Tips For Writing Profitable Articles
Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Under: Blogging, Writing
Many Internet Marketers have heard how powerful Article Marketing can be, but no matter how they try, they just don’t get the desired results. As with anything in life, there is a right way and a wrong way. Unfortunately you probably don’t know what you are doing wrong. All your effort is wasted and there is usually a quick fix to your problem, but you can’t see the wood for the trees.
Here are a couple of tips. Try these and I’m sure you will see a difference soon.
1. Write to one person.
When you're writing your article, picture one person that you are writing to. This will make your writing more personal and help you to keep your readers interested in your article.
2. Use lots of white space within your article.
Using lots of white space will help you to make your article look more professional and keep more of the skim readers interested in your article.
If you have paragraphs that are too long, try to break them up into two or three paragraphs so that your article will be easier to read.
3. Double check your articles for errors.
Make sure that you haven't misspelled any words, skipped words, or used a homonym such as "their" when you meant "there."
Remember, that spell checking only catches spelling mistakes, so you'll need to go over your articles, even after using your spell checker, to find words used incorrectly and also to find words that were used twice in a row, or omitted completely.
4. Pay attention to feedback you get for your articles.
Getting or seeking constructive feedback about your articles can help you to write better, get back on track with your writing if you're in a slump, and also develop new things to write about.
Even negative feedback or criticisms can help you, if it shows you things you can work on. Just don't take everything to heart.
5. Improve your writing skills by trying different things.
When you first start writing your own articles, especially if you're new to writing, you might feel that you can only write list articles like this one.
Nonetheless, try your hand at other types of articles that you would like to write, such as “how to” articles, or “straw man” articles.
Also try writing on different subjects, that you haven't written about before.
6. Keep a file.
Keep a folder of articles you've written, that you left unfinished, or didn't feel were ready to be published. Also keep parts (i.e., tips, paragraphs, etc.), that you've edited out of your finished articles in this file.
You might be able to rewrite your unfinished articles later on, get new ideas to write about, or get a new tip or two for your list articles from this file.
7. Let others use your articles.
If you run an affiliate program, let your affiliates publish your articles with their affiliate URLs in your resource box. You'll be able to effectively increase your sales, by giving your affiliates an easy way to successfully promote your business to their visitors or subscribers.
8. Create an e-book compilation of your articles.
You could use your e-book as a bonus for subscribing to your e-zine or you could let your affiliates brand your e-book with their affiliate URLs.
If you don't run an affiliate program, you could let people brand your e-book with a link to their site or business, to get more people to offer your e-book to their visitors or subscribers.
9. Participate in article swaps.
Your swaps will help you to get your articles run in e-zines that have subscribers interested in your business.
Your article swaps can also help you to gain more reciprocal links and add more useful content to your site, if you swap articles, where you publish another writer's article on your site in exchange for the same.
10. Create a list that people can subscribe to.
Use this to announce when you've written a new article or articles. Your list will keep people up to date on new articles they can publish in their e-zines, or post on their web sites.
If you let your affiliates use your articles, to earn commissions, you can also use your list to attract more new affiliates and to keep your existing affiliates up to date on new articles they can use to promote your business.
11. Use all your articles in an e-book.
You know that its best to have your own original product. You have probably considered writing an e-book sometime.
Simply use all your articles on any particular subject, string them all together and you are half way there!
This article was originally by Ken Hill and sourced from Article Emporium. For more articles by Ken Hill and to submit your own articles to Ken's article directory visit: http://www.netpromarketer.com.
Are you having trouble creating unique high-quality content for your web sites? Do you need more content, but you are tired of spending hours and hours researching each article that you write? Well stop all that tedious manual article research, because I'm about to show you how to create high quality articles, on virtually any subject in just a few minutes! You must see Instant Article Wizard. Click here or copy this link:
http://62a7e3rjyzuz-r0a2hvyvjmlba.hop.clickbank.net/
Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering all fellow marketers particularly Southrn Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For informative articles on Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, visit Derek at http://dersalsites.com/
Here are a couple of tips. Try these and I’m sure you will see a difference soon.
1. Write to one person.
When you're writing your article, picture one person that you are writing to. This will make your writing more personal and help you to keep your readers interested in your article.
2. Use lots of white space within your article.
Using lots of white space will help you to make your article look more professional and keep more of the skim readers interested in your article.
If you have paragraphs that are too long, try to break them up into two or three paragraphs so that your article will be easier to read.
3. Double check your articles for errors.
Make sure that you haven't misspelled any words, skipped words, or used a homonym such as "their" when you meant "there."
Remember, that spell checking only catches spelling mistakes, so you'll need to go over your articles, even after using your spell checker, to find words used incorrectly and also to find words that were used twice in a row, or omitted completely.
4. Pay attention to feedback you get for your articles.
Getting or seeking constructive feedback about your articles can help you to write better, get back on track with your writing if you're in a slump, and also develop new things to write about.
Even negative feedback or criticisms can help you, if it shows you things you can work on. Just don't take everything to heart.
5. Improve your writing skills by trying different things.
When you first start writing your own articles, especially if you're new to writing, you might feel that you can only write list articles like this one.
Nonetheless, try your hand at other types of articles that you would like to write, such as “how to” articles, or “straw man” articles.
Also try writing on different subjects, that you haven't written about before.
6. Keep a file.
Keep a folder of articles you've written, that you left unfinished, or didn't feel were ready to be published. Also keep parts (i.e., tips, paragraphs, etc.), that you've edited out of your finished articles in this file.
You might be able to rewrite your unfinished articles later on, get new ideas to write about, or get a new tip or two for your list articles from this file.
7. Let others use your articles.
If you run an affiliate program, let your affiliates publish your articles with their affiliate URLs in your resource box. You'll be able to effectively increase your sales, by giving your affiliates an easy way to successfully promote your business to their visitors or subscribers.
8. Create an e-book compilation of your articles.
You could use your e-book as a bonus for subscribing to your e-zine or you could let your affiliates brand your e-book with their affiliate URLs.
If you don't run an affiliate program, you could let people brand your e-book with a link to their site or business, to get more people to offer your e-book to their visitors or subscribers.
9. Participate in article swaps.
Your swaps will help you to get your articles run in e-zines that have subscribers interested in your business.
Your article swaps can also help you to gain more reciprocal links and add more useful content to your site, if you swap articles, where you publish another writer's article on your site in exchange for the same.
10. Create a list that people can subscribe to.
Use this to announce when you've written a new article or articles. Your list will keep people up to date on new articles they can publish in their e-zines, or post on their web sites.
If you let your affiliates use your articles, to earn commissions, you can also use your list to attract more new affiliates and to keep your existing affiliates up to date on new articles they can use to promote your business.
11. Use all your articles in an e-book.
You know that its best to have your own original product. You have probably considered writing an e-book sometime.
Simply use all your articles on any particular subject, string them all together and you are half way there!
This article was originally by Ken Hill and sourced from Article Emporium. For more articles by Ken Hill and to submit your own articles to Ken's article directory visit: http://www.netpromarketer.com.
Are you having trouble creating unique high-quality content for your web sites? Do you need more content, but you are tired of spending hours and hours researching each article that you write? Well stop all that tedious manual article research, because I'm about to show you how to create high quality articles, on virtually any subject in just a few minutes! You must see Instant Article Wizard. Click here or copy this link:
http://62a7e3rjyzuz-r0a2hvyvjmlba.hop.clickbank.net/
Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering all fellow marketers particularly Southrn Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For informative articles on Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, visit Derek at http://dersalsites.com/
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Tags: article marketing profitable articles blogging tips for profitable articles
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