Monthly Archives: August 2010

How Long Should Your Article be?

Posted on Thursday, 19 August, 2010 by admin

If your article is too short (under 400 words) it is unlikely to rank well in any search engine results. If it is too long then you risk losing the reader’s attention, best to keep to less than 1500 words. … Continue reading →

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A Story of an Unhappy Article Writer (Part 2)

Posted on Monday, 16 August, 2010 by admin

Amy researched a whole pile of websites to see if she could find a good place to put her future articles, and the ones eHow had deleted. She had a whole list of criteria: was a management team she could … Continue reading →

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A Story of an Unhappy Article Writer (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, 12 August, 2010 by admin

This is a true story. Names have been changed, but websites referred to are the actual ones. Two years ago an American, called Amy (not the writer’s real name decided to write articles for a revenue share website calle eHow. … Continue reading →

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Task for Today & Every Day: Write a Post to Your New Website

Posted on Tuesday, 10 August, 2010 by admin

It is important to make a new post most days to your WordPress site. This is what makes WordPress sites’ Google rankings so good, they always have fresh content. Make sure yours does, too. This is something you need to … Continue reading →

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Task for Today: Set Up Your Own Website

Posted on Sunday, 8 August, 2010 by admin

It really is eay to do. This site took me 1 day to set up from start to finish, with all pages written and 3 posts done. You need a website for long-term security of your income. It is a … Continue reading →

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Article Spinning is THEFT

Posted on Sunday, 8 August, 2010 by admin

What do you do when you find someone has ripped off your article, put it through an article spinner program and produced a copycat version. If it is so obvious, then it is breach of copyright and should be reported … Continue reading →

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Task for Today: Write One Article for Your New Site

Posted on Sunday, 8 August, 2010 by admin

It is no good just having a membership to another article site, in fact you probably already have memeberships at several other sites apart from your favourite one. You need to actually submit articles, too. Break the ice. Write an … Continue reading →

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Task for Today: Find a Second String Article Site to Write For…Just in Case

Posted on Saturday, 7 August, 2010 by admin

Maybe you write for Squidoo, Hub Pages or eHow already and see no need to write anywhere else…Think again. You write to earn an income that keeps on coming, you write because you want a residual income from each article. … Continue reading →

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Info Barrel Management – 10 out of 10?

Posted on Friday, 6 August, 2010 by admin

I love writing for Info Barrel because of the way the site is managed. This is what sets the site apart from other article sites I have written for: I feel appreciated for what I write. The owners themselves have … Continue reading →

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Could You Make Money If You Had Next Year’s News, Today?

Posted on Friday, 6 August, 2010 by admin

If someone told you to buy shares in Google when they launched, because they were a sure-fire success story would you have believed them? Not many people did. Those that did and actually bought shares are now sitting pretty. If … Continue reading →

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Info Barrel – New Kid On the Block

Posted on Thursday, 5 August, 2010 by admin

Info Barrel only started in its present form in June 2008, two years ago, whereas competing sites have been doing business, taking articles from contributors for much longer. Info Barrel has learned from the mistakes other sites have made, but … Continue reading →

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Promoting Your Articles

Posted on Thursday, 5 August, 2010 by admin

You may be the best article writer in the world, but nobody will find your articles unless you promote them. This site takes an RSS feed from your blog, where you have written short articlets with links to promote your … Continue reading →

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Writing Articles for Immediate Payment

Posted on Thursday, 5 August, 2010 by admin

There are sites like Demand Studios and Constant Content that will pay you what seems a fair amount for writing articles with titles that they specify. Demand Studios pay $15 per article, but some of their titles are very strange, … Continue reading →

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Pay Per View Article Sites

Posted on Thursday, 5 August, 2010 by admin

Avoid these like the plague. They are aimed at article writers whose only chance of payment is the reader who lands on their article by accident. These writers have no idea either on writing or on how to write for … Continue reading →

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Writing Articles for Payment

Posted on Wednesday, 4 August, 2010 by admin

There are a range of payment options for article writers on the Internet. These range from sites that pay you a tiny, tiny amount per view to other sites where you can negotiate your own payment on completion of the … Continue reading →

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