The number one aspect to consider when writing your article is to get it placed high in the search engines by using proper keywords. Selecting the right keywords will take some time to research but will be well worth the effort. You’ll want to find some keywords that will land you traffic but will not be too hard to compete against. There are plenty of free tools online to help you choose your keywords.

You’ll want to add your keywords throughout the article once you have selected them. For the best results you want to make sure your keywords are placed strategically throughout the survey rather than just spamming them everywhere. For the best results think quality of the article rather than quantity of keywords.

Make sure to reread and make the necessary corrections to ensure that the article makes sense. Be sure your article is well written, easy to read and comprehend, and is informative as well. If your article is not readable, your readers will never get to the end of the article to find your resource box and visit your website.

There are two steps taken by your potential customers that anyone writing an article must be aware of. First of all, you want to make the potential customer able to find your article easily. Second, the person has to read through it and find enough value in it to want to learn more and click on your link.

Here are just a few ideas on how to get potential customers to follow this two step process.

Come up with a catchy title. A good title may be the make or break whether or not someone reads your article. Take your time here. Good titles have to grab someones attention by making a bold statement, asking an important question, answering a problem, or so off the wall that they just have to read it.

To make your customers want to read more you will need a good introduction to grab the readers attention.

The body of the article should contain three of four main points and should answer what you promised in the introduction. The main points in the body should each consist of about three or four sentences.

Finally, the conclusion should wrap up all of what the article was about. The conclusion should leave the reader wanting to get more information. Your goal is to get the reader to want to see what else you have to offer by clicking on your link in the resource box.

You will be just fine by keeping to these main points when writing articles. Practice makes perfect so make sure to write as much as you can.

You will also want to submit your articles to the best article directories as well. Using a reputable distribution service to distribute your articles can also really help improve your traffic results.

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1. Use lots of white space. People love to read “pieces” of information so too much space in your background.

2. Use short paragraphs. Following the end 1 stick to short and let your visitor read small pieces of information at once.

3. Use at exclamation (!) To get the attention of your readers. But please do not use more than what many people now seem to be doing.

4. Ask a question so that your visitor to read on to find the answer. As a result, readers paid attention.

5. Put much thought and effort into your category. If the title does not receive the attention of visitors at the outset, they will just move on and not even read your article. Try ‘The 7 secrets of the cane toads breeding successfully “rather than” How to raise cane toads. ”

6. The use of bullets quickly outlined a number of points that May play an important role in your article. The reader can scan through them.

7. Use numbers if it is appropriate for writing an article. For example, the way I am writing this article.

8. Describe the benefits of your reader. They want to know what they can get from reading the article to portray the benefits of what you write.

9. Do not waffle. This is never more important than on the Internet. People get bored quickly and there are a million other items they could be playing instead of yours. Getting to the point quickly – in a very 1ST line!

10. Target your article. Make it on a single topic and stick to the topic. Do not try to write about 2 or 3 things in the same article. Keep your focus on a topic to maintain the interest of your reader.

11. Conclude with a strong message. A message that summarizes your article or your reader is to take further measures.

12. Finally, be humble. People admire people who are humble. Do not talk to your readers.

Learn as much as you can about writing on the Internet. It is really different from writing in the offline world. Read as many items as you can and see which ones you will find easier to read.

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To profit substantially by signing up as an affiliate marketer for affiliate programs is extremely simple. It’s so simply that many affiliates are failing.

I started out as an affiliate marketer and failed constantly while trying extremely hard to be successful. I made it terribly complicated for myself to succeed. I set up different web sites with lots and lots of content.

The reason I failed was because I worked so hard to fill my web sites with ‘good stuff’ until the web sites weren’t attractive anymore. There was too much of content. They were confusing to say the least. And on top of that I lost my motivation because all my hard work didn’t make me any money.

Then one day I stumbled upon an article telling me about writing articles and promoting affiliate programs. That was the beginning of a successful online business for me.

The best thing about writing articles to profit from affiliate programs instantly is that you don’t need a web site at all. All you need to do is writing articles and submitting them to article directories with your affiliate program links in the resource or author box.

Here is what you should do. Choose three affiliate programs and sign up as an affiliate marketer for these programs. The best place I know of to find some good affiliate programs to join is ClickBank.

Make sure that all the affiliate programs are on the same subject. If your first affiliate program is on how to build mini web sites, then your second one could be a membership site with the content of everything you need to set up a mini site empire, and so on.

Also make sure that your affiliate programs are paying you at least 50% commission and that the product you are promoting sells for at least $40 to $50.

Now, that you have your affiliate programs lined up you are ready to promote these programs. Article marketing is the way to go.

You are going to write articles to profit from your affiliate programs. Write one quality article for each one of your affiliate programs with product related content. Do this every day. And submit to the top ten article directories. You can find article directories in Google Search.

If you do this constantly every single day you will make big profits every month. This will happen the moment you have about 30 articles out there. Just wait until your articles are being picked up by web site administrators, membership sites and newsletters. There are so many places in the Internet where they need quality information.

You will write 30 articles in no time at all. Remember, you are going to write one article for each of your affiliate programs every day. That is three articles a day and 90 articles per month.

By following these steps you will profit writing articles for your affiliate programs instantly after the first month.

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The first thing you must know is that it’s really not hard at all to make money online. All you really need to know is how to distinguish between the junk and what’s real. There are many writing scams out there on the net that have big promises, yet do not deliver.

Just avoid all those services and gimmicks such as those get paid to write ads scams. You don’t even need any of them. The first step to making money online writing articles is to have an online portfolio with a few of your writing samples online.

This is where you will want to direct clients, so that they can get an idea of your writing capabilities. This will make it much easier for them to decide whether they want to hire you or not. If you have great writing skills then you can be sure you’ll have a lot of impressed potential clients.

The next step is to find potential clients! So where does one go? Digital Point forum is a great place to start finding clients to work for. The important thing to remember is that there is more demand than there is supply, so you’ll never be out of work if you take the right steps. You can browse through their “content creation” section to find clients to write for based on your skills and what they require. That’s it!

There are many other forums online also but Digital Point is by far the best forum for linking writing professionals with potential clients. Generally speaking, webmaster forums are always constantly in need of good article writers. The other type of sites you can go to are freelance websites such as getafreelancer.com and elance.com.

You can make money writing articles and it’s really simple! The nicest part of the process is when you find long term clients to work for, it become produce a steady stream of income. If you have good writing skills, it is not uncommon to charge $10 to $15 per 500 word article.

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The first paragraph.  The first paragraph is the most important paragraph in a news article for it gives the most critical information about the story.  Space is limited in newspapers so news articles present the most important information first.  Subsequent paragraphs contain information in order of descending importance.  This allows the editor the option of shortening any story to fit the space available by cutting from the bottom.

Who, what, where, when, and, maybe, why, and how.  In the first paragraph include all the basic facts of the news story.  Who did what?  Where did the event occur?  When did it happen?  Sometimes explaining why and how helps the reader understand more about the importance of the event or helps the reader connect to the story.  For example, pretend you were covering your school’s basketball game last Friday night.  Here is how the first paragraph of the story might appear.  The comments in parentheses show the basic facts.

In a knuckle-bitingly close (how) game (what), the Cassadaga Cougars (who) topped the Independence 76ers (who) by 1 slim point last Friday night (when) on the 76ers’ home court (where).  The final score was 68 to 67.  Senior Langston Barnard led the scoring with 22 points.

Make the story interesting.  There are several techniques you can use to make your story interesting to your reader which will be covered in the next few paragraphs.  The first technique is quotes.  People want to know what others have to say about the event.  You can quote experts, celebrities, or the ordinary Joe.  Following up on our example above, you might interview the coach, some of the players, the school principal, or people in the stands.  You could also generate interest by explaining the importance of the event in relation to other things.  Continuing on with our example, you could talk about where the team now stands in the rankings or how this game’s performance compared to other games this season.   

After the game, Coach Humbart said, “I am proud of the way the team fought through to the very end.  They just kept coming back each time the 76ers scored.”  The team had struggled earlier in the season with consistency and keeping the pressure on through the entire game.  The last three games have been narrow victories.  The team still stands a chance to play in the county tournament if it can win three more games this season.

As an alternative you could tell the story from the point of view of a player.  This alternative creates what is called a “human interest” story.  People are interested in how others feel and what they do.  Readers enjoy learning how someone overcame adversity to succeed or survive. 

Use clean, crisp English.  News writing should be short and to the point.  News stories deliver the facts quickly.  However, readers get bored when they see the same story with just the facts changed.  Choose each word carefully and provide not only information but a sense of urgency and impact.  Take another look at the first sentence in the example paragraph.  In theory each time the school’s team played a game, the newspaper could use the same sentence and just change the essential facts.  What if the newspaper ran a sentence like this each time the team played?

The Cassadaga Cougars played the Independence 76ers last Friday night and won 68 to 67. 

Boring!  Much better to run the original example sentence.

Add pictures.  Find out if the school photographer will be covering the event as well.  If not, take a camera with you.  Take lots of pictures so your editor can choose the perfect one to accompany your story.  Action pictures work best, but they need to be in focus and have good contrast between the lights and darks in the picture.  If there is too much gray in a photograph, it will not print distinctly enough for your readers to tell what is happening.  Get as close as you can to your subject by “zooming” the camera lens in or moving yourself.  Make the subject fill the picture frame.  Avoid background distractions.  Take pictures in landscape format and in portrait format to allow for different layout options in the newspaper. 

Be accurate.  A news reporter’s responsibility is to accurately report on event.  Double check the spelling of names, addresses, scores, dollar figures, and other factual information you collect for your story.  If you have a recording device, record interviews.  Write down details on a notepad.

Be fair.  Remember to cover all sides of any controversial issue.  Contact people who are advocating for different solutions to an issue and give them a chance to explain their stand on the issue.  When you report the issue, clearly state the differing points of view.  Allow readers to come to their own conclusions about how they view the issue. Journalism is about seeking the truth and giving unbiased reports.

Spell Check.  Make a diligent search for errors, including using spell check and grammar check, before sending your story to the editor.

Bylines.  A byline is the acknowledgement of who wrote the story.  In some newspapers, the byline is simply your name.  Other newspapers allow a little more space for lauding the author of the article.  Bylines give readers some insight into the article writer’s expertise.  Examples are “By Kevin Block, Sports Reporter” or “By Lucy Witt, covering education issues in the Piedmont”.  Ask your editor about the newspaper’s policy on bylines.

Apply these guidelines to write quality articles that grip, inform, and entertain your readers. 

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Think about what you want to know, that can be useful to make your business grow. Maybe you need more traffic, maybe you don’t know how to set your auto responder account. Maybe you want to know more about how blogging can help your business. Or maybe you just started your internet business journey, and don’t know what to do first.

Think about it. Choose one topic and start to make a research. Type keywords of a topic, you are interested in, into the search engine like Google, Yahoo or whatever you like. It will expose thousands of websites for you in return. All you need to do, is to click on those links one after another and read the information you will find there.

Another way to find information is to search in article directories. Choose the best article submission sites and type your keywords in search engine. Collect all information that you think can be useful, and that can be a good resource for future article.

Next and very important step is to implement all this in practice. The main rule for your successful article marketing is – you must walk what you talk. That means that you must understand everything you are teaching others. Don’t write article on the topic you have no idea about. People will understand this very quickly. If you want to write articles as an expert, you must become an expert.

If you are writing about how blogging can help to grow business, you must start to write  your blog. Or if you are writing about benefits of squeeze pages, you should better use them in your own business.

You can learn about something new little by little – one little step at a time and you must do it constantly. Be patient. Every seed needs time to grow but it mustn’t become a tree overnight. This is a law of nature, and this law is everywhere. Even in business.

Writing articles is the great strategy not only branding yourself as an expert and authority but also for generating targeted traffic to your website.

The quality content of your articles makes people trust you as an expert. They will come to your website for more information in hope that they should find solutions to their problems. If they will know that they can trust your free information, they will be sure that you are providing high quality products and will want to buy something from you.

So, in this case you can shoot two rabbits with one shot: discover new and useful information you needed, and create a good and content rich article that can be useful for others.

This is a smart way to become an authority, because researching information and writing good content articles makes you true expert in the niche of your target market.

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Most article directories are free for both authors and publishers. When an owner of a website or newsletter is seeking new content for their publication, an article directory is often the first place they’ll look. Remember, the higher the quality of the article the more likely it will be used. Once it is published, your article will be seen by many potential customers.

Your articles should be well written, informative and keyword rich. Be sure the articles you write are on topics you‘re familiar with. This will make the writing process much easier.

If your article is picked up and used by a publisher you’ll begin to increase your web presence as well as back links to your site. If, for example, a publisher of a newsletter with 1000 subscribers publishes your article, 1000 people will learn about your website or product. Article directories allow you to create a resource box at the end of your article where you can tell the readers a little bit about yourself and infirm then of your website. You’ll also be able to create links to your website.

Article writing is simple. The articles don’t need to be long, just well written and informative. It’s important that the articles you submit are original as search engines will often find duplicate articles. Also, writing original articles will eventually give you credibility and expert status.

There are some services which will submit your article to multiple directories for a fee. I’ve chosen a few directories and I manually submit to those regularly with terrific results. A simple search will result in a pretty good selection of directories. Niche directories are useful in that they offer wide ranging articles on a particular subject. One such directory, www.GardenListings.com/articles offers articles on gardening, the arts, nature and a few other related fields.

Before you publish your article be sure its concise (400 -1000 word is generally an appropriate length, longer articles can be divided into two) and well written. Format is important, as is grammar. Have a friend read the article before submitting it for an outside opinion. Most importantly, make sure that the article is informative and offers readers and potential customers original, useful information. If you do this you’ll be more apt to spark the interest of your readers.

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Article writing is also a good way to gain some sort of credibility in the internet marketing world. Writing articles for content websites is quite a bit different than writing say, magazines articles. Don’t forget that the reason every one is banging on about article writing, is that there is no better way to obtain a one way link and generate traffic to your website.

If you are having trouble getting started, have a look at published articles on the same subject as you intend to write about. As with any subject these days, there is plenty of good advice on article writing flying around the net, you just have to go and look for it. Article writing is not that difficult and is enjoyable for some, while others find it hard work. Me, I am somewhere in between, and find the trickiest bit is coming up with a subject that will be of interest to people.

The resource box which you put at the end of your article should have a short bio and definitely your website address, because this is the link through which you can generate traffic from your articles. You may well be pleasantly surprised at the targeted traffic it will bring to you. If you ask any successful internet marketer of a good way to drive targeted traffic to your website, I‘d wager that article writing would get a strong mention.

The good news is that there are loads of article submission sites on the internet. By submitting your articles to these sites, you are almost guaranteed to gain some traffic for your website. Just ensure you read the submission guidelines on these sites, as they can vary quite a bit. The article submission sites usually stipulate a minimum and maximum amount of words for each article; most of them want at least 250-300 words. I usually aim for 350-600, but it’s your call. Well that’s, all, go and get writing. If I can do it, anybody can.

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I know you want to know the rules right now, right? Let me say, these are not my rules. These are rules known by all good writers. I did not invent them. They were taught to me and I simply use them every day.

Here they are:

Rule #1 – “Tell them what you are going to tell them”. This, of course, is your headline, like my headline – “3 Rules for Writing Articles”.

Rule #2 – “Tell them”. I am already doing that, right? I started with the first sentence at the beginning of this article and I am telling you right now!

Rule #3 – “Tell them what you told them”. This is the summary, a sentence or sentences that bring the whole point of the article into focus to give you something to remember. This Rule is applied at the end.

Back to our high school dropout.

He simply took a cheap tape recorder, recorded Mr. Cronkite’s newscast every evening, played it back and typed exactly what Mr. Cronkite said. He studied it to see how the three rules applied. He did this over and over and over until he could write his own version of the story. When he felt confident, he showed his work to his wife and best friends for critique. He even recorded himself saying the stories into that little recorder, over and over and over. His dream was to be a radio newsman.

Our high school dropout also took the daily newspaper and re-wrote lots and lots of stories, reorganizing the facts, creating his own catchy headlines. Most important? He applied the “3 Rules” to every article. When he had articles he had some confidence in, he showed them to his wife and best friends for critique. He followed the 3 Rules for several months, working on his writing after getting home from his regular factory job in the evenings. He did this for hours and hours and hours. Practice, practice, practice!

So, where did all this hard work get him? You will be amazed!

Our high school dropout landed a part time job on Sunday mornings as an on-air newsman at a local radio station! His writing and passable radio voice got him that job. His fellow factory workers laughed at him. Made jokes. “You? Come on, get real!”. But, did he quit there? No! He kept working on his writing and voice delivery. Hours and hours and hours!

Within 3 months he was full time on the graveyard shift. He quit the factory job and sold cars during the day to make up the difference in income between the factory and Radio.

About 3 months later he was on days, Monday through Friday, in prime afternoon drive-time! He quit selling cars because he was earning more than the factory job. Within 2 years he was a local TV News Anchorman! Two years later he was Anchorman and News Director!

Now, I must point out another key factor in his success. Many professional broadcasters and writers helped him grow along the way. He was never afraid to ask for help with how to improve his writing and delivery on-air. Pride never got in his way. The pro’s were more than willing to offer advice and valuable tips! It was better than a college education.

Now, you may be thinking, “Jim, you made this guy up. This story is unbelievable”.

Well, friend, that high school dropout is me!

My broadcast news career spanned more than 15 years. I won several national, state, and local reporting awards. I was a paid stringer for Associated Press and United Press International.

Need proof? On my main blog (see Author Box), you will find a photo of me posing with Walter Cronkite in a promotional session for my news program. Imagine that! I actually got to meet and have dinner with my idol who was then my peer!

I also have promotional photos with Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer and photos with many other famous people. I have interviewed every type of news maker from Presidents of the United States to killers. I have rubbed elbows with movie stars, the rich and famous, and with folks at the Soup Kitchen. It has been a great life!

Am I bragging? Maybe. But, the point is, the “3 Rules for Writing Articles” plus determination and practice helped me to become a successful writer and news reporter. They will help you, too! I have given you the starting point. You can find other writing guides on my main blog that will help you become an accomplished writer as well. And, in case you have not guessed, I have just completed the “Tell them what you told them” rule!

Yours for success!

Jim DeSantis

P.S. – Please forward this article to someone who may benefit from it.

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These folks aren’t necessarily smarter than the rest of us, but they have learned how to harness the power of article marketing and use it to their advantage. They know the key ingredients necessary to writing an article online that will generate a steady stream of income over multiple days, weeks, months and occassionally even a year or more. Once that system is in place, how to get rich writing articles online becomes easy because they only need to duplicate that blueprint.

Most articles are found and read online because people search the internet by using one to five words typed into their search engine of choice that relate to they topic they are interested in reading or the product they want to buy. In the world of article marketing, these are called keywords and they can make or break the bottom line of an internet marketer. If you want to know one of the secrets of how to get rich writing articles online, then pay close attention to the next sentence. The first 3-5 words of your article title will determine how much traffic your will generate. This ultimately determines the amount of success you will have.

Knowing this fact, you may wonder how you can get your articles to rank high in the search engines for the keywords that relate to the content of your article. In addition to using your primary keywords in the title of your article, you will want to sprinkle those keywords throughout the content of the article itself. Beware of “keyword stuffing” your article. Keyword stuffing is using too many keywords in a unnatural language format in an effort to trick the search engines into ranking your article higher. Not only will you not get the ranking you want, but you may get banned from submitting articles to the more prominant directories.

Maximizing profits from your article marketing plan requires that you master keyword research in order to create intelligent articles with keyword rich titles. Your long term reward will be a steady flow of traffic to your articles and webpages via the search engines.

If you need a helping hand with your article marketing plan, then grab this successful blueprint for writing articles online.

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