Article Writing - Introduction
You've probably heard of the effectiveness of article marketing in generating targeted website traffic and increasing Goggle PR. You've also most likely heard or read somewhere how a guy made thousands per day using article marketing alone, and how another guy increased his website's PR from 0 to 5 in 3 months using article marketing. Well, these are probably true. I've had my own success with article marketing. Using article marketing alone, I've converted a brand-new, zero-visitor website into a PR 4 cash cow machine making me at least $1200/day within 3 months. I've also helped others do the same. But before you get carried away and start dreaming of money tree and wishing well, lets get back to the core of article marketing, that is Article Writing.
The words "article writing" may cause a lot of people to grip with fear, but fear not my friend, for article marketing is actually not as fearful as it seems to be. I've never written a single article before I started doing business online. Writing my first 5 articles was a struggle. But once I get a grasp of the whole process, it became natural and easy. Below are some methods to write articles depending on your ability and financial capability.
The words "article writing" may cause a lot of people to grip with fear, but fear not my friend, for article marketing is actually not as fearful as it seems to be. I've never written a single article before I started doing business online. Writing my first 5 articles was a struggle. But once I get a grasp of the whole process, it became natural and easy. Below are some methods to write articles depending on your ability and financial capability.
Article Writing Methods
Write Your Own Articles from Scratch
This is probably the most ideal method. It's free. In addition, writing your own article improves your writing skill.Everyone has their own way of writing articles. Here's my way of doing it. First I make an outline/skeleton of the important elements of the article. Then I add the meat. Where do I get the meat? Research! Google is my best friend. Here are some websites that might be useful to you:
A word of advice: Do not copy the content from other websites word by word. Plagiarism will get you into trouble sooner or later. Instead, do your research, then write in YOUR OWN words. Don't forget to run your article through a spelling and grammar checker. Microsoft Word® has it.
Learn How To Write
How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
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How to Write: Communicating Ideas and Information
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How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation, Revised Edition
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How to Write It: Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write
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How to Write for a General Audience: A Guide for Academics Who Want to Share Their Knowledge With the World and Have Fun Doing It (APA Lifetools)
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Rewrite PLR Articles
This is the method I used the least. Well, actually I never used it before. Let me tell you why. The web is already full of junk and rehashed articles. If you've tried searching for content/articles for your website or ezines on any well-known article directories, you'll find tons of worthless, rehashed, rewritten junk. In the early days, there was no such problem. I could find a high quality article for my ezine easily. Now I had to wade through tons of junk to find an acceptable article. As time passes, some marketers who wanted something for nothing started jumping into the article marketing bandwagon. Suddenly, lots of junk were produced. The problem becomes more severe over time and persisted till today, sadly. As an ethical marketer, why contribute more to the problem?
Another reason why I don't use rewriten PLR articles is why would I want my name and website to be associated with such low-quality articles? Don't forget when you submit your article to an article directory, it gets distributed and probably republished on thousands of other websites, and viewed by thousands of surfers. Unless you don't care about reputation, then that's probably not what you want.
With that said, if you're still interested, use the search engine to find and compare websites that sell PLR articles. Good luck with your search!
Another reason why I don't use rewriten PLR articles is why would I want my name and website to be associated with such low-quality articles? Don't forget when you submit your article to an article directory, it gets distributed and probably republished on thousands of other websites, and viewed by thousands of surfers. Unless you don't care about reputation, then that's probably not what you want.
With that said, if you're still interested, use the search engine to find and compare websites that sell PLR articles. Good luck with your search!
Article Writing/Rewriting Software
Initially, I decided not to list this method here for fear that unscrupulous marketers would try to use them to make quick bucks. But I eventually put it here to help others avoid the pitfall I encountered. Let me tell you this, I've tried nearly a dozen of so-called article writing/rewriting/spinning software. Nearly all of them produced junk articles. Some simply replaced words using a thesaurus, some scrambled sentences and paragraphs, and some grabbed a similarly themed paragraph from the internet and append it to my PLR article. The aim is to make the article unique. Well, the article did become unique to a certain extent BUT it was garbage to the reader.There was this software which promised to write high-quality unique articles in minutes. It turned out that this piece of crap grabbed the content from different websites/sources on the Internet and arranged them into a unique article! No wonder it was so fast! But I was lucky I didn't get sued for plagiarizing the content of others!
Nuff said.
The only software that I use now is Microsoft Word®. In fact, any decent word processing software would do the work fine. So don't waste your hard-earned money on article writing/rewriting crap!
By the way, a marketer friend of mine recently gave me (for a reason) an article writing software he said is worth around 300 bucks. He said this software is different from the rest. I doubt it. Anyway, I'll give it a try and let you all know the results in the coming days ;-)
Learn How To Rewrite Your Articles
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
Amazon Price: $10.04 (as of 12/17/2009)
Rewrite Right! : Your Guide to Perfectly Polished Prose: 2nd Edition
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Getting the Words Right: How to Revise, Edit and Rewrite
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Hire Others to Write Articles for You
If you have the money to spend, this is probably the best and effortless method to use. You get high quality articles and save numerous man-hours which could be used to develop and improve your website.There are hundreds if not thousands of ghost and freelance writers around the globe who can help you. Shop around and you'll surely find one that suits your needs. Don't forget to request for a sample article before you commit.
Learn How To Ghost Write
Ghostwriting: For Fun & Profit (Writeriffic Writer's)
Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 12/17/2009)
Ghostwriting (Writing Handbooks)
Amazon Price: $11.01 (as of 12/17/2009)
Six-Figure Freelancing
Amazon Price: $12.78 (as of 12/17/2009)
Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How to Win Top Writing Assignments
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/17/2009)
The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (The Renegade Writer's Freelance Writing series)
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 12/17/2009)
Article Submission
Now that you have your articles ready, what do you do? Submit them to the article directories! Here are some article directories that I recommend:
Write Better and Faster
Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 12/17/2009)
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Mentor)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 12/17/2009)
Rock 'N Learn: Writing Strategies
Amazon Price: $17.99 (as of 12/17/2009)
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 12/17/2009)
Success is Yours
If you've written your articles correctly and you've submitted them to the article directories successfully, congratulations, you're on your way to becoming the next Internet Millionaire (provided you have a terrific website and product ;-) See you at the top! What Writing Articles Used To Be Like
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- roysumit roysumit Sep 15, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
- Great lens with lots of useful info. Will revert to this page again. Thanks for sharing.
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- spirituality spirituality May 15, 2009 @ 9:01 am
- Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
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- richard_wheeler richard_wheeler Apr 25, 2009 @ 12:38 am
- Very nice lens. I listened to the video. Newspaper equipment has changed. Instead of using typewriters to write the story, editors now use his or her computer to type. Instead of using pay phones, many reporters I sure now use cell phones, and printing are now run by an computerized machine rather manually operated. However, newspapers still need people to change ink cartridges for the printers plus monitor the machines daily activities plus repair them.
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- d-artist d-artist Mar 28, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
- very useful information in this lens...5*
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- MUJERDEEXITO MUJERDEEXITO Mar 25, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
- Writing is one of my passions. I found this information very useful. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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- MUJERDEEXITO MUJERDEEXITO Mar 25, 2009 @ 1:46 pm
- Writing is one of my passions. I found this information very useful. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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- rydigga rydigga Jan 7, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
- Great tips, thanks for sharing! One of the best practices that I've found is to go back to your article the next day and do a good re-read of it. I'm able to find the typos and those phrases that just don't sound right.
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- a-ha-design a-ha-design Dec 20, 2008 @ 12:15 am
- Great information! Thanks for sharing. :)
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- Jesi Jesi Nov 11, 2008 @ 2:16 am
- Very useful information which is providing us a really good and easy way to write, and If possible make a link and send us all of article rewriter software... Thanks for good lens. 5 stars
I want to write more articles for my sits Best Room AC and Health Food
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- Lucky50 Lucky50 Nov 9, 2008 @ 1:12 pm
- Time to get back to basics. lol.
I always heard, life begins after 50.
If , you don't have it by now- you don't need it.
Now, that I 've reached that mark- I belive it to be true.
Writing is one of the best way to reach the soul of readers.
Time to sharpen my pencil .
Buy, extra erasers!
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- Tiddledeewinks Tiddledeewinks Nov 2, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
- I don't write much except on Squidoo now!
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- Irenemaria Irenemaria Oct 10, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
- Good lens! I appreciate this a lot.
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- lc2u2 lc2u2 Sep 30, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
- Nice lens. I recently branched out into article writing and find all info on it valuable. Thanks for taking time to make this lens.
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- real_estate_hawaii real_estate_hawaii Sep 30, 2008 @ 12:45 am
- Thanks for pointing put out those great ideas, it helps a lot. Original content is really important.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Sep 29, 2008 @ 6:30 am
- Thank you for the tips, aprticularly the list of Article websites. Article writing is the next thing I am going to look at over the next few weeks so I will be back. 5*s and favourited so that I know when you update.
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- moneyman17 moneyman17 Sep 25, 2008 @ 10:45 am
- Nice group ! Visit and Submit Articles to
Free Content Articles Directory to promote your websites or blogs. also visit my blog
Internet Marketing and my Lens
Articles Marketing
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- Portable_eBay Portable_eBay Sep 24, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
- I'll wait for the article rewriter your friend gave you. Would it be possible to send me the software title? 5*
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- FilmFanatic FilmFanatic Sep 24, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
- I prefer to write my own articles if I have the time. I have not tried a ghost writer. Maybe one day when I become famous ;)
5 Stars
Christianna.
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- LensbyLisa LensbyLisa Sep 24, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
- Thanks for the nice comment on my Scooby Doo Halloween lens!
I struggle at times with writing, but I am going to try some of these tips! Thanks for taking the time to make this lens! 5*s and favorited!
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- LaraineRose LaraineRose Sep 18, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
- I hadn't even heard of a PLR article. I just write to clear my brain .. also I'm finding that I really like it. Thank you for writing this informative lens. I hope that you will write more for us. 5 stars, favorite, fan and lensrolled.
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by henrykaye
Hi, this is Henry! I've been working online for full-time since 2000. Writing and marketing are some of the things I like best. (more)
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