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I just received an email from the guys at Wealthy Affiliate that they are ofering a new feature and it is called Rapid Writer. Here is what they said in the email:

RapidWriter is one of our newest Systems to be released within the Wealthy Affiliate University. This program is an Internet marketers DREAM tool that allows you to pump out super highly optimized content for your Articles and Websites. Anyone that gets FREE traffic from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other large search engines knows that creating highly optimized, targeted, and unique content is a MUST. RapidWriter is an elaborate (and easy to use) system that generates supercharged Search Engine optimized content!

Creating and managing your website and article content is very important, and RapidWriter handles this with ease. We store all of your content and articles for you within our system so that you can work on them from anywhere with an Internet connection. Whether you’re on your lunch break at work, or working from your home office, you have full access, all the time.

These guys are always coming out with new features and I really do beleive that Kyle, Carson and crew really want to help people. Read the rest of this entry »

I have had more questions about the good of Bum marketing and how hard it is to write articles that make money.

I have covered a lot of this in the past but would like to wrap it up again by just making a few points that you can accept for throw away.

1. Keyword research is all that matters - Make sure that you are choosing keywords that are so. Do all keyowrd researching for a few articles at once

2. Writing articles should only take a few minutes - Once you have the keywords picked use the following process to write your article

a) Pick three subjects that are related to the main keyword you are writing the current article for.

b) Write a sentence as a heading for each of these subjects (remember to keep the article on a whole very focussed to your keywords.

c) Fill out the above three sentences as though they are headings for a subject. Remember you only need about 400 words on the subject for a decent article.

d) Write the other two articles for your keywords that you did in step one.

3. Submit your articles to www.ezinearticles.com - This is probably the only place that matters. I have tried submitting to 100 other article directories and it seems that although they do get picked up they do not show up in Google or at least rank highly enough to get traffic so ezinearticles is the only place that really matters.

4. Write a great Bio box that you can reuse - When submitting your article make sure that you have a couple of sentences left as a summing up of your article and toss this in the bio box along with the link to your affiliate review that you want to get traffic to.

So this is the whole process that I use. Usually when I am wirting articles I will have my keywords already done and try to knock off three or four articles in a sitting of maybe an hour or two and have them all submitted and done.

Using this method is great because there is continuity in the process and it goes much more quickly then research, writing, submitting and then research, writing, submitting. As the 4 Hour Workweek teaches it is better to batch work so that you can save time. There is nothing better then just writing articles for an hour and then doing all of the submitting. I bet that if you were to just do keyword research you could get this done in a half hour, another hour to write three articles and then another 15 minutes or so to copy and paste articles, bio boxes and keywords over to ezinearticles and then in less then two hours your have three articles up.

If you just did this for a week, a workweek at that you would have 15 articles working for you. In one niche this is enough that you could rewrite all of these into blogposts that you could create a blog for and have even more unique type content.

Have you ever heard of PLR Private label rights products? Usually when you hear about these it is on one of the big Internet Marketing boards like Warrior forum of Digital Point and it usually seems like a great deal. You get to buy some books or a series of a 1000 articles or something that you can reuse for whatever you want.

First thing you should ask yourself when you see these PLR articles for instance is why are they so cheap? Often when you are buying a lot of articles you will find that they have been listed in Google on tons of sites and so they are useless content. If you want a lot of content on your sites you want stuff that no one has seen yet so that you can rank high in Google or submit the articles to ezine articles to bring you traffic.

The only PLR that I like to buy is articles in my niche that i am working in that are a bit more expensive, lets say 2-5 bucks an article. If you are going to pay this much then you are going to more than likely get an unused article that you can rank with. Ask the seller for some sample text and then do a google search for that text in quotes “this is the text” and see if any results come up. Read the rest of this entry »

There is an important point to making money with a blog and that is that the content is what brings people to your blog to give you a chance to sell something. So how do you create content that brings people in?The key to traffic on a blog is constant content that is interesting to your readers. In the first place you will have no readers but as your content gets recognized people will come back. I will have some aggressive content ideas here so be aware that this will work to make you money but you will need to work to get it.

How much content for a great blog?

Firstly I believe it is important to have a goal for your blog or you will get tired of it and leave before it has a chance to become an income stream. I believe that a blog is not a real entity until there are 500 posts in it. Now I would not expect you to write 500 posts quickly but the pace is up to your. You need to write at minimum once every two days so that the search engines will know to come back and reindex your blog so at that rate it would take two to three years to get to that magical 500 post level. I would say that if at all possible you should be posting twice a day and maybe taking 1 day of a week this will get you to 500 posts in under a year.

By the way although there is no way to really figure out how much money you will make with your 500 posts it is safe to say that it should bring you a substantial monthly income month after month

How long should a blog post be?

So now that you have a goal for posts number as well as posting frequency, how long should a post be? I believe that a post should be 400-500 words. If you write a post longer than that you will have picked to large a subject and shorter than that you will have probably not dug deep enough into the subject. Try to think of each post as about a page or so in Microsoft Word and you can envision what this will take.

So how long will this take? I can write a 500 word article in about 20 minutes. I have a great little system that seems to work well. I just type the heading which is the title of the article, add three or four points that I want to cover and then just start typing as the words come. Writing articles should not be difficult at all for you and once you have written a couple you will wonder why you have been putting it off for so long.

If you know that you can knock off a blog post in 20 minutes and you know that this is just about the most important work that your business has then why just write one article and be done with it. Instead it is a good idea to have your thoughts organized on paper and then write all of your weeks articles in one sitting and then setup a posting schedule in your blog or just daily add the articles as you need them.

Now that you have a system go ahead and start writing lots of content and prosper.

Writing an article doesn’t just mean putting down thoughts into words then typing and writing it. You have to capture the interest of your readers and get them to keep on reading. To send your message across you have to get the attention of the reader and have a firm grasp of their interest and pique their curiosity.

The main ingredient in baking up an article is a large dose of creativity. While creativity may come natural to many people, some just gets into a block or something to that effect that can drive someone crazy. Many writers have literally torn their hair out when they get writers block and just can’t seem to get their creative juices flowing.

Putting words into images in the readers mind is an art. A clear and crisp depiction requires a certain flair that only creativity can provide. Similes and metaphors help a lot, but the way an article gets entwined word for word, sentence by sentence then paragraph by paragraph into a whole article develops the essence of the article.

So just what do you have to do when nothing comes to mind? There is no surefire ways to get the perfect ideas but there are easy ways to get your creative juices flowing. No one can guarantee you of having the perfect mindset but many methods may aid you in achieving that state of mind. Here are five easy ways for that.

1) Keep a diary or a journal with you always. Ideas can be triggered by anything you may hear, see, or smell. Your senses are your radar in finding great ideas. Write all of them into a journal and keep it with you for future reference. You may also write down anything that you have read or heard, someone’s ideas could be used to develop your own ideas and this is not stealing. Remember that ideas and creativity can come from anywhere; it’s the development of the idea that makes it unique.

2) Relax and take time to sort things out. A jumbled mind cannot create any space for new ideas. Everyone must have a clear mind if one wishes to have their creativity in full speed. Get rid of all obstacles that can be a hindrance to your creativity. If you are bothered by something, you cannot force your mind to stay focused.

Try to relax every time that you can and think about your experiences and interactions with others. Your experiences are what shape your mindset and your opinions which could be reflected on your writings. Try to discover yourself, find out what triggers your emotions. Discover what inspires you and what ticks you off. You can use these emotions to help you in expressing yourself and your ideas, with this you can grow creatively.

3) Create a working place that can inspire your creativeness. Your working place can be quite a hindrance if it doesn’t make you feel happy or relaxed. Creativity comes from being in a good state of mind and a messed up workplace that causes distraction won’t be conducive in firing up your creative flow.

Surround your working place with objects that makes you happy and relaxed. You may put up pictures, or scents, objects that inspire, or anything that can get your creativeness cranking. A clean and well organized workplace also rids of distractions and unwanted hindrances. With a good working place, you can work in peace and never notice the time pass by.

4) Set the mood. Setting the mood requires you to just go with the moment or to induce your self to feeling what makes your mind works best. Finding out what makes you tick could help you find ways to get your creative juices flowing. Set the pace and tempo for your mood and everything else will follow.

There are many ways to set the mood. Some writers have been known to use alcohol, a little sip of wine to stir up the imagination. Some would like some mood music while others let the lighting of the environment create the mood.

5) Go on a getaway and just do something unlike crazy. Letting yourself go and have fun produces adrenaline that can make your imagination go wild. Take an adventure or a solemn hike. Whatever it is that is unusual from your daily routine can take the rut out of your schedule. In no time at all, your creativeness will make use of that experience and get your imagination to go on overdrive.

There are a few options for getting content onto oyur site. The first an most obvious is to write it yourself but there is an option and that is to hire a ghost writer. A ghost writer can write website content or even write or organize your notes to put together longer pieces of text like books, articles and press releases.

The content of your site tells a whole lot about your website. They will basically describe what your site is about and also tell people what your site has to offer. Articles and website content makes a whole lot of difference in your site because they can catch the attention of your website visitors and keep them in there.

With good website content you get the benefit of clearly depicting what it is you want to share with people. Also, good content and articles can lead people to your site. With more traffic, you get to earn more from your site making it profitable. A sites success, be it for profit or not, is the number of the flow of traffic in your site.

So how does good content and great articles get you traffic? Well, many search engines rely on the keyword and keyword phrases of a site to put it in their results list. If your content contains a good number of keywords and keywords phrases, it may be chosen to be a part of the top listed sites in the search result pages.

But before you think of just plastering your site with all the keywords and keyword phrases it could hold, search engines also filter out that abuse. You must have good well written articles that incorporate the keywords and keyword phrases properly in their content and articles.

There are many of those who cannot afford the time to write their own website contents and articles. While writing content and articles specifically designed for the internet may take some getting used to and some researching and learning, there are many writers that can be found all over the world who could do it for you.

Many of us do not have the time to learn web content writing and article writing designed for the internet. There are writers who have great experience in doing this and charge only a minimal fee for such work. Writers like this can be regarded as experts in this style of writing and can greatly help your website to get that coveted spot in the search engine rankings.

Other than getting your site in the web results page of search engines, they can also provide your site with meaningful articles and content that can impress your website visitors and entice others to view your site. Every website could use the extra traffic website visitors could invite.

Then there are those who need papers to be done either for their school or office work. Top writers around the world are very knowledgeable and do extreme researching to get a job done right. They are also very adept in many writing styles that are needed to best suit the client’s need.

Many writers around the world charge a minimal fee depending on the type of writing job needed and the number of words needed in the content. Usually, a two hundred fifty worded article would cost from 4 to 8 dollars depending on the writers experience and ability. This is a small price to pay for having a content rich site or for a well researched and written paper.

There are also many sites that can offer you these services with their team of well trained and experienced writers. They offer many writing services to cover any writing needs. A writer can be based anywhere in the world and are guaranteed to offer good contents and articles. Each one are doubly checked, edited and proofread so that you would get your money’s worth.

Finding a good writer or a site that offers these kinds of services is simply done by searching for them in search engines. Type down your keyword or keyword phrase (e.g. Content Writers, Article Writers) and you will see a long list of sites that offer these services.

The top sites would probably be the best since they have done a good job of keeping their content at a high quality to get them high rankings. But you may also want to shop around and read some of their sample work to get an idea of how much it will cost you.

Squidoo is a hot property right now on the internet aqnd it will continue to be for at least a while yet. If you have ever been to Squidoo you will see that making money there is a pretty straightforward process of creating a lense, writing content, and making moeny from affiliates or from the other clickouts from the site.

 Seth Godin created Squidoo as a way of getting people interested in writing articles that would be informative and therefore a way to make money while offering that content and the site pays back based on the money that you generate for the site. Rank is built based on the traffic you drive to the site as well as some other factors that only Seth and his team really know well. Rest assured getting traffic to your squidoo lense is easily the best way to raise your ranking and prominence within the site.

Google is also interested in Squidoo becuase the site is an “authiority” type site. Google recognizes that Squidoo is building content all of the time so they are raising the quality score that a phrase with the same number of links to the page has compared to other pages on the same topic, this means that a good page can be even better because Google will drive traffic to it more quickly and often.

Here are the steps

1. become a member by visiting www.squidoo.com

2. Click the Make a lens! in the top right hand corner of the site

3. Choose a name for your lense, then select the third option which is to create a page about it and then thirdly give it a descriptive name that people will be able to find it by.

4.  Now give your Squidoo lense some keywords…after this the admin stuff is done and you can start adding content and affiliate reviews and links to amazon and many many other things to make the page “sticky” so that people will want to visit it again in the future after they have found it once

This is not an exhaustive list at all but just one to get you started. Let you mind flow with the subject and give good content to get people coming and then after having built trust with your content you can turn these browsers into buyers

There are many webmasters that find writing articles for their site to be a very tedious task. Many people who need to write articles also procrastinate as much as they can to delay the amount of writing they need to do. Many people dread writing articles because they find researching for the topic and writing down original materials will be too taxing on them.

You need to have your creative juices flowing and simply downloading an article would be plagiarism or tantamount to stealing, not exactly. Have you ever heard about public domain? These are articles written down by many authors that have declared their works to be public domain, which means anybody can use it for whatever purpose they want.

While most authors would prefer to copyright their work for their rights, there are also a number who doesn’t mind sharing their work. Public domain articles are not owned by anybody and can be used and abused by anyone. The writers have waived their rights to their works and it is out there for the public to make use of.

You can use public domain articles in helping you write your articles. With the public domain articles you can simply edit them to your own style and rewrite them as you please to make it suitable for your needs. All the ideas are there already and its just a matter of finding the write article with the topic or subject you need.

This is probably the easiest way to write articles. You don’t need to scour around the library or the internet for hours for information and start an article from scratch. For webmasters who are looking for articles to fill their site and to generate a high ranking for their website in search engine results, they can just modify the article by infusing keywords and keyword phrases related to their site.

A webmaster or website operator do not risk any chance of getting sued for copyright infringement because they are public domain, once again meaning that anybody can use it. Writing articles by using public domain wont require as much work as writing one from scratch would. You save a lot of time also.

One good factor in using public domain articles for your site or for any project is that you save a lot of money. You dismiss the need to hire experienced and seasoned writers that some website operators use to write their articles.  While a single five hundred worded article would only set you down 10 to 15 dollars, this cost will drastically increase when you need hundreds of articles to fill the needs of your site.

For those who needs articles to generate newsletters or an e-zine, public domain articles will be very beneficial. You do not need to count on your contributors or pay writers to write down articles for your newsletter or e-zine. You can fill all the pages without any cost or the worry of being sued and sought after by the writers. You can simply copy the articles and place them on your newsletter and e-zine.

Public domain articles are a virtual untapped resource that many people fail to realize the true value. The power of articles, keywords and keyword phrases have been deemed invaluable these past few years for many internet based businesses and sites that want to rank high in search engine results.

The number of article and content writers have grown significantly due to the rise in the demand for articles. As newer and newer topics and subjects have arisen, there are many demands for new articles to be written. An industry has been formed and this is a worldwide demand.

Public domain articles have given a great alternative for those who are cash strapped as well as do not have the time nor the skills to do their articles for themselves.

Searching for public domain articles is as easy as 1 – 2 – 3. You can search for them in search engines and do searches in many directories for the topic or subject that you need. Read them and simpy copy paste them to a word processing program and simply edit them to suit your needs.

To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back.
With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.
There are already many tools that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story.
Let us take a look first at the common mistakes that some people make before submitting their contents to article directories:
1. Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the reason to write them.
In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding, lead generation and promotion, which are all part of your optimization efforts. But there is only one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If the article is not focused on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to achieve the three promotion benefits because no one will be interested in reading them. You need to figure out first how to get people to read what is in your article, then make them click on your resource box. You can achieve this by producing better contents.

2. Failing to maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.
You may know already that your articles can help you generate additional links back to your site. But do you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from that same articles? Mention keywords at strategic places. Just be sure not to overdo them. Some are even using anchor texts which is also an effective method. But it is important to know that majority of the directories are not able to support this. Remember that is not only about the links back to your site. Part of doing well in your article marketing is getting picked up by publishers with a large number of audiences and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results also are great benefits. But these things do not put much money in your pocket. There are other factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity that can boost your earnings. Not just increase the number of visitors to your site.
Start out with a plan and see to it that your article will serve the function that you intended it to have.

3. Publishing content that does not help your readers.
Maybe in the process of writing articles, you are thinking that all that is you wanted is links back to your site. And any visitors it can generate are fine. Guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Oftentimes, they have some guidelines and specifications on the articles that they are accepting. You can double the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with other people. All it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight. Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you have to obey the standard guidelines, spell checks, researching on a good topic and even hiring a writer to produce a good content on your behalf. In the end, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting a little exposure from increased links back but on a very basic level. Or enjoy massive exposure from a little extra time making quality contents. It will be your choice. You may not be aware of the fact that an article submitted on directories is not meant to have the same level of exposure as highly-targeted content ones geared on a narrow group of people. Learn the difference between these two and it will surely help you know what kinds of articles to write and to submit.

The internet is the information highway, this phrase has been used so may time it should be nominated for the Internet Cliché Award. People that go to the internet are subdivided into groups, but generally, they are out to search information. Whether for gaming, business, fun or anything else the internet has provided us with information that has proved to be very beneficial.

Through the recent years many people have learned the secrets of Search Engine Optimization. More and more sites have seen the effects articles have done for the traffic of their sites. Some have even created sites devoted entirely to providing articles that could be read by their website visitors and have links that could lead to many sites that are related to the topics and subjects of the articles.

For example, the sites may feature many articles about a whole lot of topics. As a website visitor reads the articles they have searched for, they can find at the end of the article a resource box that can be clicked on to link them to the site that has submitted the article. Of course the article would be in relation to the site. Lets say if the article is about rotating the tires, the resource box may lead to a link to a site that sells tires or car parts.

A resource box is what you usually find at the end of an article. They will contain the name of the author, a brief description of the author, a brief description of the sponsoring site and a link. If a reader likes what they read, they would have the tendency to find out where the article came from to read more. The resource bow will be their link to the source of the article and this will entice them to go to the site and do some more reading or research for the subject or topic they are interested in.

But like the article itself, the resource box must also be eye-catching to demand the attention and interest of the reader. While the resource bow encompasses only a small space, providing the right keywords and content for your resource box will provide more prodding for the reader to go to your site.

Now we know what resource boxes are, what are the benefits of having a good resource box? Mainly its driving traffic to your site. Many sites would allow articles to be placed in their sites because they can make use of the articles to fill their pages. They also get affiliation with other sites that can be beneficial for them as well. For the sponsoring site, when you get people to click on your resource box, you generate traffic that can be counted upon as potential customers.

So what would be a good content for your resource box? Basically it is keywords, learning about the proper keywords that people are mainly searching for. There are many tools you can find in the internet that can help you in determining what keywords to use.

Resource boxes can also make use of all the creativity it can get. You only get a small space for your resource box so you better make the most of it. Try to catch the attention of your reader with resource box content that can make them give a second look. Unlike TV ads, you don’t have visual aids to drive your point in. But you do have the power of imagination of a reader. With the right content, you can make them think and intrigued.

Another tip is to use keywords that should be related to your site. Do not mislead your potential website visitors. Build your credibility so that more people would get enticed to visit your site and browse what you have to offer. Make the people click your resource box by providing resource box content that makes a lasting impression. You only get one chance to wow them and hundreds of chances to repulse them.

Never underestimate the power of the resource box. It may be small in size but they will provide a significant aid in driving traffic to your site. A boring resource box will never get a job done. Be fun and creative but at the same time show that you have a great deal to offer, too much to ask for something that couldn’t fit a paragraph? Yes and no, there are many tips and guides that can help you in doing this, the first step is realizing how important a resource box could be in making people click your link and be directed to your site.