Faster Article Marketing: Become an Instant Expert


by Charles Brown - Date: 2007-01-29 - Word Count: 561 Share This!

More and more webmasters and businesses are seeing the need and benefits of publishing articles online to attract more traffic to their sites and to increase their search engine rankings. But often these people have neither the time nor skills to write the articles themselves. As a result, many are now hiring people like me to ghostwrite their articles for them.

But as more and more of my income is coming as a result of ghostwriting these articles for my clients to publish online, I am finding that I have to keep striving to make the writing process faster.

So I took a good look at the one area of writing articles that consistently slows me down. After making a few changes to this phase, I have been able to ramp up the volume of articles I write even more.

That phase is research. When I write my own articles, the research is often fairly minimal because I already have a lot of knowledge on the topic. But when I am ghostwriting an article for a client, I may not have that familiarity.

Let's say a client has hired me to write about real estate closings and title insurance. Aside from my own experience as a home buyer, this is not an area I have a great deal of knowledge in. But if I want to make my time profitable, I have to get up to speed on this topic very quickly.

I start by asking questions. I ask questions I want to know the answers to and I also write questions I suppose the article's reader will want to know. The more questions I ask the more I am able to narrow my research to just answer those specifics.

I also write as much of the article as I can BEFORE I research. This sounds like it should be just the opposite, but I find that it works very well. Quite often I have at least a little knowledge of the topic or my client has told me enough to write a skeleton article. This enables me to have a draft in place before I start bogging myself down with gathering information that I will not need to write the article.

Next comes Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of many online encyclopedias that offer a wealth of information on any topic you can imagine. I like to start with condensed sources like this and only move up to book-length sources if the need arises.

Next I do a Google search on the topic. But I find that I must use the advanced search mode so I can narrowly target what information I am searching for. Try to word your search terms so you don't come up with hundreds or thousands of pages of search results to look through.

Lastly, if my client has hired me to write a series of ten or more articles, I will set up Google alerts so that over the next few days I can receive information on these topics as they appear on the internet.

It is very easy to get bogged down doing a lot of unnecessary research on a topic. Over researching can make your time much less profitable. But high velocity article writing requires that you streamline every phase of writing articles. Once you gather your material, you can then write the articles in batches and bunches, making your time even more productive.


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Nothing drives more traffic to your website faster than online articles. Each article can create hundreds of inbound links pointing to your website. But what if you do not have the time or skill to write 10, 20, 50 or 100 articles on your own? Hire Platnum Member, Charles Brown, to ghost write your articles for you. Visit his site at http://dynamiccopywriting.blogspot.com or contact him at charbrow(at)gmail(dot)com.

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