There is a reason why Ezine Articles, as of this writing, has an Alexa rank of 539. I’d only be guessing at how many articles get submitted to them each day. It must be more than they can handle because my articles are now supposed to be approved in 24 hours and I have some out there that are waiting for approval now for 3 days.
They must be swamped. Yes, everybody and their grandmother is getting into article writing. Unfortunately, not everybody knows HOW to write an article that’s going to get people to their site.
This series will give you a few tips and then direct you to a resource that will teach you everything you need to learn plus give you a list of sites where you can not only submit your articles but actually get paid for them.
The first thing you need to learn about writing articles is that you MUST write articles on topics that people will want to read. How can you find out what topics people are interested in? Very simple.
What you do is go to one of the online keyword tools. I personally use Wordtracker because Overture just isn’t reliable anymore. Some days it works, others it doesn’t.
Here’s the URL for the free Wordtracker.
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/What you do is type in the topic you want to write on and then type in the word “articles”.
For example, Advertising Articles
If I do this, I come up with 37 daily searches for advertising articles. This is good. This shows me that people are looking for articles on how to advertising.
If you do a search and find there are no results for that topic, there is no point in writing on it because nobody will be searching for your article and thus nobody will end up going to your site.
So this is the first place you have to start. Confine your writing to things that people are interested in. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.
