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Stop! Before you write another article for your website or to submit to article directories read this article. Do not be one more author that is just putting garbage on the internet just because you can.

Come on, you have read them. I should say you have wasted your time reading articles that you thought would provide you with the information you were looking for only to get to the end of the article and go, “What the*!@#” It is important to write articles that are going to get read. To do this you need to write articles that people want to read.

The first thing you want to do is make sure you are writing about something you know. There are so many people out there writing about things they are clueless on. So why do they write the article then? They want to get their name out there, or they want to get Adsense on their sites. What does that do for your readers? It does nothing for them and it is costing you readers and credibility. Write about what you know so that you can present an educated stance or opinion.

Write like you know what you are talking about. Make sure that you are using crisp words and bold statements. You want the person who reads your article to walk away thinking that you are the guru of that topic. The verbs you use should not be passive; they need to “do” something.

Next, take time and do some research. Do any research that you may need to do to make sure you are providing information that is factual. Also do research to find out what is already out there. Let’s say that you are writing about ways to make money online. There are already thousands of articles out there on eBay, Adsense, and Clickbank, provide information on a new way that few people know about. Or that they have false information about.

Have a great title. You want the title to reach out off of the computer screen and grab your reader. Titles should be short, tell me what the article is about and make me want to read the article. If you cannot come up with a one liner that will hook your reader and make them want to read more you are writing about too much. Don’t try to be the superstore of any topic all at once, be the specialty store.

Make sure that what you are writing is relevant. If your topic and content are those that people can not relate to who in the world is going to read it? Make sure that you are offering pertinent information that is going to help a person improve themselves, provide them a way to do something better or make them feel better.

Be professional; make sure that you are using proper grammar. Proofread your writing and make sure that you are not misspelling any words. You should also make sure that you are using the write tense of a word. Know when to use “then” over “than.” There is nothing more irritating or disappointing then to read an article by a “professional” or “guru” that has misspelled words.
If you follow the above suggestions you will create content or articles that will get read.

Neil Bartlett is the founder of ProArticle.com. Pro Article provides writers with Tips and Techniques for improving their writing skills. To learn more and INSTANTLY grab his FREE report “10 Tips For Successful Online Writing”

The best advice any writer can receive is to write about what they know. When you write about a subject matter that you have knowledge in you are going to find that the task of writing becomes much easier. There is excitement in the writing when it is on a topic that you are comfortable with. However, it is possible to get tired of writing about the same thing time and time again. There are many writers out there that are writing about what they know, they have a new spin on the same topic each and every time they sit down and “put pen to paper.” Not all writers are like that, we need variety… we live to create new things.

So what are you suppose to do then to make sure that you maintain that excitement about what you are doing?

The answer is research. Not a fun word, that is true, and not all people are cut out to do research. It is important though if you are going to be a respected writer. This doesn’t mean that you have to spend hours a day at the bookstore, library or online studying some obscure topic. That is unless you want to. See the point is that you pick other topics that are of interest to you. You may not know everything you need to know about a topic in order to write about it intelligently, so take some time to read up on it.

It is far easier to research a topic that you are already interested in. As a writer I have written on numerous topics. I have covered everything from the obscure to the mundane, for me it is all fun. It is true that I didn’t know enough about many topics to write about them without doing research, but it was fun for me to learn new things.

The point of writing about what you know is that you can write about anything. It doesn’t matter what the topic is, what is important is that you know about what you are writing. So you need to do research so that you can write intelligently. This is important whether you are writing for yourself or if you are writing as a ghostwriter. You don’t want to sound like an uneducated idiot, especially if you are writing to persuade someone to do something. I have read numerous ebooks written by people that obviously either didn’t know what they were talking about, or they didn’t bother to read what the writer they paid wrote.

Look, it doesn’t matter if you are a fiction writer, a non fiction writer… a technical writer, legal writer… the list is endless. The point is that regardless of the type of writer you are you need to take the time to learn about the topic you are writing about so that you can write about what it is you know.

Neil Bartlett is the founder of ProArticle.com. Pro Article provides writers with Tips and Techniques for improving their writing skills. To learn more and INSTANTLY grab his FREE report “10 Tips For Successful Online Writing”

One of the best ways to drive traffic to your website, build your brand, and of course, make sales is to use article marketing. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, article marketing refers to the practice of writing brief, informative articles on a subject that is relevant to the content of the website you’re trying to create a flow of traffic to. This is done by submitting articles to online directories, e-zines or anywhere else on the web where they may be republished and seen by readers. Each article can carry a link to your website, so this is also a back link building technique. While most article marketing is done with a commercial motive (especially by affiliate marketers), writing this sort of content works much the same whether or not you’re trying to sell something.

The most important thing to keep in mind when writing for the purposes of article marketing is to create something that is genuinely informative and of use to its intended audience; you want to inform, not present your reader with a sales pitch.

The purpose of these articles is to generate interest in your site and to build a brand image for yourself as a source of useful information. You want to pre-sell, not sell with your articles. What you are really trying to do here is to make yourself someone that consumers feel that they can trust - give them information that they can actually use and they will come to you for more.

Naturally, you’ll want to write these articles on topics which you already have some expertise in; or at the very least, you’ll have to research your topic thoroughly beforehand. Never present yourself as an expert in something that you know nothing about - it will come through in your writing and readers will move right on to someone else’s content.

Keywords are an important element of article marketing writing. If you’ve never done any sort of SEO writing before, these articles are a great way to get some practice. You want to use your keyword enough for search engines to take notice, but not so often that your content is stilted and difficult to read. Anyone who has spent any time surfing the web has run across these keyword stuffed monstrosities before - and they’re awful to read, aren’t they? Not only will readers tend to pass this kind of substandard content by, but keyword stuffing may even lead to being penalized by search engines - which negates the time you spent trying to figure out how to use the phrase “how to find the best widgets for widgeting” 50 times in your 400 word piece. Keep to a keyword density of no more than 2-3%. This is plenty; remember that your real audience is human readers, not search engines.

Writing good content for article marketing is both a skill and an art, but it is not an impossible challenge. Write from a position of expertise, provide genuinely useful content, and use keywords in a natural way while making sure to attract and hold the reader’s attention and you’ll do just fine.