Today is Friday May 16, 2012

Thought For The Day

“There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do what he ought.”
-Charles Kingsley

I Have Been Thinking

We have talked about article marketing many times. Today however, I want to talk more about articles and content.

Who Are You Writing For

Know your audience. What is the site, forum or blog all about? Address the interests and needs of the visitors to the blog. Visit the blog often, read the posts add content that will add value to the content that is already there and you may find that you are invited back often. Interject something that is off topic or duplicated content and you may find that it is deleted or worse, you could also be banned from the site if you have mis-read or mis-handled any of the terms of service.

A good way to begin writing on the blog or forum is to answer questions. Answering questions will give you a lot of insight into the types of articles to then write for your own niche, providing your niche is complementary to those you are reading.

What Are You Writing About

Reading the blog will help you to know what has already been written. Your goal is to add content not write the same things that have already been posted. If you are in fact a good listener in the real world, you will read content as a good listener in the virtual world. I have a saying, “with my two cents and your two cents we can all be very rich indeed.” We all have our insights, beliefs and opinions that can add quality.

Do your research. You have been writing papers since maybe the fourth grade, you know how to do this.

Where Is It To Be Posted

Have you read the rules? If you want to play a game, you first have to know the rules to follow. The terms of service cannot be overlooked not if you want to win at this game. Every article directory has them and all of them are not the same. Blogs have them. Forums have them. They are meant to be read. At the blog at the InternetNichelab, we welcome articles from our members. We would like to know about your niche or niches. What was it that made you choose that particular niche. The who, what, where, when and how case studies if you will, but not copies of articles posted on your own blog or other article directories. The goal of your site and every other site I know is to have quality, unique content.

Most places will allow you to have one link in the content of your article back to your own website and one link in your bio. We like to have that link point back to a page that tells us about you like my page at cwinsonline This one was posted so that people can get to know who I am, what I do and what I do that can benefit the reader.

Opportunity is never lost
It goes To Those Ready to Accept It!
Your Success is my Greatest Interest
CWinslow

Ice Breakers

The 10 Commandments

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments
with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to
“honor thy father and thy mother,” she asked, “is there a
commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?”

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a
family of seven) answered, “Thou shall not kill!”

 

Grandma Wisdom

 

 

Writing can be a lot of fun. If you want to learn about something well or you know about a subject well, there is nothing better than writing about your favorite interests and hobbies. Let your love for the subject show through.

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