Article Writing Tips For Profit

Writing articles is a very effective way to get one way links to your site
as well as to have people learn more about your website or service. However,
there are ways to do this that can make you more successful versus have your
articles be overlooked and not considered.

Shane Pearce has written the Lazy Man's Guide to Article Writing which
outlines some helpful tips. I was first impressed with his tip that when you
submit your article to an ezine publisher or a webmaster, that you can offer
him to use his own affiliate link in place of your own. For instance, if you
have written an article on motivation and have a link to a clickbank ebook
on motivation and goals, you can offer the publisher that he use his own
affiliate id instead of yours. What this means is that the ezine or website
publisher will be getting a free article already written with a link that
may give him some monetary income. You still would have your own information
in your resource box at the end, so people can click to your website as
well. Think about what the website publisher you write to will get out of
the exchange and find a way to make his or her life easier.

Other tips he gives are to read frequently asked questions to find out what
people want to know about in terms of popular topics. Shane discusses how to
make a viral ebook based on a faq niche that can be passed around. If there
are frequently asked questions on a topic that is a sign that the topic has
an interest as well as the fact there may be an interest in some guide or
tutorial.

Also I like the sample autoresponder examples he uses as well as different
ideas for a signature file at the end of one's article. I think he is very
good at showing how to integrate a couple of affiliate links without being
pushy. He recommends sending people to opt-in to a mailing list as part of
your signature file.

Another section I found useful discusses how to create checklists and use
them both for your website and in articles that lead back to your website.
People like checklists. Shane discusses how to use these. They also help
break through writer's block or paralysis because you can have a list of
steps .

There are ideas given about utilizing both 2-tier affiliate programs and
residual income programs that will help you keep you earning as your
articles circulate around the net. Shane gives some interesting suggestions
on types of sites that work for this.

I also like that Shane gives an example of a flop he did of an unsuccessful
attempt at marketing. He analzyes it and compares it to something someone
else wrote he feels was better expressed. It is a very interesting study
covering various ways to get your articles noticed and published. I publish
articles regularly but learned some valuable tips from this ebook.

About The Author: Dee Cohen is a publisher and writer at
http://www.socialsitesmarketing.com/article-writing.html where you can learn
more about internet marketing.