Don't Miss These 10 Must Know Facts About Promoting Your Website
with Article Writing
Most all ezine publishers need fresh content. Article writing
is something that gets tedious to the publisher who sends out an
ezine every week. Fresh, unique ideas are always attractive, and
ezine authors don't mind publishing others work, (along with a
complete research box, (THIS IS YOUR AD) as well.
If you can learn and excel with this kind of content writing,
you can win in two areas. Promoting your own site, or writing
content for others site owners and earning dollars as a
ghostwriter.
I have been writing and promoting on the web for over 3 years.
Here are the tips I find most important to a beginning --article
for promoting-- writer.
Articles should be short enough to read in less than 5 minutes.
Ideally they should be between 300 and 600 words (an average
page in a printed novel is about 300 words). Top 10, or 7, (the
number isn't that important) Tips on (your subject) are great
attention grabbers for articles to promote your website.
Write in short paragraphs, forget what you learned about in
English class, if a paragraph is long, find a good point where
you can cut it and put an extra line break. Browsing for
content, readers are more likely to stick with reading something
the eye can easily skim from top to end. (Notice with this
article, I have added spaces between each bullet in this list :o)
If your article is long, break it into 2 or 3 parts. For a real
web traffic puller, and list building technique, request them to
sign up for an autoresponder version to receive 2nd or 3rd part.
(be sure to give them opt-out options when you do it this way)
Here is a mistake I see many online authors' making. Don't use
huge big vocabulary. You are not writing a thesis, or essay for
school. Write so that someone with a 8th grade education could
easily read it. Don't try to impress with large vocabulary
words, you will lose readers, who feel your writing is
condesending to them. (See, how many do you think I may have
lost using condesending?
Try to write with passion. Put feeling into your words. Pull in
as many of the five senses, experience stories, as you can. For
an example of this, read this article. Articles should educate,
entertain or inform. Imagine how popular your article will be if
it does all three.
Make sure your article is well formatted. You can post it at a
site like ezinearticles.com and use their ("get this article
page" to get your article in different formats, both text and
html.) This sites also allow you to input your own personalized
summary, and keywords, which allows webmasters to find them and
use them as well.
Set a goal to publish a certain number of articles per week to a
certain number of database sites.
It is easy to find sites to submit your articles too. Just go to
google, type in articles, then, scroll to the bottom of the
page. You will find a button which says, search within results.
With this search button type in "free articles" or "free
content" or "free to republish" and you will find several
submission sites. You can also type "article submission
directories"
I have set a goal to do five things each day toward promotion.
Each persons goals will be different, but remember, to be
effective you must write new content and promote on a consistent
basis.
However, if you have a good article, it will also duplicate
itself quickly and spread across the web like a forest fire out
of control!
You can optimize your article to get the exact keyword density
for search engines, but that could fill another whole article.
For your main keyword, try to use it about 7-10 times throughout
the whole page. This article's goal is to find article
writer-promoter, webmasters to list their articles at my new
article database.
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