Article Writing
By admin | May 8, 2008
Article writing is a major consideration in any serious traffic generation profile - and to make sure you’re getting the most out of article writing, you need to understand the basics of why they work.
Article marketing is simple, and effective basically because it’s hands off. You can use articles as viral marketing - the back links that sites like E-zine articles (http://E-zinearticles.com/) and other article marketing sites alone make it a valuable and viable contribution to your article marketing projects.
Its important to remember though, you’ve got to actually work at it - article marketing is a high quality form of marketing - you’ve got to make sure that the final product reflects well on you - not only to get them accepted, but also because this article will be your ‘face’ on several sites. Article reprints spread far and wide, and the best ones can carry on for far longer than you’d normally expect.
Once you understand how they work, you can work with the methods that make them so successful, and go from standard success to stellar in a couple of simple steps.
What you’ll need
Article writing or production is simple - take some PLR or an article concept, stick it into your word processor and that’s about it. Depending on where you want to send your articles will depend on what exactly you’ll need next.
You’ll also need to get accounts with sites you want to submit your content to - and check out their guidelines. Make sure you understand the rules on keywords specifically, as it’s the single biggest ban reason - once you do, you can find some great traffic goldmines writing for other sites, with your own links in the bio.
Writing a bio
Bios are simply a brief description of who the author is, and further links to contact, or read more by them. Most bios relate directly to the information that are being shared in the articles – and will share one or two urls relating to the subject at hand – in your case, your site, or sites. Using articles to promote your sites will, of course, mean that you should promote the sites in question, without shunting traffic through intermediaries. Which, in turn, means that if you’re offering reprints on your site, you should archive them on the site, with a current bio in place.
Writing:
Content writing isn’t easy and for that reason, you might want to consider taking a day of time to brainstorm, write and submit. You can write articles in a couple of hours - submitting itself can be done when you have a spare couple of minutes - but the most important thing to remember, and keep firmly in site is the quality of your writing.
You may think that you’re not a good writer, but anyone and everyone has some writing ability - it just takes a certain mindset to actually commit the words to paper - a mindset that professional writers take years to hone.
Hiring a writer
You CAN hire a writer - there are lots of places you can find a good writer, or writers, including Getafreelancer.com and elance.com - but for every good writer, there are tonnes of poor ones. Its important to know what to look for in a good writer.
Can they articulate WHY they are a good writer? ” I is da bomb!” really isn’t a vote of confidence for anyone’s writing abilities. Its important to look at how well their personality shines through their CV, and how well they express themselves.
Style or substance? If their style fits yours then they might be a better fit than someone with an impeccably written CV with no feel of style to it. Substance too is important, if they can express ideas readably, you’ll find that they are entertaining, enthusiastic and engaging, and therefore, make better articles to read.
What are their clips like? - if they’ve got clips, review them, and get a feel for how they handle topics - if they are comfortable over the topics they are presenting, its another point in their favor.
Do they speak English, or at least pass as speaking it properly? - one of the biggest issues with freelancers that price themselves low is that they are possibly English Second Language writers. Which means that they’ll either have a perfect grasp of the language and genuinely be brilliant, or more commonly, they have turns of phrase that gives them alway as ESL writers. These turns of phrase WILL need to be edited thoroughly.
What are their reviews like? Do they have glowing reviews, high ratings? Information such as how they’ve handled previous contracts is very important.
Building a strong article
The first and most important few words of your article are in the title or the headline - they should indicate, or offer something that ties into the article itself, and makes sense to your reader, once they’ve read it, which means that if you name it something like ‘When life hands you lemons, build a dot com’ - it should make complete sense to the reader as to why you chose that specific title.
Once you’ve chosen and written your title (which can be before, or after you’ve written the article itself), you should move on to the first paragraphs - they should explain, clearly, the message you’re trying to share, over the course of the article, but to This is one of the primary methods that e-zine owners and newsletter producers, and of course, website owners use to choose content by.
Your title should be pithy and informational in itself.
If you’ve started your content with writing your title - you can then move on to running over the points you want to share in your article, a piece at a time. This way of sharing information makes for good, interesting articles that aren’t overly long and can focus on one or two important points that you want to share.
Article writing for the net isn’t complicated - a great formula and rule of thumb to remember is most people skim read content online, so you need lots of subheadings, and paragraphs of between three and eight lines long. You can write slightly longer, or shorter, for things like bulleted lists. This works well because people skim read - and have an incredibly short attention span.
Go easy on the exclamation points, as well. One exclamation point indicates importance or excitement… a half a dozen are just rude, and mark you as an amateur writer, which, in turn, will get you rejected from the article sites you’ve been working towards being accepted in - another sign of amateur writing is all capitals in the titles.
It’s also important to remember that people will read content by you if they’ve enjoyed you as a writer, or content provider, they will look for you again, and visit your site, which is why its of vital importance that you create a landing page from all of your articles, linked via your resource box.
Your resource box at the end of the article is the part that is most important to you. You’ll use it to direct people to your site. Its a short biography at the end of each article you produce, which anyone using the articles has to leave in place. This is why they are so good as traffic tools - these article marketing high points are just a couple of the perks.
Submitting Articles:
Once you’ve written your content to submit, you shouldn’t submit your article to everywhere that will take it. Article marketing has recently been crippled by the Google Slap, so avoiding, or at least accepting that your articles will be caught in the Google duplicate content filter (and on any search engine for that matter) is an important first step to relaxing where you send your content to.
You should choose five article submission sites to send your content to at most - recommended sites such as E-zinearticles.com, articledirectory.com and other, possibly niche based sites will give you excellent coverage of a vast market of potential readers.
While there’s lots of software that you can use to submit and produce articles, such as article architect, that you can use to automate your submissions, and working on articles, all you need do is bookmark the sites that you submit to the most, and ensure you’re building strong, interesting content on these sites, so that not only do you gain a reputation for solid content, but you’re also creating a marketability platform.
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My Internet Business
By admin | April 24, 2008
“My Internet Business” promises to become one of the top business opportunities on the Internet and the Number One choice for those looking to start a home business.
“My Internet Business” will appeal to beginning Internet entrepreneurs and seasoned marketers alike. My Internet Business is the Ultimate home business solution as it has been developed for entrepreneurs with all levels of experience.
“My Internet Business” offers
* A Turnkey Marketing System- You will have Professional Lead Capture Pages, Automated Follow-ups, A Video Guided Tour Website and an advanced Sales Center. The steps to success are provided for you.
* Proprietary products that are not available anywhere else, including a travel club and offline products as well as online products.
* Professional Business Sales Assistants that will close the sales for you. You do the marketing. You can delegate the selling to a professional or you can do it yourself.
* Affordable Start-up Fees as well as high commission top tier levels
* Residual Income from personally sponsored members sales for as long as they are part of My Internet Business.
* Professionally Managed Marketing Co-ops that will bring massive amounts of traffic to your own personal My Internet Business website
* Advanced Company Training to help you learn how to market your business and create the success you are looking for, including comprehensive and accessible video training ranging from the basic tasks of forwarding a domain to the latest and most advanced marketing methods on the web.
As with every truly great opportunity the ones who join at the beginning will be the ones who will enjoy the most success and of course, profit. The Time is now. For more information on getting involved with this awesome and potentially life-changing opportunity, follow the links below.
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So Just What is Google Adsense?
By admin | June 24, 2007
Google AdSense is a fast and absolutely ridiculously easy way for people with websites of all types and sizes to put up and display relevant Google ads on the content pages of their site and earn money.
Because the Google AdSense ads relate to what your visitors came to your site to read about, or because the ads match up to the interests and characteristics of the kind of people your content attracts, you now have a way
to improve your content pages AND make some serious bucks off of them.
Google AdSense is also a way for site owners to provide Google search capability to visitors and to earn even more money by putting Google ads on the search results pages.
Google AdSense gives you the ability to earn advertising revenue from every single page on your website–with a minimal investment of your time. So what kind of ads do you have to put up? That‘s the good part–you don‘t have to decide. Google does it for you.
AdSense always delivers relevant ads that are precisely targeted–on a page-by-page basis–to the content that people find on your site. For example, if you have a page that tells the story of your pet fish, Google will send you ads for that site that are for pet stores, fish food, fish bowls, aquariums…you get the picture.
If you decide you want to add a Google search box to your site, then AdSense will deliver relevant ads targeted to the Google search results pages that your visitors‘ search request generated.
If you‘re into upgrades, Google is now offering —AdSense Premium“, which is CPC based and, for the time being, offers less flexibility in terms of ad sizes — only banners and skyscrapers are currently available. You can apply using existing AdWords accounts, or you can request a new account. Applicants are
usually notified within a day as to whether they‘ve been accepted for the program.
Here‘s the thing you need to know: Google has no strict criteria for acceptance into the AdSense program, and Ad Sense doesn‘t hit you with a minimum traffic requirement. The only criteria they‘re really sticky about is he standard —acceptable content“ requirements, and that‘s pretty standard almost anywhere.
Google AdSense says they‘re serious about attracting quality content sites, and because of that they only allow AdSense members to serve one ad per page. This means you can‘t use AdSense for both banners and skyscrapers.(Note: banners are those horizontal ads that run up top and down bottom. Skyscrapers are the tall ads that run vertically, on the left and right of your page text.)
Once you‘ve been accepted into Google AdSense, you‘ll be able to get the AdSense advertisements on any site you own using the same ad code, provided you obey the Google guidelines. (And that‘s very, very important– more on that later.)
Your reporting doesn‘t occur in real time, but is updated regularly throughout the day. Right now, you can‘t view reports based on a domain or site basis if you run the AdSense on more than one site.
Before you sign up, you really ought to read the lengthy and detailed FAQ on the AdSense site.
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RSS Feed
By admin | June 23, 2007
Well, are you a net savvy who may fit into one of the following categories?
· You are usually in hurry and looking for something specific without wanting to waste your valuable time.
· You think staring at computer screens hours together can be tiring for the eyes. So prefer scanning text instead of reading word for word.
· You frequently end up on some webpage (not through the homepage) and do not know how it fits into the rest of the website!
· You are a person expecting the information on the web to be up-to-date.
· You like to have privacy on the information you are interested in and control over the numerous unwanted information popping and earning
your irritation.
· You welcome with great interest the latest methodologies, if that cannot only save your precious time but also prove to be a powerful, versatile method to keep you well updated faster than the conventional methods.
Are you an organization/marketer/publisher who has opted for Internet marketing strategies, having created your website and has been on the constant run to win more visitors to your site? Glance through the following points of which at least some have caught your attention at one time or the other in your path of business:
· Presence of millions of web pages gives you the challenging job of hooking the visitors who may very easily move on to somebody else’s website.
· Having spent thousands of dollars creating your website, you feel it does nothing to promote your organization. Should it not help you grow your business at least to some extent, when so much pain is involved?
· You are on a long hunt for a suitable method of conversational marketing on Internet, which can replace the so-far passive Internet marketing.
· Visitors do not trust web contents unless its credibility is clear.
· You wish to give a distinguishable look to your company with the help of a blend of audio and video elements in your website.
Whichever category you may fall into – the former or the latter – here comes an incredible solution, to your long-pondering questions! A drastic change from traditional solutions to a highly effective methodology – RSS is the buzzword, creating waves in today’s Internet world. RSS, an acronym for Really Simple
Syndication or Rich Site Summary, is a very cost effective method to bring your information to your clients and ‘to-be-clients’. It is a viable alternative to produce effective solutions to your numerous business needs.
RSS opens a new gateway to ever-flooding effective business strategies, never existed before, and creates a new dimension in the way you reach out to the public. When you, as a marketer/ businessman/company, decide to promote your business through the marketing strategies of Internet, try to take the maximum advantage of this interactive medium. When your website does not engage visitors, then your web-based promotional efforts have been crippled.
What are the means to attract visitors to your website, when there exists a million dollar question – whose website to visit? Given innumerable choices, just think of the visitor’s plight to decide which one and whether he wishes to really come back after his first visit.
RSS has a lot of advantages over the other existing methods, to turn it into the most sought-after, powerful, influential tool, which will take over the Internet world very soon, if understood fully and properly. It is basically a ‘push-based’ communication method, which can be published and subscribed to easily. It can be explained as a file containing the latest information and accessed by subscribers who are interested.
Consider a website as a real-world conversation. We need to adopt the same things just like while trying to sell our product to a sales prospect in person. RSS has wonderful features, which embody the techniques of conversational marketing in a very flexible way. Don’t you go through the following while reaching out to the visitors? Glance through and see how RSS helps:
· First, you decide your goal and try to analyze what kind of audience your website can get.
· What do the visitors get on visiting your website? Interview customers for their feedback, do a research and make changes to your website accordingly. The last part can be done very easily done using RSS feeds (which we will see in detail in the later chapters).
· The look of your website is very important. RSS has made it very easy to understand, see and feel your message for the visitors by mixing video and audio channels to your contents. Also, keep in mind that not only is it enough to have a good website but an appropriate one to your business also, to catch your visitor’s eye.
· Make your website work well in all the browsers. Your website is open to a variety of visitors who can prefer browsers of their choices. RSS is a convenient way since it works on all platforms. Most of the browsers may not face hurdles accessing RSS.
· Your website is the gold mine of information on how the public respond to what you say. RSS provides an unbelievable platform to discuss the views of the public without wasting time. Instead, you can spend your time on crafting quality contents. RSS has got many special features such as dialog facilitators, RSS radars, and automatic responders to enhance the significance of conversational marketing.
· You can collect a lot of information such as the number of subscribers, their interests, their reading frequency, the topics they are more interested in etc using RSS feeds. These are definitely going to be vital for improving your standards of business.
· Your search engine ranking reflects how good your website is! RSS increases the search engine ranking remarkably and well, again helps develop your business.
Not only these! You can go on listing down the various advantages of RSS which we will explore one by one after knowing about RSS in detail. And do not think it’s a super-techie thing that you cannot use! Once you are familiar with the tool, you are open to the amazing world of RSS and one day, sure to find yourself hooked to it! Its going to be the beginning of an unbelievable era, exploring deeper and deeper the many faces of RSS and of course, the web world, through it! Though it can’t be an all-out replacement for other technologies, it can be a standard to optimize your Internet experience. So, what are you waiting for? Get going to know more about RSS in the following chapters and unleash the power of this incredible, powerful tool!
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New To Internet Marketing
By admin | June 19, 2007
there are millions of people making a full time income on the internet, working part time hours from the comfort of their own home. These people set their own working hours, live where ever they choose and have a ton of spare time to spend with their family, friends and simply do things they love to do.
Does this sound like something you would like to be doing? Of course it is, why else would you have bought this guide!
Well rest assured, you have made the right decision by buying this guide. Because you are about to learn everything you need to know to get started on your internet business and be pointed in the right direction towards online business success.
In this guide, you will not only learn the basics of starting an internet business. But learn of the many different online business models you can choose, and even analyze over 50 successful online businesses you can imitate!
But before we get started, just so you are as existed as I am about doing business online.
Here are some of the main reasons most people decide to start an online business:
It takes very little money to start
Unlike a business in the “real world” , an online business does not need a lot of start up money. All you need as an idea, a domain name, internet access and hosting…all of which can be had for under $100!
You choose when you work
Who says you must work from 9 to 5 everyday? People who are NOT Internet Business owners! The Internet Business is the biggest proof why the statement “working from 9 to 5” is no longer true. With an Internet Business, you don’t have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning so that you can get to work by 9am, anymore. You can start work at anytime since you are your own boss!
Work from the comfort of your own home
Where you put your computer is where you will be working! And since you’re going to be working from home, you’ll be saving at least two hours of your time each day by not having to travel to and from your work place during rush hours when everybody else is going to work or heading for home. That means you’ll be saving at least 730 hours a year! Wouldn’t you shudder at the thought of wasting 730 hours a year doing nothing productive?
With the internet, the whole world is your market!
By sitting in front of the computer, everyone in the world is now within your three feet. You leverage on free or low-cost software and hardware and the Internet Infrastructure, all of which when combined will give you leveraging power that far exceeds any conventional business, allowing you to achieve more and more with less and less work!
You can fully automate your online business
If properly set up, some Internet Business models can be fully automated
No need to work 8 hours a days every single day
Once you can automate your Internet Business in some way, you can use the time you saved to start another Internet Business, improve your existing business, or spend anyhow you like. You just spend the time online checking your mail religiously, promoting and expanding your business – all in front of your computer. And there is absolutely no need to spend even more than four hours online.
Spend more time with family and friends
Owning an Internet Business gives you the privilege to have more time to spend with your family, or watch your children grow up. This is what most busy parents crave for. If you are one of them, then you will do well to seriously consider starting an Internet Business.
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