Writing
an article can be an enjoyable experience. Before you decide to use it
as a way to market I suggest you practice writing an article a day about
whatever it is you're passionate about. Writing articles is not for
everyone, once you start writing articles you will see if it will be a
way you market or not.
Before you begin to think of writing, you need to have your topic in mind. Once you have your topic now you want to share your knowledge with the masses. Oh, and for a side note, DO NOT ever think your topic is invaluable or not worth writing about. This will discourage you right from the start. If you feel your topic is not worth writing your mind is not in the right state to write. Either think of another topic or do not write that day.
I want you to know whatever you write about will be valuable to someone online and frankly that is all that matters. If you can help just one person with your article then you accomplished the purpose. Now let's look into the how to's of writing an article.
First, decide what you will write about. Your sources can come from within such as a personal experience or you can find an endless supply of topics to write about by searching online. Sometimes I'll write about what excites me and other times I will find topics by reading other peoples comments from blogs. Here's a little secret... if you find comments that ask how to do something or why this is the way it is then you will immediately place yourself as a leader. YOU are a leader already it is just that some people have not met you yet for them to see the leader in you or your just not writing about what you know and sharing YOUR wisdom with others to learn. The only concern to have is your not content making any sense with what your title is about.
Once you have your topic now it's time to get in it and start typing. Yes, that is right get in it! As you think, types...as your thoughts are coming, type it out. If you stop and keep hitting the backspace button to erase what you typed you will not get it done. One way to think of it is to imagine you're having a conversation with another person face to face, on the phone, or on Skype. This will allow people to learn who you are through your writing. More importantly this is how you can brand yourself online. Many people understand that video marketing is the top way to brand yourself but I want to tell you that writing is just as important. How do you think article marketing got its name, people getting to know each other through articles? Before people started marketing with videos they used articles. So just be yourself and do not worry if your English is not perfect. You're not trying to write a term paper for a English instructor so do not worry about it OK my friends.
Now let's talk a little about your length. Some people may think an article is the same as a blog post when talking about length well it's not. You have read some blog posts that may only have 50 words in it. Well, an article is considered worthy when its words reach 400 or more. This is important when your looking to use the search engines as a means of traffic. The more content you have that is relevant with your title the better. Also, using the same words from your title in your article is helpful for the search engines. Here is another golden nugget...never use the words in your title within your content over 5% of the time. If you do the search engines will take you are trying to spam them. We all know about SPAM and how it gets on our nerves. So here is a perfect equation to use for making sure you're not spamming the search engines by using your title keywords aggressively...
• Take the amount of words you have in your article and divide that by 5.
• Next go through and make sure your title keywords are not used more than the number you came up with after dividing your total amount of words by 5.
Ok my friends now you have a better understanding of how to write an article. Before ending this I want to do a recap of what you read so the next time you read this you can just go to the bottom for the recap.
1. Decide what you're going to write about (remember that whatever you write about is OK)
2. Get in it...write as your thoughts come to you so you are being YOURSELF (very very important)
3. Make sure your content has at least 400 words.
4. Complete the equation...by dividing the amount of word you have by 5 and placing your title
keywords the same amount of times within your article(no more no less)
5. See the list of article directories below to sign up for to get YOUR value out to the MASSES
Article Directory
1. ezinearticles.com
2. articlesbase.com
3. suite101.com
Here my friends are the top three article directories to get started. There are many more you can use but these are the best to get started with.
Get To IT
David
Before you begin to think of writing, you need to have your topic in mind. Once you have your topic now you want to share your knowledge with the masses. Oh, and for a side note, DO NOT ever think your topic is invaluable or not worth writing about. This will discourage you right from the start. If you feel your topic is not worth writing your mind is not in the right state to write. Either think of another topic or do not write that day.
I want you to know whatever you write about will be valuable to someone online and frankly that is all that matters. If you can help just one person with your article then you accomplished the purpose. Now let's look into the how to's of writing an article.
First, decide what you will write about. Your sources can come from within such as a personal experience or you can find an endless supply of topics to write about by searching online. Sometimes I'll write about what excites me and other times I will find topics by reading other peoples comments from blogs. Here's a little secret... if you find comments that ask how to do something or why this is the way it is then you will immediately place yourself as a leader. YOU are a leader already it is just that some people have not met you yet for them to see the leader in you or your just not writing about what you know and sharing YOUR wisdom with others to learn. The only concern to have is your not content making any sense with what your title is about.
Once you have your topic now it's time to get in it and start typing. Yes, that is right get in it! As you think, types...as your thoughts are coming, type it out. If you stop and keep hitting the backspace button to erase what you typed you will not get it done. One way to think of it is to imagine you're having a conversation with another person face to face, on the phone, or on Skype. This will allow people to learn who you are through your writing. More importantly this is how you can brand yourself online. Many people understand that video marketing is the top way to brand yourself but I want to tell you that writing is just as important. How do you think article marketing got its name, people getting to know each other through articles? Before people started marketing with videos they used articles. So just be yourself and do not worry if your English is not perfect. You're not trying to write a term paper for a English instructor so do not worry about it OK my friends.
Now let's talk a little about your length. Some people may think an article is the same as a blog post when talking about length well it's not. You have read some blog posts that may only have 50 words in it. Well, an article is considered worthy when its words reach 400 or more. This is important when your looking to use the search engines as a means of traffic. The more content you have that is relevant with your title the better. Also, using the same words from your title in your article is helpful for the search engines. Here is another golden nugget...never use the words in your title within your content over 5% of the time. If you do the search engines will take you are trying to spam them. We all know about SPAM and how it gets on our nerves. So here is a perfect equation to use for making sure you're not spamming the search engines by using your title keywords aggressively...
• Take the amount of words you have in your article and divide that by 5.
• Next go through and make sure your title keywords are not used more than the number you came up with after dividing your total amount of words by 5.
Ok my friends now you have a better understanding of how to write an article. Before ending this I want to do a recap of what you read so the next time you read this you can just go to the bottom for the recap.
1. Decide what you're going to write about (remember that whatever you write about is OK)
2. Get in it...write as your thoughts come to you so you are being YOURSELF (very very important)
3. Make sure your content has at least 400 words.
4. Complete the equation...by dividing the amount of word you have by 5 and placing your title
keywords the same amount of times within your article(no more no less)
5. See the list of article directories below to sign up for to get YOUR value out to the MASSES
Article Directory
1. ezinearticles.com
2. articlesbase.com
3. suite101.com
Here my friends are the top three article directories to get started. There are many more you can use but these are the best to get started with.
Get To IT
David
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