Article Writing The Easy Way

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.

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:

Google

Yahoo

Wikipedia

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

by: Paul J. Silvia

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/06/2009)

How to Write: Communicating Ideas and Information

by: Herbert E. Meyer, Jill M. Meyer

Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)

How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation, Revised Edition

by: Rosalie Maggio

Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)

How to Write It: Complete Guide to Everything You'll Ever Write

by: Sandra E. Lamb

Amazon Price: $14.93 (as of 07/06/2009)

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)

by: Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/06/2009)

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!

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

by: Claire Kehrwald Cook

Amazon Price: $10.74 (as of 07/06/2009)

Rewrite Right! : Your Guide to Perfectly Polished Prose: 2nd Edition

by: Jan Venolia

Amazon Price: $11.01 (as of 07/06/2009)

Getting the Words Right: How to Revise, Edit and Rewrite

by: Theodore A.Rees Cheney

Amazon Price: (as of 07/06/2009)

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)

by: Eva Shaw

Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 07/06/2009)

Ghostwriting (Writing Handbooks)

by: Andrew Crofts

Amazon Price: $11.01 (as of 07/06/2009)

Six-Figure Freelancing

by: Kelly James-Enger

Amazon Price: $13.45 (as of 07/06/2009)

Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How to Win Top Writing Assignments

by: Jenna Glatzer

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/06/2009)

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (The Renegade Writer's Freelance Writing series)

by: Linda Formichelli, Diana Burrell

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/06/2009)

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:

Ezinearticles

Artipot

Article Dashboard

GoArticles

IdeaMarketers

Write Better and Faster

Writer's Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing

Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 07/06/2009)

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Mentor)

by: Gary Provost

Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 07/06/2009)

Rock 'N Learn: Writing Strategies

Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 07/06/2009)

On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by: William Zinsser

Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 07/06/2009)

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

When it comes to writing articles many things sure have changed. Then again, many basics are still essentially the same.

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