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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 20 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge!
By the end of the day today you should have written and submitted 20 new articles to article directories. So what is your purpose in marketing these articles? And where does your purpose come into play? In your resource box, of course. So, before you submit any new articles to article directories, figure out what your purpose is. What do you want readers to do when they click on that link in your resource box?
If your only call to action in your resource box is for readers to visit your blog or website, then you’re probably disappointed that you aren’t getting more clients or customers from your articles.
However, if your call to action says something like “visit my website and find out how to receive two free e-books for writers/widows/nature lovers/you name it here,” then you’re probably thrilled at the way your mailing list is growing, and you’re making good use of your articles.
Welcome to Day 19 of the Lieurance-King Summer 2008 Article Challenge!
By now, writers who have accepted this challenge have written at least a few articles and submitted them to online article directories. But it’s always a good idea to repurpose some of that content for maximum results. One way to do that is to compile some of your related articles into a free e-book for people who sign up for your mailing list. Try it!
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.
by Lynne Lee
Article Writing is one of the most useful skills you can master. Keyword rich articles are a proven tactic for getting lots of free search engine traffic to your website. Once you can write your own search engine traffic generating articles you will have the key to an ever increasing stream of free search engine traffic.
Writing keyword rich articles is a lot easier than you might think
The first step is to find the right keyword phrases. This is the most important step. You need to identify keyword phrases that are searched for enough but don’t have many competing pages.
If you choose a keyword phrase that has too much competition, you will be wasting your time because you will struggle to attract much search engine traffic. Instead, concentrate your article writing efforts on targeting phrases that will give you a good chance of being ranked on the first page of Google.
Choose a keyword phrase that is searched for enough but doesn’t yet have a lot of competing pages
You will generally have more success with longer keyword phrases.
For example:
To research keywords you could use http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends Wordtracker will suggest related keywords and if you click on the G at the right it is easy to see how many competing pages there are. Or you could use the Google Adwords tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal It will give you a lot of information and suggest many alternative keywords.
If you want an excellent keyword research tool that will take away any guesswork, I highly recommend Keyword Elite
When identifying keyword phrases worth targeting, look for keywords that lend themselves to creating a good title. The title is very important when you’re writing articles with a view to getting on the first page of Google so that you can get lots of free search engine traffic.
And the title is crucial if want to harness the viral effect of article writing. Other webmasters won’t be tempted to use your article if you have a boring title.
You need an article title that contains your keyword phrase and also promises really useful information. Your article title needs to suggest that it will draw a large enough audience to encourage your readers to link to your article or re-post it on their site complete with the links to your site in the resource box at the bottom of the article.
Action Steps
If you would like to get your articles into lots of directories quickly, consider using an article submission service like Article Marketer and get masses of exposure and lots of search engine rank boosting exposure.
If you follow these steps and make sure every article you write is written around the right keyword phrases, you will get a steadily increasing flow of free search engine traffic to your site.
If you have a website or blog and you’d like more vistors, or if you plan to have a website soon, I’d like to offer you How To Get More Visitors To Your Website for free so that you can discover where to put your keywords for maximum SEO effect.
And if you’re a coach or counselor and you’d like to know your best keywords without doing the keyword research yourself, take a look at http://www.seoissimple.com/coachingmasterkeywordlist.html
And lastly, remember to download your free guide to making money with articles. All you need to do is go to my blog www.articlewritingandmarketing.com put your name and email address in the box at the top on the right, and you’ll have your guide in minutes.
Now go and do some keyword research, write lots of keyword rich articles, submit them to directories and get watch yoru vistor numbers soar!
Lynne Lee
Article Writing and Marketing and SEO Expert.
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.