These quick tips about Article Writing are designed to help you learn exactly how you can successfully write articles that will get read and therefore lead to a higher popularity as an expert. Further it will also produce valuable back links to your website and the search engines will like it, giving you a higher ranking too.

First Tip

Sharing your knowledge on the web is a very powerful way to establish your online presence and credibility. A good way to write a popular article is to find a problem that the readers in your target audience have and then provide an answer and solution that will help them solve it fast and easy. Then submit it to Article Directories (e-zines) to be read by the general public and possibly re-published on other web sites.

Second Tip

How to choose the right title for your ideas and articles?

This is the key to get the first attention of a reader and you should not underestimate the power of an appealing, good title. Your headline should be descriptive and catchy. Make the visitor and reader immediately want to know more about your content. Your first intention is to capture the reader’s attention with a casual glance and let them know what kind of help or solution you offer at the same time. You can get some excellent samples of headlines and articles at.

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Third Tip

Your first paragraph is the door opener and the reader will decide upon this information whether to read on or skip your article. So what should you include in your opening paragraph?

Introduce the reader to the subject in clear to the point words, with the one and only goal to really give him/her a reason to continue reading. Just be honest and do not use any hype terms. You should give brief overview of what they can expect to learn from the rest of the article and what benefit they will have (clear solution, links to great resources, etc.).

Name the problem you write about and assure the reader that you have a solution that will save them time, trouble, money or lead them to other valuable sources with only a few clicks. Give a hint that somewhere at the end you will define the sources. These should be one or two of your affiliate links, a Clickbank product of which you are an affiliate or one of your own products.

Forth Tip

Credibility! It is important to establish credibility with the readers since it is their valuable time they invest reading your content. So make sure to state honestly and without hype what experiences you had with the problem, how it affected you and your business and, after you found a solution to the problem, which benefits you have got and which improvements you realized.

Credibility opens all doors for you and your readers will want to get still more of your advice and they will start listening to what you have to say. If you lack this credibility, they may be unwilling to follow your advice and will skip you.

Fifth Tip

Tell your story, share your personal experience, and let the readers feel as being in the same boat than you are. Give them a reason to empathize with you. Now it’s time to offer your solutions. Let them know exactly how you can help them. Explain to them the step by step way how to fix their problem.

People like examples and a guiding hand. Explain in detail which impact your offered solution will have. Do not give any sales information here, just plain and clearly formulated facts, examples and other helpful advice. Give reassurance that if they follow your advice they will have an improvement and a great way to tackle their problem.

Sixth Tip

Your Viral Marketing Tool – The Resource Box.

It is an absolute MUST and very important that you put a resource boy at the end of every article you write. It should contain a short description of the author (you), the main field of experience and a link to your website. Please make your website link clickable (hyperlink), so that the interested reader gets there with just one click.

If you have not yet an own website don’t worry. Go to Clickbank and search for a suitable product which is in the same theme as you write in your article. Or you can use your referral link of a product you are an affiliate. Look over the website and get some ideas (or even copy some text or dot points) to integrate in your article.

Seventh Tip

Proof reading. Now that you have finished your work, it is time to tweak it to the best, do a proof reading and run it through the spell checker. Then print your article out and put it aside. Read it thoroughly again, shorten it, put better wording in it, etc. You will be astonished how many new ideas and improvements you still can apply. Put yourself into the position of your reader, ask yourself if all is logical and summarized to the point. Maybe you let a family member reading it for even more (critical) input or comments.

Eight Tip

After you have done all that work, it is time to get your article out in front of the eyes of the public. Your goal is to submit your article to as many directories (e-zines) as possible. It would be very time consuming to do it manually one after the other. I suggest using free software where you can put in your login and personal data plus the title, text and the resource box of your article one time. Press the button and you are done! The software will do the rest and open automatically every single directory to place your article there.

Try these free submitters:

Article Submitter, Directory Submitter and Affshpere

Article Marketer offers also a free software template for writing articles in an easy and correctly formatted way. Click here to download the direct zip-file.

Ninth Tip

Promote your business. Writing articles to promote your product or service is a great way to increase your sales. Determine what you want to promote. How you want to promote it and then start to write your article. If you treat your readers’ interest as first priority, then you will come up with good ideas. Do a short search at the red hot products on Clickbank and you will find some great results for sure.

And there is another great advantage of article writing: You already have your content to put on your Blog. Just shorten and adapt them, let the visitor get a glimpse to the headline and some text and encourage them to open the article for more information. This creates another stream of valuable traffic to your website or Blog.

I hope you have enjoyed reading. Now get to work and start the adventure of article writing. Find more learning material and information in my Educational Newsletter. To sign up click on my website in the authors resource box below.