Michael Potter’s Internet Marketer’s Diary

As you might already know, content is king in the online arena. It is something that you must be able to offer to your potential clients so you can easily influence them to give your site a visit and trust you in the long run.

Let’s take a look at how you can become an improved content writer.

1. Keep your readers interested. It is not enough that you use convincing and attention-grabbing titles. If you want internet users to read your articles in their entirety, you must know how to keep them interested.

Use the inverted pyramid technique when presenting the information you have in hand. Also, make sure that your articles are well-written as too much errors (factual, grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors) can easily annoy your readers.

2. Your articles must flow smoothly. Nobody will spend their precious time reading articles that sound like a presentation of random thoughts. Organize your information in a logical even before you write your content and present them using readable writing formats (how-to, tips list, and question and answer formats).

By doing so, you will not only give internet users great reading experience but you will also be able to promote further reading to enhance your chances of getting these people to act on your favor.

3. Build rapport with your readers. Before you tap on your key board, visualize the people to whom you are writing your articles for. Consider them as your friends or people whom you truly care about.

Write your articles in such a way that you’ll sound like you are directly talking to them. Put these people at ease by being friendly and warm all throughout.

4. Make your articles scannable. Based on researches and studies, internet users do not actually read articles word-for-word. Instead, they skim through the content to easily find the most important information that they are looking for.

Adjust your writing style and make sure that your articles will look pleasing on the eyes. Aside from using subheadings and bullet lists, ensure that you keep your sentences brief and your paragraphs shorter.

5. Spill in the beans. By this, I simply mean offer your readers with trade secrets and compelling techniques that they will truly appreciate. If you are writing about SEO, tell them exactly how you were able to pull up your search engine ranking by doing some tricks that really works.

By doing this your readers will feel that you know what you are talking about and I can assure you that they will trust you in the long run.

Becoming a improved article writer is not hard if you follow the suggestions listed here. You can make money online with your articles by writing good quality content.

Here’s a really simple way… to promote your online business today. It makes no difference if it is a product or a service. You can start today getting some needed exposure to your site in two simple steps. That’s why I call it the “Two Step” approach.

Discovering how to get visitors to your site is a steep learning curve for most. Whether you are a beginner or a veteran, it requires some work. This article gives you a simple, yet doable plan to solve your traffic problem.

There are many ways to promote your site. Some cost you money. Some cost you time. Most cost you both money and time. Well, if you are like this author, I have a lot more time than money.

This approach is not going to cost you any money, but you will invest some time with your efforts. Sound fair to you? Then let’s get started.

Here’s the first step in the “Two Step”:

1) WRITE ARTICLES

Articles are probably the very best way for you to get some good, targeted traffic to you site.

There are many fr*ee ways to gain traffic, but none of them bring you “targeted” traffic. That’s what you really need.

Here is the second step in the “Two Step”.

2) DISTRIBUTE YOUR ARTICLES.

There are lots of ways to accomplish this. I am going to suggest a few of them. Very likely you will discover many more ways.

-Send them to other publishers who are looking for fresh content.

-Place them in article directories. (A simple search will locate many,)

-Create an article directory on your site.

-Place them in autoresponders with follow-up messages.

-Send them out with snail mail messages that you are doing.

The more articles you write, send out and publish to directories on line, the more exposure you will get and the more traffic you will receive.

Set yourself a goal to write at least one article per week and distribute it. More often if you can do it.

You will be amazed with the results, and the benefits of an article campaign can last for years and become viral as your articles are posted on other’s site.

Writing and publishing articles is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to bring your site some long term targeted traffic and links from other sites.

What are you doing to promote your site? Where will you be a month from now…a year from now?

Why not put the “Two Step” into motion for your site? It’s as easy as a waltz around the dance floor.

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I don’t know about you but when I started to try this Internet Marketing stuff I knew one of the basic elements is writing articles. Now I have tried and tried but I can’t seem to manage 5 articles a day.

I have tried doing my own but my old brain just can’t cope with the pressure, in fact my brain hurts!!!

What are the alternatives?

Out source is one and it certainly works once you have found a good honest writer. By good and honest I mean someone who writes the article themselves. You have to be so careful these days. You can find writers in forums and on elance.com I have found a brilliant writer and she is not expensive, You can pay anything from 3 to 10 USD for a 300 word article, so 5 a day will be expensive but you have to work it out. How long will it take you to do 5 articles? Could you spend that time doing something more constructive? Only you know the answer to that one.

You can get loads of free content with PLR and MRR Articles and e books, the trouble here is that every Tom Dick and Harry is doing the same as you. There are ways round it though and the best way is to re write the article yourself. Same content but in completely different words and as you have the rights anyway you are not breaking any laws.

Article Spinners, well I have tried these and I can’t say I am over awed by them. If you put the article in and then only want say 75% of the article spun it just comes out not making any sense so you have to re write the article yourself anyway, and if you want it 100% re written, I can’t even understand some of the grammer it uses so to me they are a waste of time. If anyone reading this knows of any that work I will be interested in your views.

So thats my rant and rave’s about article writing, I guess it’s because I have been sitting here since 13.00 hrs and only managed 1 640 word article lol