Tools for article writting and marketing

Totally agree with Laurence - you don't need anything special, even a text editor that comes standard on any computer will do. You just need a simple outline and half an hour of focus.

By all means though, definitely use a keyword tool to make sure your article is SEO friendly and never ever use an article spinner. They are the WORST invention known to man... 'Dumb-ifying' the human race faster than they spin the articles (I just made that word up ok - hehe).

Just get it done!

Best regards, Rob.

I agree with the guys above, Your best tools are your brain, your fingers and your ideas. If you just start writing you will be amazed at how fast you can become fairly good. You already know what looks good you just need practice.

I used to spend a lot of time with new writers to get them to produce articles up to my expectations of quality. Some tools I used for training them included "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, "The Associated Press Stylebook", college-level marketing text books, and conventions of writing specific to various niches such as trade associations.

In my experience it was actually far more effective to find and train writers who also have core competencies in marketing for delivering an engaging style. A much better use of your time IMO would be in training writers and marketing their production to publications targeting your niche and/or demographics.

I'm sorry to hear it.

Spinning is a nonsense that's based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

It's a "solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist".

A solution of benefit only to people selling spinning software and services (just like one or two of the people above, who posted back in 2009, were doing!).

"Spinning" is without value. It can damage your business, but it can't help you. Everyone who actually makes a living from article marketing (rather than from supplying spinning software or services) says the same things about spinning. And there are reasons for that.

The whole thing is based on a fallacy, and a misunderstanding about what "duplicate content" and "syndicated content" mean and signify.

The value of a backlink doesn't depend on whether the content to which it's attached is "unique" or "previously published": it depends on many other things, but that isn't one of them, and Google says so openly.

For people open-minded enough to read them, the following six items explain much more, at greater length and in greater detail.

• this post explains the alleged "benefits" of spinning
• the first half (or so) of this thread contains a good discussion of what you can gain from spinning articles ("not a lot")
• the advice on this subject given by so many people throughout most of this thread has been really helpful to many people here
• on the meaning and significance of "duplicate content", in this context, this little post from expert article marketer Anne Pottinger includes direct quotations from Google's WebMaster Central Blog on the subject (not easy to find a more authoritative source than that!)
• this little article is also a very useful and accurate explanation of the subject (really)
• this post, and its links, explain in detail the closely related subject of how article directories really work and why they exist