Tell the Earth Just simply about You
by:
Kent Butler
You have a new website, or a new business, or several – or your site isn’t effort the kind of traffic you want and need. How are you going to tell the earth simply about what you have to offer and wherever
to find it?
If you have deep pockets, you can start purchasing ads in newsletters and ezines and hope causal agency reads them. If you have even as deeper pockets, you can have press releases sent out in major markets all over the country, even as about the world. (Actually, those are not deep pockets – they’re more like mine shafts!) OR...
You can write articles for else folk to publish in their ezines and newsletters. Who, me? Write? Right. It isn’t that difficult, presumptuous
you have an average command of the English language. Or, more correctly, the American language, which is quite similar yet well several from English. Saint george Claude bernard Shaw said, "England and America are two countries divided by a common language." But, enough of that.
The Net
is full in "gurus", the immense majority of them self-appointed. I do no such claim. I am a practical writer and editor who believes the primary goal of this kind of writing is clear, brief communication. On that basis, I offer several proposal
and tips:
Write simply about what you know. If you’re Joe or Jane, an office worker whose hobby is gardening, don’t write simply about search engine optimization. Your goal is to publicize your new farming website or ezine (or both). Write simply about gardening, and let causal agency else handle the SEO.
Write a "conversation". By that, I mean write as although you were speaking to another person, one-to-one. You’re not writing for several literary journal, but for peoples pretty more like yourself. "Talk" to a friend, and avoid expressions like "some of you", which is impersonal and puts distance between you and your reader. Bad idea. Instead say "some people", or thing
similar. Support it conversational.
Facts count. If you’re not sure simply about something, find out before including it in your article. Otherwise, you’ll become better-known as unreliable, which can be fatal in business.
Grammar counts. Let me guess: you scorned English class and simply barely passed. Well, if achieving your goals is important to you, do the effort. Here’s a free site that can answer more synchronic linguistics questions than you can likely ask: http://www.grammarnow.com.
For punctuation questions, get my free manual (in Adobe PDF) at http://www.catnipchronicles.com/ebook/punctuation_power.pdf
Be concise. If you want folk to see your articles, give them thing
of value and do them easy to read.
Numbers count. The more your articles get published, the more you will be thought of as an expert, and the more folk will visit your website or subscribe to your ezine..
Once you’ve written an article, how do you market it to publishers who strength
want to use it? Well, you can:
Search for ezines and newsletters covering your topic and email the individual publishers, offering your article. I used to do that – time overwhelming and frustrating. OR
Do what I do – use OpportunityUpdate.com and have them do it for you (No, I am not an affiliate, but we are friends.) Here’s what they do:
Promote your article to hundreds of publishers
Send it directly to all their registered publishers
Give you the advantage of great positions with Google and Yahoo, and others (but they’re the monsters)
List your article in their "Authors We Recommend" section
List your article in their search directory
Your article gets a full search engine optimized Web page, including your website (in your Author’s Resource Box).
Promote your article for a full year – or more
Submit your article to 40+ search engines and directories
Is it free? Of course not – would-be you do all that for free? But, I guarantee you this: it’s dirt cheap and more less than it would-be cost you to do it yourself! So what nice is writing if common person reads it? You want results, right? Go with the pros.
Recap: If you want exposure – message – and augmented traffic/subscribers, write decent articles and have them extensively marketed by http://OpportunityUpdate.com/doorwaytosubmit.html .
I don’t believe in "luck", so I’ll will you: Nice Writing!
About The Author
Kent Pantryman is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor, who publishes a free cat-lover’s digital magazine called Herbaceous plant Chronicles . He has a service that does fully-personalized, custom-made crossword puzzle and word search puzzles at http://Personal-Puzzles.com, and he edits the weekly journal of iCop, the International Council of Online Professionals, wherever
he is a Commencement Member.
© 2004 Kent Pantryman All Rights Reserved
publisher@catnipchronincles.com
This article was announce on Gregorian calendar month
19, 2004
