This post on the 10 (no, 11… yes, 11) tips for aspiring authors is not written from the catbird seat point of view of the article publisher or database manager. It is rather by and from the point of view of an author who remembers the early misgivings. It is written particularly for the beginning article author. I have composed and presented hundreds of compositions for publication to thousands of article directories and article managers and still considers article writing my enemy.
1. Necessity vs Desire:
Compositions and Blogs are essential in present day scheme of search engine indexing. Not what the newbie wants to hear. Just think what the Bible says, “there has nothing over taken you that is not common to man”. This is absolutely right! All of us hate article and blog writing at times, and some of us dread the journey to pen and paper (or keyboard as the case may be) all the time. Many Internet marketer would call them “a necessary evil” as they are not mostly anyone’s best wished house keeping chores.
2. Just Being Writing, It Gets Better:
First it is often difficult to get an idea or theme and to get the first couple of lines scribbled down. We know writers who actually get sick thinking about the process. Lighten up. There are a lot to write about, name it: alternative medicine, cancer diseases, true religion, life insurance, playing online poker, cheap insurance. Others may think of even more unusual topics such as penis enlargement and cheap viagra. Once an writer has a starting point and gets passed the introductory thoughts, article and blog writing usually goes fairly smoothly.
The important thing is that you get started. Pick a theme you know something about and just begin writing. You will be pleasantly surprised at just how easily ideas flow. Don’t take everyone knows what you know. Apparently they do not. Will Rogers once said, “all men are ignorant, just on different subjects”. And this is a fact!
3. Good vs Perfection:
Your old English teacher is not looking over your shoulder. Your composition need not to be perfect. It doesn’t mean it should not get a point or to say that it does not have to be correct. At least it does or it should be. However, perfection is not the goal and is, in fact, rarely possible. Too much detail and you run the risk of losing your reader on various levels. Too long and
most readers simply don’t have the time or interest to browse the whole material irrespective of how good it is.
4. Length of Blog vs Article Length:
Most publishers require a minimum of six hundred (600) words per article – some will let you slide with 400 words. Blogs can have a shorter content. Blogs can and maybe should support appropriate pictures and embedded links.
Don’t over do it though. Too gaudy or too slow to load and you have wasted your time, ticked off a potential reader, and probably upset a server who can ban you entirely from their service. compositions, but then, typically cannot carry these extra touches concurring to the requirements of most publishers.
5. Format:
Prepare your article in American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) format. There are many tools from which to choose to get the job done. A search the web for “free ASCII editor” will give you a lot of tools to choose from. WordPress is a standard choice. If all else fails simply use notepad to turn out your masterpiece.
6. Grammar and Spelling:
Once you have your article or blog run it through a good spell checker and a good grammar checker. Microsoft Word works well for these purposes. Just don’t use the MS Word copy for publication of your article. Rather use its corrections to make any unavoidable rectifications to your copy in plain text. The MS Word copy will work for blogs although other editors are preferred.
Like the good old days when you were encouraged by professsor, you will findarticle writing and blog writing skills become better with time and practice.
7. Publish and Announce:
Once your blog is ready you may want to utilize some software to publish and announce it. First do a search for Blog directories and select those suited to your needs. Register in one or more and publish your blog there. Then search for blog and RSS announcers and use them to get your blog noticed.
Now that you have that out of the way find an article wizard that will post your compositions to free article publishers. You can post them one at a time by hand if you are really bored and have absolutely nothing else in life to do. Using an automatic poster you can publish to hundreds of servers in an hour or so. The only way to go.
8. Patience:
Now, have some forbearance. Here is where you lose control. Many of those who host writings are timely and your writings will be reviewed in a span of twenty-four (24) to forty-eight (48) hours. But, many others will be days and weeks down the road therefore never date an article – a sure way to get rejected.
9. Rejection – “sorry your article has been declined”:
Be prepared for most hosts to reject your writings. Do not take it personally. It usually has something to do with your submission and with you as the author.
Some sites instantly reject articles for spelling errors when there are none or where there is more than way to spell a word. And, just as in any other endeavor some directories are simply too lazy and get so far behind, the best and fastest thing to do (and perhaps the only alternative) is to reject everything. You will know who does this over time.
There are also people who review your articles through the sausage grinder and if they find certain words, regardless of how they are used, your article gets no farther. These are the people who can’t even publish the Holy Bible because it contains words that offend them or their readers. Don’t worry about these folks who are so heavenly minded they are of no earthly use.
Remember the rule: In every rule, there is an exemption.
10. Always believe, and keep cranking out articles:
Since most authors, particularly newcomers, prepare only one copy of an article against the advice of most seasoned authors it is important that the newbie keep his chin up – keep the faith. That will be easier as more and more of your articles are accepted and published getting visitors to your website while producing those all significant back links.
It is not essential that every host to accept everything submitted to them. After one or two servers publish your article on any given subject, the search engines tend to penalize you anyway by ignoring additional postings. This is close to spamming and while it could help someone find you, it probably won’t. It is not necessarily, the more the merrier. The additional listings will not step-up your page rankings or links reported by the search engines. It is more significant to get your article published by hosts with the highest Google page rank possible.
Now, one EXTRA Hint for you: Together with “the rejection slip” will usually come a proposition on how to “fix” your article and a request that you resubmit it. Do not blow your time. While trying comply with one database manager’s request you could have composed a new one from which you get much more punch. Enough publishers will pick your article up so move on and save yourself some time and heartburn.
Each person has an idea or thought at least once a day usually at the most inconvenient time. How many of these ideas have been lost because you waited before you write? Don’t procrastinate! Go! Capture that thought before disappears.
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