While it is true that you can get articles written cheaply, for a couple of dollars, but they are likely to be very poor quality. For a decent 400 to 500 word article you are looking to pay between five and ten dollars, possibly more depending on the niche and the author.

However, you can write the articles yourself, and it’s not that difficult to do if you follow a system.

Below is a system that works very well–it is one that I use myself when I’m fighting writer’s block. You can be writing high quality articles surprisingly quickly with this technique. It really isn’t that hard and it enables even the most novice of writers to create decent articles rapidly.

Okay, here we go:

1. Decide upon the niche you are writing in.
2. Determine which keyword(s) you are targeting in your article. Now, this did not used to be part of the writing process, but with the reach that is possible with the power of the Internet, doing things like SEO just helps you get noticed a little sooner.
3. Determine the subject your article will be about.
4. Type into Google some of your keywords and see what problems and issues people are facing in that niche. What do they want to know? What is their pain? What solutions are they looking for? What is it, about your keyword, that you need to write that will solve your readers’ question?

Make notes and keep this information handy. We start the actual writing next:

5. Write a powerful, interest-building title with your keyword at the start, if possible. If it just won’t come to you, at first, that’s okay. After you’ve been writing the article for a fewmintes, something may come to you that you can use to construct an attention-getting title.
6. Write 3 or 4 statements describing the problem.
7. Write three sentences that each asks the reader a question about your subject.
8. Think about the solutions to your reader’s problem. Try to come up with more than one thought about the answer to the problem.
9. But only write one sentence about the most innocuous or easiest plausible answer. Remember, you want your reader to be forced to click your link to read more. Therefore, you will:
10. End you article with an invitation to read the better answer.
    10a. If writing for article directory submission, this last section (#10) should become your resource box.
11. Now go back to each step from step #6 and expound on each sentence. Here’s good news: your paragraphs need to be short. 2, 3 and 4 or 5 sentence paragraphs are exactly what you need. Anything much more than that, and I guarantee you will lose your audience.

The Internet has done a strange thing to people; it has taught them to read by skimming. This is why bullet point and bolding of certain words or short phrases are highly recommended. People skim an article and if something catches their eye, then they will stop and read deeper.

To make it easy for your reader, 8 or 9 short paragraphs will suffice. That amounts to only about 450-500 words.

It can be very daunting to sit down and write if it is something you are not used to.

And there you have a good quality, unique article that you could spin or just submit to an article directory or use on your website. Content is king on the Internet, and unique content provides you with an edge over the competition.

This method will help you to quickly write articles, and it won’t be long before you can write a high quality article in under ten minutes. With practice, you will be able to do them in five to seven minutes easily!

And remember the more articles you have out there, the more you can potentially earn!

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During each day, for just one product/project/campaign, you have been writing articles and posting them to the article directories. Using Pingler.com and Onlywire.com, you have been pinging and bookmarking the articles each day.

You should start seeing some kind of results soon, if you haven’t already. Have you checked Google for your keywords yet? Head for Google and do that. First do a broad match (placing the keywords in the box) and see if your page comes up anywhere in the first three pages results. If not, this will tell you you have more articles to write and more lenses/hubpages to create.

Remember, all your links in all the articles and lenses/hub pages should point back to the first batch of articles you posted at GoArticles.com. THOSE are the articles you are looking to find in a Google SERP.

The next action item to integrate into your campaign is hitting the trail, so to speak and doing some forum marketing, blog commenting and answering some Yahoo Answers questions.

But where? Head back to Google and type in, Forum: (YOUR KEYWORD HERE). In other words, if you are writing articles about iguanas, then a forum search term at Google would be “Forum: iguanas” and such (with or without quotes–doesn’t matter, in this instance. Try both ways, see what comes up).

Make note of each forum’s popularity and page rank. Write down (or Favorite) any that look interesting to you. These will be the Forums you will visit, a little later on. What you will be doing is creating a profile, with appropriate signatures, and then you’ll start posting. But only after you’ve gathered a list of Forums to visit.

Next, back to Google and type in, blog: iguanas (following our previous example). Just like your Forums list, make a list of potential blogs to visit. Then one more time at Google, type in, site: iguanas. Again, make note of sites with high PR and popularity. Not every website will have the capability for commenting (like having guestbooks and whatnot), but some do and it’s worth a try. That’s why you can also go back to Google and type blog: iguanas.

Make note of sites/blog that have potential for your needs. Why am I suggesting you only make note of these sites? I find that if I load up a SERP and start on that list, pretty soon, I’ve gotten derailed, looking at so many sites and searching each site for commenting sections. Before I know it, I’ve only hit one or two sites and I’m caught up in a chaos that bogs me down.

That annoys me. I find I need a plan of attack. So, I make a list of places to go, and then, I head out to do my commenting in a methodical manner.

Now you are set to get started. Head over to Yahoo Answers and do a search for any open questions that have your subject matter in the question. Find any questions you can answer and in the Source Box, create an anchor text link to one of your GoArticles articles. You may not find too many questions, but if you do this every day, you’ll start to become recognized, by the readers, as an authority on the subject.

Then get out your list of sites, and start commenting (NEVER SPAM THE WEBSITES). For the forums, of course, start registering and creating a profile complete with signatures. Then find threads to which you can make relevant posts. NEVER SPAM THE FORUMS.

You don’t have to do them all in one day, especially in the forums, where setting up profiles can be time consuming. But remember, you can’t eat an elephant all in one day, either, so just keep at it.

That’s the key to this whole darn shootin’ match. Just keep at it.

There are numerous other things you can be doing to promote your GoArticle articles, as well, and I’m sure you’ve got more than a few eBooks on your hard drive to teach you all about them. Point is, never stop promoting those articles.

That is, until it’s on auto-pilot and you’re making a decent enough income from it.

That’s my plan of attack in a 3-step nutshell. Goos luck to you all!

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I like to tweak my WP templates as much as I can with my limited knowledge. Occasionally, I screw things up royally, but that’s how I learn best. Get myself into a jam, get myself out. It’s worked so far.

But Joel Williams, over at BlogTech Guy (http://blogtechguy.com) sent me an email tonight about this cool WordPress Tag Cheat Sheet. Now, when I don’t know what something in the coding does, I can look at this cheat sheet and figure it out. It’s great!

Here’s a screen shot:

WordPress Tag Cheat Sheet

Ekin Ertac over at ekinertac.com created it and is giving it away for free. You should definitely go check it out, if you’re into tweaking your WP templates.

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This post is Step Two of a system I am lining out for you for the purpose of getting high traffic to particular articles you posted to GoArticles.com, in step one, which will lead back to your website/affiliate product/whatever you’re trying to promote. See Part One HERE.

Google loves authority sites and any time one of your links shows up on an authority site, Google places more importance, and therefore, more weight, on your links. The more weight your links have, the better ranking your link destination will receive.

Squidoo (PR 7) and Hub pages (PR 6) have been around a very long time. As it happens, they are considered authority sites by Google. Their original purpose was to give people an easy way to make a webpage, without all the hassle that goes along with building a full-fledged website. They were around long before Google decided that authority sites were a good thing. They just fell into being the right kind of website at the right time, as do many things on the Internet. You never know what’s going to happen next on the Internet.

So a hub page and a lens are basically the same thing. It’s a single page dedicated to one subject (though you could talk about more than one thing—not recommended), and allows you to place links. As with posting articles to high PR article directories, having a high PR lens or hub page pointing back to your original GoArticles articles lends credence (read that, weight) to your ultimate destination.

So, here’s the plan. After your article marketing campaign, start building lens/hub pages that point back to the original 5 GoArticles articles you posted. With the other 100 article pointing to GoArticles and your new lenses/hub pages pointing to those articles, Google is going to think your GoArticles articles are gold, and give them a prime location on the SERPS. Getting to page one of a Google search page result is really this easy!

NOTE: Squidoo is starting to crack down on certain kinds of links and products being posted to their site, so DO READ the TOS. They don’t like for their lenses to point straight back to an affiliate product sales page. So, our method of pointing back to an article (that leads to an affiliate product or redirect page) is a great solution to this dilemma. They also are apparently getting tired of all the “Make Money Online” lenses that are being created, so if that’s what you’re promoting, avoid Squidoo—for the moment. As mentioned earlier, you never know what’s going to happen on the Internet on any given day. Squidoo could change their mind or some other little combination of gimmicks could happen that makes it possible once again to advertise money-making opportunities. In any case, if you are promoting something else entirely, Squidoo is an excellent place to go.

Lenses and Hub pages are easy enough to set up. I have a great little giveaway report, written by PotPie Girl of Wealthy Affiliate to give to you. If you would like it, please use my contact form and send me a request for PotPie Girl’s Squidoo report. No strings, no sign-ups. Besides, PotPie Girl is a fantastic, HONEST marketer and if you haven’t met her yet, I highly recommend it. Just be aware that the report was written right before Squidoo changed their content policy, so bear that in mind as you are reading it. Her instructions on how to set up a Squidoo lens are still quite valid.

By The Way, have you seen the lens for Article Writing News? I would really love it if you would give a quick visit to the lens! http://www.squidoo.com/AWN

Anyway, that’s Step Two, make hub pages and lenses for each of the 5 articles you posted at GoArticles. In my next post, we’ll talk about pinging and bookmarking.

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