How to Become a Writer for the Web before you get Old! Or Wrinkly or Both!

For the writer branching out on the Web there is not a better way to fine tune your writing than checking out the Article Directories and setting yourself a target to submit to a number of them. The difference between posting articles on your blog and on an article Directory is substantial.
Your blog, especially in the early days won't be getting any traffic so guess what? Nobody will see your stuff except perhaps you and your Granny.

But then again if Granny doesn't have a computer, which is possible, unless you have trained her how to operate one, then your admirers will be very thin on the ground. Yes I know if you've spent a fortune on SEO courses and How to make Money on the Internet rubbish you'll probably have tried to implement a few strategies that will get you a few visitors. All good character building stuff as your Headmaster used to say!

There's no free lunch here and a blog will take time to mature rather like a good chateau bottled Bordeaux. We are talking several years here and that assumes you are posting to the blog more than once a year!

Now to the spectre of Article Directories%u2026 there are a gazillion of them out there at the last count and probably, while you are avidly consuming this article, there will be another 100 Directories added online. But lets not get disheartened people there are a few, a very few Article Directories out there that are worth pursuing as a home for your carefully crafted work.

In the excitement of producing my first blog, which got me hooked on learning html, by the way, it seemed to me to be rather a good ruse to knock up a few articles and submit them to about a dozen article directories. Having read that this was an excellent way of getting one's work published around the globe I sat back with my second pot of Java that day and thought I had cracked the millionaire code. Three days later with sheets of newly created Analysis and Urls and stuff I sat back and waited for the money to roll in. Of course you've noticed in this short resume that there are many aspects I have missed out. That'll wait for another day!

Imagine my consternation when the first Article to http://ezinearticles.com was returned to me for breaching guidelines. Yes you've guessed it%u2026 in my enthusiasm I hadn't read ALL the small print. Not to be put off I corrected the errors and set about writing for a solid week. The other Directories were good, with varying submission criteria. The debate about Duplicate Content hadn't really started yet so it didn't seem a problem to submit the same articles to a dozen sites.

Six years on and after a two year sabbatical, Wrinkly Writer is back and with some dollars (just a few) earned from Web Writing for Blog and Website owners under his belt, he is now equipped to make the transition from (Gee wouldn't it be Great to be a Writer) to (Hey I am a writer and lets go Shake Rattle and Rock)

In another module I'll put together some more resources for people exploring Article Directories so you can cut to the chase!