Earn Income Online- Write Articles!

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Earn More Income Online By Writing Articles

Article Writing and PR releases 101

If you already are a pro at writing articles, scroll to the bottom of this post for my recommendations on the best article marketing websites out there.

Ok, to get things started today my fellow Internet Privateers we have to be clear on these basic things: in order to make money online and profit online at all, you have to have traffic to your website. Traffic helps you make money with adsense. The best way to get traffic is to rank well in search engines. The best way to rank well in search engines is to get lots and lots of backlinks. A great way to get backlinks is to write articles and distribute them to article marketing sites. This provides you with a strong quality backlink from a popular website.

So writing articles and releasing press releases are an essential to optimizing a site for search engines, and more importantly earning steady income online! Do you know why? Three reasons:

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1. They provide quality links! Backlinks are the currency of the internet. More articles and press releases, more backlinks!

2. Articles and press releases are also good because you get a small trickle of traffic from those articles as well. Traffic is good.

3. Finally they are good because they are what we call "link bait." It encourages others to write about your articles, hopefully providing a backlink to you in their own articles.

What makes a good article or Press Release
(from an SEO standpoing)

1. Targeted keywording. Make the article about one specific thing, put the keyword that you are targeting in the article as many times as you can while still making it readable. Put your target keyword in the title of the article!!! Also put the keyword in the first sentence, and in the last sentence. Put the keywords in the H1, H2, and H3 tags. Make it bold once or twice if you can. This tells Google in no uncertain terms what your article is about, and how to index it.

2. Link anchor text. Make sure the link back to your site uses the keywords you focused the article on. If your article was about investing in gold, then make your link back to your site this: Visit the Invest In Gold for more information on investing in gold." Notice that the bold text is the anchor text that leads back to your site. This link has your keyword targeted in the anchor. This is Very Important. If not the Most Important part of the article. It tells google what to look for when visiting your site.

3. Content of the article. This doesn't really matter in my opinion, others would disagree. Nobody is going to read your ezine article anyway. At least nobody in your target audience. Maybe if you put it on a blog, then I would worry about the content. But the idea is link building, and driving anybody who reads it to visit your site, not quality content on your ezine articles. Press Releases require better content, buzz words, and encouraging the press to see your information as "newsworthy." Save the really good content for your website and newsletters.

Article writing tricks and tips

1. You never ever want to publish duplicate content online. If Google detects duplicate content then it will not index either of the articles, and your hard work will be wasted.
2. Instead, take one article and rewrite it. Replace the adjectives with other adjectives, keeping the keywords the same. This prevents G from seeing it as duplicate content, and it still gets you a keyword targeted article with a quality backlink. There is article rewriter software out there, but the best software is free: your brain.
3. Take said article and publish it on a different ezine article website. The same goes for press releases, a paid press release is just an article waiting to be rewritten.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as desired or until your fingers start to bleed
5. Finally be varied in where you publish your articles. It's best to have lots of different websites pointing to yours, so make sure your articles are published to different websites once in a while.

So to recap, make sure your anchor text is correct for links in articles, make sure keywords are targeted, and make sure article is unique.

Article submission site suggestions

Ok now for those of you who read the entire article, and for those of you who skipped right to the end, here is my suggestion for article marketing. You will find tons and tons of article marketing sites out there, most charge an arm and a leg for their services. But they also have a free submit option as well. This will submit your article to a limited ammount of different sites, but hey, it's free!

By far, the article marketing site that has the most potential, and the best way of marketing unlimited, quality, original, and well linked articles is Article Marketer Automation. They offer a unique way of writing your articles so that the content is totally original all the time, and then they drip feed it to select sites as original content. Getting you targeted, unique, and varied links! It's by far the best option to produce lots of non duplicate content that will never get tagged by Google as spam.

Best of all, you can submit your self hosted website to them and they will provide you with original content that you approve of, free of charge! It's a win-win! You send articles and they send you free original content!

I am an affiliate with them, so through me you can sign up for free! Check them out! I can't emphasize enough how useful they are.