How You Can Make Writing Free Articles Pay Off!

Everywhere you look, you're being told to write

articles to get free publicity for your online

business.



Does it really work?



What do you write about?



How do you submit your aticles? More important,

how do you get them published?



Using articles as a marketing approach does work.

You can convert more sales, generate significant

traffic, increase your search engine ranking and

"brand" yourself an expert just by writing one

or two articles every month.



I recently wrote an article called "How To Make

Pay Per Click Advertising Payoff" for a past

newsletter edition, you can see it right here:



http://www.infoproductcreator.com/articles/ppcpayoff.html



So far, this article has been included in over 25

publications, exposed to over 1 Million subscribers,

and has been responsible for significant sales - all

for 30-minutes of work.



I'm not a professional writer, not an "expert" on

search engines, and I did absolutely NO research for

this article.



So how did I write it and why was it so successful?



Here are some of the reasons...



1. The article topic is in high-demand. Not only is

internet marketing a hot topic, but Pay-Per-Click

search engines are still a mystery to most people.

More importantly, online marketers stand to lose

significant money if they don't have "insider" tips

on maximizing their return on investment. Try and

write to a) save people money, b) make people money,

c) motivate people, or d) entertain people. These

are all strong motivators and ezine publishers know it.



Here's a highly regarded resource for helping to

discover high-demand topics...



http://www.infoproductcreator.com?art



2. Base your content on personal experience. Here's

a simple, yet highly effective formula for writing

powerful, high-impact articles that publishers are

looking for. Take action, try something and write about

why it worked, or didn't work. There are thousands of

articles submitted everyday, but only a select few

are based on personal experience, and that's what the

major publishers are looking for.



3. Start your article with a strong benefit statement

and then give your readers steps to realize that benefit.

You know what your readers want, tell them what you've

learned, through personal experience, to help them get

there.



4. Make your title a "Hypnotic" headline. Using a play on

words, the goal I had in mind writing the title was

to reverse the conception that you can sink allot of

money into PPC into making PPC pay YOU instead.



5. Make sure you get word out about your article.

Generate your own highly targeted ezine publishers list

from a service like this one...



http://www.infoproductcreator.com/part/doe/



You should also submit to some of the better known

article directories. They do work, my latest article

was picked up by an ezine with over 500,000 subcribers

off of these directories.



Some of the best directories I've found are...



http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content/

http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/submit.asp

http://www.marketingseek.com



6. Have a signature box that sings! I've seen so many

people spend hours writing an article, and then 2-minutes

writing their signature following the article. It should

be the other way around. Your signature is what will

get people back to your website, the main reason for you

writing the article in the first place.



Finally, make sure you track progress of your articles.

Key your resource box links using your own affiliate

tracking program or ad tracking program to make sure you

know what's working and what's not.



Get ready, Get Set, Now Go! Start making money from

writing articles today.