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4 Thing You Must Know Before Writing An Article

Articles play an importance role this day, by using articles you can drive a lot of traffic to your sites. Article marketing is not only used to drive traffics but also to earn you more profits. Articles are a factor in giving site high rankings in search result pages. The higher a site ranks the bigger slice of the traffic flow pie he gets. With a huge number in traffic flow, there are more profits and more potential for other income generating schemes as well.

There are some requirements that you must meet to obtain full benefits for your site. A well written article will catch the eyes and interest of your customers and keep them coming back for more. They would also be able to recommend your site to others.

Here are some tips to help you and assist you in making your articles. Below you will read about four things all articles must have to make it successful and helpful in making your site a profit earning and traffic overflowing site.


Linking Your Articles

if you are going to submit articles to E-zines and/or contribute your articles to newsletters and other sites, DON’T ever forget to include a link to your site. A little resource box with a brief description of your site and you should always be placed right after your articles that you have submitted. If people like your articles, they will most likely click on the link directing them to your site.


Keyword Phrases And Keywords

An article must always be centered on the keywords and keyword phrases. As each website visitor goes to a site, there are those who are just merely browsing but actually looking for a specific something. When this happens, a searcher usually goes to a search engine and types in the keywords they are looking for.


The Important thing is that you have an article that has the keywords that are related to your site. For example, if you maintain an auto parts site, you must be able t have articles about cars and their parts. There are many tools in the Internet that provides service in helping a webmaster out in determining what keywords and keyword phrases are mostly sought out. You can use this tool to determine what keywords to use and write about.


Use this tool to check your keyword rankings : http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/multiple-datacenter-keyword-position/


Write Good Content

Your articles must be able to provide good information and help for their needs. Articles should be written well with correct spelling and good grammar. If you want people to trust you, make your work good and well thought out.

People respond well to figures, facts and statistics. Try to get great information and as many facts as you can. A good and well written article will boost your reputation as an expert in your chosen field or topic. As more people believe in you. They will be able to trust you and your products.


Check Your Keyword Density

Keyword density is the number of times a keyword or keyword phrase is used on an article. The number varies depending on the number of words used in an article. An effective article must have a keyword density that is not too high or too low. With a very high density, the essence of the article is lost and may turn off a reader as well as the search engines. It comes off as overeager. A low number may be ignored by the search engines.


Use this tool to check your keyword density : http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/





Market Research Tools

Why you must spend hundreds of dollar on market research efforts and market research tools if you can have it free, best of all, those tools are available online, so you can perform in-depth market research or product without hiring professionals.

Before you start your online journey, you must know who your target market is, what kind of product they usually purchase, how much money they spend on that specific market and where is their demographic location. Here is some tools you can use to identify your niche market :

  • G**gle
    Unless you have been living under a rock, you have to know this big G. They do have a Keyword research tool named "G**gle Keyword External Tools", click here to access this fantastic tool.


    Step 1 : Put the keyword you want to check for, e.g "dog training guide" (without quotes)
    Step 2 : Enter the CAPTCHA code
    Step 3 : Hit "Get Keyword Ideas"
    Step 4 : Under "Choose columns to display", please select "show/hide columns"

    Now, you have tons of keyword ideas to start with.

  • Amazon
    Step 1 : Go to Amazon Website. Let's start with "Electronics". Please click the link located on the left panel
    Step 2 : On top of the menu bar, please click "Bestsellers".

    Repeat this step for other categories you want to market for.




  • Alexa
    Through this site you can "spy" on our competitions without getting caught. You can check their site popularity, ranking and source of traffics (by country). Please take note that in terms of popularity a lower figure is better in Alexa.

    Step 1 : Go to this site Alexa
    Step 2 : Type in the website address your want to "spy"
    Step 3 : Choose "Site Ranking" from the drop down menu
    Step 4 : Press "Go" button



  • Yahoo! Buzz
    No fancy steps here, just check what's today's Buzz on Yahoo! Buzz. Pick the hot topics and start posting, people love controversial things, what's new happenings, etc.


By using these market research tools you can quickly analyze what kind of products that you want to promote or to write. Hope you get some ideas on how to do a market research without spending a dime. In the next post I will show more handy tools.


You Must Have A Blog

Seriously, the first tool that you need is a Blog. If you're lack of money then your best bet is actually to have a free blog like this one, Blogger, another option is Wordpress. Both are free, please get one for yourself and start posting.

Here is the basic guidelines if you are not sure what kind of topics you are going to blog

  • Pick the right topic based on your passions or what kind of hobbies or activities you do everyday (You may choose to sell some stuff related with your hobbies / activities)
  • Sign-up for either Blogger or Wordpress
  • Choose the right theme related with your chosen topic
  • Start posting and keep posting - so your visitors may visit your blog regularly
  • Promote Your Blog - Start sharing your Blog URL with your friends, on social networking, families, etc.
  • Be Patient
That's all the very basic you need to know, bottom line, you must have a blog. After some postings, you will soon find your true passion. So, start blogging.




Tools You Need to have

On this blog, I'm going to share with you guys especially newbies, what kind of Internet marketing tools that you need to have to start your first online business. There are many Internet marketing tools available online out there. If you get it right, you may expect to see your online earnings is getting higher than you have right now. All the best.