Turn Your “5 Tips” Article Into 5 New Articles
Leverage your work by doing the article research once and turning it into several articles. It’s easy to find 25 short tips on your topic all over the Internet whereas finding 25 topics to write about is much more difficult. So, what you do is take your 25 tips and make 5 “five tips articles.” Then you can expand on each tip and make a complete article based on each tip. This will give you thirty articles total in a fraction of the time that it would have taken to think up and research 30 articles from scratch.
Writing eBooks to Make Money
Writing ebooks to make money is a great online business. More and more people are coming online to find information so the popularity of ebooks is growing stronger by the day. Many of the online marketing millionaires started their business writing and selling ebooks.
Although you can make a fantastic living marketing your own ebooks it’s not necessarily the best way to get started in online marketing. The thought of writing and selling an ebook can be intimidating for a beginner. To be successful there are basic skills in writing and marketing that should be developed first.
Writing skills – While you certainly don’t need to write like Ernest Hemmingway to make money writing basic skills are important. People do not want to spend their money on ebooks that are filled with grammatical and spelling errors.
Market research – One of the biggest mistakes that new ebook writers make is spending months working on an ebook that almost no one wants to buy. You must first learn how to find a market that is willing to spend money on information. Then find out what it is that they would like to know.
Keyword research – Next you would need to learn how to do some basic keyword research. Doing this you will be able to find out which keywords your prospective buyers are typing into the search engines to find what you will be selling.
Traffic – After you have written your ebook you can’t simply post it on a web page because no one will see it. You need to learn how to drive traffic to your offer.
I know this all sounds a little complicated, but there is a much easier way to start writing to make money. That is with article marketing. By practicing article marketing you will develop all the basic skills necessary to eventually start writing ebooks to make money.
One of the best aspects of starting with article marketing is that you only need to spend about an hour or so writing an article. Then you can submit it to a few article directories to see what type of traffic it delivers. You could also promote an affiliate offer in the same niche that you would like to write about. This will help you determine if the niche is profitable before wasting months writing an ebook.
Another great benefit of starting with article marketing is that after you have written fifty to eighty, one page articles you can compile them into an ebook and sell it. This will allow you to earn money from your articles while you are writing your ebook. Can it get any better than that?
Article marketing is a powerful and proven method to get started in online marketing. Like any other type of Internet marketing business, article marketing must be done correctly in order to be profitable. If you would like to see exactly how to get started with article marketing and find out how I made my first $1000 online and much more, check out by brand new course – The Complete Article Marketing Plan .
Top 5 Article Directories
Back in 2005 when I started article marketing I used to submit my articles to hundreds of article directories with a semi-automated article submitter. It was great for getting back links to my web sites and blogs which helped them in the search engines. Now I submit articles primarily for traffic and I only use a handful of article directories. Here the top 5 article directories that product the best results for me. Don’t tell anyone. LOL
1. EzineArticles.com – This is easily numero ono in the top 5 article directories. They one of the oldest and largest article directories on the web with over 9.7 million visitors per month. By the way, that’s only U.S. visitors, I don’t have the statistics for the rest of the world. The site enjoys a PR6 page rank. This is one of Google’s methods of displaying a site’s popularity.
2. Zimbio.com – Zimbio boasts over 10 million global visitors per month with 5.8 million from the U.S. This is a directory that many in the Internet marketing field either don’t know about or they’re not talking about. Lots of my articles get very good search engine rankings when submitted to Zimbio. This site is also a PR6. Zimbio considers itself more of an online magazine network than an article directory, but they do accept articles and you can also submit an RSS feed from your blog.
3. Buzzle.com – Buzzle receives over 2.6 million U. S. visitors per month. The site is ranked at a PR5 and is growing rapidly in readership. They are kind of picky and they only want quality authors and articles. If you were a spammer even in a former life they may throw you out on your butt.
4. SerchWarp.com – This is a much smaller article directory with 650 thousand monthly U.S. visitors but don’t discount them. With some of the articles I’ve written I receive up to 5 times the traffic that I receive from ezinearticles.com. This, of course, depends on the topic that I’m writing about. The site has recently been increased to a PR4.
5. IdeaMarketers.com – This PR3 site receives approximately 160 thousand U.S. monthly visitors. They’ve been around for a while and a lot of Internet marketers submit articles there.
There you have it. My top 5 article directories of choice.
Writing to Make Money
You can make your first $1000 online and much more by writing articles just like I did. Writing to make money is easy if you know a few secrets. This article briefly outlines the process so you can get started today. The best part is there is no experience necessary to begin. You don’t need a degree in journalism and you don’t even need to know how to make a website to get started.
There are several methods of writing to make money. You could start a writing service by which other people would pay you to write articles for them. The going rate for a one page, 500 word article is approximately $8.00 to $15.00. Many people will be interested in buying articles in packages of 10, 25 or more.
Web site owners are starved for content. It helps their rankings in the search engines and that provides them with more traffic. You could find plenty of work by offering your writing service on forums. Another way to find clients would be to join freelance sites such as eLance.com or Guru.com for example.
Although the above method is a sure fire way to make money with your writing, there are even more profitable ways. You see, when you write an article and sell it you get paid once and that’s it. I like writing articles to promote affiliate products. This way you can get paid over and over again from each article that you write. To do this you would need to do some product research to determine the types of products people are already buying.
Next you would do keyword research to find out which keywords prospective buyers are typing in to the search engines. You would then write an article based on those keywords and submit that article to various article directories. These directories make your articles available to website owners, newsletter publishers and others who would use them as content. This, in turn, would drive traffic to your website or affiliate offers from a link within your article.
You will want to make sure that your articles are interesting and informative. This will make website and ezine owners more likely to publish them. Getting your articles published on high volume websites or by someone with a huge mailing list can drive hordes of traffic to your website or affiliate offer. It may sound a little complicated, but it is really simple after you do it once. Of course, it’s even easier if you have a plan to follow.
I’ve been using this method of writing to make money since 2005. It has helped me develop my basic Internet marketing skills and become a full-time internet marketer. So many people try to get into Internet marketing without learning the basics of writing and marketing first. Starting with article marketing is one of the best ways to learn and it’s free except for your time.
