Internet Marketing Business Solutions From Richard Legg

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Today, I want to talk about article titles.

This is so key to getting your article read.

Lackluster titles will be overlooked. Exciting titles will get your article read.

Well, let’s give you a few examples of what a dull title is.

Let’s say you’re writing an article on acne and a natural cure for acne. Well, a dull title might be something like…

“A Natural Cure For Acne”

Okay, let me qualify this just a bit. If somebody is specifically looking for a natural cure for acne and this is the only article they find, sure, they’re going to read it. It directly speaks to what they need. So while this is a dull title, it can be effective if you have a captive audience.

But what if somebody goes to the search engines and finds 10 articles with that same title? Unless yours appears at the very top, there is little chance that it’s going to get read as they’ll all blend in with the crowd.

However, if out of those first 10 results, somebody sees a title like this…

Don’t you think that somebody is going to be more likely to read this article?

When writing articles, you have to think like a marketer and NOT like an author, at least when it comes to the title because that’s how you get people to read the article in the first place.

Let’s take another example. Say you’re writing an article on article writing to promote your site and you come up with a title like this…

“Article Marketing To Promote Your Business”

It’s not bad, but it certainly doesn’t excite the heck out of me.

But what if you tried something like this?

Much better.

So when you’re writing the titles for your articles, think like a marketer first and an author last.

Here are a list of my top 10 article sites to submit to:

http://EzineArticles.com
http://GoArticles.com
http://ArticleDashboard.com
http://SearchWarp.com
http://ArticlesBase.com
http://iSnare.com
http://SelfGrowth.com
http://Buzzle.com
http://ArticleCity.com
http://IdeaMarketers.com

To YOUR Success,

Richard Legg

In the next couple of posts, I’m going to start on something that has become one of the most important things on the Internet today, article writing.

There is a reason why Ezine Articles, as of this writing, has an Alexa rank of 786. 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…

This series will give you a few tips plus give you a list of sites where you can submit.

Article Writing Tip #1

The first thing you need to learn about writing articles is that you MUST write articles on topics that people will want to read.

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, “Affiliate Marketing Article”

If I do this, I come up with 220 daily searches for affiliate marketing articles. This is good.

This shows me that people are looking for articles on affiliate marketing.

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.

Next time we’ll get into the actual writing of the article itself.

See you then!

Richard Legg