Article writing is one of the free methods you can use to get traffic to your blog or website.
I don’t believe it to be as effective today as it used to be.
WHY?
Very simple as more and more marketers write and publish articles to the article directory sites your article can be lost in the thousands of other articles published. You need to select your keywords carefully to get the most visitors from the search facilities on the article directories as you can.
Some or all of the top marketers either employ a member of staff, or outsource, to get their articles written and published so if you are only starting out you have a load of competition. Competition in itself is not a bad thing as it tells you there is a market in your niche. If there is no competition then it is very possible that others have already tried your niche and not made anything from it.
If you can afford to outsource your article writing you will have more time to devote to other more lucrative aspects of your business. Time spent writing articles is not wasted as you can combine the articles (on the same subject) into an ebook which can then be used to build your mailing list by giving it away.
You have to make your articles stand out from the crowd by selecting a great title, and following it up with excellent information in the body of the article.
A quicker way of producing articles is to use PLR material. DO NOT USE IT AS IS. You need to change the PLR to make it unique and sound like YOU. By editing and if needs be rewriting the PLR material you have your own product and are not just sending out the same rubbish as most people do.
This will enhance your reputation and when you publish more articles on the subject your readers will be more inclined to read them. If you do not edit or rewrite if needed you will get a reputation of just publishing the same old stuff that everyone else publishes.
Some PLR is out of date when it is released as it may have been written some years ago and the Internet and markets have changed since it was first written.
An example of this is that before PDF’s came along all ebooks were published as .exe files so that they could be read on any computer with any operating system. If you get an ebook in .exe file type it was probably written 6 or more years ago and may be obsolete for today’s market.
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Richard
Hi Richard
I love article writing and you do get targeted traffic. I think article directories got slapped by Google due to the amount of low quality articles that were being published so they have now raised their standards.
PLR must be rewritten or you end up with duplicate content as I state in my latest post!
Dee
Hi Dee
I don’t think article writing is as good now as it used to be for which there can be many reasons.
As you say there were a number of people all trying to publish the same PLR article without any modification and as such the article directories have had to raise their standards.
I am not saying don’t use articles to get traffic but do ensure your articles are unique and pick a title that helps promote it.
Richard
Hi Richard
Articles are a great way to get traffic but you have to write more than one and put them on different directories. I am not a fan of article spinners but some people love them.
To YOUR success
Sue
Hi Sue
If you only have one article then you will not get much recognition.
I have seen some spun articles and they are just plain rubbish.
This may be due to the article spinner not working properly but also the publisher has not read the article after spinning it to make sure it reads properly.
Richard
Spun is just junk!
Synonyns are just that- imperfect matches of ‘close’ meaning. But every one used increases the error until theresult is meaningless.
Now some PLR is so badly written that you can’t use it as is – that is, you have to rewrite every sentence. This may be due to the writers not being native english speakers – and being commissioned by non writers who wouldn’t know good prose if it bit them.
And some PLR is spun before you get it, I’m sure. What saddens me a little is not that some is written poorly, as not everyone has good skills – my SEO , for example would be described as third world, I’m sure – but that the seller of such PLR doesn’t see why its no good.
In NZ we shake our heads and ask when English will be back on the school syllabus . . .
Good subject Richard. PLR is a great resource. I would just use the stuff for ideas and so on – it quickens my research time. After all, it costs next to nothing to obtain – why we would think it would be of quality defies logic.
Hi Anthony
I started off writing about article writing and it just developed into writing about PLR.
To get very good PLR you have to pay big money for it. I have seen some at $7 for 2,000 + articles and even cheaper packages are also available.
I will never use PLR without reading it and rewriting where necessary before considering publishing it. I usually just use it as a guide to help my brain in formating what I want to say.
Richard
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