Writing articles is one of the best ways to get free targeted traffic to your website and isn’t as hard as you may think!
You don't need to be an expert on the topic you are writing about. Just pick an area that is related to the theme of your website, do some research using a search engine and before you know it you will have more knowledge on that subject than most.
Here are a few tips for writing your article:
* Think up a catchy headline to attract readers. If you’ve not re-written your headline at least a few times, it could probably be better!
* Try to keep the length of your article to around 500-1000 words
* Keep paragraphs short and to the point – lots of white space makes your article easier on the eye for readers
* Don’t waffle – people can become bored quickly on the internet and it’s easy to go and read another article instead.
* Don’t forget to spell check your article and if possible get someone to proof read it for you.
Once you have your article written, you must remember to add a resource box. This is your chance to tell everyone about you and your website.
If someone has taken the time to read your article right to the end, the chances are that they will be interested in finding out more. This is a great opportunity for you to gain another targeted visitor to your site.
Your next task is to submit your article, complete with its resource box to as many article directories as possible. Start by adding the article to your own website, then submit it to as many directories as you can find.
You can find a list of article directories that I have successfully used in the past on http://www.homebiz-direct.com/articleWriting.html
Alternatively, just type “Article Directories” into Google and start working your way through the 2.1 million results returned!
Finally, the best part ... After a few days you will begin to see your article appearing all over the web.
The beauty of submitting to article directories is that other webmasters go there to search for content for their own websites or newsletters, so you may find your article in places that you didn't expect for months, or even years to come.
Still not convinced? Here are a few more good reasons for you to start writing:
1. Improved Search Engine Positioning – all these high quality links to your web page from content rich pages will increase your popularity with the search engines
2. Increased credibility for you – it will help to brand you as an expert in your field
3. Free Advertising – you have the opportunity to advertise yourself and your site through your resource box
4. You can use your articles to add original content to your own website and send to the subscribers of your own ezine
5. It won’t cost you a penny!
Writing your first article can be scaryArticle Search, but the rewards gained from doing so are more than worth the effort!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Suzanne Morrison is the webmaster and owner of How to Start an Internet Business. Visit her site to find out more free ways to promote your website or download the free 30 days to Success ebook
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
How To Turn Your Old Articles Into A Profitable E-mail Workshop!
If you've written numerous articles, you can use them to further promote yourself and your business, e-zine or web site.
You can re-use your old articles by transforming them into another form of promotional tool.
And one way to re-use them is by turning them into an e-mailworkshop. By doing so, you'll be able to offer a new productthat will help you establish your credibility as a businessowner, e-zine publisher or web site owner.
Even though you'll make use of old articles, you won't be offering a re-hash.
Why? Because once you transform your old articles and gatherthem together to form an e-mail workshop, you add a more focused learning dimension to them. For this, you're able tocreate a new and effective marketing tool.
So how do you do it? In a nutshell:
1. Gather all your articles and find a common theme among them. If you've written a number of articles aimed for beginning online business owners, these articles can make up one e-mail workshop. Your e-mail workshop can be a short one (2-4 articles) or a long one (5 or more).
2. When you've identified a common theme, arrange your articles in a way that provides some sort of logic or flowto them.
3. Assign one article as one e-mail module. If you're using 4 articles, your e-mail workshop would consist of 4 modules.
4. Take a good look at each article. Does it look like you can weave the activities within 'lessons' or will it require you to separate the 'lessons' from the 'assignments' -- information first (your re-written article) and then hands-on activities or tests after?
5. Do your articles use the 'you' voice? If not, re-writeas if you're telling your friend a story. Do your articlessound formal? Even though you're 'teaching' something, strive to keep it lighthearted. Be engaging and friendly, but never be too flippant or condescending.
6. Include additional resources at the end of each module. These resources could be online references and researches,and even more intensive lessons.
7. Proofread.
8. Insert your promotional texts in the beginning, middle or end of each module. However, don't overdo this. People whowill request your e-mail workshop are going to see throughyou once they find out that your promotional texts faroutweigh the lessons and valuable instructions in youre-mail workshop. Put value over the content of your e-mailworkshop first and your workshop takers will trust you and believe in your expertise.
9. Put your e-mail workshop on autoresponder and set thetime each module will be sent. You can use free or fee-basedautoresponders.
Before you announce your e-mail workshop, test and re-testit first. When you're certain everything is fineFree Articles, go aheadand announce it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In "How to Create and Profit from Your Own E-mail Workshops in 3 Days or Less!", Shery includes e-mail workshop outlines and modules she has created and used to sell copies of her other e-books, and promote her sites and fee-based e-mail workshops. And yes, you *can* copy them so you can have your own e-mail workshop up and running in 3 days or less! Visit http://EmailWorkshopsHowTo.com today.
You can re-use your old articles by transforming them into another form of promotional tool.
And one way to re-use them is by turning them into an e-mailworkshop. By doing so, you'll be able to offer a new productthat will help you establish your credibility as a businessowner, e-zine publisher or web site owner.
Even though you'll make use of old articles, you won't be offering a re-hash.
Why? Because once you transform your old articles and gatherthem together to form an e-mail workshop, you add a more focused learning dimension to them. For this, you're able tocreate a new and effective marketing tool.
So how do you do it? In a nutshell:
1. Gather all your articles and find a common theme among them. If you've written a number of articles aimed for beginning online business owners, these articles can make up one e-mail workshop. Your e-mail workshop can be a short one (2-4 articles) or a long one (5 or more).
2. When you've identified a common theme, arrange your articles in a way that provides some sort of logic or flowto them.
3. Assign one article as one e-mail module. If you're using 4 articles, your e-mail workshop would consist of 4 modules.
4. Take a good look at each article. Does it look like you can weave the activities within 'lessons' or will it require you to separate the 'lessons' from the 'assignments' -- information first (your re-written article) and then hands-on activities or tests after?
5. Do your articles use the 'you' voice? If not, re-writeas if you're telling your friend a story. Do your articlessound formal? Even though you're 'teaching' something, strive to keep it lighthearted. Be engaging and friendly, but never be too flippant or condescending.
6. Include additional resources at the end of each module. These resources could be online references and researches,and even more intensive lessons.
7. Proofread.
8. Insert your promotional texts in the beginning, middle or end of each module. However, don't overdo this. People whowill request your e-mail workshop are going to see throughyou once they find out that your promotional texts faroutweigh the lessons and valuable instructions in youre-mail workshop. Put value over the content of your e-mailworkshop first and your workshop takers will trust you and believe in your expertise.
9. Put your e-mail workshop on autoresponder and set thetime each module will be sent. You can use free or fee-basedautoresponders.
Before you announce your e-mail workshop, test and re-testit first. When you're certain everything is fineFree Articles, go aheadand announce it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In "How to Create and Profit from Your Own E-mail Workshops in 3 Days or Less!", Shery includes e-mail workshop outlines and modules she has created and used to sell copies of her other e-books, and promote her sites and fee-based e-mail workshops. And yes, you *can* copy them so you can have your own e-mail workshop up and running in 3 days or less! Visit http://EmailWorkshopsHowTo.com today.
The RIGHT Way To WRITE Articles
As a follow up to my previous article on the WRONG way to write articles (see link at the end), this article shows you the RIGHT way to write articles.
As you no doubt already know, writing articles is probably the most effective way to promote your web site - by writing your article in the RIGHT way, you maximize the results you can achieve from your article submissions. With your article published on heaps of web sites, and in several ezines, it's enough to set your traffic counter spinning.
So, presuming you have read the previous article, and that you don't give the publishers something they do not want, you are on the right track - they will look at your article, and they may publish it. But how can you further maximize both your chances of publication, and the results you can then achieve once it is published?
1. Provide A Link To Your Web Site In Your Resource Box
This point is, for some reason, strangely missed by some article writers - without a link to your site in your resource box, you are unlikely to get much benefit from your published article.
Just writing your name, or your company name, in your resource box may bring some name or brand recognition over time, but you will be missing out on the major benefits that article submissions can bring you.
What you need is to provide a full link to your web site that interested readers of the article can click on - this will bring targeted traffic direct to your web site. It doesn't mean you need to include any HTML (generally, never include HTML in your articles), you just need the URL, or web address, of your web site, starting with 'http://' - publishers will turn that into a proper link when your article is published on web sites, and in text-based emails, it will automatically turn into a clickable link in the vast majority of email-reading software such as Outlook.
It's also a good idea not to add a full stop to the end of your link - occasionally this can make the URL inactive if your article is sent via email, or it is published on a web site that auto-publishes articles.
I've also found it is best just to include the one link in your resource box. Many publishers don't like more than one, and if you do get published, more than one link can confuse the readership simply by giving them too many choices - and so diminish the amount of targeted traffic you can then receive.
2. Use The Resource Box To Promote Your Site
This doesn't mean you should overly-hype your resource box, or laden it with advert-speak, but you do want people to click through, don't you? Tell them clearly and succinctly, and without hype, how your site will benefit them if they click through, and then tell them to click through.
3. Make Your Article Original, Factual And Informative
Publishers are generally looking for informative, factual articles that will interest and benefit their readership through the information it shares.
They are also looking for originality, and will likely sift through articles containing the same old topics to find an article that contains a certain spark of original thought. Remember, they are looking for high quality articles that will stimulate their readership - if you can't provide that, they won't publish your article.
Can you provide a new slant on an old topic; some new timely and relevant information; a twist on an accepted concept? Is your article thought-provoking, or just churning out the same old, same old?
4. Treat Your Article Title As A Headline
In the same way that a headline on a sales page is crucial for your conversion rate, and the subject of an email has a huge effect on the open rate, the title of your article is critically important if you want publishers to publish it, and people to read it and from there follow through to your site.
Make your title interesting and enticing, and your results will improve dramatically. For example, 'The Top Ten Little-Known Ways To Improve Your Online Sales', will achieve much better results than 'Improving Online Sales'.
Often a good approach to article writing is to start with the headline first, and once you've got that right, write the article to fit the headline.
5. Write It, Then RIGHT It
An article will often vastly improve if you leave it alone a while after the first draft. Go back to it after at least a day or two, and read through it - you will be amazed at how much you can improve it.
Apart from spotting spelling mistakes, you will likely notice parts of the article that do not read well and that you can improve. Spending a few minutes doing this will vastly increase the likelihood of your article being published, and improve your results immeasurably.
By following these tips, you can turn an average quality article into one of high quality that publishers will be eager to publishArticle Search, and that readers will enjoy reading - the end result for you is a marked improvement in the levels of targeted traffic that your article attracts to your web site.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Shaw provides systems and software for effective e-marketing. For more helpful tips, and information on the popular free 'Write Articles For Profit' course, read the previous companion article 'The WRONG Way To WRITE Articles':
http://submityourarticle.com/
As you no doubt already know, writing articles is probably the most effective way to promote your web site - by writing your article in the RIGHT way, you maximize the results you can achieve from your article submissions. With your article published on heaps of web sites, and in several ezines, it's enough to set your traffic counter spinning.
So, presuming you have read the previous article, and that you don't give the publishers something they do not want, you are on the right track - they will look at your article, and they may publish it. But how can you further maximize both your chances of publication, and the results you can then achieve once it is published?
1. Provide A Link To Your Web Site In Your Resource Box
This point is, for some reason, strangely missed by some article writers - without a link to your site in your resource box, you are unlikely to get much benefit from your published article.
Just writing your name, or your company name, in your resource box may bring some name or brand recognition over time, but you will be missing out on the major benefits that article submissions can bring you.
What you need is to provide a full link to your web site that interested readers of the article can click on - this will bring targeted traffic direct to your web site. It doesn't mean you need to include any HTML (generally, never include HTML in your articles), you just need the URL, or web address, of your web site, starting with 'http://' - publishers will turn that into a proper link when your article is published on web sites, and in text-based emails, it will automatically turn into a clickable link in the vast majority of email-reading software such as Outlook.
It's also a good idea not to add a full stop to the end of your link - occasionally this can make the URL inactive if your article is sent via email, or it is published on a web site that auto-publishes articles.
I've also found it is best just to include the one link in your resource box. Many publishers don't like more than one, and if you do get published, more than one link can confuse the readership simply by giving them too many choices - and so diminish the amount of targeted traffic you can then receive.
2. Use The Resource Box To Promote Your Site
This doesn't mean you should overly-hype your resource box, or laden it with advert-speak, but you do want people to click through, don't you? Tell them clearly and succinctly, and without hype, how your site will benefit them if they click through, and then tell them to click through.
3. Make Your Article Original, Factual And Informative
Publishers are generally looking for informative, factual articles that will interest and benefit their readership through the information it shares.
They are also looking for originality, and will likely sift through articles containing the same old topics to find an article that contains a certain spark of original thought. Remember, they are looking for high quality articles that will stimulate their readership - if you can't provide that, they won't publish your article.
Can you provide a new slant on an old topic; some new timely and relevant information; a twist on an accepted concept? Is your article thought-provoking, or just churning out the same old, same old?
4. Treat Your Article Title As A Headline
In the same way that a headline on a sales page is crucial for your conversion rate, and the subject of an email has a huge effect on the open rate, the title of your article is critically important if you want publishers to publish it, and people to read it and from there follow through to your site.
Make your title interesting and enticing, and your results will improve dramatically. For example, 'The Top Ten Little-Known Ways To Improve Your Online Sales', will achieve much better results than 'Improving Online Sales'.
Often a good approach to article writing is to start with the headline first, and once you've got that right, write the article to fit the headline.
5. Write It, Then RIGHT It
An article will often vastly improve if you leave it alone a while after the first draft. Go back to it after at least a day or two, and read through it - you will be amazed at how much you can improve it.
Apart from spotting spelling mistakes, you will likely notice parts of the article that do not read well and that you can improve. Spending a few minutes doing this will vastly increase the likelihood of your article being published, and improve your results immeasurably.
By following these tips, you can turn an average quality article into one of high quality that publishers will be eager to publishArticle Search, and that readers will enjoy reading - the end result for you is a marked improvement in the levels of targeted traffic that your article attracts to your web site.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steve Shaw provides systems and software for effective e-marketing. For more helpful tips, and information on the popular free 'Write Articles For Profit' course, read the previous companion article 'The WRONG Way To WRITE Articles':
http://submityourarticle.com/
How To Get More Articles Published Online & In Ezines
Read this article to discover the simple tactics you can use to increase your chances of getting your articles published online and in ezines. Use these proven techniques to witness the true power articles can have on your online marketing. Start building those One-Way links today!
Copyright (c) 2007 Titus Hoskins
Using articles to boost your traffic and sales is one of the most effective online marketing strategies you can use. Why you ask? Mainly because articles are the ideal marketing tools for promoting any website or business.
But you must do this right, you just can't throw a few words together on a webpage and expect things to happen. To effectively use articles as marketing tools you must follow some simple procedures and practices in order to get your articles published online and in ezines. So here are some simple article marketing tips you can try.
Why Articles Work
Before we start, you must understand why articles are so crucial to your marketing in the first place. You must truly understand why and how articles work so effectively as marketing vehicles in our newly wired world. It all boils down to one word... information.
The main reason articles work is information. The whole Internet is based on information. People use the web to access information and your well written article can help satisfy this need. You must place your article squarely into this whole information cycle.
Your article must be informative and provide some benefit to the reader. Tips, advice, how-to... your reader should gain something from spending a few minutes reading your article. The more beneficial your article, the more popular it will become and you will have a better chance of getting it published.
Title & Keywords
Your article title should contain two vital elements: Keywords and Benefits. Your title must contain your keywords or keyword phrases, these are the exact words someone types into the search engines to find what they are looking for on the web.
To find profitable keywords many professional marketers use keyword research software like Keyword Elite but you can also use free keyword suggestion tools like WordTracker or Overture: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
I find short catchy titles are best for capturing the reader's attention. With our split second surfing habits, the title may be your only chance you get to hook your readers and keep them on your page. Another tactic is to make all your articles easily scannable with your main points highlighted for quick absorption.
Length
Most experts suggest you keep your articles short, in the 500 - 700 word range. Many authors/marketers use even shorter formats in the 200 - 300 word range in order to fit neatly on webpages.
I personally have found my more meatier articles in the 900 - 1200 word range have worked the best for me and seems to get featured in important ezines like Addme, SiteProNews... more often than shorter articles.
Submission
You must distribute your articles on the web. You can personally submit your articles to the many article directory sites on the web or you can purchase a service which does this for you. I do both.
I personally submit my articles to the major high PR6 or PR7 sites which display my articles. I have found articles placed on Ezinearticles.com, Buzzle.com, Goarticles.com, Articlealley.com, Promotionworld.com, Thumbshots.org, Site-reference.com, Ideamarketers.com, Selfgrowth.com... do extremely well.
I have also found using a paid online service like SubmitYourArticle is really helpful, especially when I am on vacation or away from my computer for any length of time. I also use this service to quickly write different versions of my articles for the best search engine optimization. Using different lengths as many webmasters will only publish short articles.
Resource Box/Anchor Text
Your resource box is at the end of each article and this is where you place URLS for those all important One-Way links back to your site. Many marketers are careful to place their targeted keywords and variations in the anchor text of their links. It is also a good idea to provide some benefit or free gift to enhance your 'call to action' and improve your chances of getting that all important click.
Be Consistent
I have found a steady supply of fresh articles on a regular basis works the best. These articles keep your site or products fresh in the search engines and in front of your potential customers and editors/webmasters who publish your content. Try for at least two articles per week.
Own List of Editors
Along the same lines, build your own opt-in list of editors and webmasters who have opted in to receive your latest articles. Send a copy of your article to these interested parties and you will increase your chances of getting your articles published. I also kickstart my newest articles by including them in my own ezines and blogs.
Autoresponders
Many marketers place their articles in autoresponders so anyone requesting your article can easily use email to retrieve it. Many marketers also use RSS feeds to distribute their articles. If doing your own feeds seems too complicated, then just use any of the major article directories like Ezinearticles which will supply you with a convenient RSS feed for your articles.
Spam Check Your Articles
I always make it a point of testing my articles for any words or phrases that will trigger the spam filters and block my articles. This is extremely important if you want your article to be featured in ezines and newsletters. I check my articles with my Aweber autoresponder service but you can use a free SpamCheck service offered by SiteSell. See resource box below for link.
Personality
Articles that show some originality and personality have worked the best for me. Showing and telling your own story and experiences in a light hearted way seems to work really well on the somewhat impersonal Internet. Having a sense of humor also helps, try to make your articles entertaining as well as informative and your articles will be picked up more often.
Conclusion
Writing unique informative articles is one of the most effective ways to market on the web. Remember to keep your articles informative, personable, keyword rich, short and to the point. Take a pro-active approach to promoting your articles: submit them to the major online article directories, send them to editors and webmasters who request content from you and place your articles on your site, in your blogs and RSS feeds.
Used properly, articles can be effective marketing tools for boosting both your traffic and sales. Perhaps the best part of allFeature Articles, article marketing is completely free. What more can you ask for?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author is a full-time online marketer. Give your online marketing a real boost, try our free e-Course: www.marketingtoolguide.com To check your articles for Spam - try this: www.bizwaremagic.com/spamcheck.htm 2007 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.
Copyright (c) 2007 Titus Hoskins
Using articles to boost your traffic and sales is one of the most effective online marketing strategies you can use. Why you ask? Mainly because articles are the ideal marketing tools for promoting any website or business.
But you must do this right, you just can't throw a few words together on a webpage and expect things to happen. To effectively use articles as marketing tools you must follow some simple procedures and practices in order to get your articles published online and in ezines. So here are some simple article marketing tips you can try.
Why Articles Work
Before we start, you must understand why articles are so crucial to your marketing in the first place. You must truly understand why and how articles work so effectively as marketing vehicles in our newly wired world. It all boils down to one word... information.
The main reason articles work is information. The whole Internet is based on information. People use the web to access information and your well written article can help satisfy this need. You must place your article squarely into this whole information cycle.
Your article must be informative and provide some benefit to the reader. Tips, advice, how-to... your reader should gain something from spending a few minutes reading your article. The more beneficial your article, the more popular it will become and you will have a better chance of getting it published.
Title & Keywords
Your article title should contain two vital elements: Keywords and Benefits. Your title must contain your keywords or keyword phrases, these are the exact words someone types into the search engines to find what they are looking for on the web.
To find profitable keywords many professional marketers use keyword research software like Keyword Elite but you can also use free keyword suggestion tools like WordTracker or Overture: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
I find short catchy titles are best for capturing the reader's attention. With our split second surfing habits, the title may be your only chance you get to hook your readers and keep them on your page. Another tactic is to make all your articles easily scannable with your main points highlighted for quick absorption.
Length
Most experts suggest you keep your articles short, in the 500 - 700 word range. Many authors/marketers use even shorter formats in the 200 - 300 word range in order to fit neatly on webpages.
I personally have found my more meatier articles in the 900 - 1200 word range have worked the best for me and seems to get featured in important ezines like Addme, SiteProNews... more often than shorter articles.
Submission
You must distribute your articles on the web. You can personally submit your articles to the many article directory sites on the web or you can purchase a service which does this for you. I do both.
I personally submit my articles to the major high PR6 or PR7 sites which display my articles. I have found articles placed on Ezinearticles.com, Buzzle.com, Goarticles.com, Articlealley.com, Promotionworld.com, Thumbshots.org, Site-reference.com, Ideamarketers.com, Selfgrowth.com... do extremely well.
I have also found using a paid online service like SubmitYourArticle is really helpful, especially when I am on vacation or away from my computer for any length of time. I also use this service to quickly write different versions of my articles for the best search engine optimization. Using different lengths as many webmasters will only publish short articles.
Resource Box/Anchor Text
Your resource box is at the end of each article and this is where you place URLS for those all important One-Way links back to your site. Many marketers are careful to place their targeted keywords and variations in the anchor text of their links. It is also a good idea to provide some benefit or free gift to enhance your 'call to action' and improve your chances of getting that all important click.
Be Consistent
I have found a steady supply of fresh articles on a regular basis works the best. These articles keep your site or products fresh in the search engines and in front of your potential customers and editors/webmasters who publish your content. Try for at least two articles per week.
Own List of Editors
Along the same lines, build your own opt-in list of editors and webmasters who have opted in to receive your latest articles. Send a copy of your article to these interested parties and you will increase your chances of getting your articles published. I also kickstart my newest articles by including them in my own ezines and blogs.
Autoresponders
Many marketers place their articles in autoresponders so anyone requesting your article can easily use email to retrieve it. Many marketers also use RSS feeds to distribute their articles. If doing your own feeds seems too complicated, then just use any of the major article directories like Ezinearticles which will supply you with a convenient RSS feed for your articles.
Spam Check Your Articles
I always make it a point of testing my articles for any words or phrases that will trigger the spam filters and block my articles. This is extremely important if you want your article to be featured in ezines and newsletters. I check my articles with my Aweber autoresponder service but you can use a free SpamCheck service offered by SiteSell. See resource box below for link.
Personality
Articles that show some originality and personality have worked the best for me. Showing and telling your own story and experiences in a light hearted way seems to work really well on the somewhat impersonal Internet. Having a sense of humor also helps, try to make your articles entertaining as well as informative and your articles will be picked up more often.
Conclusion
Writing unique informative articles is one of the most effective ways to market on the web. Remember to keep your articles informative, personable, keyword rich, short and to the point. Take a pro-active approach to promoting your articles: submit them to the major online article directories, send them to editors and webmasters who request content from you and place your articles on your site, in your blogs and RSS feeds.
Used properly, articles can be effective marketing tools for boosting both your traffic and sales. Perhaps the best part of allFeature Articles, article marketing is completely free. What more can you ask for?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author is a full-time online marketer. Give your online marketing a real boost, try our free e-Course: www.marketingtoolguide.com To check your articles for Spam - try this: www.bizwaremagic.com/spamcheck.htm 2007 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Match Making
In this day and age where technology is widely used and known, the human touch is still needed to provide a successful marriage. One of the ways that a marriage can start is through the assistance of a matchmaker. This individual will use their knowledge and experience to promote a relationship between a man and a woman. Their matchmaking skills will be highly sought after.
There are many cultures that have used matchmakers to help arrange suitable marriages for their children. These individuals had numerous contacts and information of suitable and eligible partners. Parents who desired to arrange a good marriage for their children would pay the matchmaker a small fee to bring suitable proposals for their child. Once a presentable party has been introduced to the would be in-laws, and a marriage has been satisfactorily arranged, for their matchmaking skills the matchmaker would receive a suitable gift and monetary reward.
There is a darker side to this matchmaking. That is where parents would try and arrange marriages that their children objected to because there was something that was desired by the parents. In other cases the young people would have to get married to whoever was chosen by their parents because the matchmaker had stated that the marriage was a suitable and good proposal.
The way that such a marriage was finalized was by saying that the astrological star signs were favorable for that marriage. By arranging the proposal in this manner there was no way that a reluctant child could object to the proposed marriage.
Matchmaking comes in many guises. In North America line dancing, square dancing and social dances all help to promote new relationships and romances. Here too, matchmaking can be found. Both official matchmakers and unofficial matchmakers would try to bring about a good marriage between young men and women. These people would also be on hand to prevent any unsuitable matches from being formed and let the family members know if any romances were starting in their families.
While these are some of the more traditional ways of arranging a marriage there are instances where an individual will seek the aid of a dating service to find their life partner. At these places there will be a selection of videos and photo galleries with some description of eligible candidates to be selected. This is an impersonal type of matchmaking where the individual chooses from the selection at hand someone they might feel comfortable spending their life with.
In our technological world many people would like some help to find their future life partner. Matchmakers who fulfill this role can be people who have chosen this as a way of livingComputer Technology Articles, friends who want to promote a match that will make their friends happy and various relatives of the young men and women. With so many people trying their own brand of matchmaking to find good marriage partners for a person there’s bound to be some sort of success story occurring most of the time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Free Ebooks Resell Right Ebooks and Heartburn
There are many cultures that have used matchmakers to help arrange suitable marriages for their children. These individuals had numerous contacts and information of suitable and eligible partners. Parents who desired to arrange a good marriage for their children would pay the matchmaker a small fee to bring suitable proposals for their child. Once a presentable party has been introduced to the would be in-laws, and a marriage has been satisfactorily arranged, for their matchmaking skills the matchmaker would receive a suitable gift and monetary reward.
There is a darker side to this matchmaking. That is where parents would try and arrange marriages that their children objected to because there was something that was desired by the parents. In other cases the young people would have to get married to whoever was chosen by their parents because the matchmaker had stated that the marriage was a suitable and good proposal.
The way that such a marriage was finalized was by saying that the astrological star signs were favorable for that marriage. By arranging the proposal in this manner there was no way that a reluctant child could object to the proposed marriage.
Matchmaking comes in many guises. In North America line dancing, square dancing and social dances all help to promote new relationships and romances. Here too, matchmaking can be found. Both official matchmakers and unofficial matchmakers would try to bring about a good marriage between young men and women. These people would also be on hand to prevent any unsuitable matches from being formed and let the family members know if any romances were starting in their families.
While these are some of the more traditional ways of arranging a marriage there are instances where an individual will seek the aid of a dating service to find their life partner. At these places there will be a selection of videos and photo galleries with some description of eligible candidates to be selected. This is an impersonal type of matchmaking where the individual chooses from the selection at hand someone they might feel comfortable spending their life with.
In our technological world many people would like some help to find their future life partner. Matchmakers who fulfill this role can be people who have chosen this as a way of livingComputer Technology Articles, friends who want to promote a match that will make their friends happy and various relatives of the young men and women. With so many people trying their own brand of matchmaking to find good marriage partners for a person there’s bound to be some sort of success story occurring most of the time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Free Ebooks Resell Right Ebooks and Heartburn
Get FREE Advertising with your Pen!
How do you advertise your online business? Do you submit articles to ezines? You should! Writing articles is a powerful and FREE marketing tool for your business. Certainly, you are being told to write articles to get free publicity and traffic for your website. You are wondering though if it really works. YES, it works! Here is an example:
Have a look at the top ezines in which you can find a great number of articles and read some of them. You can notice the links and when you click on them you are guided to other websites. Well, those "other" websites belong to the authors of the articles. This is how they attract you to their online business. If you think about it, an article can be one of the best way to advertise your product. Indeed, it provides you all the space you need for descriptions and this gives you more credibility. This can be more persuasive than any other kind of advertisement. I would say that writing articles is an excellent marketing method.
How to write an article ? It is very easy. Choose a subject that interests many people, do some research and write a content which can be a quite helpful for the readers. Be as specific as you can and tell them what they want to know. You can base your content on your personal experience. This will be more trustful. Keep your sentences short and use simple words, understandable by all. While writing your article, include your links
(your affiliates, your website ...) in the content. This will give the readers an opportunity to visit your online business or your affiliate store. This is how your articles will bring you customers and profits. Find a very attractive title so the readers can easily pick your article from the directory.
How to publish your articles ? If you want to publish them off line, then you have to identify the magazines related to your product or service. Check out your local library, newsagent or a bookstore. Try to find an index that lists magazines by subject. The easiest and cheapest way of publishing your articles on internet is by using the ezines. Allow them to publish your work as a free redistribution as long as your links are included. In this way, your articles can be spread all over the net so you multiply your exposure. The search engines, such as Google, Yahoo ...will find your links everywhere and you'll get a good page rank.
After allArticle Submission, there is no doubt. An article is defiantly an effective way to promote your business. Get of any "fear" of writing. There is nothing better.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lilly Fioretzi is an artist and fashion designer. She has worked with famous designers for several years in London, but she quited her career when she developed "pre-eclampsia" during her pregnancy for her first child who was born premature. Since then, she is a work at home mom. She created a home-based art - graphic design business as well as the WATHMOMS.com (http://wathmoms.com), a daily updated online magazine for the moms who stay or work at home, providing weekly telecommuting job listings & home business opportunities, business promotion, articles, advices, freebies, bargains & coupons for the "frugal" moms, fashion, books, the MomMe TV channel, cooking and more.
Have a look at the top ezines in which you can find a great number of articles and read some of them. You can notice the links and when you click on them you are guided to other websites. Well, those "other" websites belong to the authors of the articles. This is how they attract you to their online business. If you think about it, an article can be one of the best way to advertise your product. Indeed, it provides you all the space you need for descriptions and this gives you more credibility. This can be more persuasive than any other kind of advertisement. I would say that writing articles is an excellent marketing method.
How to write an article ? It is very easy. Choose a subject that interests many people, do some research and write a content which can be a quite helpful for the readers. Be as specific as you can and tell them what they want to know. You can base your content on your personal experience. This will be more trustful. Keep your sentences short and use simple words, understandable by all. While writing your article, include your links
(your affiliates, your website ...) in the content. This will give the readers an opportunity to visit your online business or your affiliate store. This is how your articles will bring you customers and profits. Find a very attractive title so the readers can easily pick your article from the directory.
How to publish your articles ? If you want to publish them off line, then you have to identify the magazines related to your product or service. Check out your local library, newsagent or a bookstore. Try to find an index that lists magazines by subject. The easiest and cheapest way of publishing your articles on internet is by using the ezines. Allow them to publish your work as a free redistribution as long as your links are included. In this way, your articles can be spread all over the net so you multiply your exposure. The search engines, such as Google, Yahoo ...will find your links everywhere and you'll get a good page rank.
After allArticle Submission, there is no doubt. An article is defiantly an effective way to promote your business. Get of any "fear" of writing. There is nothing better.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lilly Fioretzi is an artist and fashion designer. She has worked with famous designers for several years in London, but she quited her career when she developed "pre-eclampsia" during her pregnancy for her first child who was born premature. Since then, she is a work at home mom. She created a home-based art - graphic design business as well as the WATHMOMS.com (http://wathmoms.com), a daily updated online magazine for the moms who stay or work at home, providing weekly telecommuting job listings & home business opportunities, business promotion, articles, advices, freebies, bargains & coupons for the "frugal" moms, fashion, books, the MomMe TV channel, cooking and more.
Website Promotion – Submit Articles, but Spread them Around
Writing articles on topics that are relevant to your Website’s topic and submitting them to free content sites is a great way to effectively promote your Website at little or no cost. There are many Websites that want topical content, and they frequently obtain this content from “free content” publishers. Those sites are always looking for articles and they’ll accept articles from most anyone. They offer no compensation other than a link back to your Website. This, as many writers have discovered, is a powerful incentive. Thousands of people have written and submitted articles to “free content” sites in order to promote their own Website, and it’s probably the most cost-effective tool for Website promotion. But there are hundreds of “free content” sites on the Web. Should you submit your articles to one site only, or should you submit to many different sites? I would appear that submitting articles to as many sites as possible is the best way to promote your site.
In the six or seven weeks that I have been writing articles, I have been submitting them to multiple “free content” sites. I don’t just submit to any site; I have some criteria. The site must have a form that allows me to “fill in the blanks” to submit my article. I’m way too busy to deal with sites that require e-mail submissions or require me to join a Yahoo! Group. I also avoid sites that will not provide a live, clickable link back to my Website or sites that cover only topics that aren’t relevant to the topics of my Websites. Based on those criteria, I have a “core” group of eighteen sites to which I submit my articles. I have an additional group of seventeen sites I use for articles I write that are related to Website promotion, such as this one. Anytime I write an article, it is submitted to up to thirty-five different sites for publication. From there, each article could end up being published on thousands of different sites.
To date, I have written some 60 articles, published to many different sites. In roughly that same time period, another author who regularly submits articles to one of these content sites has written nearly twenty times as many articles. It would appear, however, that this author does not submit to multiple content sites, but instead submits his articles to this one site only. Still, with some 1200 articles written, this author must be reaping much greater rewards from his work than I am, right? That does not appear to be the case. This author’s Website actually has fewer incoming links than a site of mine that I have promoted through articles exclusively. If you do a search on Google for this author’s name and a search for my name, you will find that my name and his yield the same number of search results. Even more interesting is the fact that this author has written all of these articles to promote one Website, and my articles cover six different topics and promote six different sites! By submitting to one article to thirty-five different sites, I am obtaining the same promotion power as if I had written thirty-five different articles!
The statistical evidence would suggest that while it is important to find the best sites for submitting articlesFree Reprint Articles, it is well worth the writer’s while to submit articles to as many sites as possible in order to get the maximum amount of promotion out of each article. Writing the articles is the hard part; submitting the articles takes about one minute per site. That minute is well spent.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
©Copyright 2005 by Retro Marketing. Charles Essmeier is the owner of Retro Marketing, a firm that operates several retail Websites, including AluminumChristmasTrees.net, a site devoted to vintage aluminum Christmas trees and accessories, and RarePinkFloyd.com, a site devoted to rare records, compact discs and by the band Pink Floyd.
In the six or seven weeks that I have been writing articles, I have been submitting them to multiple “free content” sites. I don’t just submit to any site; I have some criteria. The site must have a form that allows me to “fill in the blanks” to submit my article. I’m way too busy to deal with sites that require e-mail submissions or require me to join a Yahoo! Group. I also avoid sites that will not provide a live, clickable link back to my Website or sites that cover only topics that aren’t relevant to the topics of my Websites. Based on those criteria, I have a “core” group of eighteen sites to which I submit my articles. I have an additional group of seventeen sites I use for articles I write that are related to Website promotion, such as this one. Anytime I write an article, it is submitted to up to thirty-five different sites for publication. From there, each article could end up being published on thousands of different sites.
To date, I have written some 60 articles, published to many different sites. In roughly that same time period, another author who regularly submits articles to one of these content sites has written nearly twenty times as many articles. It would appear, however, that this author does not submit to multiple content sites, but instead submits his articles to this one site only. Still, with some 1200 articles written, this author must be reaping much greater rewards from his work than I am, right? That does not appear to be the case. This author’s Website actually has fewer incoming links than a site of mine that I have promoted through articles exclusively. If you do a search on Google for this author’s name and a search for my name, you will find that my name and his yield the same number of search results. Even more interesting is the fact that this author has written all of these articles to promote one Website, and my articles cover six different topics and promote six different sites! By submitting to one article to thirty-five different sites, I am obtaining the same promotion power as if I had written thirty-five different articles!
The statistical evidence would suggest that while it is important to find the best sites for submitting articlesFree Reprint Articles, it is well worth the writer’s while to submit articles to as many sites as possible in order to get the maximum amount of promotion out of each article. Writing the articles is the hard part; submitting the articles takes about one minute per site. That minute is well spent.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
©Copyright 2005 by Retro Marketing. Charles Essmeier is the owner of Retro Marketing, a firm that operates several retail Websites, including AluminumChristmasTrees.net, a site devoted to vintage aluminum Christmas trees and accessories, and RarePinkFloyd.com, a site devoted to rare records, compact discs and by the band Pink Floyd.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)