Where Your Articles Can Go!

Hey All,

Thanks for coming back to the Web Writers Cafe. In the last few posts I have been going over the importance of writing and in general writing articles.

I had kind of generalized article writing as a way to bring traffic to your site or blog, but today I want to tell you of other ways that you can use your articles on the Internet and even maybe make a buck or two.

Let's go over the type of articles that I have already mentioned and those are the ones that will help you bring traffic to your landing page, website or blog. This type of use of your articles is called article marketing.

These articles are written about a certain subject or product that you may be promoting and are written so as to attract the search engines when the keywords you have chosen for that article are used. This is called Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short. This will be covered at a later date so don't really worry about it too much right now.

For example, you are promoting a new ebook about tropical fish. So you write an article about raising tropical fish and post it on the web. When someone searches the term tropical fish, your article comes up in the search results and they read your article. They like what they read so they click on the link you provided to the ebook sales page or your web page that tells about the ebook and hopefully they then buy said ebook.

Articles written for this purpose can be placed on sites that are made specifically for promoting and sharing your article with others. Some are listed below and I encourage you to check them out and join them so you can post your articles to the web soon.

ezinearticles.com
exchange-articles.com
articlesbase.com
findarticles.com
isnare.com

Article marketing can take a few days or even weeks to see any results from your work. For more relatively quicker results, you can post your articles and get payment on submission(after a standard review) or a get a share of the revenue that is brought in by your article with the sight that is promoting it. Please check out the following sites for submitting these type of articles.

hubpages.com
squidoo.com
helium.com
associatedcontent.com

And finally you can use Elance.com and bid on projects to write articles for other people. This is usually fairly quick money if you need it, but be prepared to get only $2 - $5 for each article as the competition is pretty tough.

I hope I have enlightened you to various ways to use your articles to make money with or to promote your website or blog. Next time I will be giving tips on writing a good article.

Till next time.....