Every day the internet mushrooms by millions upon millions more article web pages, this one being no exception, than the day before.  Articles of every kind, type, length and language pepper the World Wide Web with a variety of expert topics aimed at informing, educating and assisting web surfers in our journey around the never-ending network of connectivity that we know as the web.  With all this incredible writing activity and information sharing, at times I have to stand back and wonder, are all these articles truly helpful or are they just creating more confusion? 

As some background information, I subscribe to a popular newsletter service that publishes an outstanding newsletter on interesting topics such as web design, marketing and e-commerce news.  Everyday my inbox has an article from this service, which I am more than happy to open in order to discover what wise wisdom they and their writers hope to impart on that day.   At times, when there is a truly exceptional article on a topic that I know I can benefit from I will print it out for further study in hopes that it can help me.  So needless to say I have a stack of them in a folder.  Let me share a few of them with you and then we can talk about the question I posed in the title to this article.

In December 2005 an article was written focused on using keywords in web pages, then in January 2006 an article on link popularity, in February 2006 an article on HTML code optimization, in March 2006 an article on using RSS feeds to enhance your web pages then in April 2006 an article dedicated to the proper way to use meta tags.

By themselves, the titles of these five articles seem informative and valuable, but how many thousands of articles were written in December 2005 on using the proper keywords in your web pages, or in March 2006 on the value of integrating RSS feeds into your website?  Hard to say, but as you can imagine it probably has many zeros behind that number.

So, as a home-based business owner who is running a website, how do you decipher through all the junk to find the little treasure that lies in a few of these articles.  For me, I initially searched and subscribed to a number of expert sites until I found one that I felt provided fresh article content with just a little sales from time to time.  I do not mind the sales pitches as long as there is some good article content to follow.

The key here is to stay focused on the topic that you are interested in.  As an example, I was interested in learning more about affiliate programs and so recently, I subscribed to an affiliate tip newsletter.  The newsletter is short, to the point, provides links for more information if I desire and does not arrive everyday.

If I were to provide some advice, it would be to subscribe to about ten newsletters, segmented by category then over the course of a few weeks begin to filter out and unsubscribe out of the newsletters that you feel are just not worthwhile.

That concludes this article; I wanted to keep it reasonably short.  I am positive that we could have continued discussing the finer points of article content but we should each take a little from each article and learn a little on our own to be successful.  So with that, best of luck in your business.

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