There are many people who dread having to write
papers or articles. Many just feel like it seems to be
too much work and it all just goes to waste when no
one reads the. To some people, reading articles seems
like work to, especially if the article is boring and
very bland. Well, articles are supposed to be read,
that’s their purpose to impart your message and
information. If it is not read then it is a waste of
time and effort.
But all the same, articles have to be written to be
read. It’s just a matter of making them good. Making a
good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and
straining. There are just some points needed to be
reminded of, and some guides to follow. Once you get
the hang of it, writing articles could be fun, as well
as profitable for you and your site.
Of course, writing articles must be about something
you know about, that’s why if you own a site, you
probably are knowledgeable about that certain topic and
theme. When you write about it, you won’t have a hard
time because you already know what it is and what it’s
about. It’s just a matter of making your articles
creative and interesting.
To make sure that your articles get read and enjoyed,
here are six red hot tips to get your articles read.
These tips will make your articles readable and
interesting.
1) Use short paragraphs. When the paragraph are very
long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader
just looking at it It can get quite confusing and too
much of a hard work to read. The reader will just
quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much
easier reading articles that are good to look at as
well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence,
sometimes even a single word!
2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As each point is
stressed out, numbers and bullets can quickly make the
point easy to remember and digest. As
each point, tip, guide or method is started with a
bullet or point, readers will know that this is where
the tips start and getting stressed. Format you
bullets and numbers with indentations so that your
article won’t look like a single block of square
paragraphs. Add a little bit of flair and pizzazz to
your articles shape.
3) Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in
the page. Doing this will break each point into
sections but still would be incorporated into one
whole article. It would also be easy for the reader to
move on from one point to another; the transition
would be smooth and easy. You will never lose your
readers attention as well as the point and direction
to where the article is pointing.
4) Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header.
If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re
already halfway in getting a person to read your
article. Use statements and questions that utilize
keywords that people are looking for. Provide titles
or headers that describe your articles content but
should also be short and concise.
Use titles like, “Tips on making her want you more”,
or “How to make her swoon and blush”. You could also
use titles that can command people, for example, “Make
her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles
reach out to a persons’ emotions and makes them
interested.
5) Keep them interested from the start to the finish.
From your opening paragraph, use real life situations
that can be adopted by the reader. Use good
descriptions and metaphors to drive in your point,
just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with
graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for
them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the
experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.
6) Utilize figures when necessary and not just
ordinary and insipid statements. Using specific facts
and figures can heighten your article because it makes
it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it
should be light and easy in them and flow. Like a
friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager
student.
Brian Ankner has been writing articles and website
content for quite some time now and has created a site
dedicated to helping aspiring artists blossom into
great writiers. For the resources that he uses,
go to => Professional Article Writing <= and pick up
the tools to start your publishing career.
Showing posts with label writers resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writers resources. Show all posts
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Making Money with Articles: Becoming an Affiliate
If you can either write articles or have the promotion and
marketing knowledge to publicize articles that others write,
becoming an affiliate for several companies may be a great way
for you to generate a good income right from your own home.
You can do this by receiving part of the revenue off of sales that
the company gets from people who “click through” from your
website via the company’s links that are placed on your pages.
Since you will be promoting a product or service, you will need
a killer sales pitch and website content to get your readers
interested in the product, convince them that they cannot live
without the product, and to keep them coming back to your
website time and time again for more recommendations and
your useful content, which will get them clicking on your links
once again.
Although many affiliate companies only give you money off of
the first sale you make from each customer, you have the option
of promoting a good range of companies so that you can still
make a profit off of your returning customers.
If you cannot write this kind of content of your own, there are
many ways to pick up free or paid content to place on your
affiliate website. There are many reasons why paying for such
articles would be to your advantage.
First, you will be able to tell the writer exactly what you want,
what product you are trying to sell, and what direction they can
go in to keep your readers interested and informed.
On the other hand, when you search for free content, you are
limited to what is already out there. Secondly, you will own the
copyright to this content.
That means that no one else can reuse it without your consent.
If you opt for free content, you will be sharing that content with
an unknown amount of other affiliate websites, plus the original
author will be able to place their byline at the bottom of the article
which could result in them stealing your traffic.
There are many products that have nice affiliate commission
rates for those who know how to pre-sale their product and
deliver click through customers who are ready to buy.
As long as you choose to promote a product or service that can be
very useful to a wide variety of people, then pre-selling your
chosen company may not be that hard at all.
The key in this situation may likely be getting those customers
to your website so that they have a chance to see your
recommendations and click on your affiliate links.
Brian Ankner has been writing articles and website content for
quite some time now and has created a site dedicated to helping
aspiring artists blossom into great writiers. For the resources
that he uses, go to Professional Article Writing and pick up the
tools to start your publishing career.
marketing knowledge to publicize articles that others write,
becoming an affiliate for several companies may be a great way
for you to generate a good income right from your own home.
You can do this by receiving part of the revenue off of sales that
the company gets from people who “click through” from your
website via the company’s links that are placed on your pages.
Since you will be promoting a product or service, you will need
a killer sales pitch and website content to get your readers
interested in the product, convince them that they cannot live
without the product, and to keep them coming back to your
website time and time again for more recommendations and
your useful content, which will get them clicking on your links
once again.
Although many affiliate companies only give you money off of
the first sale you make from each customer, you have the option
of promoting a good range of companies so that you can still
make a profit off of your returning customers.
If you cannot write this kind of content of your own, there are
many ways to pick up free or paid content to place on your
affiliate website. There are many reasons why paying for such
articles would be to your advantage.
First, you will be able to tell the writer exactly what you want,
what product you are trying to sell, and what direction they can
go in to keep your readers interested and informed.
On the other hand, when you search for free content, you are
limited to what is already out there. Secondly, you will own the
copyright to this content.
That means that no one else can reuse it without your consent.
If you opt for free content, you will be sharing that content with
an unknown amount of other affiliate websites, plus the original
author will be able to place their byline at the bottom of the article
which could result in them stealing your traffic.
There are many products that have nice affiliate commission
rates for those who know how to pre-sale their product and
deliver click through customers who are ready to buy.
As long as you choose to promote a product or service that can be
very useful to a wide variety of people, then pre-selling your
chosen company may not be that hard at all.
The key in this situation may likely be getting those customers
to your website so that they have a chance to see your
recommendations and click on your affiliate links.
Brian Ankner has been writing articles and website content for
quite some time now and has created a site dedicated to helping
aspiring artists blossom into great writiers. For the resources
that he uses, go to Professional Article Writing and pick up the
tools to start your publishing career.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Keywords And Their Importance
Keyword density and positioning are important areas of search engine optimization. The search engine spiders will scan a page with certain algorythms to determine what the topic of the article, report, or white paper is referring to. This is basically done by totaling up all the nouns and pronouns, picking the most used and clasifing the relevancy of the article. This is how they determine the "keyword" that your article is written about. The search engines then place this keyword relevant article in the results pages of that particular SE.
Why Keywords?
Your keyword should be placed a few times in random areas of the body text of your articles. This usually occurs without effort when you write about a specific subject. You will mention the subject at least one time per paragraph thus defining the reletive keyword for the article, report or white paper. Without mentioning the keyword enough times, the search engines will not be able to determine what the article is written about.
Over Doing The Keyword Thing
It is very important not to over do the keyword to the point that the written article sounds stupid. The term "keyword stuffing" is when someone purposely overloads their article with the same keyword, trying to get a higher search engine rank because of relevancy. It's pretty obvious when stuffing is going on, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice it and the search engines spot it right off. When the SE's determine that you have stuffed your article, they will delist the article and possibly blacklist the rest of your site as well. If it looks like the keyword is in your article to many times, try to come up with synonyms for it to make the page flow better without repeating the word.
Keyword Density, How Does It Work?
Keyword density the times your word is presented in your article, report or white papers. Most people try to use a % to figure out just how often they put a keyword in each article. An example would be if you had a 400 word article or report and want to obtain a key word density of 4%, you would want to have the word on your page exactly 16 times. Or basically 4 times in each of the 4 paragraphs. there are many ways, including softwares that will show you the keyword density of an article and there is no perfect number. It depends on what works for you and what gets you the better rankings for your articles. Every webmaster has their own density they prefer to achieve due to past results.
What IsThe Best Density?
Typically I try to achieve around 3%. sometimes more, sometimes less, just depends on the article or report. Sometimes it's hard to get 3-4% when writing white papers and specialized magazine articles. Don't worry about it, the SE's programs are smart enough to tell what an article is written about with the use of LSI (latent symantic indexing). LSI in a nutshell is related keywords. The keyword "article" has LSI of: Paper, essay, report, magazine article, white papers and the plural of the words also. (see I was able to "stuff" a little just by mentioning this!).
It is important to structure your keywords in your articles to have an hourglass shape to it. In other words, more in the first and last paragraphs than in the middle. typically when someone is describing a subject, they will speak about the item right off, then go into specifics, then give a conclusion aboiut the subject. Thus giving the hourglass effect of your keywords in the article.
To Write Properly, You Need The Proper Tools (unless your a freakin' genius!), Go To
Top Shelf Article Writing, Check Out The Tools And Stop By The Freebies Page For A No Cost Starter Package. Sign-up For The Free Newsletter At Top Shelf Articles!
Keyword density and positioning are important areas of search engine optimization. The search engine spiders will scan a page with certain algorythms to determine what the topic of the article, report, or white paper is referring to. This is basically done by totaling up all the nouns and pronouns, picking the most used and clasifing the relevancy of the article. This is how they determine the "keyword" that your article is written about. The search engines then place this keyword relevant article in the results pages of that particular SE.
Why Keywords?
Your keyword should be placed a few times in random areas of the body text of your articles. This usually occurs without effort when you write about a specific subject. You will mention the subject at least one time per paragraph thus defining the reletive keyword for the article, report or white paper. Without mentioning the keyword enough times, the search engines will not be able to determine what the article is written about.
Over Doing The Keyword Thing
It is very important not to over do the keyword to the point that the written article sounds stupid. The term "keyword stuffing" is when someone purposely overloads their article with the same keyword, trying to get a higher search engine rank because of relevancy. It's pretty obvious when stuffing is going on, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice it and the search engines spot it right off. When the SE's determine that you have stuffed your article, they will delist the article and possibly blacklist the rest of your site as well. If it looks like the keyword is in your article to many times, try to come up with synonyms for it to make the page flow better without repeating the word.
Keyword Density, How Does It Work?
Keyword density the times your word is presented in your article, report or white papers. Most people try to use a % to figure out just how often they put a keyword in each article. An example would be if you had a 400 word article or report and want to obtain a key word density of 4%, you would want to have the word on your page exactly 16 times. Or basically 4 times in each of the 4 paragraphs. there are many ways, including softwares that will show you the keyword density of an article and there is no perfect number. It depends on what works for you and what gets you the better rankings for your articles. Every webmaster has their own density they prefer to achieve due to past results.
What IsThe Best Density?
Typically I try to achieve around 3%. sometimes more, sometimes less, just depends on the article or report. Sometimes it's hard to get 3-4% when writing white papers and specialized magazine articles. Don't worry about it, the SE's programs are smart enough to tell what an article is written about with the use of LSI (latent symantic indexing). LSI in a nutshell is related keywords. The keyword "article" has LSI of: Paper, essay, report, magazine article, white papers and the plural of the words also. (see I was able to "stuff" a little just by mentioning this!).
It is important to structure your keywords in your articles to have an hourglass shape to it. In other words, more in the first and last paragraphs than in the middle. typically when someone is describing a subject, they will speak about the item right off, then go into specifics, then give a conclusion aboiut the subject. Thus giving the hourglass effect of your keywords in the article.
To Write Properly, You Need The Proper Tools (unless your a freakin' genius!), Go To
Top Shelf Article Writing, Check Out The Tools And Stop By The Freebies Page For A No Cost Starter Package. Sign-up For The Free Newsletter At Top Shelf Articles!
Thursday, June 14, 2007
How To Write An Article That Will Get Published By Someone Other Than Your Mother
When writing articles and content, be sure to haveyour readers "interest" in mind.
Research has proved that the majority of Internet readers are likely to breeze over the content to find the specific information they are searching for and are rarely reading the page from top to bottom.
You should structure good titles, many subtitles, and use bullet points to assist your readers while they scan your page.
Many people simply scan a pages subtitles to quickly determine whether they want to continue reading the article or go on to another page. Surfers prefer a site laid out like this so it's easier to use, therefore encouraging them to return to your site regularly in search of more content.
The more often your readers come back, the more chances you will have for them to access other affiliate links, adsense ads and pay per lead advertisements.
It is very important to create your articles in a structured manor, or have articles written this way, so your site visitors will not leave your page screaming in pain.
Properly written articles should keep them around long enough to click on something or at least capture their interest long enough for them to understand your brilliance!
Writing your articles in the organized manor as recommended will entertain and encourage your visitors to return thus enabling the full monetization of yoursite.
Well written content will get some viral action, or word of mouth action. People tell other people about great sites. You know this, I am sure you have emailed at least one person with a web address about something you thought was great.
If your articles and content are borrowed, poorly structured, rambling, or not quite on topic, bye, bye viral! It will really put a smile on your face when you browse around your favorite social bookmarking site and see that others have bookmarked YOUR site as a "great site".
I know I was elated when I found three postings of my site in Del.icio.us and I wasn't the one that posted them!
Write every article like you mean it, put some heart and soul into it. A little humor helps too. Don't makeyour content read as if it were a service manual! The most popular sites on the web didn't reach that status by being poorly written or boring. Liven up the party a little. Show some enthusiasm.
If you have absolutely no passion for the subject you are writing the articles for.....it will show. To avoid this I suggest hiring a professional to write your articles and content for you. Ghostwriters get anywhere from $15-$30 per 500-700 word article.
Hint, hire out multiple articles at once to get a better price provided you have worked with the ghostwriter before and like their writing style.
Google has decided that duplicate content will be measured down to the sentence so at all costs avoid duplicate content like the plaque. If you are using an article writing software that goes out on the web and collects sentences from many different articles, you will still have to change a few words in every sentence in order to avoid duplicate content.
In conclusion, write it with passion, keep it upbeatand enthusiastic, KNOW YOUR SUBJECT or hire someone to do your article writing for you. Use free articles from directories for ideas, research or to compliment your level of expertise. Get a free duplicate content checker like dupefreepro.com has to make sure your articles have not been used before and you will receive the rewards of free search engine traffic.
For the resources that professional writers use, go to http://www.topshelfarticles.com/Professional_Article_Writing.html
and pick up the tools to start your publishing career.
Your Mom won't be the only one publishing your articles once you start using the right tools!
Research has proved that the majority of Internet readers are likely to breeze over the content to find the specific information they are searching for and are rarely reading the page from top to bottom.
You should structure good titles, many subtitles, and use bullet points to assist your readers while they scan your page.
Many people simply scan a pages subtitles to quickly determine whether they want to continue reading the article or go on to another page. Surfers prefer a site laid out like this so it's easier to use, therefore encouraging them to return to your site regularly in search of more content.
The more often your readers come back, the more chances you will have for them to access other affiliate links, adsense ads and pay per lead advertisements.
It is very important to create your articles in a structured manor, or have articles written this way, so your site visitors will not leave your page screaming in pain.
Properly written articles should keep them around long enough to click on something or at least capture their interest long enough for them to understand your brilliance!
Writing your articles in the organized manor as recommended will entertain and encourage your visitors to return thus enabling the full monetization of yoursite.
Well written content will get some viral action, or word of mouth action. People tell other people about great sites. You know this, I am sure you have emailed at least one person with a web address about something you thought was great.
If your articles and content are borrowed, poorly structured, rambling, or not quite on topic, bye, bye viral! It will really put a smile on your face when you browse around your favorite social bookmarking site and see that others have bookmarked YOUR site as a "great site".
I know I was elated when I found three postings of my site in Del.icio.us and I wasn't the one that posted them!
Write every article like you mean it, put some heart and soul into it. A little humor helps too. Don't makeyour content read as if it were a service manual! The most popular sites on the web didn't reach that status by being poorly written or boring. Liven up the party a little. Show some enthusiasm.
If you have absolutely no passion for the subject you are writing the articles for.....it will show. To avoid this I suggest hiring a professional to write your articles and content for you. Ghostwriters get anywhere from $15-$30 per 500-700 word article.
Hint, hire out multiple articles at once to get a better price provided you have worked with the ghostwriter before and like their writing style.
Google has decided that duplicate content will be measured down to the sentence so at all costs avoid duplicate content like the plaque. If you are using an article writing software that goes out on the web and collects sentences from many different articles, you will still have to change a few words in every sentence in order to avoid duplicate content.
In conclusion, write it with passion, keep it upbeatand enthusiastic, KNOW YOUR SUBJECT or hire someone to do your article writing for you. Use free articles from directories for ideas, research or to compliment your level of expertise. Get a free duplicate content checker like dupefreepro.com has to make sure your articles have not been used before and you will receive the rewards of free search engine traffic.
For the resources that professional writers use, go to http://www.topshelfarticles.com/Professional_Article_Writing.html
and pick up the tools to start your publishing career.
Your Mom won't be the only one publishing your articles once you start using the right tools!
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