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Whenever I sit down to write an article, I face a dilemma. I have to think about writing according to a personality. It’s important for a writer to think about whether it’s going to be a search engine article or an article written for the readers. A writer would have to adopt two completely different writing styles when writing for one or the other.

When you’re writing a search engine article, you have to keep keyword-placement in mind. Where are you going to place all those strategic keywords? What are the related keywords that you’re going to use in it? And most of the time, when you’re writing a search engine article, you forego style, flowery words and fancy sentence formation. Personality-driven style of writing is not required when you are doing internet marketing.

On the other hand, when I write for an audience, a fan-base or a blog-style article, it’s completely different from when I am writing a search engine article. I try to focus on how the readers will absorb the information, perceive my expertise, how easy it would be for them to go through the words, what I am trying to highlight to them, etc.

A search engine article is also shorter than an audience-driven article, hence, sometimes, they make no sense whatsoever. The main purpose of writing the article is….yes, internet marketing. Most internet marketers will tell you that an article written for the purpose of internet marketing should adopt the 5% keyword-density rule….which means that if you are writing an article of about 500-word article, you should have right about 25 or so keywords and related keywords in there! Some people believe in the 3% rule or the 4% rule….well, it’s completely up to you how many keywords you want to place in the article but this is what the experts conclude, so, you might want to take that into consideration.

It’s easier to write an audience-targeted article when compared to writing a search engine article, nevertheless, I always try to kill two birds with one stone. I do this by giving all my articles enough personality to qualify it as an audience-driven article but it is also packed with keywords.

You might want to try that out yourself.

This isn’t quite the kind of life-changing articles you can easily find elsewhere on the web but it has its points. Sometimes, writing articles quickly can work to your advantage….tremendously. I am planning on coming up with a video to illustrate to you how one can write an article without mulling too much about the intricacies of using bombastic words or taking too much of your time.

In the meantime, enjoy this article and absorb what you can from it.

Cheers, Marsha

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Writing Articles Quickly
by Al Lifeson

Nobody disputes that writing articles is a great way to promote a website or product. But it can also be time consuming. So how do you write good producing articles quickly?

First you must understand that there are two different approaches you can take when writing your articles. You can either try to give away a freebie in exchange for an email address, or you can try to make direct sales.

The following advice is given to those who wish to make direct sales by getting readers to click to a sales page where a product can be bought. It can be used to get sign ups and the like, but longer articles seem to do better for that while shorter ones seem to work best for direct sales. At least that is my experience.

Most article sites only require a minimum of 250 words. I can write those in 15 minutes or less. So can you and here is how.

First, give the article a short title using decent key words. For direct selling purposes, using a benefit as the title is best.

Next, write a simple statement and follow it with the question you are about to answer. The statement is just a lead in to the question and should point out a benefit to be derived from the problem you are solving, and what the problem is.

Then just answer the question like you were talking to someone, but write the words instead. All you need is three or four good sentences for the body of the article, and add a few sentences here and there that make sense but really only serve as filler.

Close the article by touching on the benefit of the product you are selling.

Most people are scared to write articles and that’s why they don’t do it. Others have tried and found that no one was clicking their links, so they give up.

Just start writing short articles and posting them. As many as you can, even if they are not perfect. There is no better way of learning to write articles quickly.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Now let me show you how to get the readers to click your link.

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There is no doubt that article marketing is one of the best and most powerful strategies for traffic generation.

The problem is how do you generate enough articles to drive the level of traffic you desire and need? As my friend and colleague Jeff Herring is fond of saying

The greater your article volume the greater all your other numbers will be.” This includes traffic and visitors to your web sites and blogs.

So how do your solve the problem of creating a high article volume, Especially if you do not like to write.

Here’s my solution

My solution is to “write with your mouth and not with your hands.” Ok, Alex, nice play on words, but what does that mean for writing more articles?

As I teach my teleseminar students, you can write several articles when you speak on a teleseminar. In fact, you can write between eight and twelve articles each time you conduct a sixty to seventy minute teleseminar.

Here are the steps:

Step 1 - Choose a specific topic within your niche - Create your Action Guide for the teleseminar, invite your list and community, and then conduct your call. Schedule it for sixty to seventy minutes. You can take one of your articles and grow your teleseminar from there. Remember your article is a great outline for your call and action guide.

Step 2 - Record your teleseminar - You should record all your teleseminars, even if you are just starting out. You never know when you are going to be “on” and say some really great stuff. You want to capture it. Most teleseminars services provide a way to record your teleseminars. You always want to have a back up recording as well.

Step 3 - Have the recording transcribed - You can easily pull 8 to 12 articles from the transcript of an hour long teleseminar. With a good transcript, you can simply copy, tweak and paste.

And that is how you write with your mouth and not with your hands to increase the number of your articles.

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Even with Copyscape, we would have to admit that it’s hard to put a radar out for every one of the content that you put on your website or article directories. Even Google can only do so much to protect, detect and ban sites that copy your website content. We all know how much time and effort you’ve put into producing top-quality, up-to-date information and articles for your readers….we all know that but do people care?

That’s the thing…they don’t give two hoots how much effort you’ve put into your content. All they know is that they find it incredibly convenient to copy your content and place it into their websites.

The sad part of this is that not only do website owners copy others’ work, freelance content writers do that too. It’s something I call the easy way out because if you’re a writer, you can do the following and get away with most search engines. (more…)

Amy is eighteen and she has been spending months, five to be precise, practicing this one song that she would be performing for her music school’s concert. She toils over each note, each dynamic, each tone meticulously and to everyone else, she plays the song PERFECTLY. And yet, Amy’s not satisfied with her song. She laments to her mother, “But it’s NOT perfect. There’s something missing about the song”.

Her mother nods her head understandingly, “I don’t know what it is but you’ll figure it out”.

Amy nods away sadly, wondering what to do with her less-than-perfect piece. One day, while she was mindfully playing the piece in her music school’s display unit, which is displayed publicly, an experienced pianist walked up to her.

“That’s a nice song”, she commented. “You played it well”

Amy says, “Thank you. But it’s missing something, don’t you think?”

The pianist nods but smiles kindly, “Yes, it is. It’s missing flavor”.

Then it hit her, Amy’s been playing the song without putting herself into the music. Instead, she’s been putting her whole heart into memorizing the notes and the beat that she’s forgotten about the flavor of the music. (more…)