Market
Your Articles
Today is August 31, 2008, which means the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge ends today.
Writers who accepted the challenge on August 1st are busy writing to the finish line today.
Check back here tomorrow when we will announce the winners of this summer’s article challenge!
from Suzanne Lieurance, The Working Writer’s Coach
Welcome to Day 21 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge!
By now you should have written more than a dozen articles for article directories. Today, start telling your friends and colleagues about your articles and encourage them to use your articles in their newsletters, e-zines, and at their websites and blogs.
If you have your own blog or website, link to your articles and individual author page at ezinearticles.com to draw attention to your articles. For example, here is my page at ezinearticles.com. I hope you visit it and read some of my articles - and maybe even use an article or two of mine for your own website or blog.
Welcome to Day 18 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge!
Did you know that just about every day of the year is a holiday or observance of some sort? Try developing a list-based article around an upcoming holiday or event.
Check HERE to find a list of daily, monthly, and weekly observances, including wacky and little-known ones.
Check HERE for National Health Observances.
Here’s an added perk for holiday related articles - Unlike a printed magazine that will only feature your article in a single issue, your holiday articles will remain at article directories, and be picked up by editors, year after year.
As you post articles to ezinearticles.com, or another article directory, have a friend or business associate rate them for you. Articles with a high rating tend to be read, and picked up by editors, more often than nonrated articles.
Also, it’s good to have positive comments about your articles. If you participate in the Lieurance-King Article Challenges each quarter, take some time to read other participants’ articles and make positive comments about at least a few of them. It really doesn’t take much time to read a few short articles and leave a comment.
For more tips for effective article writing and article marketing, read our free e-book, 21 Tips: a 21 Day Course in Effective Article Marketing, that you receive when you accept this challenge.
Hello, and welcome to Day 15 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge!
By now you should have written 15 new articles and submitted them to online article directories. As you create more articles, keep thinking about who it is you want to attract as a reader. Who do you want to lead back to your site(s), and why do you want to lead them there?
Ideally, you should have something to sell at your site, such as your services, a product, an online course, etc., Or, you could just lead people back to your site right now to get them to sign up for your mailing list. If you start creating a list now, once you do have a product or service to offer, you’ll already have a great list of potential customers.
For more tips for effective article marketing, read Day 15 of the free e-book you received when you accepted this challelnge. If you haven’t accepted the challenge, it’s still not too late. Simply fill in your name and email address in the boxes above, then wait for an email invitation to our online discussion group for challenge participants. You’ll also receive our free e-book, 21 Tips: a 21 Day Course in Effective Article Marketing.
Welcome to Day 11 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge!
Now that you have a few solid article formats under your belt and you know how to write a great author resource box, it’s time for a few more tips for making your article marketing more effective.
When you submit your work to article directories, include your photo in your professional profile whenever possible. When you do, it will appear with each article you post.
Your photo gives your articles more credibility because readers associate an actual person with the information they are reading. Plus, your photo will help you begin to create a “brand” for yourself because your readers will start recognizing you when they see your photo posted in different places.
For more tips about creating the perfect resource box, accept the challenge by filling in the boxes above. When you do, you’ll receive our free e-book that will give you 21 tips for effective article marketing.
Jeff Herring, the Article Guy, offers some great Article Templates here. Be sure to check them out if you’ve having trouble coming up with a new article every day.
Welcome to Day 10 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge.
Have you created a “top ten list” yet as one of your articles for the article directories? If not, what are you waiting for? E-zine publishers and readers love top 10 lists. And, these kinds of articles are easy to write, so you should love them, too.
Below are links to two samples of top 10 list articles. Read these two articles and see how easy it is to create a top 10 list yourself.
Top 10 Writing Mistakes Made by New Children’s Writers
Click HERE for other article marketing tips.
Hello, and welcome to Day 9 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge.
Here’s a tip for writing a quick and easy article for an article directory: interview someone in your area of focus. For example, if you write about pets, interview a pet shop owner or someone who runs a pet-sitting service.
The pet-sitting service owner might just give you enough information to write an article called “Hiring a Pet Sitter: 5 Reasons to Leave Your Pets in the Comfort of Their Own Home This Holiday Season.” You get the idea.
For more daily tips, accept the challenge by filling in your name and email address in the boxes above. When you do, you’ll receive our free e-book called 21 Tips: a 21-Day Course in Effective Article Marketing.
Happy writing!
Welcome to Day 6 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge.
The challenge to everyone is to write a new article every day this month for a total of 31 new articles that you submit to online directories. So far, challenge participants should have written 5 new articles.
Accept the challenge by signing up in the boxes at the top of this page. When you do, you’ll receive our free e-book, 21 Tips: a 21 Day Course in Effective Article Marketing.
Today’s tip is about How to Write a “What to Do When” Article.
People have all sorts of problems you can help them solve, so get busy with a few “what to do when” articles right now.
by Lynne Lee
Are you struggling to attract clients?
Many small business owners mistakenly assume that once they have a web site, clients will appear on their virtual doorstep. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen unless you make your website findable by optimizing it for the search engines.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is simply designing your website in a way that makes it possible for people to find it when they search online. It’s the process of modifying your web site so that the search engines rank your site more highly and send you more visitors.
Even if you don’t design your own website, you need to know enough about what you’re paying someone to do to know whether or not they’re doing a good job.
Most web designers don’t know much about SEO. If you don’t plan on hiring an SEO expert, you need to make sure you know enough about SEO to be able to give your web designer clear instructions about what you want them to include where.
Even the most awesome website is no good if nobody can find it.
If you write your website pages around keywords that people aren’t actually using to search for what you have to offer, you won’t have many visitors. Your keywords are the foundation of your marketing strategy. Take time to choose them carefully, if you don’t, the right people may never get the opportunity to find your site.
The first step in plotting your strategy is to gather and evaluate keywords and keyword phrases. You probably think you already know EXACTLY the right words for your search phrases. Unfortunately, if you haven’t done keyword research, you may be WRONG.
Getting started with SEO can seem a bit daunting but it doesn’t have to be, you just need the right information from someone who speaks your language. SEO is actually very straight forward; anyone can learn how to optimize their website for the search engines. Yes, really!
SEO isn’t the only key to your success, but it is a must do if you want potential clients to find your website and make your website work for you. Small business owners need to use every tool and strategy available to ensure their success. I can think of nothing more vital, more accessible and more easily implemented than SEO. A site that effectively targets your ideal clients and makes it to the first page of search results will bring you all the potential clients you need.
If you have a website, be smart enough get to know and implement simple SEO strategies, start climbing your way out of the search engine doldrums and turn your website into an effective marketing tool. It will be time well spent.