
Need help: Article writing 101
I'm writing to try and perfectly understand how to put the art into articles.
Articles really appeal to me for a number of reasons:
- Lack of financial investment. I'm a student, enough said?
- I LOVE to write. I don't care about what but it would help if it was something I was interested in!
- I can't think of a better way to earn money than sitting in front of my computer and working from the ease of my extremely cramped, smelly accomodation, complete with a scenic view of the local Manchester kebab shop!
- It's really the only thing in the I.M world that I have been able to grasp whatsoever. For a student I sure am easily overwhelmed in the breadth of information.
- Given my other committments - going out & drinking, studying, going out & drinking, the gym, going out & drinking and maintaining a long-term relationship - having something that I can make decent money from (while devoting only a few hours a day) is very appealing... Did I mention going out & drinking?
- I'm NOT looking for $1,000 a day! In fact if I made this is in a month I'd be over-the-moon - of course the equivalent in £ would be nicer.
Here is my basic understanding of a decent article-writing scheme, based purely around affiliate marketing, of course:
- These guys seem to be the top dogs for article submission:
ezinearticles.com
squidoo.com
hubpages.com
goarticles.com
- QUALITY and QUANTITY are paramount in successful articles. By this I mean the quality or the article must be decent in order to initially be published and subsequently read, and quantity is important for the obvious reason that the more you've got, the more likely it is you're gonna get some decent traffic!
- You can make money by linking to affiliate products which are related to your article (I'd use ClickBank), I guess it'd also be possible to use AdSense here?
- The concept of unique articles. Now as far as I can tell, these are articles that are unique to the individual publishing sites. In other words, you can only submit them once, to only one site. Now it's not this that throws me, rather the fact that I see people in the same threads talking about submitting both unique and non-unique (for lack of a better term) articles. How does this balance work?
- I understand that ezine doesn't tolerate affiliates being linked into your articles. I've heard the term landing page thrown about a few times. I really don't know what to do here. Would I set up a blog relevant to my article's niche and place the affiliate links in there - providing the link to my blog in my article and getting people to find the affiliates from there?
- The concept of backlinks. Is this simply providing links to other articles you've written within the same niche? If so, how is this done? In your resource box? If you provide such backlinks, where would your affiliate or blog link go?
- Keywords! I understand these are vitally important to your articles getting found. How do you find and implement these? When you've found a set phrase that attracts people do you then proceed to put it in your title and then try and include the same exact phrase into the rest of your article, without appearing spammy?
Once again I'd like to apologise for any offense caused by my severe lack of know-how.
I'd also like to say a huge thankyou to anyone who can provide help for me. For some reason I've found myself heavily into my overdraft and I can't figure out why... Is it the studying? The gym? Must be the girlfriend....
Not only is this a desire to make money for university, but it also gives me the opportunity to develop these skills into something that I can, with any luck, rely on as a primary source of income in future.
Once again a huge thankyou, and repeated apologies,
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