Have you ever wondered why it is that you and view the same article over and over again on the web in so many different places, forums, and venues? So did I. This was before I became inured to the Internet. The reasons I found were already and are already known to veteran surfers but I had to find the reasons for myself, as you may be doing now. Maybe you know some of the reasons and are just looking for more. The number one reason (at least for me) that you see articles reprinted over and over again is because they are well written, informative and usually free. In this article I will list and briefly explain other reasons for this and why you as an article writer should allow your articles to be reprinted too.

Allowing your article to be reprinted can have many positive benefits for you if in fact benefits are what you are looking for. Besides the pure joy of writing and being read. Article reprinting can do wonders for you and catapult you online business sky high. This is not to say that all you have to do is "write and they will come". There are other marketing factors involved but are too broad to cover in this one article. Let's take a look at what article reprinting can do for you. You can reap some of these benefits even if you don't write but republish content yourself.

DEFINITE EXPOSURE

In order for people to be aware of you, what you do and how you do it you must have some exposure to the people you want to attract. Writing niche articles can do that for you provide that they are written well, and cover an informational gap that needs to be filled. Writing on a particular topic, say for instance, Internet marketing, in general, you can fine tune your writing to a particular audience. Being a writer, I recommend that you write whatever and whenever you want. Just be sure that when you want to attract a particular type of exposure that you use the most relevant articles and subjects. If you want to get exposure for yourself or business as a professional in the field of making widget's you need to write a lot of articles covering everything you know about widget's. What you don't know you should learn and then write about those subjects too.

POSSIBLE TRAFFIC

Exposure from your article writing has a high potential to bring traffic to your Internet site. Traffic depends on many factors, number one being need (for the topic), followed by plain appreciation and plain curiosity. People will visit your site just to see what else you have written or what other information you have to offer if they find the articles you write intriguing, informative and well written. All of these factors need not apply. Some surfers are just looking for interesting things to read and learn, the same reason why a lot of people read the news papers and other circulations. If you build it they might not come but if they do they just might continue to do so.

POSSIBLE PROFIT

According to your purpose in writing articles many ways of making a profit from them are available. If you have an internet product or service you can generate traffic to your site with a well written or informative article. Once the traffic begins, you have the opportunity to make a profit. Hopefully your site or product is capable of turning this traffic and profit into repeat traffic and profit. If your site or product is not set up to do this then you should start revamping now. One way to do this is to make products or service interconnected, upgrade able or benefit offering past a certain buy level. If you sell refillable pens you should also sell the ink. Perhaps the pen could have attachments that could make it better but are not included in a basic purchase. Best of all, offer your clients a free or reduce price bonus if they spend a set amount with you on a single or variety of products. The possibility of making a profit is all up to you from the onset of business but is even more critical when you begin to get real traffic. Make sure that your visitors like what they see, make them want to see more. If you can do this consistently, your profit margin will soar beyond belief.

BECOME AN AUTHORITY

Writing niche articles has a side benefit that seems to work exponentially on the Internet, if your articles are good and helpful. After writing a few articles (a hundred or less), you may find your traffic exploding and your article reprinted all over the netscape. Why do you think this is? Well, the most popular reason is that good and great articles that are factual and helpful will create in your readers eyes the impression that you are an authority on your subject. This is not an all together unfounded concept. Eventually, if you write enough, do enough research and learn constantly about your chosen niche, you will become an acknowledged expert of sorts. Sure you may not have a "fancy fandangled" degree to show for your knowledge but what you lack in one type of paper you should be making up for with another type, the spending type. This is why you should choose you niche carefully. You don't want to get pigeon holed into an area of knowledge that you may eventually not be happy with. Changing niches once you are considered an expert is not as easy as it may seem unless the new niche is logically connected to the first. If you write about Internet Marketing and become known as the go to person for that subject, you will find it that much harder to be taken seriously if you start writing about Home Decoration. Become an authority on a subject and all of its related aspects if possible and you should do just fine. The reason is because the broader your reach the more possibility you have later. Most fields interconnect somewhere so it may be possible to write about Home Decoration from an Internet Marketing point of view.

INCREASE AWARENESS

Writing is done for personal reasons but the public reason for someone to distribute their writing is to make the general public aware of whatever trend, technology or social consequence that you may be writing about. Why should you care abut this? You should care because awareness is key to society and civilization as a whole. No person is an island and we need each other to survive, believe it or not. Just as your school teacher increased you awareness, your writing should have the potential to increase the awareness of the public and in return the same will be done for you. If for no other reason than this, I think that all writing should be reprinted and distributed as much as possible, letting those who want it take it and those who do not leave it be.

SELF APPRECIATION

How do you get self appreciation from people reprinting your articles? Simple, you do if you value yourself at all. The act of a person reprinting what you have created can create in you a stronger feeling of self worth. Reprinting can either let you know how well you are doing or how much you still need to work on. Either way you will learn valuable information and gain perspective about yourself, what and how you think, and your skill as a writer. If none your writing ever gets reprinted don't fret. This is not a statement that you are no good, only that your writing or subject may need some fine tuning as well as the way you think about and approach your subject. One of my mottos is "try, try again", and I didn't even fully realize it until I wrote it just now. See what writing can do? I haven't even had anything reprinted and already my self esteem and realization are on the rise.

NETWORKING

Allowing your articles to be reprinted as outlined above or by following your own reason can and will result in the creation of a network of people, businesses and organizations centered around you and your work. Don't worry, this is a good thing. A network to call you own is an invaluable resource for anyone and any endeavor, regardless of whether the person is an entrepreneur, netrepreneur or wantrepreneur. What ever your goals in life or business are, a network will help you achieve them. Remember, no person is an island. The bigger the network the not necessarily better. What counts is that your network can depend on you to do what they have thus far depended on you for and vice versa. From there the relationship can grow in many different directions If you want to be a part of my network send me an email at andrewwitherspoon@hotmail.com, subject: Networking/Article Reprints, body: name, email and a short message. We can discuss how we can work together to assist each other in achieving our separate or joint goals. The information of everyone on the list will be sent to everyone else that is on the list each week. Now that's networking!

If at the start of this article you were unsure of whether to allow you articles to be reprinted or not, I hope that you are now sure, one way or the other. If you want me to review an article and post it on my blog just email it to me. All links will be include as well as images if sent as an attachment.

Andrew Witherspoon is a freelance writer, an internet entrepreneur and also a staff writer for: Literafeelya Magazine. A Literal Source of n'ergy by way of ink. This article may be reprinted provided that: It is not altered in any way, the author is credited, all links remain intact and linkable. Get Paid To Use Your Search Engine! http://www.slashmysearch.com/earn/id/1420

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