Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Writing articles without a website

When you are trying to make money through promoting articles and affiliate links, you will need a good, simple, and easy to navigate website to put them on. There are two ways that you can accomplish this: you can try to do it yourself if you have any web design skills or you can hire someone.

Doing it yourself, unless you were a pro to begin with, can be difficult for some. You will need to read many tutorials and it may take some time to get going. You could also risk having a site that looks very badly made and thrown together. It is also important (for visitors and search engines) that your site is easy to navigate, which may be a problem if you do not know what you are doing.

Making a Do It Yourself website can be hard, but if you accomplish your goal, maybe you will learn so much that you can write a few articles on it to add to a new DIY niche site!

Another way to go about this task is to set up a blog. You can go to blogger.com and set up a blog in which to place your articles after written.

Most article directories want to know where you are using the article prior to posting, or submitting, the article.

Blogger.com blogs are free and there are MANY tutorials on how to set up a blogger blog.

If your writing articles for sending traffic to a salespage for a product you are selling this can be accomplished on a blog also. Just put the link for the salespage at the end of the post (the article) and maybe somewhere in the middle of the post also.

The advantage of sending the traffic for the article to your blog before the salespage is that they will get to know you more before you ask them to buy. At your blog they will read several other things that you have written proving that you know what you are talkin about!

Be sure to add your photo to your blog like I have here. If you are trying to sell something, people want to and like to SEE YOUR FACE!!!! People feel more comfortable buying from someone that they can associate a face with.

Keep typing,
Brian Ankner The Article Guy

(a new site I just put up!) Mesothelioma Information about Asbestos Cancer

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