By Paul Barrs


Chances are if you’re reading this than you’re one of the thousands who seek to generate traffic and income through the writing and publishing of articles.

Many years ago this was identified as one of the single best ways to boost traffic to your website; more recently however this marketplace has become corrupted and overtaken by the plethora of those who think that *everything* should be automated and run by a program… including the writing...

"The Internet is just a faster version of mail order, that's all. Part of my success is due to the fact that I never looked at the Internet as anything but a big place to put a sales letter. It's still direct response, just a heck of a lot faster."

- Allen Says

This made things a whole lot clearer for me, or at least that's how it feels.

edit:

Here's another from Matt M:

"Once you learn how to write persuasive copy,...

I read that many marketers including myself, miss the boat on keywords. This happens because we keep our marketers' hats on instead of putting ourselves in our customers' shoes.

Think of the last time that you wanted to find some information by typing a question or phase in Google.You didn't type a broad term such as "lose weight." You wanted something more specific, so you typed a phrase or question regarding a SPECIFIC issue, such as how to lose belly fat.

...

Well, its a week since I put up the free ebook "Revolutionary linkuilding tips" on
http://www.linkbuildersbible.com/ and I am shocked at the response.

It has had over 90 downloads, meaning 90 people are trying out the cool tips in it, and 90 more people are now on my mailing list.

I was late in realising the power in a list, and I urge anyone starting out to get those free reports done and start building emails addresses.

Once you build trust...

Nothing too amazing to report. I have been writing articles, re-writing PLR articles, and spinning all of those articles to create a whole bunch of articles.

Not terribly fun, it IS work after all. But as John and Matt Rhodes said:

JUST DO THE WORK!



That's all really. Oh, I have also been studying/reading about Ezine articles and article marketing in general.

What do I use for spinning? Well, The Best Spinner is accurately named,...