If you have only recently started your online business and you are looking for an effective way to generate traffic, writing articles is the best way available at the moment in my opinion. But don't be disheartened because you have never written an article before. Writing articles is simple, and it's just a question of following a certain format. And once you follow this format three or four times, you will find that it becomes second nature, and your article will attract a lot of attention.
So how do we create the first set of articles?
1. It is important that you have a set of keywords or keyword phrases that you intend to use with your niche or particular topic. If you have not chosen your keywords as of yet, you can use a very helpful tool entitled Google's Keyword Tool. This will give you some ideas of the phrases or questions or queries that people put into the search engine browser in the hope of finding an answer. These are the type of keywords that you should use with your niche. Once you have chosen five keywords, you need to make a note of them because you will need to use them in your articles and other areas of your online business.
2. Creating titles. Your article titles should be made up of two parts. One, the keywords or keyword phrases, and two, a detailed description of the article subject. It is important that your article titles are compelling and entice the reader to click through to read your articles. What you can do at this time is to visit or search the internet by asking a particular question, and look at the article titles that compel you to want to click and reader further. Out of every 10 articles, two or three will be very interesting to you. And that is the same response you want from the articles that you create.
3. The body. The body of your article should be where the meat of the content is delivered. The best way to deliver the meat is to either use bullet points or numbered points. Create a list of five or six items that you intend to include into your article, for instance, The Six Best Ways to Lose Weight in Two Weeks or The Six Best Ways to Create a Wonderful Garden.
4. The conclusion and introduction. Gradually, introduction and conclusion will become fairly easy. You need three or four sentences that give the reader an idea of what you intend to say in the body of your article. And the conclusion can be a summary of what you have just said in the body of your article. Again, no more than three or four sentences are needed for you conclusion.
5. The bio. The bio or biography should contain a link to your website and a compelling reason to click. Until you learn how to draft a live link, writing out the full website address of your Web page is fine. And a compelling call to action can be made up of a bribe, i.e. a bribe that by clicking the link, the reader will be given a free product in the form of a free e-course or a free e-book.
This is the way you should write your first set of articles. You will be surprised at the amount of traffic you generate if you create, say, five to 10 articles within the first two weeks. Once you become comfortable at writing articles, you can increase the numbers for dramatic effect.
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Janet B Cole is a powerful coach and online mentor. She has over 400 articles in print and has published several ebooks.
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