Part-Time Versus Full-Time Entrepreneur Part 5

How Does One Write An Article?

In my last article in this series, I gave some great tips on the use of keywords and how you could research them for FREE.  Remember how you can use Youtube to check out “tags”?  Well, if you have since forgotten, simply go back to my blog which is listed below to read it over again.

Today, I want to give you some ideas on how you can write an article.  When writing an article, much like any essay, you must have an introduction.  Tell the reader what they are going to read, then they read it and finally you summarize by telling them what they just read.  Sounds simple enough you say….

However, you also want to have a title that catches the readers’ attention and makes them want to stop what they are doing and read it.  Now looking at my title, “How Does One Write An Article” certainly does not have a wow factor if you will, it merely is a “how to” topic.

In most cases they will attract the clientele you are looking for.  You are looking for someone who doesn’t understand a given topic and you are going to tell them how to do it.

In your introduction as well as your title you want to have your keywords appear at least once.  Then your body of your article should have it another 5-6 times but you don’t want to have it look unnatural.  So, if I were to write How Does One Write An Article for no apparent reason, then those who proof read the article are going to question your intentions.

Bottom line, you want it to read well, have flow and seem genuine.  It must also be your word and opinion, not that of another writer or you will not get ranked as high on search engines because it will be seen and labelled as duplicate content.

Lastly, my advice is post it to authority websites.  For example, Ezine Articles is an authority website and so too are places like hubpages.com and squidoo.com.  In other words, the search engines value the recommendation or input from such sites.

So my game plan if you will, is post it first and foremost to my blog.  My blog is my personal real-estate on the internet.  Secondly, I will submit it to Ezine Articles which is very well respected and an authority site in the eyes of Google.   I then would create a Hubpage and finally post it to some social sites such as Twitter and Facebook.   I would caution the use of software that may post it to multiple sites with the click of a button.  Some see value in it but the jury is still out on this technique.   Do you want duplicate content plastered all over the place or do you want traffic to come to a central location that you can call your own?  I will let you decide for yourself.  Until next time,

Cheers

Steve