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How to Easily Write an Article that has Value

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 29th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

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How to Easily Write an Article that has Value

Some great tips to have on hand.

Hi, I’m Lambert Klein, and I’m a ghostwriter and marketing writer…

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 18th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

Hi, I’m Lambert Klein, and I’m a ghostwriter and marketing writer…

 

… and I’d like to write for you. I write high quality articles at reasonable prices, that you can use to market your product (online or offline), web site, blog, membership program, or service.

What do Ghost Writers Do? 

and what’s a Marketing Writer, anyway?

In a nutshell, ghost writers do the writing that you can’t do, then you take the credit and make the money as a result. Ghost writers work in many fields - from celebrity autobiographies to novels, self-help books to articles.

A marketing writer creates text to be used in marketing pieces - crafted to appeal to the reader in a way that leads them towards a purchase.

When and Why to use a Marketing Writer 

Ghost writers are not just for celebrities!

Use a marketing writer when you need articles written to promote your business, but you don’t have the time, you hate to write, English is not your native language, or you just don’t feel that you write very well.

You can use ghost writers to write articles and then use them in many ways to market your business:

  • Add them to your website to load it with the kind of unique, keyword-rich content that search engines love and send traffic to
  • Use one or more to create a lens right here on Squidoo that links to your site
  • Post them on article directories like ezinearticles to get backlinks and traffic
  • Roll several articles together to create a short report which makes a great giveaway to build a mailing list
  • Create an autoresponder series from them and send it to your mailing list subscribers

“My articles can help you get more links and drive web traffic!”

My specialty is marketing articles: short pieces of writing, 400 - 600+ words, that can be posted in multiple places on the internet to entice readers to click on a link which takes them to your target page (which could be a sales page, a product catalog, a lead generation page for your service, or whatever is appropriate for your business model).

Marketing articles posted in the right places have two big advantages: backlinks (links to your content which make the search engines see you as more important, and rank you higher in the results they show to searchers) and traffic. The more articles you have spread about the Web, the more backlinks you will have, and the more traffic you’ll get.

Shareapost

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 17th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

If you have a Wordpress Blog you can use http://www.shareapost.com/ to help distribute your post. Once you sign up and setup Wordpress, whenever you post to your blog, it will be submitted to Shareapost.

This is just one of many things you can do with article marketing. So don’t put this off. Go there right now and sign up. You want more back links right?

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If you just don’t have the time or desire to write articles then let us help

Ghostwriting: What is it?

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 10th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

Ghostwriting is the activity of professionally writing books or articles, which are accredited to another author. Ghostwriters are paid to write these articles but do not have the right to copyright or claim them. Many people, especially celebrities, political leaders, and executives hire a ghostwriter to edit or draft their work. Such responsibilities comprise in drafting magazines and other written materials.

Ghostwriting is applicable in the music industry especially classical music where writers compose songs, write and edit films along with other duties that require professional aid. Some authors and publishers acknowledge the help of a fictional writer for valuable assistance. Some individuals often search for a professional article writer to add value to their original work or to alter the whole content of article. The activity of ghostwriting entails editing, revising, researching and presenting original thoughts of the intended author.

Many people hire ghostwriters because they do not have time to commit themselves to writing. For an article writer, it is easier to share the intended idea and objective of writing articles with a ghostwriter who in turn writes the whole idea on their behalf. The original concept and the stories belong to the author but the mode of presentation is the work of a professional. Many companies resort to this technique especially when they want their business prospectus reviews done professionally.

The results are attractive and serve the intended purpose. This commercial skill requires special knowledge in order to compete fairly in the market. Ghostwriting can be fictional for individual writers who strive to maintain a record volume of articles published in a specific period. In some situations, a ghostwriter assumes a pseudonym or an alias name for writing. It has become common in blog writing for online forums and discussions. New and relevant blogs generate web traffic required for online marketing.

Quite often, ghostwriting involves political aspects of a people. Political figures employ the services of correspondence experts who contribute in the local dailies. They forward and publish articles to spread propaganda and manifestos to suit their political ideas. A ghostwriter can be used in the realm of medicine to review medical journals of respective pharmaceuticals.

The companies pay them for such services to promote their drugs and controversial outcome of medical researches. They seek the vital help of professional medical scripts done by a fictional writer. Usually, whenever companies grant online opportunities to the public to post their findings, a huge percentage of the contributions emerge from a fictional article writer. Positive materials guarantee positive impact on the clients for good sales.

Ghostwriting applies in academic writing whereby some college or university students employ the work of fictional writers to draft their essays. A professional article writer does term papers, dissertations and thesis for students at a fee. The basic idea in this category of ghost writing is to relay acceptable presentations that meet the recommended scientific method by a reliable and professional article writer.

For more details on ghostwriting, the successes and the techniques employed, please refer to the following link: http://www.ghostwriter4you.com/

11 Steps to Search Engine Optimization Success

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 6th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

Search Engine Optimization can award you with higher rankings, better visibility, more visitors and wealth. You can accomplish this if you are dedicated and are willing to put some effort into learning SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. If you have the desire then there’s no stopping you.
You want to gain some knowledge about SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION so that you will know how to put these tools to work for you.

Start off by learning what it is that you want to rank well for in the search engines. What will your visitors be searching for? Once you know what these phrases are then you can begin to incorporate them into your web pages.

If you are not sure what these phrases are then you need to do some keyword and key phrase research.

1. Keyword Research: Keyword research is finding out what your visitors are searching for and figuring which phrases will work out the best for you. You may be able to find several phrases that you can use.

2. Title Tag: This is where you definitely want to include your main key phrase for the web page in question.

3. Formatting: Include your key phrases in the H1 tag as well as in bolded text, anchor text, and bullets.

4. Key Phrases: You can use the key phrase in filenames, folders and domain names.

5. Meta Tags: Include your key phrases into the Meta tags such as the keyword and description tags.

6. Alt Tags: Your image’s alt tag should include your key phrase when appropriate.

7. Site Map: Include a site map for your web site

8. Navigation: Your navigation should include your key phrase.

9. CSS: Use CSS to condense your html code as well as SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

10. Content: Add fresh good content regularly.

11. Off Site SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION: Include off site SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques to further push your rankings up.

These are some of the steps you should do to rank well above your competitors. If you start applying these techniques to your web pages then you will be well awarded in return.

This article can’t go into great detail, but it does summarize the steps needed to succeed. It’s up to you to investigate further and become SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION efficient.

For example off site SEO includes blogging, article writing, directory submitting, forum posting, Yahoo Answers and much more.

There are many places online that will give you the education required to succeed with SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Just search on Google or your favorite search engine. Find a good e-Book on SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION that goes into greater detail and really explains the steps fully.

How to publish your own articles without writing them

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 5th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

So you just don’t have the time, or desire to write articles that can increase visitors to your site as well as your income? Well don’t feel alone. Most people find this to be as much fun as washing dishes.

Thank goodness for Ghostwriters. They seem to be able to write on any subject and are willing to do this chore for a fee. They may be up all night researching, typing and editing article after article.
How do you find a Ghostwriter? There are services you can hire that will outsource them without you having any contact with them yourself. Sometimes this can work out ok. It depends on who is writing the articles for you at the time and your expectations.

Another route is finding a freelance Ghostwriter that you will communicate with directly. If you find a good one then you will feel confident that you can always contact him again. No guessing games, you know the quality to expect.

Another thing to consider is cost. How much will it cost you per article and is the cost worth it to you. The prices for articles can vary quite a bit. If the price is very low than the quality may be also, unless the Ghostwriter is just starting out and trying to get established. Once a Ghostwriter is well known, the price per article will usually go up some.

Whichever route you choose, be sure that the article content will be original. Make sure that this is clear up front. You don’t want your article to be sold to anyone else. This should never happen if the Ghostwriter has integrity and is honest.

You may want to ask around for recommendations for an article writer on various forums or a search engine.

In conclusion, decide if you want to use a service or an individual to write articles for you. What are you willing to pay and what do you expect back from your Ghostwriter? Once you find a great Ghostwriter you will want to keep in contact with him for future work. It’s not always easy to find the one that is just right for your situation.

The benefits for you are more visitors to your website, more sales, and higher rankings.

Here is a list of article directories that you can post your articles.

You can learn more at Ghostwriter Article Writing

Writing Articles with an outline

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 4th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

Writing articles is a solid method to bring visitors to your site and increasing your rankings in the search engines.

You can save time writing articles if you follow an outline. There is a basic outline that seems to work pretty good.

  1. Start out with a general opening on your subject.
  2. Tell them 3 points or more that you will be discussing.
  3. Tell then the benefit they will receive from following these points.
  4. Summerized the first point
  5. Go into detail abouth this point
  6. Back up your statements
  7. Flow into your next main point
  8. Repeat 3-7
  9. Summarize your main points
  10. Impress upon your readers what they can now accomplish

There you have a basic outline to use. You can make changes to this if you want, but this will save you time.

Using Article Submission Sites To Improve Page Rank

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 3rd, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

If you are trying to make money with a website or blog, traffic is the lifeblood of your business. Without traffic, everything stops and sales are stalled at zero. One of the easiest ways to build traffic is by using article submission sites.

To significantly improve your site’s page rank, your articles must contain an effective resource box linking back to your site Search engines use the number and quality of these back-links to determine the relative importance of your website. Sites that have large numbers of quality backlinks will show up on (or close to) page one when people search for particular terms or phrases. Less important sites (with fewer and lower quality backlinks) will appear near the bottom of those search results.

In order to acquire higher page rank, you must submit to the right article submission sites. Using the right article submission sites, your articles will be reviewed promptly, show up in the search engines quickly, provide you with plenty of traffic, and improve the Page Rank of your site.

Many directories have a Page Rank of 1 or even zero. Your site gets little or no benefit when you submit articles to these sites. To improve the page rank of your site, it is important to submit your articles to the largest article submission sites. Submit your articles to directories with a page rank of four or higher.

By consistently submitting articles to the Largest Article Submission Sites, you will improve the page rank of your site. It will not happen overnight, it takes time to increase your page rank. But as your numbers improve, your site should move up in the search rankings and you should begin to see an increase in the number of people coming to your site through searches.

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Articles Know How

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 3rd, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

Author : James McGaughey

Todays Internet Marketing has become a huge part of our society. As such, the market for information has grown in it’s importance. What this Special Report will deal with is how to get the information to the people who want it. This can be accomplished through the use of Articles. I will also discuss how these articles can boost oyur online income.

Now down to business. The three things that you should do before start your articles:
1) Do not confuse the reason to promote the article with the reason you are writing it.
2) Remember t maximize the promotional opportunities inside your article.
3) Remember your article needs to answer a need that people have in order to get clicks on the article.

While addressing not confusing the reason to promote your article with the reason you are writing it. Here is where care should be taken, the main rerason you are writing is to say what you know on the subject, to inform the reader. Do this while keeping the promotional aspects in the back of your mind to use only if an opening occurs. The more articles you write the more openings you will create. I will discuss in more depth later how to use articles to your advantage. Just remember getting people to read what you write is your main objective.

Keeping in mind your main objective we now come to the second, and probably most important reason to you, objective. Just writing an article can boost your Search Engine Rank because of the importance of backlinks to your site. Search Engines use backlinks as well as other things to determine the importance of your site, the more important the higher the rank. Another way to help get higher rankings is to use keywords or Keyword Phrases, but be careful using to many of these is concidered Spamming the Search Engine and can hurt your chances at a higher ranking. You can use embeeded text links to pages or items on your website also, but care should be used here also as most directories are not able to support these type of links.

By using these tips and using care you should not only get visits to your site but subscribers as well.

Remember, the reason you write is to inform, with practice you will not only inform but you will be able to have a nice flowing article that informs the reader, and you get the benefits from inside of your article. In order to get the best results from your writing you will need to be creative.

Writing does not mean just putting words on paper, you want the reader to SEE what you are writing, to experience it so to say.

What we are going to focus on now is what it takes to really capture your reader. In order to know how to get the best responce from your audience you need to know them, know what they want,know what they need. Do not assume that you know. Do your research. Find the problem that you as the expert can supply the answer to.

Now that you know what you are going to write about, What do you do next? I think the answer here is to be creative. To pass your information on, make your audience want to read your article, appeal to there curiosity so they can not quit reading.

Here are some ways to help keep the creativity going:
1) Keep a journal
2) Relax
3) Create a comfort zone
4) Get the right mindset working
5) Do something unusal, let your mind go

By keeping a journal you get to look inside your mind, you get to read your mind as it were. By reading and writing in the journal you use your senses, this will tell you what triggered this thought or that thought or idea. by using the journal as an aide to your writing you have to be creative in the way you portray your thoughts. Do you see how this is going to work? You are in your inner mind, show me what I want to know, let your expertise be my guide.

Relax take the time to figure out where your mind is trying to go. If it is on a problem you have, fix the problem first. By not having anything but the task ahead your thoughts can flow, and that is what you want your article to do. Remember a nice flowing article is easy to read.

Another thing that will help is your working environment. Try to make where you work a place where you are comfortable, a place where your mind is at ease.

Are you in the mood to write? Do what ever it takes to get in the mood to wtite. The mood you are in will be reflected in what you write. As for me I like real nice Mood music playing softly in the background.

Before trying to write, do something different, something you do not ordinarilly do. Let your mind go wild for a bit. This can bring the creativity that you have out to be drawn upon. What ever it takes to get the proper mind set you want to do. Your writing will show it. One big thing to remember is that writing articles is a fast way to get your customers to keep buying.

Now that we have covered the basics of the creative part of writing your articles we will move on to the mechanics of writing it.

We already know that submitting articles creates backlinks to your site. Now we are going to learn how to make them effective. There are things each article must have to be really effective, they are as follows:

Your articles should use the same keywords and keyword phrases as your site. Search Engines do not only show websites in their results. Therefore if your article has the same keywords and phrases you now have two chances to be clicked on.

You also want good keyword density. What keyword density means is the amount of times you use the words in your articles. But as I said earlier be careful and do not spam the search engine, a good percentage would be between five to ten percent.

As mentioned embedded links can help on occassion, but as I said for the most part the major directories can not support their use. In this case the best thing to do here is add resource box at the end of your article. What you do here is add a little something about you, then add the link to your website. Give them an e-mail address in case they want to ask you a question, by the way if they ask you a question that means they trust you and your expertise.

I have more to cover so I think we should know why create an outline for our articles. We all have done this at sometime at school, now we need to do it again.

A well thought out article will take planning, with the planning will come the outline. It will be our plan as to what and where we want things mentioned. When you brainstorm over the article write your thoughts down, then organize them with the outline. If a particular thought comes to mind you will be able to decide where in the article you want it.

Once you have completed your outline all you have to do is connect the dots as it were. Now is when you let your creativity loose, let it work with all the knowledge based thoughts in your outline, just let it flow. The outline will be very helpful in keeping you to the point and not let you drift off the subject.

In this report we have covered a great deal of information. Ways to use writing articles to your advantage. I hope I have been able to help you in any way. Until my next report havew a Great Day.

James R. McGaughey
http://njinformationmo1.web.officelive.com
jmsmcgaughey@live.com

The Shakers and Movers of Internet Marketing for 2008

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 3rd, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion
By Dave Nettles
 
The internet changes so fast sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the latest cool business opportunities. What are the best and the latest niches for building internet income?

The Shakers and Movers of Internet Marketing for 2008

The internet changes so fast sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the latest cool business opportunities. What are the best and the latest niches for building internet income? Some are winners and some are losers but as always some really good opportunity available.

As the newer technologies become available for use on the internet it opens the doors for the next new idea to make good money. The technologies available now are changing simple online business into huge successes.

With the internet updating every minute with something new areas of business never seen before are popping up everywhere. Business is rushing to meet the demands of a worldwide market that they never had access to before.

Here is a list of five new movers and shakers for 2008.

1. Food Commerce

People are just tired of the traditional ways of getting the same old things. People everywhere you see looking for the new exciting different tastes and flavors in food. Also the newer ways to get it being presented in exciting new ways online. Other areas are all different kinds of specialty shops with the success of the Micro Breweries and the Coffee shops. People are getting onboard this success with Smoothie shops designing your own with hundreds of choices. You are now seeing online and off-line Teas available for all categories from weight loss programs to detoxify the body.
 
2. Security for the Internet

Even with all of the improvements of the last few years’ security is still a hot topic from the Military and Government. To the big corporations and the home computer wireless networks everyone needs some kind of protection and they are willing to pay for it. Just storing data with safe and secure methods is a big concern. Lots of opportunity available for companies designing new and safer and more secure ways of keeping data will be needed for years.

3. Technology in Gadgets for the Individual

With developments in Cell Phones with more bandwidth, storage capacity and computing ability has opened the doors for even more internet business. We hear about a new service or option every day in this area online and off-line. This will be an excellent area for new business in the years to come.
 
4. Personal Health and the problems of the millions being overweight.

Look around today and everyone from the kids to retirees everyone is overweight. Weight loss was always a huge industry but in the next few years it will double and triple in opportunity. There is opportunity here online and off-line for affiliate programs and new developments. Exercise programs personal fitness trainers in both the online and off-line areas.

5. Social Networking

Here is a relatively new industry that has just taken off in the last year. Successes of the big boys like MySpace and the billions of dollars in advertising revenue being made. Programmers lining up to create the next big success like YouTube billion dollar sale to Google. They all have dollar signs in their eyes.

Yet others have another idea what if we could build a social network of hundreds of thousands of people and share the revenue with the members. What if the social network could be Free to join and use? What if they paid out the revenue from the advertising to its members like a multilevel marketing company would?

There are a number of companies starting up that are growing by thousands of people every day. Here is one that is free and is sharing 80% of the revenue with the membership. Social Networking.

What is Organic Search Engine Optimization?

author Posted by: Lambert on date Sep 3rd, 2008 | filed Filed under: Articles for website promotion

It’s the process of optimizing a web site or page so that it ranks well in the free listings of the search engines.

It’s best to use “White Hat” methods for Organic Search Engine Optimization. This will bring safer and longer rankings.

Organic Search Engine Optimization techniques are the best options for attaining visitors at the least cost. It’s well known that visitors will click on the free organic listings more often then the paid listings.

There are many solid Organic Search Engine Optimization techniques that you can use. These involve keyword research, key phrase placement in your Meta tags and content, and the application of special formatting such as headers, bold and bullets.

It benefits you to learn Organic Search Engine Optimization, and put it to use on your web sites.

Your goal with Organic Search Engine Optimization is to place each of your pages as high as possible in the search engines’ listings.

When you apply all of the methods of Organic Search Engine Optimization, then you will reap the rewards of highly placed listings.

The search engine spiders will be able to find your pages easier and find them more relevant. This is because of your understanding of Organic Search Engine Optimization.

Besides online optimization, you also want to do offline optimization. This will include regular practices such as submitting to directories, writing press releases, submitting articles, and getting other links pointing back to your site.

One good way to get relevant links is to start a blog or two about your key phrase. Link from these Blogs to your web site. Make sure that you add fresh, original content to both your Blogs and web sites.

If you aren’t aware of what your key phrases are, then you can use tools to help with this. One such free tool is at nichebotclassic.com. This will allow you to do keyword research that furthers your Organic Search Engine Optimization.

With 70% of search engine users visiting organic sites, and 50% of them selecting the top results, you can see that Organic Search Engine Optimization as its advantages.

With Organic Search Engine Optimization you won’t have to worry about spamming the search engines or other techniques that will drop your listings or get you banned.

So optimize your web pages the natural way and you will see greater rewards and higher top listings in the search engines.

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