too much time on their hands, think that a little pestering will keep him (or her) on the forefront of the editor’s mind so that when the editor sees his (or her) submission, the editor will be inclined to look at it, recognize the name, and then buy the piece. And in a way, it makes sense. But what usually happens is quite the opposite. The editor becomes annoyed with the nagging writer and decides to simply decline the article—sometimes before it has even been read.

Questions we hate and why: Read the rest of this entry »

Looking For Fresh New Article Topics? Here’s How to Find Them by Mervyn Love

 Generating a steady flow of topical articles that editors will pay good money for can be a bit of a drag at times. Use these simple methods to get the ideas flowing and the cash pouring in.

If you’re like me, then the major problem is finding the topic that will have editors chortling with glee because he knows his readers will love it. The actual writing of the article holds no fears; it’s just finding the right topic and one that’s going to be a winner. So here are a few tips on capturing those elusive ideas.

One thing the seasoned writer will do is pick up the nearest newspaper and read the headlines. If you think this sounds just a little too down-to-earth - think again. There are many best-selling articles that have been jump started into existence by a newspaper headline. Read the rest of this entry »

I hear comments frequently that I appear to be “all over the place.”   Someone will search a topic and see an article I’ve written, and then follow a link to a teleclass I’m leading, read a press release I’ve submitted, or read about me in someone else’s newsletter.  You, too, can create this sense of being everywhere with one simple action that you take each and every week:  writing one new how-to article.

I’ve been using article marketing as my primary marketing strategy since 2005, and I have experienced tremendous results with it, things like being asked to speak at events, appearing in print publications, selling my information products to new audiences, and having people hire me to coach them based solely on the article archive they have perused on my website.

I have a very defined timeline and schedule that I follow rigorously each week to make article marketing work for me as a successful Internet marketing strategy.  Here are the 8 steps I follow weekly to re-purpose and maximize the use of every since article that I create: Read the rest of this entry »

The Library’s closed and you need some facts to finish your article and you need them NOW! It’s time to search the Deep Web.

The Deep Web, or Silent Web as it’s sometimes called, is a hidden resource that every writer should know about. It could well be the answer when you want to track down some facts that Google and other search engines can’t.

It is estimated that there may be as many as 500 million web pages that are indexed by Google, MSN, Yahoo and others. The Deep Web is actually not included in these and is reckoned to be many times greater in size!

The visible web is indexed by ’spiders’, small robot programs that wander about from site to site gathering details on links and pages to send back to base from which the search engine’s index is compiled. Read the rest of this entry »

As an editor, I can tell you that one of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when a writer “pesters” me every other day or once a week about his (or her) submission. I don’t mind if it’s a viable question, but what I hate is when the writer’s impatience takes hold and I feel “squeezed” as if the writer’s pestering is going to make me accept his (or her) submission faster.

I think new writers, or writers with too much time on their hands, think that a little pestering will keep him (or her) on the forefront of the editor’s mind so that when the editor sees his (or her) submission, the editor will be inclined to look at it, recognize the name, and then buy the piece. And in a way, it makes sense. But what usually happens is quite the opposite. The editor becomes annoyed with the nagging writer and decides to simply decline the article—sometimes before it has even been read. Read the rest of this entry »

We all hear how important articles are - especially when used as a tool to help boost search engine rankings.  We often read many articles a day about our industry or about something we are trying to learn.  However, when it comes time to write articles to promote our own business - we are stumped.

Let’s break down articles and look at everything you need to know about why they work, how to properly write and syndicate articles and all the other fun details.

Why Articles?

1. It is an opportunity to share information and establish yourself as an expert

2. It creates an opportunity for new traffic to come to your site (when your article gets distributed to various sites on the internet, people can read your article and click on a link within the article to get to your site.)

3. It creates one-way links into your site.  Every time one of your articles is posted, each link in your article counts as a one-way link to your site.

4. When you write an article and post it on your site, you are creating new relevant text for your site visitors and for the search engines (which can result in a boost in rankings).

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By: Jack Deal

It’s happened to most of us that write and if it hasn’t happened to you yet it will.  It’s only a factor of time and exposure.

Someone has stolen your labor intensive work and put their name on it.  Or, taken your work and rearranged the paragraphs and put their name on it.   Or, taken all your good ideas and reshuffled the words and put their name on it.  Or any combination of the above.

If you publish and distribute on the web you may have hundreds of articles on a large number of websites, blogs and article databases.  That’s a lot of exposure.   If I google the articles name I might find one that has not given proper credit.  Usually they are novices and correct the problem.   This type of plagiarism is easy and simple.

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By: Tiva Kelly

Getting published is tricky. Sometimes getting a publishers approval seems like a lost cause. Why are publishers so picky? Simple. They have to be picky about the content they publish to be successful. The publisher’s job is to attract readers and keep them happy. Your job as a writer is to give publishers what they want to attract readers and keep them coming back.

What Are Publishers so Picky about?
You don’t have to get inside the head of the public to see what they are picky about. A lot of things publishers look for are common sense. Articles that require excess editing are likely to be kicked back to the writer.

Misspelled words, grammatical errors and poor sentence structure will not get you published. Likewise, an article that is over or under the recommended word count will not be accepted for publication.
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