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		<title>Top 12 Article Writing Ideas For Affiliate Marketers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abonadim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Articles are one of the most powerful methods for promoting your affiliate service and or product, because, you're giving your potential customer or reader a source of knowledge that they can use immediately. But, what happens when you're stuck on ideas for your next article?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">By <a id="togglebio" style="color: #1900ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Michelle_Hackett">Michelle Hackett</a> <img style="background-image: url(http://img.ezinearticles.com/spriting/ea-main2.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; display: inline; height: 10px; width: 10px; background-position: -266px -97px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px initial initial;" title="Platinum Author" src="http://img.ezinearticles.com/spriting/trans.gif" alt="Platinum Quality Author" /></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Listed here are 12 Ideas to enable you to write a whole bunch of articles on the niche or market you&#8217;re in.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 1: How To Get Something Done!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This is such a great article idea, because people are always searching for new and better ways on how to get something done, quicker, smarter or cheaper whatever it maybe. Your article layout can be simple, with a list of things, tips or steps people can use right away.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 2: Write Your Own Bio!<span id="more-129"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">People are always interested in other peoples business and their story of where they&#8217;ve come from and where they are now. Implementing this into an article about the benefits you&#8217;ve gained from the affiliate product and or service you&#8217;re promoting, helps people believe and trust what you&#8217;re saying, and ultimately the product and or service you&#8217;re promoting.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 3: Your Competition!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This is a great source to get ideas from. See where you can improve on things and make yourself stand out from your competition and have an edge in your chosen market.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 4: Hot Forum and Chat Room Topics!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">What are people talking about, what do people need? Can you identify if there is a gap in the market, and how you can fill it? This is powerful, because you can talk directly to your potential customers on their level, and find out just what they&#8217;re thinking and what they want and don&#8217;t want.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 5: Write a Top Ten Article!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">People love lists, It&#8217;s true, check lists, shopping lists, to do lists just to name a few. If you can write an article that gives your reader precise steps or tips on how to do something, then they&#8217;ve gotten something very powerful from you, which will keep them interested in what you&#8217;ve got to say and sell. Article titles with lists always get more traffic too.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 6: Up And Coming Trends!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">If you can find out what is new and what is becoming popular, in your niche or market and write articles filled with good content, you will position yourself as a leader very quickly in that area. This will give you a strong competitive edge with excellent exposure.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 7: Motivational Article!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">We all have those days or moments when we need an extra boost to keep us going and one of the best ways is through article. Give people encouragement, to stick at what they are doing. Give them inspiration to persevere so they can reap great rewards. This works very well if you have been in their shoes. Be a mentor to people and you will attract a lot more people to you and a lot more sales.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 8: Take Action Now Article!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">With anything to get results we must take action. Anything great we have ever wanted comes from the direct actions we have put in. Placing a sense of urgency in your customer to take action to do or be more, can create sense of purpose for them and satisfaction in knowing that they are doing rather than just thinking.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 9: Entertaining Article!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Take your customer on a journey, use characters and themes, open up their minds with imagination to sell your product and or service. Let them see and feel how great the benefits will be if they use your product and or service.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 10: Product or Service Review!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">People always want to know what someone truly thinks of a product and or service that they may be interested in getting into or spending their money on. A review is straight to the point, on whether something works or not. This is great way to expose the qualities and benefits your product and or service can offer.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 11: Testimonial!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This speaks for itself. Your raw feelings on how a product and or service has changed your life is a heart felt way to promote your product. I believe most people write testimonials on products because it truly has given them the benefits they were seeking and you can too.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Idea 12: Opinion Piece!</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">This can be an article on what is happening in your market, what issues people are dealing with. This can be anything from, promoting on the internet to health and beauty. Your own view can sometimes help those struggling with a particular issue, find a solution to a problem they have.</p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Article writing is powerful, because I believe it is the ultimate win win situation for you and your customer. You&#8217;re giving so much free valuable knowledge to your potential customer, where they can connect with you. Connection is important, because you will retain them as loyal customers for years to come.</p>
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		<title>Easy to Read Articles and Contents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abonadim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When writing articles, you want to keep your readers in mind. According to studies, the vast majority of internet surfers don't read the entire webpage; rather, they just quickly scan over it to find information that is most relevant to their interest.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;">When writing articles, you want to keep your readers in mind. According to studies, the vast majority of internet surfers don&#8217;t read the entire webpage; rather, they just quickly scan over it to find information that is most relevant to their interest. Therefore, having a captivating title and eye catching subtitles, as well as adding bullet points will help your readers quickly scan over your page and capture the main message.</p>
<p>Visitors prefer sites that are set up so that they are easy to navigate through and read. Sites as such tend to attract more visitors to comeback and revisit them. The more you have people coming back to your site, the greater the chances you have to getting them to click on your important links. On the contrary, making your page difficult to read and navigate will turn visitors away from revisiting your site; therefore, causing you to miss out on many sales, or potential sales.<br />
People will leave your site before they will even find out what you have to say or offer. Try to keep your article well organized and easy to read. This will insure that your visitors will keep coming back, and your site will continue to make you money.</p></div>
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		<title>The Importance of Keywords For Your Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>abonadim</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Keywords Density<br />
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<p>Keyword density is an important part of optimizing your articles for search engines.  It is important to place keywords so that search engine spiders can recognize and index them as keywords, so that when someone searches for that <a class="zem_slink" title="Index term" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_term">keyword</a>, your article or page comes up.</p>
<p><strong>What is a Keyword?</strong></p>
<p>A keyword is a word that appears in your article more than once, so that it stands out from the rest of the words in your content, otherwise all words in the article will be keywords.  Search engine spider will see that you have a word placed several times in the article and determine that your page may be useful to users who search for such a keyword.</p>
<p><strong>What is <a class="zem_slink" title="Keyword density" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_density">Keyword Density</a>?</strong></p>
<p>Keyword density is the rate of keyword occurrence in the indexable words within the page or article. For example, a 400 word article will have a keyword density of 2% if the keyword is repeated 8 times within the article. The preferred keyword density varies from search engine to the other. The recommended keyword density is between 3-10%.</p>
<p><strong>Over Optimizing </strong></p>
<p>Keyword density and placement is important for optimizing your page or article for search engine searches; however, you do not want to over optimize your article by stuffing your content with too many of a particular word, which is referred to as “<a class="zem_slink" title="Keyword stuffing" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_stuffing">keyword stuffing</a>”. Search engine spiders can detect that you are trying to trick it into placing your article high in the search engine results.  Instead, your page or site may be penalized by a search engine which will affect your ranking or get your site blacklisted.</p>
<p><strong> Keyword Prominence</strong></p>
<p>Keyword prominence referrers to where in the page your keyword appears. It is important to place keywords so that they appear more at the beginning of the article and towards the end, as well as including it in the Title and Meta tags.</p>
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