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Article Writing Mistakes – 7 To Avoid

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Making your articles available for reprints by other ezine publishers and webmasters is the cornerstone strategy in building an avalanche of pre-qualified visitors to your website.

If you want your articles to be picked up and massively distributed by others, here are 7 common mistakes to avoid:

Article Mistake #1 Too many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.

In addition to having your article proofed by others, you may also want to be sure that you have clearly defined paragraphs. Nothing is worse than a big blob of text with 20 run-on sentences.

Readers no longer read articles in depth and often only ‘scan’ your article. They want small bites of information that can be easily digested… also known as “info-snacking.”

Keep your “voice” in the same person throughout the entire article. If you are using the first person voice (I, me) or the second person (you, we, us) or the third person (they, them, he, she)…be consistent by staying in one voice for the entire article.

Article Mistake #2 Too much hype, bragging and self-promotion.

If you are as good as you know you are, there is no reason to fill the body of the article with hype, gratuitous links to your site or blatant self-promotion. Readers are smart and will see right through your “hype-veil.”

Better to only sell or pitch your company in the RESOURCE BOX below the body of the article. Research I’ve done indicates that the resource box often gets a 3% CTR (Click Through Rate). Be sure you take advantage of that by not selling hard in the body of the article.

Article Mistake #3 Content based on what you need to learn, not what your reader needs.

Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and ask yourself, “What does this article offer me?” Research what your reader wants to read by doing survey’s with your own audience or do keyword search engine research to find what people are looking for.

Article Mistake #4 Making your article broad or superficial in content.

It’s better to go in-depth on a narrow topic. Define it. Explain it. Relate to it. Use bullet points or numbered lists. Offer a secret or expertise that you have around the topic. Be original in covering your topic as narrowly as possible in a way that has not been done by others. Brevity is golden.

Article Mistake #5 Headline and article summary does not grab readers’ attention.

The headline is often ~95% of the initial reason why someone might read your article or pass it over for another article. Don’t bore your audience out of the gate with a dull headline or worse, a boring introduction to the article.

If you have to use two sentences to make your headline, you’re thinking too hard. Keep it simple and make it brief. Use keyword research tools to optimize your article title.

Article Mistake #6 Plagiarizing or ‘buying articles’…

It’s ok to research the Internet for article ideas, but it’s not ok to copy word-for-word of any article. Paraphrasing can also be classified as plagiarism. Be original. Let the words flow from your mind into your article. You will sleep better at night and your articles will have a higher value in the marketplace.

Buying articles is not a great idea…especially if you do not get an exclusive license to use them. What good is the same article if thousands of people call it their own? If you do outsource your article writing to ghost writers, make sure you have an exclusive right or license to the works.

Article Mistake #7 Don’t burn out the RESOURCE BOX by overloading it.

The RESOURCE BOX is your pay-off for giving your article up for free reprints, but don’t abuse the welcome mat by including a dozen website addresses. Stick with one website URL or two at the most and you’ll find your article may find a higher distribution rate.

If you want to be really tacky, include an affiliate link in the RESOURCE BOX. A better strategy is to have a domain name registered for every affiliate program that you pitch and include the domain name that rewrites or refreshes to your affiliate link. This is much less tacky and looks more professional.

About The Author:

Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

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Make Money Writing Articles Online

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I keep getting the question about not just how to make money. It’s more to the point of Needing to make money now. You, just like most people starting out have a need to see immediate return for your marketing efforts. I completely understand and Have felt the very same when I began internet marketing. I heard of money making systems that generated tons of cash right to your checking account. So how to make money writing articles online is what I started off with and so do many, many other successful marketers.

Well, I does happen and it happens quite often. Just not to you, right? I feel your pain and wanna give you a couple of tips to help you along you journey. Nobody ever tells you the secret. They offer you information in small bits and pieces in hopes to lead you on and get a few sales out of you along the way. Don’t feel bad, it happens to everyone at some point. If you are in a desperate situation, you are more apt to purchase just about anything that sounds too good to be true.

So, please, before you hit that desperate point try to get a little cash rolling in. My advice is pretty solid, so please give it a try. I don’t want to try and sell you anything so put your credit cards away. I didn’t have any help and I struggled like you wouldn’t believe. Then one day it struck me like lightning.

While I was struggling at my level trying to learn to make websites and find a niche, there were folks beyond this step needing help with traffic to their websites. They were getting ready to make some money online and I was still far from it. However while talking to these people in forums I discovered that they could use my help. I knew how to write articles and we all know that a good articles gets good traffic. That’s right. I could help these guys by writing good quality articles. They want article traffic and I needed money to pay for stuff like hosting and domains. This is a win – win situation.

So take these steps and use them to help yourself and other people. And remember, that the more articles you learn to research and write for other marketing or bloggers, the better that articles will be when you begin to write them for yourself.

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4 Ways to Get Your Articles Noticed, Without Paying a Dime, Using My Affiliate Basic Techniques By Carl Petty

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When you first begin your article marketing campaign, do you really know what needs to be done? Starting out, who actually tells you what to do to be successful? Who tells you that in order to be an affiliate, you need to know these essential basics?

Unfortunately I did not have that support and things were a little tough because everything was a struggle and usually was not a success. The first few articles that I wrote were failures. I’m not kidding either. I couldn’t even write a children’s book if I tried. I came a long way baby. I began to learn how to not only write articles, but to optimize them for the search engines as well. Soon, every one of my articles that I wrote were golden. I found article writing becoming easy and profitable

1. Find your niche that you want to promote and decide on the keywords that you want to use. Make sure the you write quality content in to your article. Within this content, you need to make sure that your keyword density is approximately between 3-4%. If you go over, lets say, 6% with your keyword density, the search engines might regard it as a spam article and you won’t even get a page ranking out it.

2. Proof read your articles within the next day to check for errors. Also, it is a great idea to let a friend or family member proof read it as well. If your grammar and sentence structure isn’t great, you will have a difficult time being recognized as an authority.

3. Now you can publish your article at your preferred article submission site. Make sure you have a good bio box and everything is just the way you want it. Publish your article and wait for approval. This is usually a painful waiting period because you are so ready to get your ideas out for the world to read.

4. Once you have an approved article, Submit it to the major search engines. Submit it to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. After you get them into search engines, ping your articles and you will soon get a front page ranking with the next day.

Good luck and I wish you all the success in the world.

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5 Bum Marketing Tips – To Help You Make Money Online

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If you have been around internet marketing for any amount of time, then you know there are ways to make money online using bum marketing strategies. So, let me tell you about 5 bum marketing tips that can help you make money online.

1. The most important part of bum marketing is the articles that you write. These articles that you write will become published and provide back links to the websites that you are promoting. These websites, also known as landing pages, are where all of your traffic is going to go. So, keep writing as many articles as you can and build that traffic.

2. You need to find a niche. A niche just isn’t a keyword to search for. A niche is a narrow search that is derived from a broad keyword. If your group is going to be weight loss and you want to target women with menopause, then your niche market will be more like weight loss after menopause. Don’t be afraid – search a little deeper.

3. Probably the best traffic from marketing that you can get is search engine optimization. This is the kind of traffic that has it all. Keywords and content. This will place you high in the page rankings and can give you the best free traffic you have ever seen.

4. Build your self a blog. This is just like a personalized online space where you can write comments and write articles that are important to you. You can makes blogs very easily today. Just go to Blogger or WordPress and set one up. There are plenty of tutorials to get you started smoothly.

5. One of my favorites and probably soon one of yours too is building Squidoo lenses. These lenses are better than articles. They are more like a landing pages. You can write your articles on them and link back to relevant pages such as merchant sales pages. You can ad related products from network groups for extra commissions. Better yet, you can include RSS feeds to keep your lens fresh.

So what are you waiting for. Get motivated with internet marketing and start your own bum marketing.

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Affiliate Basics Wanted

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If you are wanting to get started in a business, you need one of two things first. This is something that takes place before thinking about the affiliate basics everyone wanted to know about. You either need to start with an area that you are an expert in or have a good deal of knowledge. I don’t mean that you need to have a Ph.D.

One of the first things people do is try to find a niche in an area the they are interested in. Lets say you like cats and that you even have a cat. This is something that you know about and hopefully enjoy. So, you now could very well have your first direction. Maybe you can find a clickbank product about ways to care for your cat. Now you have a meaningful target that you feel you can actively promote.

The other aspect is that, let’s say you don’t know much about cats and you don’t even own a cat. Well, why would anyone even pursue this area if they know nothing about it. Let me tell you a little bit why someone would want to pursue this. You don’t know about cats, but you of a niche and some great keywords for that niche that are not very competitive. You have to do a little work here with researching cat care and products on the cat care niche. Assume you learned quite a lot about caring for a cat within a few hours of research online and that you found a nice book about 101 way to care for your cat that will give you a nice commission. You’re off to the races now.

With your new niche or expertise, you can now publish articles with hoplinks to your affiliate product. You can now do keyword search and analysis to target your new customers better. You can even look into doing some pay per click advertising which I will discuss more some other time. But you have to remember that when you Google affiliate basics wanted, you should expect to find a little help that will basically get you started. We’re talking about find your interest or niche, and taking it to down to a level where you can compete. Target a customer base with your product and find ways to get your product within a click away from your perspective buyers. It does not get anymore simpler than that.

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Affiliate Basics

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Have you ever wondered how somebody is able to write so many articles, at such a fast pace, and still have quality content time after time?

I have struggled often on my road to becoming an affiliate marketer and it has not been easy. Even intermediate marketers still have problems following through with the basic. Every new project results in a different levels of success because they do not know or forget to follow specific key guidelines. I hear a lot of talk about writing lots of articles. This seems good to me except for the fact that I only want to give people only what I would want for my self. So, if mass article writing is for you, then don’t mass produce low quality articles. Sounds good, right? But what about the quality of the content that you are producing? Take a little bit more time to make your articles rock solid. If you keep content that people want to read, then you are a success. I due time you will become more and more efficient.

Before you start write your article or articles, you should research your product and decide what content needs to be involved and what can be left out. So now you have a format for writing your article. This is your quality content. As long as you keep your content intact, then you are golden for the long haul of writing more articles. You will be able to change things like you article title, your keywords used to drive ranking, and way you write for different targeted groups. I know some affiliates don’t care as much about their quality content and that’s alright. Its just my opinion that that will affect the rest of their campaign. Is the traffic going to be good traffic? Are the conversions going lower? I tend to believe the traffic will not be higher converting traffic. So remember if its good enough for you, then its good enough foe everyone else

10 Reasons To Submit Your Articles To Ezines Directory

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10 Reasons To Submit Your Articles To Ezines Directory
By: Hendry Chang
Getting your product or service delivered to your targeted audience is one of the most important success factor in internet based business. There are many technique to deliver your content to your targetted audence. Submit good articles to high traffic ezine directory is one of the technique which is relatively simple and affordable for build up your online business. Below are lists the benefits.

1. You’ll brand your web site, business and yourself by submitting articles to e-zines. You could include your name, business name, your credentials, web site address and e-mail address in your resource box.

2. You will become known as an expert on the topics you write about. This will give you and your business extra credibility which will help you compete against your competition.

3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher’s home page. If they publish each issue on their home page this will give you some extra exposure.

4. You might get extra exposure if the e-zine publisher archives their e-zine on their site. People might want to read the back issues before they make the decision to subscribe.

5. You will get free advertising. This will allow you to spend your profits on other forms of advertising. You could buy advertisements in other e-zines that don’t publish your articles.

6. You might get extra income from people wanting to hire you to write other articles, books, or even ask to speak at seminars. This is a great way to multiply your income.

7. You could allow e-zine publishers to publish your articles in their free e-books. Since people give them away, your advertising could multiply all over the internet.

8. You will get your article published all over the web when you submit it to an e-zine publisher that has a free content directory on their web site. They’ll allow their visitors to republish your article.

9. You’ll gain people’s trust. If they read your article and like it, they won’t be as hesitant to buy your
product or service. You will then be able to increase your profits.

10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in an e-zine. You could agree to run one of their articles in your e-zine if, in exchange, they run yours in their e-zine. It’s a win/win situation.

The above list is a great start if you are thinking of starting a business on internet. It is relatively simple and very affordable.

Author Bio
Hendry Chang (the8online team) – team of enthusiast internet entrepreneurs. For more about internet business tips and ideas, please visit us at http://www.the8online.com/index.html

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