3 Simple Shortcuts To Writing Articles That Sell

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I‘ve covered a whole LOT of article marketing concepts on this blog (and in other spots) and STILL believe it the absolute easiest way for ANYONE – regardless of their skill level, to make money online in rapid fire turn around time. It’s interesting because I got an email from someone the other day – who said a whole bunch of off the wall kind of stuff – (and in only quasi understandable english) and that ended by stating he wanted ME...to coach HIM – (for FREE) and IF he was finally able to make some money (he hadn’t made a dime in 7 years according to his email) then, and ONLY then, he would agree to pay me.

Now, that’s a great offer and all, and I have to admit – it WAS tempting to try to squeeze a few more hours out of the day to offer a complete stranger some complimentary coaching and cross my fingers that he was able to sort of end the 7 year drought, but after tossing it around for a few sleepless night, I kind of decided I was going to have to pass..:-)

I actually sent this guy a pretty edgy, mean spirited reply (which I NEVER do) – in which I basically said – if you haven’t made money in 7 years – you are PROBABLY in the wrong field and it might be a good time to start thinking about a career as a bullfighter – or bellydancer or something less intellectually taxing. And of course, a few minutes after hitting send, my guilty conscience kicked in and I felt really guilty and promised myself I’d stop checking my email after 6 tequila shots.

All that being said – there is absolutely NO reason for ANYONE to go 3 months without making one red cent – let alone 7 YEARS. And my suspicions are that there are probably FAR more people out there suffering the same, silently suffering, ignominious fate as our finnish friend above. If you fall into this dingy -and NEED a life raft – I’m going to give it you again, in the form of article marketing. It’s FREE, it’s EASY and if you do enough of it, you CAN make a full time income in a VERY short time.

I’m going to re-iterate the template that I use for writing KILLER articles that convert like crazy. It’s not complex – it’s not difficult or even unique to me. But it’s DEADLY effective, and completely impersonal. It will work for YOU as well as it does for me, and if doesn’t….I’d be more than happy to give you a FREE kick in the rumpus if you need some help. 

There are 3 main ingredients that are directly related to how successful your articles will be: 

1. Quantity
2. Quantity and
3. Quantity

You simply have to be willing to write A LOT.

And write out ONE long list of words on a yellow legal pad, and stick it on your desk…RIGHT next to your keyboard where you are going to be writing LOTS of articles.

Words like this:

Amazing
Honest
Only for
Proven
Explosive
Humiliating
Shortcuts
Real
Overlooked
Unusual

Amazing Credit Repair Secrets They DON’T Want You To Know (but can’t stop you once you do)
An Honest Review of Joe Blows Green Tea
Only for Women Who are 20 Pounds Overweight….or More

Once you have your words written down, you almost can’t HELP but to generate article titles quickly, easily and effortlessly, and they scale up and out over EVERY possible topic you can think of. (which is an important part of being a successful affiliate marketer as well – you have to simply be fast, aggressive and fearless to go into multiple markets simultaneously)

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Remember – you aren’t simply writing articles that are being submitted to directories, you are creating content that will go on a website you are going to create around the very same topic.

If you have a few extra minutes, ( and are looking at this as a BUSINESS rather than a hobby) you will change up the articles a bit for your own site for a bit of uniqueness (titles and some light paragraph editing is more than fine) and not only will your articles live out on the content directories and point back to your SITE, you also building an asset with original content that has REAL value down the road.

I recommend building your blog sites on a directory, and protecting your root for either a dedicated name squeeze, a redirect, or eventually – either a nice site-map pointing to your important internal blog pages, or of course…you could simply re-direct this right to the blog later on.

The reason I recommend this is actually pretty simple – and something unfortunately NOT many people are doing with their article submissions.

Redirecting from the ROOT is allowed on the major directories (think EZA) but re-directing from an internal page is not. ( and if they catch you using redirects, cloaked links, etc – you will eventually have a problem as they grow more and more vigilant about tracking the links they approve when an article is submitted…and revisit those same links at an arbitrary point in the future to gage consistency)

Bottom line is that a straight redirect will ALWAYS, in my experience, out perform an intermediary "pre-sell" page that you put up. And if you are building the secondary "blog" directory with the same basic articles, re-written loosely as recommended above, you can use this for social networks, SEO, incoming links and even PPC on long tail, hyper-relevant phrases.

Keep your articles short…..and resource boxes LONG. This is sneaky…but VERY effective!

I’ve talked about this here before – but it simply works. 300 word articles (or less) with a LONG resource box that appears to be part of the article. (i.e – the links look like natural part of the article paragraph and NOT the typical "call to action" sort of stuff that everyone else is throwing up) This works exceptionally well, and I routinely get the CTR to prove it.

That’s it – the above works – and works well. A commitment to succeed is ALL you need…the rest, above – WILL provide the rest. And you WON’T have to wait 7 years to find out either, I promise..:-)