Writing your first articles can be a little intimidating. You’re not sure what to write about in your article submissions, and you’re uncertain what you should be shooting for.

If you’re just getting started writing your first articles, rest assured that it gets easier. As you get more experience you’ll have an easier time writing, and you’ll learn to write articles more quickly too.

Here Are 6 Article Marketing Tips For Beginners to Make The Process of Writing Your Own Content Easier:

1 – Take away the power of the blank page and just start typing anything–really anything that comes into your mind. Type for 3 minutes straight, and don’t worry about any spelling or grammar errors or even if what you’re typing makes sense.

Don’t worry–this is not your article. It’s simply a writing warm-up to help loosen up your fingers and get the wheels in

your brain moving. Doing a writing warm-up is painless–there is nothing that you need to live up to, and you really can’t make any mistakes. As easy as it is, it has a huge impact on your ability to write your real article. You’ll find that on the days when you took the time to do a writing warm-up, your fingers move more easily and you’re better at expressing your ideas in words.

2 – Don’t expect to finish your article in one sitting–this is a process.

After you’ve finished your first draft, put your article away for a day or so and give your brain a rest from it. Then, look at your article again and refine it.

3 – In your final proofreading, be very conscious of spelling and grammar.

The quality of your article is largely influenced by correct spelling and proper grammar. Remember that your article is going to be republished all over the Internet, and your business will be linked to the article. It’s important to produce a piece of content that reflects well on you. A well-written article also has a much better chance of being accepted at the publisher level.

To proofread your article, try reading it backwards, starting with the last sentence and working your way to the first sentence. Reading your article out of order will help you focus on irregularities. You can also try reading your article out loud, and don’t rush it! By this time you’ve read your article so many times that you’ve almost memorized it–reading it slowly out loud helps you to get some objectivity, so that you can see your article as it really is and not just how you imagine it to be.

4 – Shoot for a word count of 400-800 words.

5 – Be sure to write articles that are educational and that teach your readers something about your niche. Stay away from sales oriented content, as that can be a big turnoff for publishers and readers.

6 – Wondering what to write about? Your topics are limited to the general topic of the website that you’re linking to from your resource box. If your website is about ballroom dancing, there’s no use writing articles about motorcycles, even if that’s a topic that interests you. Your articles should always be on the general topic of the website that your resource links to.

I hope these tips have taken some of the mystery out of writing your first articles. If you haven’t started yet, just do it. Jump in with both feet and sit down to write. It’s easier than you think, and you’ll get better the more you do it!

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One of the biggest missteps I see in online article submissions is not including a “call to action” in the author bio (resource box) at the end of the article.

You’ve just spent a lot of time and effort crafting a great title and compelling content, and then the resource box is thrown together as

an afterthought. Ouch!

The title and the article are very important, but so is the resource box. With free reprint articles, the article is where you give, and the resource box is where you get to “take” a bit–don’t forget to that part!

When you write your resource box, be sure to tell the reader what to do and why to do it. You want them to click the link in your resource box. In fact, that’s your main reason for writing the article in the first place!

You may think that you don’t need to spell out for the reader what to do because it’s obvious. In you’re head you’re thinking, “I just gave you some valuable info. Now logically you should want to find out more at my website.”

It would be great if people actually thought like that, but unfortunately that’s not the way it works.

There was a great copyrighter who once said that the more specific you are in your instructions to your reader, the greater likelihood that they will do what you say.

If you don’t give any instructions at all, then it’s not likely that the reader will do what you want. However, if you tell the reader what you have waiting for them at your website and what to do to get that promised reward, you’ll have a good chance of getting some clicks.

It can be as simple as saying “For more information, go to my website.”

Ideally you will give the reader a compelling reason to click the link going to your site. For example:

• A free e-book

• A newsletter with fresh information on this topic

• A free e-course

• A helpful product or service

When you’re trying to lure the reader to your website with a “call to action” in the resource box, be sure that you don’t get too sale-sy, as you don’t want to scare readers off by sounding like you’re just trying to get them to buy something. Your educational article has just done a great job of getting the reader’s defenses down and giving them information that they appreciate.

Keep it simple–just saying “For a free e-book, go to”, “For a free report, check out” or “For more info, go to” will get the job done!

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Most article directories will offer each author their own RSS feed for their articles. Whenever you publish an article, your RSS feed will be automatically updated with your latest content.

What is RSS? It stands for Real Simple Syndication.

RSS is a way for online content to be syndicated (shared, republished on the web, etc).

Have you ever wondering if there’s anything that you can do after you submit your articles to help increase your article distribution? Yes, there are quite a few things that you can do with your author RSS feed to bring more exposure to your articles:

1 – Market Your RSS Feed on Your Website

The RSS icon is widely recognizable–you’ve likely seen the orange and white icon on several sites. Underneath it you may see instructions like “Subscribe to this blog’s feed” or “Subscribe to my article feed”. You click the link or the icon and then you can easily subscribe to have new content sent directly to your RSS feed reader.

When you’re marketing your own author RSS feed, you want to be sure to have an icon like this on your website or blog. Be sure that the instructions are clear about what the RSS is for–it’s to receive your latest articles.

2 – Another Place Where Your RSS Feed Can Get a Lot of Attention is a Feed Aggregator

Aggregators index RSS feeds, and they provide a way for people to read the feeds that they’re subscribed to.

People can search for feeds on their topic of interest, and your RSS feed can show up in the list of results once it has been added to the aggregator. Here are some to add your feed to:

Bloglines

Reddit

Pipes (from Yahoo)

Google News

Friendfeed

3 – Bookmark Your Author RSS Feed

Social bookmarking sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon, Newsvine, Friendfeed, Slashdot, and many others can be used to bring your article feed to the attention of people interested in your niche. All you have to do is set up an account at the bookmarking site and follow their instructions for bookmarking. When you do so, you will be asked to add tags that identify the topic of the web page that you’re bookmarking (in this case, it’s the web page that your author RSS feed is on). Be sure to pick tags that clearly identify what the topic of your content is.

4 – Add Your Feed to Your Web Site or Blog

For instance, in the side bar or on a web page, you can use your RSS feed to post automatic updates of your latest articles, showing the title and the short description. When someone clicks on the title of your article, they will be taken to a web page that shows the full article. This is a great way to keep your readers informed of your latest articles.

There are even more things that your article feed is useful for–did you know that publishers can use it to automatically update their websites with your articles?

5 – Index Your Feed With The Search Engines

When people do searches on Google and the other search engines, RSS feeds can pop up in the results. Sometimes people in your target marketing will be searching for RSS feeds for content such as yours. In order to benefit, though, your feed needs to be indexed in the search engine. Just like your web site can get many more visitors if it shows up in Google’s rankings, so can your RSS feed.

Here are some places where you can add your author RSS feed link:

Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Yahoo: http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php

Bing: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

6 – Your Author RSS Feed Can Be Used to Post Automatic Updates to Your Twitter and Facebook AccountsYou can use a free service such as TwitterFeed to accomplish this.

Your author RSS feed has more uses than you probably expected! If you’ve feeling a bit overwhelmed, take things one step at a time. Just try one of these simple ways to use your RSS feed

to bring more exposure to your articles. All of these are one shot deals–do them just one time, and you’re set!

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Many believe that article marketing and writing articles to promote their website or product to be dead, particularly after the Panda algorithm update, also known as the Farmer algorithm modification, that was introduced to certain areas by Google in February 2011. There is no need to go into the details of th

is algorithm update other than to note that it was designed to weed out poor articles.

Article marketing dead? In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth! This is a myth spread by those that either cannot write, or would prefer you to purchase their SEO products rather than utilize the very simple technique of writing articles. They even used the term ‘bum marketing’ in order to denigrate a very valid and generally successful technique that can be used to drive traffic to your website and enable you achieve high Google listings with no more than a good writing ability.

Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Naturally, those that cannot write take umbrage that so many people can force their web pages into the top echelons of Google’s web page listings with a minimum of effort, and no knowledge other than an ability to write and an understanding of their niche or subject.

This will not end, at least not in the foreseeable future, unless Google decide to punish genuine content in favor of manufactured back-links and ‘spider bait’ hidden in the murky depths of their HTML, CSS or Java script. Those of us that simply write about our topic with all the experience we have would have to be ignored for this type of subterfuge to take precedence, and the Google technical people are well aware of the fact.

So how exactly can article marketing help you to get more traffic, and by definition, sell more product? Simply by providing those interested in your product or the niche it represents with interesting information on that niche. You cannot use article marketing to directly market goods, and writing articles should be restricted to providing useful information to those that read them, and who may be interested enough in the topic to visit your website link in the resource section. That’s where you market the goods.

Using the Resource Box

For example, if you are selling a book explaining to people how they should write articles in a way that they attract visitors to their website, you may offer information on the best way to write articles: how to link the opening paragraph to the following sentence, and how to use your resource box. However, for that article to be published, you must not mention any product you are selling – simply provide a link in the ‘resource’ section that readers can click to get to a selected page on your website.

That’s where you make your sales pitch! That’ s where the glove

s are off, and you focus on selling your product or service. Not in the article, or it will be declined by the directory or ezine. There are other publications that permit this, but not genuine article directories. Article marketing can be defined as marketing by means of published articles. It can also be defined as marketing your article: if you market your article well enough, then it will be read and the reader may be persuaded sufficiently by your arguments to click to your web page for more.

Article Marketing Lives!

Neither writing articles nor article marketing are dead. In fact they may be the one constant throughout the history of Internet marketing. People will always read good, informative and interesting content, but not always boring websites full of nothing but adverts.

The latter is one of the targets of Panda – to de-list web pages that do not contribute to the Google users’ experience in terms of information on the search term they employ to find information. Writing articles is an excellent way of contributing to that experience and attracting the interest of readers, and article marketing is how you use that interest in order to achieve the objective you had in mind when you built your website.

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New writers as well as experienced writers like myself are always looking for strategies, techniques, and shortcuts for becoming a better article writer and marketer.

It’s no secret, that the better you write, the more credibility, visibility, and traffic you will generate to your website. Of course this is all directly related to your income. Good articles bring qualified traffic, and qualified prospects convert!

I see that a lot of my clients get stuck writing often or at all on their topic because of several pitfalls and roadblocks.

Learn how they affect how you write and what you can do to avoid them once and for all…

1. Reading Emails Mindlessly

Mindless email browsing can stop you from writing productively. It is almost inevitable that once you log into your computer, that you are drawn to your in-box. I certainly am. In fact, I haven’t been able to stop checking my email when I first get on the computer, but what I have had to do is time myself.

I give myself 10 minutes to check emails, and another 5 minutes to answer any pressing support questions. That’s it. Then I write. Anything else can wait until I’ve finished writing my articles for the day.

2. Beautiful Writing Environment

Some of us must have a clean and orderly desk and some of us write in total organized confusion. Guess what, there is no such thing as organized confusion. You simply have to get organized. You must. If your work area is cluttered, so are your thoughts, and so is your writing.

Make your writing environment beautiful and pleasing to you. I enjoy candles, plants, I have my degrees and certificates framed on my wall, I have pictures of my family up and other things around me that make me smile:)

3. Belief System About Writing

Consider what your belief system is around writing. Do you think that it’s only for smart people? Do you think it’s only for businesses folks? Do you think writing is an impossible task? You have to change your preconceived notions about writing if you ever want to actually enjoy writing.

This may be the biggest issue for many writers. If you think that you can’t write, or are a bad writer, or have nothing to say – then that is your truth. But is that truly your reality? I doubt it. Writing like most things gets better with effort, practice, and confidence.

4. Lack Of Research

Make sure you research what the people in your niche want to read. When you write what people don’t want to read, you don’t get good results and that will directly impact how you “feel” about writing the next article.

5. Too Busy With Other Things In Your Biz

If you are doing everything in your business, that can greatly impact your writing. People often say how time consuming writing is. Well – that’s because you are doing 25 other things in your business. Learn to outsource some of the mundane tasks in your business and in your life and use the extra time for strategic marketing such as writing articles and profit generating activities such as writing eBooks, info products, etc.

6. What You Read

The best writers are people who read a lot. In their niche as well as in other subject areas. Read what your competitors write. Read what your mentors write. Read what people in totally different niches write. You will widen your vocabulary. You will broaden your knowledge base. You will find a rhythm of writing that resonates with you. It will make sitting down to write your own material that much easier because you have a frame of reference.

7. Not Celebrating Your Successes

When you write an article that gets approved in a directory, or commented on on your blog, or shared, or retreated – celebrate those successes. That means your content reached someone. Touched someone. And that is something to celebrate. You are officially an author!

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Although article writing has become a big source of Internet traffic, making money from articles is more difficult today because of growing competition online. You must understand you are competing with writers all over the world who are trying to catch the attention of readers on the Internet.

You can surpass these other writers if you can energize your article writing skills. Here are a few ideas on how to do that.

1. Improve Your Article Writing Skills

Obviously you need to become a better writer if you want to achieve better results from your articles.You should have a great mastery of the language you are writing in.

You should also be able to communicate your thoughts in a simple and easy to comprehend manner. It is helpful if you can study tips on how to write better content.

Angela Booth offers free and paid training on improving as a writer and making money writing online.You can also choose to participate in writing workshops or working with other experts and writers who can provide you with useful writing tips.

2. Write Interesting Titles

You should know that an article title makes a big difference in getting the reader into the opening paragraph.

Make sure your headlines are interesting. This will help you catch the attention of the reader.

Make them well written, descriptive, interesting, well thought out, and to the point. Don’t forget to use relevant keywords so the article will potentially show up on relevant searches.

3. Write Where You Are Comfortable

I have written thousands of articles and this is a very key point. Sit down where you are comfortable. This will make it easier for you to be creative.

Buy a laptop so you can move around if you need to. This could be on the

beach, a park, a quiet home office, and so on. Surveys show that the writers create better material when they are relaxed and comfortable in their surroundings.

4. Deliver Quality Articles

You can not expect your articles to drive traffic to your website if they are not high quality.

Work hard at providing your readers with the best content you can. Fill your articles with helpful information that the reader needs. Also make sure your articles are organized and easy to comprehend.

5. Write Timely Articles

The best articles are those that

are written about current topics in the niche you are in.

Discussion forums are a great place to see what people are talking about. BigBoards.com is a good source for forums on almost every theme you could think of.

Writing fresh content, that the reader can not find elsewhere, helps make you unique. It also helps brand you as an expert in your niche.

Follow these 5 tips to become more productive in your article writing and energize your writing skills.

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To aid in your article marketing success, I’ve got a template that you can fill out in no time to come up with an article submission that is very helpful to your readers.

This Template Works Great For:

• People who have service businesses, such as a doctor, electrician, carpenter, virtual assistant, etc.

• People who own product based websites (these are websites that sell different types of products rather than services)

Your Attitude:

Imagine that you are a business coach, and a friend of yours has contacted you asking for advise on choosing a business coach for herself. For whatever reason, you are not eligible to fulfill your friend’s need, but you are an excellent source of objective information on finding a reputable person in your field.

This is an important attitude to have as you write this article. Your role is adviser to a friend, rather than candidate for the position.

Basic Guidelines:

• Don’t mention yourself or your business in the article. You can talk about that sort of stuff in the resource box, but the article should be completely about the needs of your readers.

• Write as an expert advisor who is entirely objective. You know your field very well, so you are the perfect person to give insider tips for what to look for in a business coach, dentist, pet groomer, or whatever your field is.

• Your article should be able to be used by a reader who is looking for a person in your field. You should provide helpful, insightful tips for choosing the best plumber, veterinarian, hair stylist, etc.

The Article Title:

It’s really easy…

5 Things To Look For In A [Hair Stylist, Insurance Agent, Dog Walker, or whatever your job is]

Or, if your website is product based, you can do:

5 Things To Look For In A [Trampoline, Lawn Mower, or whatever type of products you sell at your site]

Article Introduction:

This article is a list article (there are 5 elements in the list), but first you need to start off with a paragraph that will introduce your topic. In this intro paragraph, you can tell why it is so important to look for these certain indicators when searching

for this type of person or product. You may also give a warning of what could happen if proper care is not taken in selecting this certain type of person or product.

List Element:

Your list contains 5 things that a person in search of a particular type of product or person should look for.

Create your list of items to look for, and arrange them strategically. The strongest item is your #1 tip, and the second strongest is your #5 tip. You want to lure the reader in with the strongest tip and finish strong with the last tip.

Give some supporting information for each of your tips.

Be sure that your list is clearly numbered in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 fashion. Each item should have a number in front of it. Readers appreciate articles that contain numbered lists, as they are easier to read.

Concluding Paragraph:

After your list is complete, you need to cap things off with a summary. You may state again some of the most important tips you mentioned or you can focus in on one tip that stood out as the most important.

It’s also a nice touch to end with an encouraging word or a final bit of wisdom to help get your reader started.

Your Author Bio:

Also called the resource box, this is your chance to draw some attention to yourself, your business, and your website. Here is the information that you should provide in sentence form:

Give your name, your occupation, a reason why the reader should trust your advice, an incentive for a viewer to visit your website, and a link to your site.

There, that was easy! This ’5 Things To Look For’ template helps you provide helpful information to your readers and puts you in direct contact with people who are looking for someone in your field (or products that you sell).

It’s a great way to make initial contact and show your expertise. Just remember–no selling in the article body. Be an adviser in the article, and the readers will put things together when they see your resource box.

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formation.

Social media tools like Twitter and Facebook lend themselves very well to publicizing your articles. This resource will teach you how to easily update your Twitter account with a link to your latest content.

The service we’re looking at is called TwitterFeed. This is a free service that uses a RSS feed to update a Twitter or Facebook account. A RSS feed is a means by which you can syndicate content (in this case, your articles). The result is that when a new article of yours is distributed, your Twitter of Facebook is automatically updated with a link to your most recent content.

This is a most convenient way to bring attention to your articles. You can configure things one time and then let it go on auto-pilot.

The first thing that you need is a RSS feed for your articles. Most likely the article directory that you are submitting your articles to will provide you with this type of RSS feed.

The RSS feed comes in the form of a URL–it looks like a website address.

1. Go to TwitterFeed.com and set up a free account. You will need to give your name and email to create an account.

2. After creating your TwitterFeed account, the next step is to create a Feed Name and insert your RSS feed URL. Your Feed Name is a name that you make up that will easily identify the feed to you. After inserting your RSS feed URL into the form, you can click a button that will test your feed to ensure that it’s working. On this same page you can also configure some advanced options, such as specifying some prefix text for a new article update. So, you might make your prefix text say “My latest article:” or something like that.

3. Once you finish setting up your feed, it’s time to authenticate your Twitter account. Basically, Twitter wants to be sure that you are the one requesting to have these updates automatically published on your Twitter account.

When you click the “Authenticate Twitter” button on Step 2 of TwitterFeed, you are taken to Twitter.com, where you are asked to insert your Username and password to give permission to TwitterFeed to access your Twitter account.

After that, you’re all set up! TwitterFeed will monitor your article RSS feed, and when you publish a new article, your Twitter account automatically gets updated.

It’s extremely simple to use and saves bunches of time. The set up process at TwitterFeed is just a few simple steps, and everything is clearly spelled out. Just sign up for a free account and follow the instructions.

You can feel good that you’re using your Twitter account to benefit your website and bring more attention to your articles.

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If you are writing a lot of articles for your article marketing campaigns, you know that you need to write fast. Whether you are an Internet marketer who is promoting websites with articles or you are an article writer who is ghost-writing for other Internet marketers, you need to create a lot of

articles fast. Here are three article writing tips to help you write more articles in less time.

Pick a Keyword and Write 10 Article Titles Around This Keyword

If you are promoting a website, you are targeting a specific keyword in your articles. Let’s say you need to write 10 articles around this keyword. It is not always easy to come up with ideas, and usually you will write the first two articles easily but it will be harder to come up with fresh ideas for the other articles.

A good way to create articles faster it to just write 10 article titles around a keyword. For example, if the keyword is “article writing tips”, you can write the following 10 titles: Top 3 Article Writing Tips For Beginners, How To Do Your Keyword Research, Structuring Your Article, How To Make Sure Your Article Title Is Attention-Grabbing, Why You Should Target Long Tail Keywords, Why You Should Research Your Articles First, Should You Be Using Bullet Points?, How To Write a Good Conclusion, How To Write a Good Resource Box, Providing Value To Your Reader.

Once you have the titles, it will be much easier to write all the articles and you will see that you will be far more productive.

Improve Your Typing Speed

Often you will notice that your brain thinks faster than you can type. You want to write a whole sentence but if you are not typing very fast, you will sometimes lose your initial idea while you are typing the first part of your sentence. It is essential to improve your typing speed if you want to produce more content faster.

There are several ways to improve typing speed, but one of the most effective ones is to just practice by doing type races.

This can seem like a children’s game but it is actually very effective at improving a writer’s typing speed. One of the websites that offer this service at no cost is Typeracer.

You will see that after just a week or two practicing about 15 minutes per day doing races you will be able to type 50% faster or more.

Use An Article Generator

Another way of creating content faster is to use an article generator. Not everyone will like this method but it is actually very effective once you know how to use such a tool the right way. It can help you write articles in niches you don’t know well and you do not have to type every word of the article. This can be a real plus, especially if you are already writing a lot.

An article generator is basically a software program that will pull existing content from the Internet based on the keywords you enter. Once you have all this research data you need to pick the sentences you want to use in your article and structure the article. Once you have your content ready you need to rewrite it to make it unique. A good article generator will have a built-in rewriting function that will speed up the process.

Using an article generator can help you write a lot of niche articles or short blog post and even seasoned writers are using such a tool to create more content faster.

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