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With so much written material published in volumes that defy imagination, one often wonders if it is still possible to write an article that can be called original in true sense.

To a great extent that is not an unfounded thought.

If you are not in current events field or not working on some breakthrough, it is likely that whatever you write has already been written and discussed.

But still people are writing everyday. Books, newspapers, magazines or internet – People are writing and publishing everywhere like never before.

With so much content being published around, it becomes highly important to write articles that are original.

Because most of other people would be writing on the similar topic, there is a lot of competition that your article is going to face.

People would have same access to the resources and information as you have.

How to make your article stand out in spite of competition?

By adding your flavor.

Just think about it.

When everything else is same, it is you who is going to make difference.

How do you do that?

You can make a same article look different by changing the approach [ I am not talking about reshuffling the sentences and words], by making the content targeted to specific audience or by adding your own experience.

When you add yourself to your writing, it brings a new face to it.

Your article starts giving a fresh look in spite of  what you  are writing may have been said before.

How do you add yourself to an article depends upon the way you do it. It might be just your style of saying things  or you might give  a different angle to the issue.

Or you might target a specific audience as we said before for example if you write an article about time saving tips for work at home moms, it starts carrying altogether a different meaning.

You might want to highlight the new relevance of a technique that has been there for quite some time. Your article is oven fresh.

Never mind if a thing has been said already. Say it in a unique way and it becomes original from you.

Think about the ways you can put an extra value to your content. Then what

It is often said that you should write from your heart. I have often wondered about the meaning of that expression.

That expression also means that you should be truthful in your writings.

Whether you are aware or not, your writing has a face. You can be recognized by what you write.

Because internet appears to be faceless and non personal, many people understand that it is alright to remain inconspicuous.

But that is not the case. You would be noticed eventually and if you had been lying all the time, you would be rewarded accordingly.

While you may be able to deceive people for sometime, usually that kind of strategy does not last long.

You may not be visible to others behind that screen but your words would reflect if they are in sync with what you claim to be or not.

For example if you are new to internet marketing but you claim that you are veteran with so many years of experience behind you, your writing would reveal actually what you are. Say that you outsource that part and make it look like a veteran, you would be caught at social sites or forums where you tend to ineract with people.

Because your major of communication is the written word, when you use wrong word on the net you will not be pardoned. What you write forms a personality of its own.

If you write from your heart, you would give it a true personality. Otherwise fake would be spotted soon.

You should be true to your readers. If you are not you would loose them when truth is revealed.

Internet is a hyperinteractive world. You can be discussed in pages at forums, social sites etc. in just few moments.

For a strange reason, your writing does not develop that convincing power if you are lying. Your mind doe not let you choose language that leaves impact.

If you are writing naturally, it becomes a different case.

So if you are hiding behind some mask, it is time to take that off.

This article is for humans, not bots.

Yes! When we write an article, we write that for human audience not for search engine bots.

But armed with ever growing technical knowhow and surrounded by specifications like keyword density, tags, keywords etcetra, we tend to forget te human reader and start writing for bots instead.

Does keyword stuffing ring any bell!

That is what happens when we start paying much attention towards bot and its likes and dislikes.

So we become an article churning machine with poorly formed sentences, poorly phrased expressions, poorly structured paragraphs and stuffed with keywords.

Bots may like it but humans will not.

We tend to forget that bots also serve humans. So if bots rank wrong pages full of clutter and devoid of information that humans are seeking, the humans will not trust the bots.

To be in business bot owners aka search engine need to see if their algorithm is serving human needs or not.

So bots would be humanized as they are being now.

With advent of social media, everything is getting influenced by humans. While you might prefer ranking purely by bots but people out there would also vote for your page making it rank higher or lower.

If more people like your article, you are darling of search engine.

If not then bot can be overridden.

After all it is a mere software.

An article written for bots may fetch some page views and it may foll few humans but this game would not take you far.

As a savvy internet marketer of today, you must focus on building relations an authority rather than enforcing authority through a love affair with seach engine bots.

Writing good content is is the primary key to become authority. Especially content that provides information in a way that is liked by people.

As your content is popular among your readers, people share it with their friends, colleagues and even their readers.

Your status rises.

Thus instead of search engines i you write for people, you would have many people recommending your piece of writing.

How is that as compared to search engine affair.

So it is time that you start addressing humans and human interest.

You can fool bots but..

for what?

The customer is still human.

Anik Singhal of Affilliate Classroom has launched a new article directory Affsphere.

Affsphere is an article directory with a difference. It is a site where you not only can submit articles but also get commissions for your affiliate sales.

For every article you publish, you get credits in advertising, which you can use for promoting your website.

You also get a chance to generate commissions through your affiliate links which your are allowed to use in your article.

As such it appears an article directory but it is claimed to be different. I have joined as author, you can view my articles here

Affsphere is also offering a report on article marketing only for $5. That is quite a good bargain. I have purchased the ebook and learned few tricks too

You can join Affsphere here

While article marketing is an effective method but article writing is a daunting task for many marketers. If you write many articles, you must be putting a lot of hours into this job.

There are many things that you can practice for writing faster articles. For me most important thing is organization of the thoughts.

If you can divide your article into subparts, not only you can write faster but also better. Here is a piece of free software that makes your job far easier.

Download Here

Recently I came across a an ebook by Article Marketer that claims to enrich your knowledge about article marketing.

It does tell you about article marketing but leaves you yearning for more. It just touches the basics whereas i expected them to be more detailed. They have concentrated more on Article Marketer rather than article marketing.

Still it is a very useful book for those who are new to article marketing and want to have a basic outline of the activities.

The book is titled 4 Ridiculously Simple Keys To Online Success-Step By Step Guide To Article marketing.

You can download it for free here.

Judge for yourself.

Update: Article Marketer no longer exists now. It has been divided into distributeyourarticles.com and contentcrooner.com

Article Marketer is an automated article distribution service. Article marketing is a great way to build traffic and back links. In fact, it is one my favorite methods. Not only it builds traffic and provides SEO benefits but also establishes you as an expert in your niche.

In earlier days article marketing was a simple method. There were few article writers and even fewer article directories where one could submit articles.

As the search engines stressed upon importance of backlink, article marketing became talk of the town. Soon everybody was writing and submitting. As a result the market grew and more and more article directories were launched.

More directories you submit your articles to, better you would be than your competitor.

Here comes the role of an article submission service. If you choose to do it yourself, you cannot afford to submit more than few directories per day.

That is quite tedious job when you are working alone.

Article submission services makes it lot easier.

Article Marketer claims to be a service with a difference. And is right in doing it.

The biggest advantages with Article Marketer are cheap prices and unlimited submissions.

While lately article marketer has raised its prices, it is still a lot cheaper when compared to other services in the market.

Here is the look at its price schedule

• Three Months – Only $89.99
• A Full Year – Only $249.99
• Lifetime Subscription for Only $499.99

[while I was writing this Article Marketer had indicated at a price hike. You might want to check latest prices at http://articlemarketer.com ]

Here is a comparison of existing prices of Article Marketer with other services on the web

Article Marketer also offers a free account option where the number of sites to which your article submitted is quite limited.

Paid member articles are sent to 67,251 people and 5,914 sites whereas free member articles are submitted to 11,256 people and 29 sites.

In my view this is a very good feature. With your free account you can have a taste of their service and make a deciosion to upgrade.

Click here for a free account

Submission Process

After you open an account you are able to submit your first article immediately. After you complete your submission, your article is automatically read by software which looks for mistakes. If there are mistakes, it notifies you back asking you tomake necessary changes.

the process takes 6-12 hours.

In a second step the article is read by human reviewer and then sent for publication.

Your control panel allows you to visualize progress of the article. After publication you are able to view article reports. You can see where your article has been distributed and how it is behaving in search engines

Note: These two features are availble only to paid members.

Conclusion:

Article Marketer is a great service that would make your article submission totally outsourced. You need to submit only once and your article would be all over the web. It provides you more time for your self and your business

I especially like feature of Free Account . It enables you to test the service before you choose to join it.

My full recommendations.

Note: The post contains affiliate links

If you use Article Marketing for your traffic, here is a good news. You can as well earn money from your submitted articles.

Associatedcontent.com allows you to earn on published articles. In fact this website allows you to publish many content formats like video, text, audio and images on any topic of your choice.

They also have Calls for Content where they ask people to produce content on the given topic.

Because I do this with articles, I would continue to with article publishing. For any other media the rules and regulations are almost similar.

You can submit your content in three forms depending on exclusivity of the submission.

Exclusive

You give AC the Exclusive rights to publish your original content. This content…

• Cannot have been previously published.
• Cannot be re-published elsewhere by you.
• Cannot be removed from AC by you.

Exclusive is the best option if don’t plan on publishing your content anywhere else.

Non-Exclusive

with this option you give AC limited rights to publish your original content. This content…

• Cannot have been previously published.
• Can be re-published elsewhere by you.
• Cannot be removed from AC by you.

Non-Exclusive is the best option if you want to re-publish this content elsewhere

Display-Only

You give Associated Content only the right to display your original content. This content…

• May have been previously published.
• Can be re-published elsewhere by you.
• Can be edited or removed from AC by you.

Associated Content allows you to earn in two ways.

Upfront Payment

This optopn is only for Exclusive and Non-Exclusive content. Display Only articles do not fall in this category.

Associated Content has been giving $3-$20 per article as upfront payment.

Performance Payment

As the name suggests, this payment depends on performance of your article. You are paid by number of views your article generates. It follows a typical CPM model.

Upfront payment is only for exclusive and non exclusive articles. Performance payment is applicable to all kinds of articles.

Submission to Associated Content is quite simple process

• Register / log into your AssociatedContent.com account.
• Go To The “Publish” Tab and from there select which format you want to use (i.e.text, video, audio etc.) from here on I write for Text.
• Select “General Article”.
• Follow the instructions and then submit your work.

How Much Money Would You make?

You will not make grands here but I see it as a bonus money that can come to you for already written articles.

Many a authors do make hundreds per month.

Writing an article is no rocket science. All you need is

• An idea to write
• Will or motivation to write
• Language Usage

That is the end to requirements for writing an article.

There would be difference in approaches of various articles depending on the media for which you are writing and genre in which you are dealing.

Internet articles are a specialty in there own and have a general pattern to be followed. For all practical purposes an internet article is supposed to have following structure

Title

A keyword laiden sentence to catch reader’s attention

Subtitle

Optional- A more descriptive sentence

Introduction

A paragraph introducing to the problem or topic of the writing.

Body

Main part of the article where you divulge the information. If it is a large article, dividing it with help of sub headings would be a great addition.

Resource box

It is where you sell yourself. You can tell about yourself and your business and provide a website link that people would visit.

Summary

You would need to provide summary when publishing your articles on various article directories. Summary is supposed to be a brief recap of what your article is.

Listed below are few practical tips that would help you to maximize performance of your article.

• Focus on one thought in one article. Discussing too many ideas in one article dilutes the message of the article.
• As for as possible chunk your writing.
• Keep your tone casual
• Never ever publish without checking language and spellings.