By Terry Hudson

How many ebooks or reports have you purchased lately promising to put you on the easy road to internet wealth? Don’t worry about keeping count, it’s a necessary step in your online marketing curve.

A word of advice; don’t let your friends or family chide you for not becoming an Internet Millionaire overnight. Just remember that its the 80-20 rule that applies to business life online, just as it does in the ‘real world.’ Of every 100 marketers trying to make money on the internet, only 20% will really ever make it. The other 80% try, but never get started or remain unfocused, hopping from one opportunity to another.

If you want to be successful (just as in real life) you have to practice the ‘Power of One’ approach. That means focus on one thing at a time, get really good at it… then move on.

I’m sure your curiosity is boiling over right now wondering just how easy it’s gonna be to make $100 a day. After all, I’m pretty sure plenty of so called “Gurus” have already promised you instant riches… right?

So what exactly makes the steps I’m going to give you any different from what you already have? There are really more than five steps to successful Internet Marketing, but for the sake of time, I’m cutting the fluff and giving you the condensed version. But don’t worry… what I’m sharing works!

Ready to go? These are easy, fundamental steps that you should learn and work on every day.

Step 1 in the $100 A Day Income System is this…

Make sure you have a PayPal, ClickBank and a PayDotCom account setup for yourself. That’s most important! That’s how you’re gonna get paid;-)

All are quick and easy to setup. It just takes a little of your time.

Go to ClickBank.com for your ClickBank Account.

Go to PayPal.com for your PayPal account.

Go to PayDotCom.com for your PayDotCom account.

You don’t need a product or service of your own, you really don’t need much of anything.

JUST THE ABILITY TO WRITE A GOOD RECOMMENDATION for someone else’s product!

Before you stop reading this article because you possess an inherent fear of writing, I’ve already made sure you have a way around that, too. You’re simply going to become an expert at speaking your article/review (recording it) and having it transcribed. Having someone transcribe your spoken article, may cost you $6.00 to $10 bucks. That’s all… no more I can’t write excuses, OK?

I know… I’m probably jumpin’ way ahead here, but I know you may be thinking about so many other obstacles that you may just think this is going to be too hard… right?

Listen to me… just one step at a time, OK! We’re going to go over a lot of things here for sure. All I want you to do for now is relax and trust in the fact that we’re gonna go over everything you’ll need to know to be successful with my system.

Okay… the first step you’ve taken is ensure that you have accounts setup so you’ll be sure to receive proper credit (and profits) on product referrals.

So here’s Step 2 in our $100 A Day Income System….

We’re going to capitalize on an ingenious method where we simply write one article a day (approximately 350-700 words) and in that article you offer a detailed, unbiased review of someone else’s product. That’s it!

Step 3- You go to ClickBank.com > Marketplace and browse through the programs that you already have knowledge or interest in. Spend some time there. You don’t have to feel like you have to pick the first one or two you see. Read the “Pitch Page” and see if it’s something you feel you might buy.

Later on, once you get to feeling comfortable there and learn the different ways to search, you’ll feel right at home. Several tips for you; when you do your searches, change the search results level from 10 to 30. This will save lots of time. Tip two is don’t pick the most popular listed programs as there are a lot of people competing for those.

Learn the difference between ‘sort’ methods. They are: Popularity, High and Low gravity, % Earned and % Referred. As mentioned earlier, take your time and get to know ClickBank well, really well.

To recap a bit….

*You’ve setup your affiliate accounts with ClickBank, etc

* You’re going to find some products you are interested in reviewing and write a short product review about that product.

* Later, we’ll then submit these articles to some popular article directories such as the one you’re on now.

Step 4- Now, let’s talk briefly about the actual construction of your article.

Your title is the most important part of your article!

Spend 50% of your efforts on the “TITLE” of your article. This is extremely important. If your title isn’t full of benefits for it’s readers, chances are the article won’t even get read… so spend a lot of time on it!

The above point is EXTREMELY important! The title of your article will decide it’s success or failure — plain and simple!

Step 5- And here’s the kicker…

Once you’ve written your article, you are afforded the opportunity to place a small “About The Author” byline at the bottom of each of your articles. Many article publishers use this “ad space” to tell folks a little about themselves and then also place a link back to their website…. just like below.

So… you’re going to use this small ad space to place a brief note about you and leave your website link where they can easily find your affiliate product link. This way, when someone reads your rave review about a particular product, they just might want to learn a little more about it. So, they simply click on the link at the bottom of your article and VIOLA! They are transported through cyberspace and…

You get credit for the referral and more importantly a commission if this person decides to buy the product. Dang! I love the Internet!

Follow these steps and do them religiously EVERY DAY and you’ll certainly be on your way to seeing how others constantly open their email every morning with a hot cup of their favorite coffee and see those PayPal paydays.

Go to http://www.terry-hudson.net/100dayincome.htm where Terry reveals the rest of the $100 Per Day Income System.

Did you find this article useful? Want to know more about how you can position yourself to make $100 dollars a day? Steps 6, 7 and 8 give you many more practical, easy to implement steps including a bakers dozen of the hottest article directories online. If you want to target an income of say $75,000 a year, go to terry-hudson dot net for information on this and other ways to put your earnings on an inevitable path upward. Terry has an interesting view on teaching new marketers how to start earning money using the Internet.

Terry Hudson lives in the beautiful US Virgin Islands. He is a licensed boat Captain, scuba enthusiast and avid sailor.

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By Sean R Mize

First some background.

I have clients consistently that tell me that it seems really complex to build an online business, but once they found me, it got alot easier.

That is because it IS easy, but it is NOT EASY to simplify it.

That’s why most “gurus” and people who have built successful information marketing businesses have such a hard time teaching it simply. Because they tend to focus on “how they did it” (which is full of twists and turns, just like parenting has twists and turns, if you were teaching someone to parent, would you teach them the core things they need to know, or would you focus on the exact disciplines you recommend for each infraction. And with information marketing, many experts dwell too heavily on the details…and you get left out of understanding how the whole thing works)

So my goal with my clients is to make it really simple.

And by the way, I don’t mean so simple that there are no details.

I just get rid of all the superfluous stuff you don’t need.

Ok, let’s get started. This is my exact formula for information marketing success.

1) You need to choose a niche in a profitable area online.

I know you might have been told to just follow your passion, or use some complex keyword competition formula to figure out what to sell. Don’t. Instead, go into a niche where lots of other people are successful. That is the best way to predict your own possibility of success…other people are successful in your proposed niche.

2) You need to build a list of people in that niche that need help.

To build a list, I recommend a squeeze page, then send traffic to that squeeze page.

3) You need to have an email list that communicates with your list automatically.

You CANNOT run your business by sending one email at a time. You MUST use an autoresponder. This doesn’t mean you can’t respond personally to someone who has a question, but your primary communication emails need to be automated.

4) You must find out what the needs are of the people on your list.

Then create products to meet their needs. Since you are in information marketing, the needs you will be meeting will be “how to” information. That means you will learn the answers to their problems, then create products to tell them the answers. The easiest way to do this is to record your products using audio (mp3s). You can also write ebooks, but they take more time and sell for less than audios. You could record videos instead, but they take more time to produce, and don’t really sell for more (sometimes they do, but if this is your first product – create an audio, not a video)

5) You must write a sales letter for your product.

I recommend using a sales letter template, I can recommend a couple of really good ones if you need.

6) You must write a prelaunch and launch sequence for your product.

Then you must put that prelaunch and launch sequence in your autoresponder campaign so each new subscriber gets exposed to the exact same launch sequence over time.

7) Repeat steps 4-6 ad infinitum.

Create higher priced, higher level products to sell to people who buy your initial products.

These backend selling campaigns should also be automated.

9) You need to constantly improve conversion rates with testing and tweaking,

not just to your sales letters, but also to your email sequences, and backend selling sequences.

This is my entire formula.

Anything else is just an addon. Meaning an upsell is an addon. Or traffic sources are addons. Various additional coaching products (to sell to people who buy your first product and your backend product) is an addon.

The automation is critical.

Without the automation, even if you have products, you are re-inventing your business each month, week, and day as you write emails to get people to buy.

Instead automate the entire selling process in your campaign.

By the way, do you want to learn more about using articles like this to drive traffic to your website and increase online conversions?

If so, I suggest you check this out: article marketing traffic.

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Article Marketing & Copywriting Secret – How To Make Your Article TITLE Sell

Article Marketing & Copywriting Secret – How To Make Your Article TITLE Sell

By Christopher Knight

Most authors are wasting their time producing dozens to hundreds of high quality articles that never reach a fraction of their traffic potential. It’s a darn shame.

When I review the behind-the-scenes traffic statistics on over 20,000 articles that have produced over 1 million monthly page views in my article marketing lab…ONE thing is clear: All articles are not created equal even when everything about them is identical except for the TITLE.

The reason is probably not what you think.

If you’ve been schooled on traditional copywriting, you know that in the offline world, the headline determines as much as 95% of the success of the book or article. This statistic takes into consideration what makes the book title successful: Whether a human buys it or not.

Article Marketing on the Internet is a whole different story because of the way your articles reach humans who have an interest in them.

MYTH: Most people will read your articles because they came to a website and started browsing just like they do if they were to have gone to a local book store to find a book of personal interest.

FACT: Wrong! Most people will search the Internet using one of the major search engines and they will be putting in between 1 to 5 keywords that are related to the topic of the article or information they are looking to locate. The search engines will then deliver results that best match the human’s interest.

YOUR GOAL: To have your articles show up in the search engine results for the keywords and topics that are most related to the content of your article.

HOW?

You must embrace this TITLE creation & traffic-building truth:

The first 3-5 words of your TITLE determine the success of your article in terms of how much traffic your article will generate back to your website. Success can only be had when you create keyword rich titles for your articles that match the most commonly searched keywords for your topic.

How to determine which keywords are rich and the right ones to use for your article?

You’ll need a keyword research tool. Some are free and some are fee-based. Overture.com has a popular keyword research tool that shows you the most common search results from the Yahoo search engines directory. If you want to see what’s on “Google’s Mind” you can try one of their current beta tools called “Google Suggest”:

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1

Whether you use a web-based keyword research tool or invest in one of the more advanced application level software keyword research tools, it’s critical that you learn know how to do keyword research.

A “Good” vs. “Bad” TITLE Example:

Here is an example of the difference between a non-keyword rich TITLE vs. a very keyword rich TITLE that is proven to perform better in terms of traffic creation:

Bad TITLE Example:

“Top 9 Ways You Can Acquire Fractional Jet Ownership”

Excellent Keyword Rich Title Example:

Fractional Jet Ownership – 9 Strategies to Help You Acquire Your Private Jet

Why is it more effective?

Because it does not waste the first 3 words of the title with meaningless garbage words like “top” or the number “9″ or “ways”…and gets right to the important words that might be found when someone is using a search engine to research a topic related to your article.

You’ll also notice in my example that I included the word “Private” Jet. Why? Because my keyword research said that people who search for fractional jet also search for the word “private jet” and therefore I wanted to boost the chances that my title would be found by a larger number of potential visitors to the article.

Two recommendations on what NOT to do:

1) Don’t include garbage characters in your TITLE such as quotes, tildes, asterisks or anything else that a search engines has to work hard to discard in order to understand the TITLE of your article.

2) Do not engage in any search engine spam technique by having keyword rich TITLES that have nothing to do with the topic of your article. You’ll only be hurting yourself as the search engines already aggressively filter out bad behavior like this.

YOUR INTELLIGENT KEYWORD RICH TITLE COPYWRITING CONCLUSION:

If you want to maximize your results from any article marketing strategy, you must master keyword research so that you can create keyword rich and intelligent article TITLES. Your pay off will be massive amounts of traffic to your articles and website thanks to the search engines who love smart keyword rich TITLES!

About The Author:

Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

(c) Copyright – Christopher M. Knight. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

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By Sean R Mize

In this article, I will teach you how to write an effective email. Now, I must say this – when I refer to an effective email, I mean one that is effective at communicating with your email subscribers.

So what exactly does that look like?

Well, first of all, let’s think about this – why does someone join your email list in the first place? Is it to gain information on a particular topic, the topic about which you are an expert? Is it to learn more about you and your services? Or perhaps different people on your list are on your list for different reasons?

Let’s think about this as well. If you were to ask your friend, who is hypothetically an expert in something you need help with, what kind of emails would your friend send to you?

My guess is that he (or she ) would send you emails with relevant content, occasionally make offers to you or suggestions to purchase something that would really help you.

But my guess is that he wouldn’t send you blatant affiliate promotions everyday, nor would he send you something that has across the header “newsletter of the day” nor would he send something with 10 ads in it.

Instead, he would send you relevant content that you needed to learn more about your topic. He would send you sales offers when they made sense. And all of his emails would appear to be from him personally.

You know, I think that is one of the biggest mistakes email marketers make today: they try to treat their list of subscribers as one big entity, when in fact they are not one big entity, they are many multiple numbers of people, each of whom have feelings and individual needs.

You see, your entire list isn’t going to go in together to buy your product from you, so why would you send a mass email to your list that looks like it is going to hundreds or thousands of people?

I suggest writing emails that will look and appear natural, and as those you wrote them personally. One thing I have found that really helps is to send to your list emails that you have once sent to individuals. For example, if someone asks you a relevant question, and you answer it as an email, you can copy and paste that email into your autoresponder, and send that out to your list (taking out your client’s personal info of course) and it will appear much more natural in many cases than if you wrote an email just for your list.

By the way, do you want to see how I monetize my own articles? If so, click below and follow the directions:

monetization example.

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By Sean R Mize

In this article, I am going to teach you how to write a squeeze page.

Of course, perhaps the first thing to ask is, what is a squeeze page. My personal definition is that it is a page that has as its only purpose the opting in of subscribers. And I mean that literally. Meaning that you don’t try to sell anything, or get someone to go to your blog, or anything else like that when you are writing a squeeze page. Because generally speaking, each additional action or link on your page dilutes your opt in box conversion rate. So if you want a page that will convert readers or visitors into subscribers, then in my opinion, you should work on getting the absolute highest conversion rate possible, and focus on converting people into buyers or sending them to your blog, at some other point in time.

For example, you could send them to a sales page after they become a subscriber, or you could send them to your blog once they have been on your list for a few days.

So how should a squeeze page be formatted to get the highest conversion rates?

Experience tells me, and many others have proven this to be true, that a simple salesletter type formula tends to work really well, but instead of having something that is longer than a page or so, like a typical salesletter, we find that if the squeeze page is shorter then it tends to convert better. Of course you should always split test in your niche and to your own traffic to confirm that.

So the beginning of your squeeze/ landing page would be a strong headline. For example, if you are giving away a dog training manual on your website, then your headline might read like this: “Discover the 7 Secrets to Training Your Dog” Then beneath that headline, you might have 5 bullet points that describe what someone will learn when they download your free squeeze guide.

Then you will have an optin box, with some optin language like this: “To claim your free gift, simply put your name and email in the boxes below”

Of course, these are really the basics, I suggest you take some time looking at other people’s profitable squeeze pages. Find people online who are profitable, and look at their squeeze / landing pages to see what they are doing that you could be doing better.

By the way, do you want to see how I monetize my own articles? If so, click below and follow the directions:

monetization example.

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By Sean R Mize

One of the biggest challenges in article writing and article marketing is how to write enough articles.

In fact, I was discussing this with some of my clients today, in fact that the reason that article marketing (or at least one of the reasons) continues to be such a great way to drive traffic is because it is not easy to do. You see, with PPC or with banner ads, or even with Facebook or Twitter, you can just pay someone to generate a whole bunch of clicks for you (of course you hope they are targeted). But with article marketing, you can do that. And you cannot pay per click or per action.

You either have to write the articles yourself, or you have to pay someone to write the articles. But in paying someone to write the articles, you are not going to get paid on the articles for some time into the future.

In my case, sometimes it is several months from the time I pay someone to write an article before the first sale comes from that article. Of course it is fine, because I am earning revenue now from articles written in the past (in fact, I still make money from some of the articles I wrote as long as 4 years ago).

So if you are writing the articles yourself, the faster you can write them.

There are a few things that are predictive of how long your articles take to write. One is how well you know your material. You see, if you know your material inside and out, like an expert, or perhaps you are an expert then you won’t have to spend time researching for each article.

Take this article, for example, I selected this topic to write on, then I just started writing. I didn’t have to do any research, because I personally know everything I am writing about.

And the second thing is your typing speed. Once you know your material, and you don’t have to do research, then you are only constrained by how fast you type. For example, this article is about 400 words, and I type at about 60 words per minute, so this article has taken me about 7 minutes to write. And the truth of the matter is, I really should type faster!

So if you aren’t typing as fast as you want to, if your articles take you 30 minutes or more because you type too slow, I suggest taking typing lessons. Of course, if you know the basics of typing, where your fingers go on the keyboard, etc, then just practicing will make your writing go faster. I remember when I first started I typed at about 20 words per minute, and after one year it was about twice that! All from practicing in writing 1500 articles my first year online.

By the way, do you want to see how I monetize my own articles? If so, click below and follow the directions:

monetization example.

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By Sean R Mize

In this article, I am going to teach you how to write a resource box for the articles that you write for your article marketing campaign.

A resource box (or resource area) is the area at the end of an article where most article directories give you a chance to send the reader of your article, to your website. You see, the article directory is trading sending you traffic in exchange for your content. And it is a good trade for them, for without your content, they couldn’t operate. And without their website, getting your own content ranked in the search engines would be more difficult.

But the resource area is operative, it is critical to your success.

Because without the resource box, your articles would not send traffic to your site. And with a lousy resource area, your articles will not send much traffic to your website.

So here is how to write a resource box:

1) Your resource box needs to be on the same topic as your article, and it needs to be on the same topic as your squeeze page. You see, if it is not appropriately matched to your content in the article, then it won’t convert as well. Because the reason someone is reading your article is that they need more information on the topic of your article, and so if they are going to click through your article to your website, the offer needs to match.

2) The resource area needs to offer something of value that is relevant to the readers’ needs. I like to either give away an ebook or an audio recording, but if you are into video, then you could give away a video as well.

3) I like to write my resource box in such a way that it appears to be part of the article. Again, having it on-topic is important, but I like to use transition language such as, by the way, or perhaps you are thinking, or while you are here.

And then the last thing that is important here with a resource area is that it must go to a page that offers what it promises. For example, if you offer a free ebook on your topic in the resource area, then the squeeze page or web site landing page needs to offer the same thing. If you don’t, your conversion rate on your landing page will be lower – essentially the same as having a lower resource box conversion rate (click through rate).

By the way, do you want to see how I monetize my own articles? If so, click below and follow the directions:

monetization example.

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By Sean R Mize

Article marketing is more than just putting together random ideas and posting your articles online. Keep in mind that quality publishers will surely screen each of your copies and they will decline those that are not up to par. An article rejected would mean total waste of your time and effort.

Here’s how you can improve your article marketing:

1. Get your articles published the first time you submit them. So as not to waste your precious time in revising and resubmitting rejected articles, make sure that you do it right the first time. Make your articles publisher-friendly by making them highly informative, useful, well-written, interesting to read, engaging, and easy to understand.

2. Keep your resource box short and sweet. Keep in mind that a resource box is not another article so you must keep it short and to the point. This is the part where you get to sell yourself, your website, and of course, your products. For best results, you need to make sure that it is concise and extremely moving. It must also contain the following elements: your name and what you do (ex. Sean Mize is an expert in making money online), some of your major accomplishments (ex. Sean Mize have helped 1,500 people in making as much as $4,500 per month), a reason to click on your website (ex. click here to get more information on how I do it), and of course, you site’s URL.

3. Allow other people to reprint your articles. There might be some ezine editors, people who are starting up a new site, and blog owners who might want to pick up your articles and use them on their portals, blogs, or websites. Allow these people to use your articles as long as they keep your resource box intact or as long as they will give you inbound links. By doing so, you can potentially attract their visitors to check on your website.

4. Use your business cards to boost your readership. I know this is not your typical article marketing tip. But since I tried it and it seems to work well for my business model, I guess you can also make use of it. The next time you get your business cards printed, include the URL where your recipients can see all your articles. As you know, promoting awareness even in the offline arena can help you generate more attention.

By the way, do you want to learn more about using articles like this to drive traffic to your website and increase online conversions?

If so, I suggest you check this out: article marketing traffic.

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By Sean R Mize

Your introductory paragraph in the articles you write for SEO article marketing purposes is real important, but probably not for the reason you are thinking.

Because my guess is that you are thinking that the purpose of the introductory paragraph is to interest your reader so they will read the rest of your article, am I right? If not – what DO you think the purpose of your introductory paragraph is?

Let me tell you a story, then I will tell you what the purpose of your intro paragraph should be for seo article marketing purposes.

(And first of all – before you go trying to reverse engineer THIS article – this article, unlike most of my articles, is NOT written for seo article marketing purposes only, but is genuinely being written to teach you one of my secrets that is normally only revealed in my courses)

So back to intro paragraphs.

Let’s talk about why article marketing is so powerful, when it is done correctly. (If it is not done correctly – it is probably a waste of time, by the way)

Ok, the reason article marketing is so powerful is that it is a screening and filtering device, and keeps people out of your website that don’t really belong there in the first place.

You see, most online advertising and traffic generation is done getting your site high up in the search engine rankings for your keyword, or it is done by buying a little 3 line ad (PPC etc) or it is done by buying a banner ad or some other kind of advertisement.

But the thing is, when someone clicks on your website directly from the search engines, or from an ad you paid for – they generally don’t know much about your website.

Let’s say your website is about dog training.

Your search engine listing might look like this:

Dog Training Secrets of the Stars
How to train your dog so that he is a good dog around other people
www dot dogtraining dot com

And your 3 line PPC ad looks like this:

Dog Training Secrets of the Stars
How to train your dog so that he is a good dog around other people
www dot dogtraining dot com

Now, what does that REALLY tell your visitor?

NOTHING!

You see, they are searching online for dog training help, usually with some specific problem
in mind (if they didn’t have a problem, they wouldn’t be searching online, would they? I mean, have
you ever surfed online just for the fun of it? Ok, maybe Friday night when you are REALLY bored. But most of the time – you have a problem and that is why you are searching online.

So the problem here is that most people go to the dog training website, float around it for a few minutes, possibly find the answer to their problem, but probably don’t, so they leave your website – and your PPC dollars or seo budget was completely wasted on that visitor.

But contrast article marketing.

When someone comes to your article, they are at the same point as if someone came to the 3 line ad or the organic search ranking.

But instead of coming to your website, where they can just float around and leave – they are reading one of your articles which has as its purpose the filtering of wandering searchers online.

So they read your introductory paragraph and some of them realize you are not a good fit for them – that they don’t really need your help.

So they click away from the article.

(By the way, this is the SAME person who would have floated around on your website for 10 seconds and gone away so no loss here)

Then they people who are left read the next paragraph, and some of them decide you are not a good fit for them (these are also people who would have floated away when on your website)

Then some people make it all the way to the end of your article, and these are your best prospects.

And then they read your call to action at the end of the article (your resource box as its called in article marketing lingo) and some of them click away from the article because your resource box is not a good fit.

But some of them opt in. And those are the people who have made it through a whole bunch of hoops on your website – your intro paragraph, your second paragraph, etc. – and STILL want to come to your site. In fact, by the time they get to your website, they want MORE from you.

Do you see how powerful this is?

So back to the introductory paragraph.

What is its purpose?

In my opinion, it is to effectively filter out people who don’t need your article or help anyway, so they can go on their merry way searching somewhere else and get on with their life. You see, it should not be about trying to convince people that you are the right solution for them – because you don’t know if you are. It should be a screening device, just like the rest of the article – and just like the resource box. Oh! and by the way – the page they come to on your website should ALSO be a screening device, just like mine should be just below.

By the way, do you want to see how I monetize my own articles? If so, click below and follow the directions:

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By Christopher Knight

Making your articles available for reprints by other ezine publishers and webmasters is the cornerstone strategy in building an avalanche of pre-qualified visitors to your website.

If you want your articles to be picked up and massively distributed by others, here are 7 common mistakes to avoid:

Article Mistake #1 Too many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors.

In addition to having your article proofed by others, you may also want to be sure that you have clearly defined paragraphs. Nothing is worse than a big blob of text with 20 run-on sentences.

Readers no longer read articles in depth and often only ‘scan’ your article. They want small bites of information that can be easily digested… also known as “info-snacking.”

Keep your “voice” in the same person throughout the entire article. If you are using the first person voice (I, me) or the second person (you, we, us) or the third person (they, them, he, she)…be consistent by staying in one voice for the entire article.

Article Mistake #2 Too much hype, bragging and self-promotion.

If you are as good as you know you are, there is no reason to fill the body of the article with hype, gratuitous links to your site or blatant self-promotion. Readers are smart and will see right through your “hype-veil.”

Better to only sell or pitch your company in the RESOURCE BOX below the body of the article. Research I’ve done indicates that the resource box often gets a 3% CTR (Click Through Rate). Be sure you take advantage of that by not selling hard in the body of the article.

Article Mistake #3 Content based on what you need to learn, not what your reader needs.

Put yourself in your reader’s shoes and ask yourself, “What does this article offer me?” Research what your reader wants to read by doing survey’s with your own audience or do keyword search engine research to find what people are looking for.

Article Mistake #4 Making your article broad or superficial in content.

It’s better to go in-depth on a narrow topic. Define it. Explain it. Relate to it. Use bullet points or numbered lists. Offer a secret or expertise that you have around the topic. Be original in covering your topic as narrowly as possible in a way that has not been done by others. Brevity is golden.

Article Mistake #5 Headline and article summary does not grab readers’ attention.

The headline is often ~95% of the initial reason why someone might read your article or pass it over for another article. Don’t bore your audience out of the gate with a dull headline or worse, a boring introduction to the article.

If you have to use two sentences to make your headline, you’re thinking too hard. Keep it simple and make it brief. Use keyword research tools to optimize your article title.

Article Mistake #6 Plagiarizing or ‘buying articles’…

It’s ok to research the Internet for article ideas, but it’s not ok to copy word-for-word of any article. Paraphrasing can also be classified as plagiarism. Be original. Let the words flow from your mind into your article. You will sleep better at night and your articles will have a higher value in the marketplace.

Buying articles is not a great idea…especially if you do not get an exclusive license to use them. What good is the same article if thousands of people call it their own? If you do outsource your article writing to ghost writers, make sure you have an exclusive right or license to the works.

Article Mistake #7 Don’t burn out the RESOURCE BOX by overloading it.

The RESOURCE BOX is your pay-off for giving your article up for free reprints, but don’t abuse the welcome mat by including a dozen website addresses. Stick with one website URL or two at the most and you’ll find your article may find a higher distribution rate.

If you want to be really tacky, include an affiliate link in the RESOURCE BOX. A better strategy is to have a domain name registered for every affiliate program that you pitch and include the domain name that rewrites or refreshes to your affiliate link. This is much less tacky and looks more professional.

About The Author:

Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

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