Article Writing Tips for Beginners - Gustavo Woltmann
By: Gustavo Woltmann
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Whether you’re starting your online business or a seasoned professional, writing and distributing articles is one of the most effective and low-cost ways to drive a lot of targeted traffic to your site. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories will give you free traffic when people click the link in your resource box. It is also a great way to improve search engine ranking as you will have a lot of inbound links to your site. Let’s see how you can start writing articles. Here are some tips to help you get started.

Write a list of the top ten

An easy way to get started with an article is to create a top ten list. Search for a topic related to your business and write down ten reasons why someone should buy your product or offer advice on a topic related to your website. Some examples would be the top ten ways to get your baby to sleep through the night, the top ten reasons to write articles, or the top ten reasons to buy car insurance. Once you have your list of ten items, write a short paragraph about each one, explaining the reason in a little more detail.

You then add an introductory paragraph that draws the reader to your list. For example, an introductory article on baby sleeping through the night might mention how hard it is to get through the day and how poor you are until you get your baby to sleep through the night. Then close your article by summarizing what you just told them on your top ten lists or encouraging them to act on what you just told them.

Congratulations, you just wrote an article. Of course, you can easily shorten it to a top 5 list. Just write a little more about each of your points.

Save your article

Some people prefer to record themselves talking about a particular topic and then transcribe and edit it into an article. If you find it easier to talk about a particular topic than to write about it, this may be a great option for you. Most MP3 players now come with a recording option, or you can buy a cheap recorder. Pick a topic and start talking as if you were explaining it to a friend. Just start babbling and the ideas will start to flow. Now listen to your tape. Write and organize the main points that bother you in order. Add an introduction and closing and you have another article.

Hire a ghostwriter

If you are having difficulty writing articles or just don’t have the time to do so, you can benefit from article marketing by hiring a ghostwriter. Ghost Writers will write unique articles for you that will become your intellectual property. You can post them as your own work on your site, your blog, as well as in article directories. You can find a ghostwriter on sites like elance. There are also some freelance writers with their own websites. You can usually buy items between $5 and $65.

Write an outline and ask someone to turn it into an article

Another option if you don’t want to write everything yourself is to write a basic outline of the article and the point you want to make. Write down any ideas you have for the article, then ask a friend or hire someone to develop it into an article. You may be more comfortable passing these articles off as your own, as the article content was your original idea. Someone else just put it in an article format for you.

There is no reason not to start article marketing one way or another. Post a few articles and then sit back and watch the traffic roll in. You will be so impressed by the results you can get from even a handful of articles that you will be writing and submitting them all the time.

Gustavo Woltmann.