Are Your Free Articles Worth Reading?
Free articles are a great way to promote your business. Not only do they drive traffic towards your website or affiliate products, they also help to raise your own profile in the internet community. If you write and distribute free articles over a period of time, faithfully and continually, you’ll even become known as something of an expert.
What could be better?
Of course you are not guaranteed to get such a rousing response to your writing; it is up to you to make sure people view it in a positive light. To that end you need to be certain that your free articles contain useful, insightful or revealing information – and ideally all three.
The best way to do this is to start with a plan in mind. Instead of just writing the first thing that comes into your head, try asking yourself this question, ‘How will this piece help the reader, encourage them to maybe read some more of my stuff, and hopefully click through to my website as well?’
A little time spent planning is worth it when you get better results. Ideally everything you write should have a purpose, a reason for being written in the first place. Of course you will want to generate traffic and attract the attention of new customers, but you need to ensure that you have something worthwhile to offer them when they come.
In this sense you are better off writing half a dozen free articles of excellent quality than you are writing a dozen, where the only thing you are really worried about is how many keywords you have put in them. Why not give real value and show people that you know what you’re talking about as well?
If you manage to do this you’ll enjoy far more visits to your website as a result.
Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
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May 5th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
thanks Sean, for the article writing tips. i’ll remember your tips while I’ll write article.
May 6th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for this piece Sean, I think it really hits the nail on the head. Too many people make the mistake of writing articles just to promote their website and let’s face most people are not going to be interested in that.
May 7th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Hi Mercedes
Guilty as charged! I used to do that but have now realised that an article must be interesting to read. Funny about that!