Article Writing Tips

Although writing and selling articles is a lucrative way to make money online, you will make far more money if you use your articles for promotion. Unlike selling articles for pay, where you receive a set amount for the articles, with promotional articles you can make as much money as you want. Your articles become passive marketing machines, and if you recycle your content into documents, videos, audios, and other content, you can stretch your marketing even further with very little additional work. Here's how to get started promoting your articles for more traffic:

 

1. Post your articles to the top directories.

 

It's the 80/20 rule at work: you will get the most traffic from the to article directories, so this should be your first stop in marketing your articles. The more you submit, the more chances at traffic you will get. Use the data you get from these sites to tell you which articles are performing best and then write and submit more of this content to these sites. Also, some of these sites only accept unique articles so make sure you know which ones these are and submit the appropriate content.

 

2. Write for promotion instead of for money.

 

I've already mentioned this, but I want to mention it again: writing for promotion takes the limit off the amount of income you can earn from an article. If you write articles to sell, there is a limit to the amount you can make because you are either selling these articles to customers, or you're selling to publications. Take the limits off and use them for promotion.

 

3. Recycle your content.

 

You can get far more from your content by converting it to different formats. This includes audio, video, documents, and slides. Look for different ways to recycle your content and then submit to the appropriate sites so that you get more from it. This also creates additional passive marketing machines for your business. What could be better than that?

 

4. Write articles as blog posts and guest blog.

 

There are two ways you can do this. First, you can write an original article for guest blogging. Your article should be at least 300 - 400 words, but you want to make sure that it conforms to the site you want to submit to. Second, consider rewriting your article and then submitting it.

 

5. Use revenue sharing sites.

 

Sites like Helium and Yahoo Contributor Network allow you to make money from your articles. You can get one time payments plus revenue sharing or just revenue sharing. Whichever one you choose, make sure you write the appropriate content and then submit it. Make it your best.

 

Give them what they want. Learn from your failures here, and you'll get more traffic and more sales quickly because your content will get accepted more easily.