This guide also contains some important lessons in the examples.
I use these steps every time I write an articles, and once you do it a couple of times, it becomes second nature to produce these kind of high quality content every time.
So all you need to do is to use it till you feel comfortable that it’ part of you, and you’d be surprised how easy it is to do it every time.
This tutorial doesn’t cover writing effective titles and resource boxes, that will be a separate topic.
Enjoy!
• SUMMARY
When submitting your article for publishing, you may be asked to provide a quick summary of your content.
This is a good place for you to write in about 2-3 sentences, what your article aims to accomplish and how a reader will benefit from reading it.
You may decide to leave this section and come back to it after you finish writing your article. I like to do it early because it confirms what I’m trying to achieve with my article.
There’s no need to think too much about what you write a this stage, just put down your first thought
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QUICK TIPS:
Answer these questions:
• What will your readers get from reading this article?
Finish this sentence.
• This article aims to…
•After reading this article, the reader will get/be able to/know/understand ….
Example: This article aims to show you how to write good quality articles quickly. After reading, you will have a better understanding of article marketing, and in mass, consistently generate high-ranking articles that people need and would love to read, without wasting time and money.
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• INTRODUCTION
What problems are you trying to solve? What are the solutions?
Use a few words to describe the issue, and if possible plug-in your keywords at this stage.
But don’t dwell on it too much, you can always do that later. The important thing at this stage is to get a proper structure.
A simple way will be to begin with some facts about the situation, after which you can share your views on it. The idea is to make it realistic and at the same time provocative.
Make your readers want to investigate further.
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QUICK TIPS
Answer these questions
• What is the problem?
• What is your opinion on the subject matter?
Example: How can we generate quality, high ranking, traffic building and money making articles on a consistent basis without spending a fortune in time and money? I’ve read a lot of materials about quick article writing formulas, and although they do offer a lot of helpful tips that do help you write one article at a time quickly, in practice I feel we need to take a birds-eye view approach to realistically writing a large volume of articles that produce expected results consistently
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• THEORY
Tell your readers what your article is about, your solution on the topic, why you feel that way, what brought about your conclusions – Use supporting evidence, and state the point you are trying to make. Use anecdotes, graphs, relevant stats, or quotes as necessary.
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QUICK TIPS
Answer these questions
• Why do you feel this way?
• What is your solution?
Example: I made a promise to myself that I was going to write at least 5 articles a day. My next step was to find out how others were doing it. I’ve seen on ezinearticles.com expert authors with over 13,500 articles under their name, and also many with like 25-50 articles submissions a day.
I thought to myself that this is impossible without outside help, so I then investigated how much it will cost to have someone do the writing. I soon found that for as little as $7, I could hire someone to do the writing for me.
I tried this and it was no good, because all the articles were poor quality and I had to re-write all of them. Maybe for other people this works, because I know people who hire consistently.
It turned out to be a nightmare. Even if I wanted to hire a better writer it will cost me a lot more, and I had no way to justify the cost.
I then decided I was going back to my original plan to write the articles myself.
So I looked for the quickest way to do this. I found quite a number of materials on how to write articles quickly, and although they did the job for one article at a time, I quickly found myself having to repeat tasks for each article I wrote, and this made the process boring.
Sometimes, I ended up drifting away in research and other side tasks instead of writing. I even had articles with holes in them that I couldn’t complete.
It was a mess again.
The next solution was to fall back on finding writers again, but how will I justify the cost of hiring a good writer?
To cut a long story short, I knew I needed a better plan to achieve my goal to write high–ranking quality articles that will bring me quality site visits.
The solution was to come up with a strategy that will help me to not only write articles quickly, but quality ones. The strategy should also allow me hire writers and be able to justify the cost involved.
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• THE BODY
Expand on your views by describing and arguing your ideas with reasons.
Use short readable paragraphs, but enough to develop your idea. Break long paragraphs into more paragraphs if necessary. Use more paragraphs to separate different ideas using bullet points as necessary.
Try to avoid using all capital letters for your sub headings, as this will make it appear that you’re shouting.
An easy start will be to list out 3 to 10 main points which are directly related to the subject you are writing on. Then pick like 3 main points you’d like to use.
I normally begin by writing like 2 to 3 sentences for each point.
Are you seeing how easy it becomes when you’ve a structure?
Save the points you never used in a separate sheet so that you can use them again for another article. Nothing is wasted, and in time you’ll have a bunch of ready to “cut and paste” information for each article”
When writing, try to avoid including external links within the article, as many publishers do not allow it.
In addition, when including your keywords inside the article don’t go overboard stuffing it up you’ll just get into trouble.
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QUICK TIP
Answer these questions
• What 10 points can you think of to back up your solution?
• How many points are enough to justify your solution?
• In 1-2 sentences, what do your points mean?
Example: Here are the steps I came up with:
• Plan your website for success
The first thing I needed to do was to make sure I had a proper business strategy in place. This way I will know exactly what I want my articles to do for me.
• Plan your record keeping
I wasn’t planning to make the same mistake twice. A good record keeping system will help me find things quickly, eliminate repetition, and allow me to quickly plan a more effective article marketing strategy.
• Find out what people want
I had already wasted time on methods that didn’t work for me, and I was under pressure. I planned to use keyword research and other methods to give people exactly what they wanted, and to include these keywords inside my article so that people can find me quickly.
• Choose your topics
As soon I was able to find out what people wanted, I could create my topics based on the demand as well prioritize my writing to accommodate my immediate target.
• Educate yourself on your topics
Based on experience, I knew that researching my topic while writing can cause a lot of drifting, so I had better dedicate a whole day to research only. This research will cover multiple article topics.
• Plan where you will get published
Writing an article is one thing, but if no one will see it then it doesn’t matter. I needed to get this task out of the way as well, so that I should be ready with a list of placed to submit my article as soon as I finish writing.
• Create your resource box
A resource box is the key to my publicity, and I cannot truly guarantee one will work for all occasions. So I need to spend some time creating a lot of them before hand.
• Write the Article
Now that I’ve done my homework and recorded all my findings in an organized manner, my writing will be much easier, less laborious, and exciting.
• Hire writers
Once I’ve been able to perfect my system and appreciate my writing style, then it will be easy to hire writers at this stage, because I can measure results, give better instructions on what to write.
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• THE CONCLUSION
Sum up all your points together and give the reader a final overview of the topic at hand — The points you attempted to make and your conclusion about the issue (Don’t make it sound as a repetition).
Three to five sentences should be sufficient to bring the article to a closure.
This is also an opportunity for you to call your readers to action.
In this conclusion, you can also add some form of curiosity and continuity to your material.
Use this opportunity to trigger the curious mind of your reader, and they will take action to find out more. Using question is a great way to do this.
For example, you can end by asking your audience a question and the next logical step will be to look for where to input the answer.
Like if I ask you now… Do you follow me so far [yes] [No]… Whether you like it or not, you have an answer in your head already. This is how our mind works.
Asking questions are also a great way to build comments for your article. Some article directories provide you with this option. But what I like to use this method for is to instigate readers to take action by visiting my website.
If I were to end by saying, “Do you know where you can…?” Did you want to find out…? Then follow up with your resource box. How many …? Will you… Yes or NO?
Another good way to end your article is to tell your readers that there is more – Example: “That’s just 3 out of the 10 tips… the other 7 cover”… and then include the action they need to take in your resource box.
As they say, “A good story teller always leaves his audience hungry for more” — This is what you should do. Always get the better of your readers’ curiosity, leave them wanting more, and let them want to investigate further for more answers.
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QUICK TIPS
Answer these questions
• What did your readers gain from reading your article?
• What should they do next?
Example: The steps presented above, if followed correctly, will help you become a more efficient writer. You will save time on tasks that normally eat up your time, your articles will satisfy an already existing demand, you will be able to measure results of your campaigns, and you will begin to enjoy writing quality materials and be able to hire others to do it for you effectively. Overall, the strategy above translates to more money and publicity for you and your business.
This article is a crash course showing you the steps I followed to succeed in my article marketing campaign.
Would you like to get full access to the secret blueprint that reveals exactly how you can duplicate my system?
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So there you have it
Your simple guide to writing good quality, high ranking and profitable articles, without wasting time and money.
Hope this helps someone
Thanks
Edward
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