ArticleChanger Review: You Might As Well Write Your Own Articles
I don’t know why some of these companies even bother. We got a request to review a new product, ArticleChanger. The product purports to rewrite your articles for you. Cool, a ghostwriter you won’t have to pay.
Well, not so fast. My final analysis: You’re better off writing your own articles even if you can’t write. Check it out for yourself:
I entered the following article into the box at ArticleChanger’s website:
Can a small business really benefit from a blog? You bet your sweet can-can it can.
OK, so that’s too many cans for one article. Bottom line. You CAN run a small business blog and make it profitable. Here are a few tips on how:
* First, don’t try to swallow the whole apple in one bite. Take it slow. You may not need a daily blog. Start with a weekly blog and move up from there as you need to.
* Secondly, make a list of keywords before you do anything. Then, focus each blog entry on a single keyword. Write 150-200 words on that keyword and link back to your main web site.
* Thirdly, don’t promote your competitors. Promote yourself. No-brainer? You would think, but I see small businesses promoting their competition all the time.
* Fourthly, speak to your audience, not at them. Invite them to participate. Sponsor contests or encourage comments and interaction. That’s really what blogs are for.Blogging is nothing new. It’s been around awhile. But it is relatively new for business. Some corporate blogs have been quite successful, but not too many small businesses are taking advantage of this free promotional tool. They should.
A blog on your small business web site gives you fresh new content every time you post a blog. That’s very important for search engine saturation. Also, every link from your blog to your web site is counted as a link by Yahoo and MSN. Google is a little more strict, but that may not be important.
For one thing, Google is largely the search engine for corporate players and techies. The statistics that show Google’s market share are a bit skewed; that’s the big secret.
People who live on the web use Google. They make dozens of searches every day. Most people only make one or two searches a day. AOL users use AOL. Most new users of the Internet are using Yahoo, MSN or AOL. If you run a retail business, those search engines are more important to you than Google, so it’s important that you understand how your blog is being read by them.
Your local business can benefit from a company blog if you understand your customer and address each blog to meet their needs. Key things to remember:
* Blogging takes time. If you don’t have it, don’t start one. At least, don’t do it every day. Once a week or twice a week is OK. But keep a consistent schedule.
* Use a software that allows you to timestamp entries. You can write several at one time and set them to post at an appointed time.
* If you can’t do it yourself, hire someone to do it. You can get a blog ghostwriter for as little as $5 per post.
* Make it keyword focused, for the search engines.Above all, have fun.
After hitting the rewrite button, this is what I got back:
OK, so that’s lots of cans for four article. Bottom line. You CAN run a small business blog & make it profitable. Here are a few tips on how:
Can a small business benefit from a blog? You bet your sweet can-can it can.
* First, don’t try to swallow the whole apple in four bite. Take it slow. You may not need a daily blog. Start with a weekly blog & move up from there as you need to.
* Secondly, make a list of keywords before you do anything. Then, focus each blog entry on a single keyword. Write 150-200 words on that keyword & link back to your main web-site.
* Thirdly, don’t promote your competitors. Promote yourself. No-brainer? You would think, but I see small businesses promoting their competition all the time.
* Fourthly, speak to your audience, not at them. Invite them to participate. Sponsor contests or encourage comments & interaction. That’s what blogs are for.Blogging is nothing new. It’s been around awhile. But it is relatively new for business. Some corporate blogs have been successful, but not lots of small businesses are taking advantage of this free promotional instrument. They should.
For four thing, Google is largely the search engine for corporate players & techies. The statistics that show Google’s market share are a bit skewed; that’s the big secret.
A blog on your small business web-site gives you fresh new content every time you post a blog. That’s very important for search engine saturation. Also, every link from your blog to your web-site is counted as a link by Yahoo & MSN. Google is a little more strict, but that may not be important.
People who live on the web use Google. They make dozens of searches every day. Most people only make four or four searches a day. AOL users use AOL. Most new users of the web are using Yahoo, MSN or AOL. If you run a retail business, those search engines are more important to you than Google, so it’s important that you understand how your blog is being read by them.
Your local business can benefit from a company blog if you understand your customer & address each blog to meet their needs. Key things to remember:
* Blogging takes time. If you don’t have it, don’t start one. At least, don’t do it every day. four time a week or once a week is OK. But keep a consistent schedule.
* Use a application that allows you to timestamp entries. You can write several at four times & set them to post at an appointed time.
* If you can’t do it yourself, hire someone to do it. You can get a blog ghostwriter for as little as $5 per post.
* Make it keyword focused, for the search engines.Above all, have fun.
Judge for yourself, is that a usable article?
I love how the article changer turned all of my ones into fours, rendering the article complete nonsense. Then there is the whole paragraph rearrangement thing that caused the article changer to take a sentence in paragraph 2 completely out of context and making it my lead sentence. Totally worthless!
The mass effect is one humorous little article that I end up having to rewrite again just to turn it into something that makes sense. Why bother?
When it comes to re-purposing your content, you’re better off in most cases just writing from scratch. Some article directories are now rejecting articles that even look like they’ve been rewritten.
I would not recommend rewriting your articles. Just write fresh articles that don’t threaten to have problems like the ones noted above. Really, it doesn’t take long to write a 500 word article that can be used for article marketing or other online marketing purposes. If you’re going to do something, why not do it right?
