Atricle Dump - Article Writing - Beginners Guide to Growing your Website or Content Based Business

I’ve discovered a lot about researching and writing this type of material for websites over the last year or so but the most important lesson I’ve learnt is this:

When deciding on subject matter for an article always start as narrow and specific as you can.

Imagine you were creating a website on buying gifts, or home decorations and ornaments . It would be very tempting to come up with titles such as ‘The Ultimate Guide to Gift Sites on the Internet’, or ‘Places to Buy Gifts Online’. It is a common mistake to think that you have to write some kind of ‘ultimate guide’.

The problem with starting out with very broad article titles and outlines like this is that the task will almost always be bigger than you think and the effort versus reward ratio will typically be very low.

If you would like to produce an article of 1-3 pages (typical on the web). The amount of effort and research to create a balanced general article on, for example, ‘gift sites on the internet’ will be large and involve you in lots of research. Finally you have to edit it down to 1-3 pages anyway, typically leaving out much of the material you have researched. Another typical mistake is to do product comparisons. I'm not saying that product comparisons are bad, but just that there is a large amount of effort in comparing 5 products to produce only one article. As we will see below the effort to reward ratio will be much greater if you just do an article or review on one product at a time. You can do a comparison later. Its all about maximizing material and minimizing effort

What you should be doing to begin with is writing a 2-3 page article on as specific a subject as possible. In this case it would be likely to be an article about one gift site or even better one product, e.g. ‘Handmade Porcelain Fairy Figurine Review’ What you will have at the end is one 2-3 page article that will not have taken much research, editing and condensing. You might not think that a very specific subject is enough for a 2-3 page article, the thing is most people underestimate. Once you start writing it fills up very fast.

What’s more the value and usefulness of the very narrow and specific article to visitors of your website is probably more than the general article, it is also more likely to be unique meaning that anyone searching for information on this specific subject on Google or other search engines will likely find you article at the top of the list of search results. You can still add keywords and phrases to the article such as ‘Guide to Gifts, Ornaments and Home Decoration Sites Online’ so that people searching for those terms in Google and other search engines may find it, although it will be low in the search results unless you website is highly ranked in general (this can come later).

Then you carry on doing very specific articles for a while until you have a decent number (20-30 maybe). One product, then another, then another… When you have enough material that you are very familiar with then you can then probably knock out a ‘general guide’ type article and not spend an inordinate amount of time doing it. You will also have a site packed with very targeted and useful information.

So there you go, its tempting but you really must avoid the urge to write very general ‘definitive guide’ type articles that involve research. If you are already an expert and can write off the top of your head, then that's clearly a different matter so go for it, but in most cases specific, targeted, narrow subject matter articles rule. Most people who start websites wanting to be the ‘definitive guide to …’ underestimate the work and research involved, get bored and the site never sees the light of day. Even if you are an expert in your field you are still more likely to be competing with many other websites if you write general articles so you are still better off writing specific articles on unique subjects from your field of expertise

To summarise

• Your first article or other content should be very targeted and specific. If you are a website on Health Supplements, then write an article on one specific supplement, or even better one specific supplement for one specific health benefit - the more specific the better
• Don't worry about thinking you won't have enough to write about on a very specific subject. Try to break down the article into a number of relevant headings and then write paragraphs around them. You will soon find that an article will flow and you will normally end up with more than enough useful information to fill 2-3 pages
• It would be best if your article is on a unique subject, or in other words a subject not already covered by hundreds of websites already. This is much easier to achieve with very specific articles and content as opposed to ‘general guides’
• Unique articles on narrow, targeted subject matter will bring more people to your website from search engines because you will have less competition in search engine results and won't need a highly ranked website. To get a highly ranked general website you need thousands of other sites linking to yours and this type of popularity can take years to achieve. On the other hand, specific unique articles can provide instant search engine success
• Continue growing your website with narrow subject matter articles and content until you website's popularity grows - check the number of visitors you get and other factors such as your Google Page Rank
Paying For Your Child's College Education - Staying Out Of Debt
1- Paying For CollegeMany Boomer's have High School Juniors in the house and if you are one of them this article can give you some suggestions on how to fund your child's college education.If you have Kids already in college some of the scholarship info may be helpful.If you don't have anyone in college you can skip this article without missing a thing.As I've said before to many clients(and heard from plenty of parents who disagreed) if you have less than 20 years till your retirement age and have less than $200,000 saved in your pension fund you have no business funding your child's college education in total. Period!Do you really want to spend your retirement working to pay off your Child's college bills while failing to take care ofmost always be bigger than you think and the effort versus reward ratio will typically be very low.

If you would like to produce an article of 1-3 pages (typical on the web). The amount of effort and research to create a balanced general article on, for example, ‘gift sites on the internet’ will be large and involve you in lots of research. Finally you have to edit it down to 1-3 pages anyway, typically leaving out much of the material you have researched. Another typical mistake is to do product comparisons. I'm not saying that product comparisons are bad, but just that there is a large amount of effort in comparing 5 products to produce only one article. As we will see below the effort to reward ratio will be much greater if you just do an article or review on one product at a time. You can do a comparison later. Its all about maximizing material and minimizing effort

What you should be doing to begin with is writing a 2-3 page article on as specific a subject as possible. In this case it would be likely to be an article about one gift site or even better one product, e.g. ‘Handmade Porcelain Fairy Figurine Review’ What you will have at the end is one 2-3 page article that will not have taken much research, editing and condensing. You might not think that a very specific subject is enough for a 2-3 page article, the thing is most people underestimate. Once you start writing it fills up very fast.

What’s more the value and usefulness of the very narrow and specific article to visitors of your website is probably more than the general article, it is also more likely to be unique meaning that anyone searching for information on this specific subject on Google or other search engines will likely find you article at the top of the list of search results. You can still add keywords and phrases to the article such as ‘Guide to Gifts, Ornaments and Home Decoration Sites Online’ so that people searching for those terms in Google and other search engines may find it, although it will be low in the search results unless you website is highly ranked in general (this can come later).

Then you carry on doing very specific articles for a while until you have a decent number (20-30 maybe). One product, then another, then another… When you have enough material that you are very familiar with then you can then probably knock out a ‘general guide’ type article and not spend an inordinate amount of time doing it. You will also have a site packed with very targeted and useful information.

So there you go, its tempting but you really must avoid the urge to write very general ‘definitive guide’ type articles that involve research. If you are already an expert and can write off the top of your head, then that's clearly a different matter so go for it, but in most cases specific, targeted, narrow subject matter articles rule. Most people who start websites wanting to be the ‘definitive guide to …’ underestimate the work and research involved, get bored and the site never sees the light of day. Even if you are an expert in your field you are still more likely to be competing with many other websites if you write general articles so you are still better off writing specific articles on unique subjects from your field of expertise

To summarise

• Your first article or other content should be very targeted and specific. If you are a website on Health Supplements, then write an article on one specific supplement, or even better one specific supplement for one specific health benefit - the more specific the better
• Don't worry about thinking you won't have enough to write about on a very specific subject. Try to break down the article into a number of relevant headings and then write paragraphs around them. You will soon find that an article will flow and you will normally end up with more than enough useful information to fill 2-3 pages
• It would be best if your article is on a unique subject, or in other words a subject not already covered by hundreds of websites already. This is much easier to achieve with very specific articles and content as opposed to ‘general guides’
• Unique articles on narrow, targeted subject matter will bring more people to your website from search engines because you will have less competition in search engine results and won't need a highly ranked website. To get a highly ranked general website you need thousands of other sites linking to yours and this type of popularity can take years to achieve. On the other hand, specific unique articles can provide instant search engine success
• Continue growing your website with narrow subject matter articles and content until you website's popularity grows - check the number of visitors you get and other factors such as your Google Page Rank
Light is a Bright Idea for Business Success! How to Get Rich in Any Business?
We know in India, villages are the backbones of our Nation. The villages are very active and the peasants are very brisk in the early morning. They go to the field and work hard until the dusk. Their entertainment is very limited and they go to sleep early. Beam of light signals entertainment: The villagers see the sky and enjoy the beauty of it. The sky is dark during the nights closer to the new moon day. They occasionally witness a beautiful large and bright beam of light in the sky starting from a centre point of a town close by. The beam rotates in one direction and on the reverse also signaling some thing fascinating. The village kids and elders see the beam of light in the dark sky and escalate in the joy and shouts cheerfully. They knowhat will not have taken much research, editing and condensing. You might not think that a very specific subject is enough for a 2-3 page article, the thing is most people underestimate. Once you start writing it fills up very fast.

What’s more the value and usefulness of the very narrow and specific article to visitors of your website is probably more than the general article, it is also more likely to be unique meaning that anyone searching for information on this specific subject on Google or other search engines will likely find you article at the top of the list of search results. You can still add keywords and phrases to the article such as ‘Guide to Gifts, Ornaments and Home Decoration Sites Online’ so that people searching for those terms in Google and other search engines may find it, although it will be low in the search results unless you website is highly ranked in general (this can come later).

Then you carry on doing very specific articles for a while until you have a decent number (20-30 maybe). One product, then another, then another… When you have enough material that you are very familiar with then you can then probably knock out a ‘general guide’ type article and not spend an inordinate amount of time doing it. You will also have a site packed with very targeted and useful information.

So there you go, its tempting but you really must avoid the urge to write very general ‘definitive guide’ type articles that involve research. If you are already an expert and can write off the top of your head, then that's clearly a different matter so go for it, but in most cases specific, targeted, narrow subject matter articles rule. Most people who start websites wanting to be the ‘definitive guide to …’ underestimate the work and research involved, get bored and the site never sees the light of day. Even if you are an expert in your field you are still more likely to be competing with many other websites if you write general articles so you are still better off writing specific articles on unique subjects from your field of expertise

To summarise

• Your first article or other content should be very targeted and specific. If you are a website on Health Supplements, then write an article on one specific supplement, or even better one specific supplement for one specific health benefit - the more specific the better
• Don't worry about thinking you won't have enough to write about on a very specific subject. Try to break down the article into a number of relevant headings and then write paragraphs around them. You will soon find that an article will flow and you will normally end up with more than enough useful information to fill 2-3 pages
• It would be best if your article is on a unique subject, or in other words a subject not already covered by hundreds of websites already. This is much easier to achieve with very specific articles and content as opposed to ‘general guides’
• Unique articles on narrow, targeted subject matter will bring more people to your website from search engines because you will have less competition in search engine results and won't need a highly ranked website. To get a highly ranked general website you need thousands of other sites linking to yours and this type of popularity can take years to achieve. On the other hand, specific unique articles can provide instant search engine success
• Continue growing your website with narrow subject matter articles and content until you website's popularity grows - check the number of visitors you get and other factors such as your Google Page Rank
Ebooks: Categorically Speaking
The categories associated with ebooks are incredibly large. Trying to pinpoint the exact type of material best suited for ebook development is a bit like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.What follows is a brief look at a few of the categories in which ebooks may fit.Arts Music Biographies General Business Management Marketing Education Essays Games Sports Health & Fitness Inspiration Medical History Military Religion Science Home & Garden Cooking Gardening News Philosophy Politics & Government Economics Government Law Politics Reference Social Issues Child Development Communication Environmennd an inordinate amount of time doing it. You will also have a site packed with very targeted and useful information.

So there you go, its tempting but you really must avoid the urge to write very general ‘definitive guide’ type articles that involve research. If you are already an expert and can write off the top of your head, then that's clearly a different matter so go for it, but in most cases specific, targeted, narrow subject matter articles rule. Most people who start websites wanting to be the ‘definitive guide to …’ underestimate the work and research involved, get bored and the site never sees the light of day. Even if you are an expert in your field you are still more likely to be competing with many other websites if you write general articles so you are still better off writing specific articles on unique subjects from your field of expertise

To summarise

• Your first article or other content should be very targeted and specific. If you are a website on Health Supplements, then write an article on one specific supplement, or even better one specific supplement for one specific health benefit - the more specific the better
• Don't worry about thinking you won't have enough to write about on a very specific subject. Try to break down the article into a number of relevant headings and then write paragraphs around them. You will soon find that an article will flow and you will normally end up with more than enough useful information to fill 2-3 pages
• It would be best if your article is on a unique subject, or in other words a subject not already covered by hundreds of websites already. This is much easier to achieve with very specific articles and content as opposed to ‘general guides’
• Unique articles on narrow, targeted subject matter will bring more people to your website from search engines because you will have less competition in search engine results and won't need a highly ranked website. To get a highly ranked general website you need thousands of other sites linking to yours and this type of popularity can take years to achieve. On the other hand, specific unique articles can provide instant search engine success
• Continue growing your website with narrow subject matter articles and content until you website's popularity grows - check the number of visitors you get and other factors such as your Google Page Rank
Debt Problems, Debt Management & Consolidation of Loans
People are living on credit. The culture of taking out loans and improving the standard of living, which started in the twentieth century, has flourished in the twenty first century. The total amount of outstanding debt in the UK has reached ₤1,148. 83% of this is in the form of mortgages and 4.9% is in the form of credit card debt. The number of people filing for bankruptcy has also increased in 2005. Over 50% Britons used credit cards and store cards for Christmas shopping.People have no idea how they are going to repay their debt when they take out a loan or use credit cards. Initially, borrowers find it difficult to keep up with their monthly payments. Then a situation comes when they start missing out on payments. This is where the problem must be tackled otherwise on't have enough to write about on a very specific subject. Try to break down the article into a number of relevant headings and then write paragraphs around them. You will soon find that an article will flow and you will normally end up with more than enough useful information to fill 2-3 pages
• It would be best if your article is on a unique subject, or in other words a subject not already covered by hundreds of websites already. This is much easier to achieve with very specific articles and content as opposed to ‘general guides’
• Unique articles on narrow, targeted subject matter will bring more people to your website from search engines because you will have less competition in search engine results and won't need a highly ranked website. To get a highly ranked general website you need thousands of other sites linking to yours and this type of popularity can take years to achieve. On the other hand, specific unique articles can provide instant search engine success
• Continue growing your website with narrow subject matter articles and content until you website's popularity grows - check the number of visitors you get and other factors such as your Google Page Rank
• When your website is deemed as popular by search engines you may begin to receive visitors who are searching for more general information or general guides. This is the point to start turning your site into a more general and definitive resource

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