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Promoting With Articles:
Now That’s One UGLY Website!

Rarely do I ever agree with everything in an article I find at an article directory. But this article is pretty doggone good (and, yes, it IS one ugly website):

Article Writing – Writing Great Content When You Don’t Have Anything to Say

By David Hardin

So, you would love to write great articles, product reports and e-books, but you don’t have anything to say?

Don’t worry about it!

The “talking heads” on TV earn megabucks giving us more news than we can handle and they don’t know anything. They are reading words written on a teleprompter, probably by someone just like you.

So, how do you write an article, report, or product review without really being an expert? Do what reporters do.

• Ask questions.
• Find the answers.
• Write them down.

I am not being silly here. I am dead serious. On any given day, reporters on every newspaper in the world face this same dilemma. They must cover stories on subjects they know nothing about.

They have to:

• gather information,
• separate fact from fiction,
• put the facts of the story into a logical sequence,
• write the article so a sixth grader can understand it,
• submit that article before the deadline,

and do it all over again the next day.

How do they do it?

First year journalism students learn about the 5 Ws”

• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?

Answer those five questions and you will have written a terrific article, review, or report.

Here is exactly how this applies to your niche market.

Information seekers – and that includes pretty much everyone online, are not looking for eloquence. They are looking for easy to understand answers to their questions. Don’t try to dazzle them with your vocabulary, just talk to them in plain English.

If you are writing to your subscribers, ask them what they want to hear. That may sound obvious, but a lot of marketers seem to have ego problems, or insecurities that will not let them admit that they don’t know everything.

You can ask your subscribers what they want to learn, even if you have a list of thousands. You don’t have to go to each one, individually. Send an e-mail broadcast to some, or all of them, asking for their help.

Another, even better way is to send them a survey. There are several survey programs available including an excellent, FREE one on GOOGLE docs.

Just type in http://docs.google.com . Not only can you ask your subscribers questions, you can analyze the results, just like the big boys do.

Your subscribers will respect you for it. They will appreciate the fact that you are interested in them as real people, not

just names on a list.

Here is what you will probably find…

You will find that about 50% of the people will all be asking the same question. 25% will have another question and 10% will have a third. The remaining 15% will be coming from left field, but will still have some interesting questions.

Now, go to work. Do your homework. Research the top question and respond to your subscribers. Then research and answer the second question and then the third.

By answering your subscribers questions, you will look like a genius. You will build incredible loyalty among your followers.

Then, organize all of those questions and answers and you will have the basis for a lot of good articles and product reports.

Put those articles and reports into PDF format and you will have an e-book entitled “The Answers To Your Top 10 Questions”, that you can sell, or give away.

Everything you write can be recycled this way. You don’t have to start from scratch every time. You can even “steal” from other sources.

Here is how I do it.

I do a lot of Google research. I don’t read every word on every page. If the information looks promising, I highlight, copy and paste it into a word document.

I do this until I think I have enough information to write my article.

Then, I go to the page where all of the clips are stored. I start moving the segments around until they are in a logical order.

Then I rewrite, using my own words. It is easy. Try it, you’ll like it.

Free web design, free audio/video programs and free list building tools are some of the subjects David Hardin covers in his “Write Yourself Rich” program at The Ugly Web Site at http://www.davehardinonline.com Go sign up for his FREE “Not Just A Sales pitch” newsletter.

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Our ghostwriters employ these same techniques to write articles for our hundreds of clients every day. If you don’t write your own articles then we’d like to write them for you. Find out how to save yourself oodles of time by having a ghostwriter write your articles for that ugly website of yours.

How To Get Your Hub Pages Banned

Here’s a good article on Hub pages. If you want to get banned from Hub pages, this is real good advice.

Hub Pages – Here’s a Sure Way to Get Your Hub Page Banned
By Donna Abreu

Hub pages are similar to Squidoo lenses and blogs. There are differences though, so let me outline those for you as well as give you some tips to save you time and effort of learning the long way!

1. When you first publish your Hub (from the Edit mode, there is a Publish button), it takes a couple of days for them to approve it. It was not super obvious to me that the page was “in review” and not yet published.

So when you start wondering what happened to your Hub page, it’s probably still in review.

2. When you “test” your hub, you have to be sure you are logged out of your Hub pages account to perform a “true” test. I was logged in after I first created my Hub page.

And so when I went to my hub page, it appeared as if it was published. But it really wasn’t! Others could not see it. I could only see it because I was still logged in without realizing it.

3. You can’t have many links going out from your Hub page. One url at the beginning to your domain, and one at the end. That’s about it, or it won’t be approved!

4. Overall, building a Hub page is not as easy to build as a Squidoo lens. The interface is not as easy to use, and you can only insert pictures in between the other modules (such as a text module). So, your picture can’t be to the right or left of your text.

Also, the image module will only support one picture. So to have multiple pictures, you need to create multiple image modules. This limitation makes it harder to get the layout that you desire.

5. Squidoo lenses and Hub pages can be thought of as blogs on steroids. Try to get in the habit of updating them regularly with new content, such as adding (or replacing) a new video, adding a new post/comment. Ping the site every time you make a change (do it immediately after the change). You can use iPings to do that. The frequent pinging will bring traffic.

For those of you newbies to internet marketing, creating a Squidoo Lens or Hub Page will be much easier and faster than creating a blog. You can do a Word Press blog later on, when you’ve gotten your feet real wet.

If you’re interested in learning about these effective online marketing techniques, I invite you to sign up for my free 7-day bootcamp, where I’ll teach you strategies that you can apply to any online business including network marketing businesses.

To sign up, visit my website: http://NetworkMarketingMastered.com

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I’ve never built a Hub page or Squidoo lens, but the comment above about them being “blogs on steroids” is quite questionable. I highly doubt it. For one thing, if you own a domain name and have a blog on it that is infinitely better than creating content on someone else’s website. The advantage to Hub pages and Squidoo lenses is that those sites are very popular and you might initially have more traffic from those sources than you would from a new blog. The links from Hub pages or Squidoo lenses may or may not be as valuable or more valuable than links from your offsite blog pointing to your website. That depends on several other factors, which we won’t get into here.

I’m not saying that Hub pages and Squidoo lenses don’t have value. They do, but starting out with the idea that they are more valuable than a blog isn’t accurate. You can use these tools in lieu of a blog if you wish, but I would recommend them in addition to your blog. In fact, if you incorporate an offsite blog with a company blog that sits on your company website in conjunction with a Squidoo lens, a Hub page, a Google Knol, and article marketing then you’ve got yourself a pretty good marketing strategy there.

We have clients that have their own Hub pages. If this is something you’d have an interest in pursuing for your company then let us show you how you can incorporate Hub pages, Squidoo lenses, and Google Knols into your article marketing strategy with well-written articles by a ghostwriter.

“How Much Of That Article Should I Rewrite?”

All of it, says Chris Knight.

This is the same thing we’ve been saying for a long time now. PLR articles are useless. Word for word, idea for idea, I could not have said it better myself:

Non-content spammers but well-meaning newbies will ask this question: How much must I change or rewrite my article so that your content filters won’t reject it or suspend my account? The answer is all of it. Seriously, don’t rewrite your own articles. Just create new ones. It’s not that hard. You can do it.

Today it’s just one article directory, but that’s how it usually starts. By this time next year there will be a half dozen more article directories instituting the same policy. Why? Because e-zine publishers and webmasters don’t want the same rehashed content that all of their competitors have. It does them no good. They can’t monetize it, they can’t rank with it, and it doesn’t benefit their readers. Therefore, it doesn’t benefit the article directory. And what doesn’t benefit the article directory doesn’t benefit you. So you might as well write your articles from scratch.

“But what if I can’t write?”

No problem. Call a ghostwriter. Not only will you get fresh, unique content, but you own it and you can use it, re-use, and distribute it as many times as you wish – all for the same price. That’s the nature of work for hire. We work for you and you own the content. If you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right. In other words, learn to say the alphabet with the letters P, L and R.

“So, how much does a ghostwriter cost?”

Three Ways To Get Article Content

There are three generally recognized ways of getting articles for marketing your website:

• Private Label Rights
• Write them yourself
• Hire a ghostwriter

I would not recommend private label rights (PLR). These are articles that are prewritten that you buy and can use as they are. The problem is, they’ve been used before. You really don’t want articles that have been used before. You’ll have to rewrite them for them to be of any real value to you. And if you’re going to rewrite them then you might as well as just write articles from scratch.

Speaking of writing your own, be prepared to spend some time researching and writing. If you’re a good writer and you have the time to conduct research then this might be an option for you. But if you find that your time is limited then you may need to hire a ghostwriter.

A ghostwriter is a good compromise between the inexpensive fluff you get through PLR and the time-intensive process of writing your own articles. You can hire someone to write your articles for you and create original article content that actually benefits you. But why pay more than you have to?