Newbie article writers tend to be misled into believing that success in article marketing will happen overnight. I know, I was one of them. Have you been misled? Heed this advice about online writing. Money to Be Made I came into this profession of internet writing and marketing thinking I pretty much had it in the bag. I had written magazine articles, newspaper articles, and countless corporate financial reports. After retiring from the corporate world, I was looking for something else to do. In my research, I quickly discovered that consumers were spending a lot of money on the Internet. Consumer internet spending was on the rise. Every year it grew over the previous year. I wanted a piece of that pie. In fact, just last year, 2010, according to U.S. Department of Commerce consumers ... [Read More]

Newbie article writers tend to be misled into believing that success in article marketing will happen overnight. I know, I was one of them. Have you been misled? Heed this advice about online writing. Money to Be Made I came into this profession of internet writing and marketing thinking I pretty much had it in the bag. I had written magazine articles, newspaper articles, and countless corporate financial reports. After retiring from the corporate world, I was looking for something else to do. In my research, I quickly discovered that consumers were spending a lot of money on the Internet. Consumer internet spending was on the rise. Every year it grew over the previous year. I wanted a piece of that pie. In fact, just last year, 2010, according to U.S. Department of Commerce consumers ... [Read More]

Finding articles online and determining their page position based on a keyword is time consuming and sometimes difficult. It is not as difficult to determine the position in the search engine organic listings of your website based on a keyword. You simply use one of the many free rank checkers available on the internet. I use SEObook's rank checker to find the ranking of my sites. You name the URL of your website and list the keywords that you wanted to rank for and let the software determine the position of your website for each of the keywords in the search engines you choose. Finding articles online and finding your article's position in the search engines is another matter. It is very difficult and time consuming to find articles ranking for any given keyword. Unless you are in the ... [Read More]

Finding articles online and determining their page position based on a keyword is time consuming and sometimes difficult. It is not as difficult to determine the position in the search engine organic listings of your website based on a keyword. You simply use one of the many free rank checkers available on the internet. I use SEObook's rank checker to find the ranking of my sites. You name the URL of your website and list the keywords that you wanted to rank for and let the software determine the position of your website for each of the keywords in the search engines you choose. Finding articles online and finding your article's position in the search engines is another matter. It is very difficult and time consuming to find articles ranking for any given keyword. Unless you are in the ... [Read More]

Jason Fladlien Jason Fladlien is a former monk, rapper and house painter, turned internet marketing guru. Many people who have achieved his level of success don't like the name guru, but I believe in this case it fits. My discovery of Jason Fladlien was purely accidental. I was looking for a way to promote my network marketing business. I ran across one of his products called, "How To Write An Article In 7 Minutes". I had heard of article marketing, but didn't know much about it. Anyway I purchased it and downloaded my copy quickly. I remember sitting at my kitchen table reading this thing. My first thought was, wow! This was the first information product that actually taught me what it said it would. Not only that, I didn't have to buy 'the next' product to help me get past the stum... [Read More]

Write and submit article in 10 minutes? Are you kidding me? You have heard people claim that they can punch out an article in 10 minutes and submit articles to leading article directories in one hour or less. Well, that may be true for some, but not for me. I beg to differ. Writing articles for money isn't any different than any other job. It takes time and effort. Ten-Minute Article Myth Newbie article writers fall for this hype. I know I did. Don't be discouraged if in the beginning, it takes several hours to write, publish, and promote your articles. When I first started, I was disheartened by all the gurus who insisted that taking anytime longer that a half hour to create an article was inexcusable. I almost gave up. Some articles, like opinion articles, come right off the top of ... [Read More]

In the first article if this two-part series, "Beginning Article Marketing And SEO - Success Steps Part 1", you discovered five tips to help get you started down the article marketing path. This article will build from that article and provide a more technical look at the elements of a good article.   Note: You can find this info and more in the SEO article marketing guides mentioned below. The title of your article is its most read part. Not everyone will read your entire article, but almost everyone will read the article's title. The title is often referred to as "the hook". A good title will increase your chances of "hooking" a lot of readers. The article shouldn't be filled with really long sentences that drone on forever. After reading the... [Read More]

Article Productions is changing the face of the article marketing world. It has now become the most effective place to post content for your article marketing campaigns, and the available powerful tools will help you gain thousands of backlinks, high levels of traffic, and free syndication all in one place. Although some say article marketing is no longer effective, Article Productions is proving otherwise.   What Is Article Marketing?   Article marketing is the system of posting articles and content to various online directories that are based on your market area. They are designed to bring traffic and buyers to your website where they will then hopefully buy from you, or join your sales funnel. It is also the way many generate links and authority in their niche. The trouble i... [Read More]

Writing articles is a rewarding profession. Website content writing and blog article writing are not only monetarily rewarding, they offer you an opportunity to provide valuable information to your readers. More than likely you are comfortable with English grammar and style. Yet, there are subtle pitfalls that new and seasoned website content writers and blog writers overlook. This article identifies four pitfalls to avoid when writing good quality content. You may have read or heard that content is king; well, that is true. Writing articles is not like writing a sales letter. You should not write a sales letter disguised as an article when your reader is looking for quality information. If you plan to publish in the major article directories, your content must deliver what your title i... [Read More]

It seems like everyone and his uncle tells newbie article writers to write quality content. Content is king. But, few bother to define quality content. Just what is quality content? If you do a Google search for "quality content" without the quotes, you get over 330,000,000 results (as of this writing). Do you think there may be a few different definitions in that search? Let's restrict our Google search to "quality content writing". That limits the results to a little over 39,200,000. That is much narrower, but still a number that will give you a mind-boggling list of definitions. Since we are article marketers, we will restrict our search even further to "quality content writing for article writing" now we get a mere 7,990,000 results. We are definitely getting somewhere (smile). Bea... [Read More]