Bum Squidoo

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Article Ghost Writers Can Make You Money

Article ghost writers can make you money by taking a fresh look at your niche. If your website is getting a bit flat, and your visitors dwindling a bit, then you may need a bit more zing and pizzazz in your writing. Something to attract visitors and keep them there when they arrive. This is what a good ghost writer could give you.

Free Articles Are Not Free

Many web owners try to bulk up their websites with free articles from the internet. The trouble is, nothing is free on the internet. There is always a price, and the price for free article content is generally that you cannot put your name to the content. Free articles normally require you to keep the writer's name at the top and resource page at the bottom. This does three things.

Firstly it is apparent that you are not the article writer. If not, why not? Don't you know enough about your subject to write about it? If not, why should I visit your site? I'm not going to learn much from you if you can't even write your own articles. I think I'll leave and look for somebody who knows a bit about the subject. . . wait a bit. Who did write this article?

Free Articles Have Expert Writers Are You An Expert Writer?

That's when you get the second consequence: your visitor notices the article writer's resource page, which has a URL on it. Why not click on that this writer seems to know a bit about what he is writing about. Let's try him. So you lose your visitor to the guy that wrote the article. An article ghost writer adds no resource page. The third bad thing' that such an article brings you is a link away from your site. The writer's URL is actually a one-way link from your site which can harm your search engine ranking.

Use an article ghost writer, on the other hand, and your name appears under the article. You are the one that appears to be the authority on the topic of your webpage just as it should be. You keep your visitor who thinks you know a lot about the topic and that you may be able to solve his or her problem. Also, there is no resource box! No bleed off from your site and no competitor in view to attract your visitors from your site.

Not only that, but you get exactly the content you want. Somebody else's article might be just a bit off topic for you, but due to copyright restrictions you can't change it. You have to keep the article as it is. Bad news! With a ghostwritten article, you can have it modified until it is perfect for you.

Ghost Writers Bring You Authority

If you need content and can't. or don't have the time, to write it yourself, use a ghost writer. OK it costs, but it's way better than using a free article that could bring the opposite effect to what you want. How much is your traffic worth to you? And think of that publicity if you also use an amended version for the article directories. All these lovely back-links will do your rankings a world of good. All due to using the services of an article ghost writer.

Do What You Do Best Pay For The Rest

It's the fresh look' that's the main advantage though. If you've been writing your own content, you can get stuck in a rut and your site will become stale. To get good rankings it has to be dynamic, with frequent changes in content. A pair of fresh eyes can do just that. An article ghost writer can also save you a lot of time: let him spend his time writing while you do what you are best at, sorting out the joint ventures, arranging the deals and handling any affiliates you have. Leave the content to a professional who knows just what you need.

A Fresh Pair of Eyes Knows Content Is King

It has been said that the writer is as important as the article. This might be possible if search engine results are unimportant. A search engine cares not if the writer is you and I or Stephen King - in fact it might prefer you or I! The content counts. 'Content is King' as they say. It's not the writer, it's the article, and a fresh pair of eyes can frequently provide that article content with a difference.

That's where your ghost writer enters the scene. A 'fresh pair of eyes'. The word 'competition' frequently comes up in discussion about web page content. This is balderdash. No matter how good your product is, the more unique web page content will win the day in the eyes of search engine spiders. Article ghost writers are trained to produce this unique content. Leave it to them!

Peter is a professional freelance writer, currently specializing in website articles which are much in demand. He operates from http://www.article-services.com and writes on any topic, uniquely for you. Not only is no one else sold your article, but you can get two versions on request - one for your site and one for submission to directories. He is a busy man but approachable for advice on pete@article-services.com

Discover Why Article Marketing Is Best For Downline Building Part I

Writing article? What a boring thing to do. Yes, boring it may be to some people, but article writing or marketing is one of the best ways any home business person can use to generate an endless flow of traffic to a website. But how willing are people to do this?

I love article marketing because it is the best form of advertising whatsoever you have on the internet. The reason is an article posted online has the potential of giving you steady traffic and website visitors for a very long time to come.

Are you a home based business person? Are you trying to sell your products online? Are you trying to build your downline? Are also using article marketing to sell or answer the above questions?

Unlike any paid advertising which last for a while, article marketing can stay for as long as the directories you submitted your articles to, stays online.

When you write an article for building a downline in your home business, your articles should not be focused on the opportunity. It should focus on a product or service that your home business produce. Now what I'm saying is this, you should write on the subject matter concerning your product and not a plain advert as an article.

There should be nothing like any sales pitch. It should be an informative article that tells each of your reader how vast and valuable in terms of knowledge you have on the subject matter.

Articles does not in any way forces readers to buy a product of any sort. Instead it gives them enough information that they seek to find out more about you the writer of those articles.

To learn more, download my free report, "How to build a quick downline" here: Build A Downline

Joe Okoro is an accomplished networker who has successfully used internet marketing to grow his downline for 3 years now.

Article Marketing- Increasing Your Website Traffic With Articles

Websites the world over depend on articles to draw attention to potential readers and customers. This does require a few key steps to make sure your that you succeed in your marketing strategies.

You can use an autoresponder program to automatically send articles to all your customers. The autoresponder program can be set up to deliver emails at set intervals to a list of email addresses. You could gather together all your articles into one giant electronic book. Then simply transfer your text to the autoresponder and let it do the work for you. Some people prefer to read books this way because they can download the information into their PDAs and take it with them wherever they go. This could be an excellent gift idea you could offer free to your regular customers.

Submit to free article directories. There are countless article directories that accept copies for free. This will surely give you maximum exposure as they do have lots of subscribers. Don't forget to add a well-written resource box, with appropriate link going to your website.Load your articles with information. The main reason why someone is reading your copy is because he or she is looking for information. So stop beating around the bush and get to the point.

Do your research carefully, because that's the only way to get information that is consistently timely and accurate. There is a nearly infinite amount of data on the internet, most of it known to very few people, and you can use that data to support your articles. Articles need to appear professional, so make sure that you proofread them to eliminate spelling and grammar errors that can detract from your message.

Talk to online businesses that are similar to yours, but not direct competitors. Many websites are related to yours and seeking out new content that you could provide, so by calling or e-mailing them to let them know you are interested, you may have a better chance of getting an article published on their site to attract traffic to your site.

You can get a free copy of my latest ebook by clicking here: The 7 Keys To Business Marketing Success. Eric Menzies writes about Business Marketing at http://www.BizRave.com

Article Marketing - Write Your Way Into Search Results - Traffic And $$$

In my regular scouring of the internet marketing do's and don'ts, I come across an endless sea of opinions, many of them contradictory of other opinions by internet marketers and gurus. You may have seen something like what I'm referring to. Some internet marketers will tell you "Adsense is dead", while others assure you that "There's still life in Adsense and other Pay Per Click programs!" One of the topics that has come to my attention recently is regarding the use of articles to raise the search ranking of your website and do some honest to goodness SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

There are several aspects to SEO, of course. This article takes a look at articles and how their content can be used to your advantage to build your website popularity.

One opinion I've seen time and time again that has been trumpeted by scores of marketers, and that has never been contested, is "search engines love content." I'll go a step further and say, "Search engines love original content."

If you want to see what I'm referring to, do a search under "article sites" and see how many directories you pull up. Article directories are out there in droves, keeping a large supply of articles that can be (and usually are) used by people publishing ezines or adding content to their sites. I've submitted articles to several of these sites for free. Here's why submitting articles is a win-win situation:

Win for you: You get to include a "resource box" with your article, which can be a link back to your website (or the affiliate site you are promoting)

Win for them: ezine publishers need to come up with articles every day/week/month. Webmasters want their proverbial "regularly updated content." Article directories give them the ammo they need to keep their updates regular and their content fresh.

Of course, this does mean you will need to write. If you like to write already, great - get started! If writing is about as fun for you as pulling your teeth with rusty jumper cables, all is not lost. My suggestion is to look at sites like Elance (www.elance.com) and look for writers on the topic you want to cover. Elance has a bidding system, which allows you to post a project for bids and let prospective writers bid on it. Once you have your article written, you will need to submit it. There is an endless array of article sites on the web. You can also take a shortcut by trying an article submission tool.

Something else to remember - SEO will take awhile. Even if you have submitted articles, you must give them time to make their way into the hands of those people who will publish them on sites and on the web.

So there you have it - articles help you promote your web site the write way!

Paul Heingarten is an entrepreneur, author and consultant. He owns several websites and has assisted business owners with website design and marketing. Take a look at his site http://www.theebookstar.com to see a great collection of ebooks available on topics like website marketing.