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Article writing has suddenly become very popular among online marketers lately. A lot of people are taking advantage of this fact to make extra money.

So just how can writing articles make YOU extra money?

Firstly the obvious answer is to write keyword dense articles on specific subjects and offer them for sale. These will be quickly snapped up by people trying to create niche market sites to sell a product within that niche. They will also be in demand with people setting up content sites to make money from Googles Adsense (you could also do this yourself as you write the articles).

Research the most popular keywords at wordtracker.com to find a niche which will give you a good idea of what to target your articles at.

Secondly, a series of articles about one niche can be placed in one volume and turned into an ebook, or course which can be sold with very little overheads. Using one or two of the articles to submit to article directories like ArticleCity.com or DEBSArticleSite.com and adding your bio with a link to your ebook salespage will quickly add some traffic and lead to sales.

You can also use articles to promote affiliate products. Search at clickbank.com and find a product you can market from it's marketplace. Make your new link and use a service like TrackThtaAd to mask the link. Then write articles using keywords related to the product and submit those to article directories (see above).

There are a lot of ways to make money from writing articles, so get out there and Start Writing and submitting them today.

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Six Keys To Writing Blogs People Want To Read

If you have ever struggle to find something to say in articles, blogging or even staying clear in e-books, I want to share some simple tips, inspired by Copyblogger.com on getting over writer's block and creating the kind of writing your audience wants to come back to. 

1.  To get over your initial fears of writing, give yourself a short time slot to write as much as you can about any given topic. This technique works because it focusses on the AMOUNT you write, rather than the QUALITY of your writing.  Freed from that worry, you will come up with something. 

So if you worry about your own writing, go and get a piece of paper and pen right now, or open a new word document on your P.C. and set your timer on your watch or phone for about three minutes and just START to write whatever comes into your head!

Forget results, just get into the physical act of putting pen to paper. The trick here, is to write as if talking to someone you know well, like a friend or family member; for this exercise, pretend you are speaking directly to someone who is already listening to <strong>you</strong> in your real life.

How did you do?

2. Being natural is what will interest people enough to read what you have to say; if you be yourself you will attract other people thinking along the same lines as yourself or wanting to learn about the information and ideas <strong>you</strong> are sharing.  The fear of being judged a fool is a mental hurdle you can practise your way over.

3. Another adaptation of this Simple Writing exercise for those a little more comfortable with their own ideas, or for when you are progressing, but still needing to build confidence in your own ability to say something 'worth reading' by others, is to think of a specific topic first off that you would like to talk about a little more at length, before you put pen to paper.  Then give yourself ten seconds and NO MORE to come up with THREE key words, phrases or concepts involved with your idea.  That done, start the clock again and repeat the first exercise, but this time giving yourself five minutes and using your key terms, with one of them being used at least twice in your text.

4. If you are want to feel more confident people actually want to read your material, then you can always cheat and borrow the words off Google's free online Keyword tool and use these terms  which other people are using to search with, when they go online to look for your chosen topic. Use Google key word suggestions to 'speak your mind with.  This way, you can select those terms which suit you and which you would like to use to attract visitors to your site with. 

5. When you are done, your next step is to put it out there in a safe environment for feedback. If you are not ready to 'publish' on your blog yet, read your article aloud to someone whose opinion you trust.  This way both you and they get to hear your voice and you can learn a lot just by hearing yourself speak. Don't worry about stopping and tweaking; it's all good. 

The important part of sharing your writing with another, is that this person has to tell you truthfully whether what you say sounds like you!  If they think it does not sound natural, or quite right, then your next step is to put the paper down and just speak aloud for a few minutes on the same topic, (referring to words or phrases you have written down already if you need to).  Get your friend to then scribble down which words or phrases they like as you speak and then give you feedback on why they liked these parts of your mini-speech. 

5. Chances are you might have your old English teachers nagging voice in your head at this point - Sadly, many people bring  'old rules' of writing through to writing on their blog.  The world has fortunately, changed since then, thank goodness! These rules do not apply to blogging! This exercise is designed to get you over those mental blocks.

Copyblogger sums it up perfectly here: "If breaking a rule will enhance the clarity of their writing, then they should break it — and so should you."

So for instance, your teachers taught you that a 'paragraph' meant a few sentences put together before you left a space and then began next subject.

RUBBISH!

It all depends is the truth here.  The short answer to this 'rule', is that you OWN your blog, so you can say what you want.  So for instance, I just highlighted my personal response to an idea about 'accepted' rules of writing in a line and paragraph all of its own, by saying "Rubbish!"... I wanted your attention focussed on <strong>my</strong> opinion... and that is fine...

As for all the 'dot, dot, dot', stuff I often use in my own blogs, we never got much of that in our school essays without being told to complete our ideas or to put it 'in quotes'.  I put them in my blog  because I want my readers to fill in the gaps for themselves as they read, so I am not just talking to them, I am acknowledging that they may also have a reaction to what I say and I am making room for that... Make sense? : )

So writing fragments rather than complete sentences might break the received wisdom of writing in traditions of written English, but like adding an apostrophe (') or missing out letters of words to speak with a regional accent in colloquial English, breaking and bending rules of writing is GOOD.  It conveys <em>YOUR personality</em>, which is after all, what people like to connect with when they choose to hear YOUR voice over the next blogger.

Your blog is written with YOUR rule book.  It's your party and you can blawg ... if you want to! Write in your own way, without worrying about correctness and then re-read it.  If it sounds good to you, it is because it SOUNDS like you and it will sound good to someone else (or why else would people bother speaking to you day-to-day at all?!)

6. So, now you have found a subject about which you are <strong>passionate</strong>and you are thinking of writing a blog.  "SO MUCH TO WRITE! How do I put it all together?"

If you are not confident about knowing ENOUGH, then simply do a search online for other people blogging about what you are interested in.  Copy and paste tit-bits and then re-write them (DON'T COPY OTHER PEOPLE FOLKS! You will not gain popularity for that!).  Do your research.  Look up some facts and start sticking the bits together in a way you would explain about a new subject to your best friend, so that they follow you and understand what you are telling them even though they perhaps knew nothing about the subject before.

Remember that rule of writing you were told about not <em>repeating yourself</em>? Well here's another rule you can throw out as a blogger.  Guess what? Your friend does not always 'get it' the first time you tell them something new, so sometimes you have to translate what you are saying by paraphrasing into words they can understand.  You make it SIMPLE and GIVE EXAMPLES from your own life perhaps: "Remember that time when...well that's what this is." (In Articles, you have to be more concise, but that's another set of skills for another article).

So by now, you are rocking and roller-penning! Your blog is almost there! Gradually you're getting all unblocked and blogged-up! (There's another freedom I permit myself in blogging right there... the liberty to make up your own new expressions or words that folk will understand and enjoy... Us bloggers LOVE creativity!)

The thing is when you get this <em>RELAXED</em> with what you write, you are on your way to speaking with your own blogger's voice. This is the <strong>heart </strong>of many peoples' writer's block - finding who they are as a blogger.

If that all sounds a little too esoteric or you know it is this psychological barrier you have, look at it purely practically.  It's just a hurdle you have to simply write your way out of by just doing it.  It's all a matter of practised skills and taste.

This article on how to write stuff people want to read is much more detailed on my blog, Be Do Have (link in my Bio).  The bare bones here, are with thanks to Copyblogger for their inspiration.  If you to see the fuller version of this article or want more information like this on copy-writing in direct marketing, please pop over and visit me on my blog and tell me what you find useful as inspiration. The more specific you get with your tips, the better I like it.  Blogging is a community and we all constantly learn from each other.

About the Author

Denise Ashurst is an internet entrepreneur and independent consultant.  She introduces businesses to the G.P.T. business model to increase revenue streams and learn more effective marketing.

Her blog about the Blueprint for Working From Home offers helpful advice and resources for businesses operating or moving online