How To Generate Income Using The Power Of Article Writing

By Cynthia Minnaar

There are many free methods of advertising on the internet that are not very effective, but writing and distributing articles is a surefire way to get your website noticed and a great way to generate income online.

When it comes to writing articles you do not have to be an expert writer, you merely need to put down in print your views or experiences. Think of it like writing an essay at school. For those who feel they really cannot do this, then there is the option of hiring a ghost writer. PLR articles are another option, but remember everyone is looking for new and fresh content so it is advisable to write your own.

If writing does not come easy, it is advisable to persist until it does, because you will be rewarded handsomely for submitting unique content. It is like anything in life, the more you practice it the easier it becomes. Article writing is a great example of how to use the internet to generate an income. To see the effect of writing and distributing original articles you need to be consistent and try and submit one to two articles a week to as many article directories as possible. Build a name for yourself as an expert in your field.

You have the option of submitting manually to the article directories and there are forums that accept articles too, or you can purchase a directory submitter to do the job for you.

The object of writing and submitting articles is to draw attention to your website, so be sure to complete the Author’s Resource Box carefully, with your name, copyright clause and of course your website address, so that anyone who reads your article can then go on to view your website. An interesting exercise that you can do here is create a Google Alert with your name, as you use in the Resource Box, and you will be amazed to see where your articles turn up.

By submitting articles you will be building up back-links to your website and this will help with your page ranking as well. Choose your keywords carefully and be sure to place them strategically in your article without spamming. Do not turn your article into an obvious sales letter, otherwise you will find some directories will reject your article.

From the Article Directories and Article Forums, ezine owners select articles to publish in their ezines and should your article be selected this will give your website great exposure. By consistently submitting your unique articles you will also gain recognition from the article directories and more and more webmasters will subscribe to the RSS feeds to automatically alert them of your newly published article.

What to write about can be a stumbling block to many. Sit quietly and think about what you have learnt or achieved and how that information could be of value to others, if you simply turned it into an article and distributed it. It is said that by helping others you help yourself and you will be rewarded with increased targeted traffic resulting in an income generating website.

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Cynthia Minnaar lives in South Africa and works from home online and invites you to visit http://www.cyns-home-biz.com for web income generating ideas and opportunities, articles and marketing tools. Start your own proven legitimate online business and learn how to use the internet to generate an income.

How To Write A Good Resource Box For Your Articles

By Gregg Hall

In the early days of the internet it was very easy to get in the top of the search engines. You could just put up a website loaded up with the keywords you wanted to be found for and you would be found on the first page easily. Not any more. In recent years it has become a necessity to learn SEO to succeed in the domination of your niche, or even just to compete.

One of the ways that people are using SEO or Search Engine Optimization is by writing articles and submitting them to the article directories with the keywords they want to be found for as the anchor text in their resource boxes. This is an excellent way to collect backlinks from various sites that will help to increase your search engine rankings.

The key to a good resource box is to write it to entice people to go to the site you want to promote to get more information on the subject of the article. If you have an article about cars and you have a site that is about car care products you can have a resource box statement that says something like "for more information on the latest SUVs and car care products go to" and then your URL. You can also make the keyword phrase of car care products as anchor text.

Okay so what is a resource box? The resource box is the information at the bottom of an article that usually will contain the author's name, maybe a brief bio, and some info on the site you want to promote and the link to it. If you have done a good job on writing the article then you should have readers wanting to click on the link to get more information on the subject matter that you wrote about.

The resource box must be just as eye catching as your article in order to get the people reading your articles to click the link of the site you are promoting. You have a very small space to entice the reader to click the link to go to the site you want them to.

The resource box may well be the most important part of your article, if you don't have a resource box that stimulates clicks then all you have done is provided free information that does nothing for you. I don't know about you but I am not writing just for the pure joy of writing.

As I mentioned the anchor text keywords that you choose are crucial because that is what will be used to find you in the search engines. It is best to use the longer tail keywords in the beginning so that you can get some kind of presence. As an example you wouldn't want to go after the term “sports car” but maybe you could get a ranking for “Honda hybrid sports car”.

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Gregg Hall is an author living with his 18 year old son in Jensen Beach, Florida. Find more about articles as well as article marketing at www.endlessarticles.com