Write Your Way To Free Traffic!
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Dan Grossman
Write
Your Article
Sit down and start writing, one section at
a time. You should probably not have more than 4 or 5 sections to your article
(like the "Write Your Article" section you're reading). Once you've
finished writing one, move on to the next. This way you can take breaks between
sections without losing track of where you were writing, and your article will
stay neatly organized.
Once you've finished, set your content
aside for a few hours. Return to it later, or even the next day, and reread what
you've written. Expand, change your wording until it sounds its best, and eliminate
run-on sentences and other grammar problems. Once you're finished and you feel
your writing is at its best, run it through a spellchecker just to be sure.
Now
that you're completely finished, be sure to write your 3-5 line "About the
Author" section to tack on to the end of your article. This is the reward
for all the hard work! Mention anything you want about yourself, but it's good
to at least include your email address and website URL.
Get
Published
Now it's time to start sending your article
to those publishers who are dying for your fresh, new content! So how do you find
them, and get your article to them? There are several ways.
First,
publish your work to free content mailing lists where publishers subscribe for
the sole reason of receiving content. Here are a few which you can post to (these
are subscribe addresses, please read their posting rules prior to posting):
mailto:Free-Content-subscribe@egroups.com
mailto:PublishInYours-subscribe@onelist.com
mailto:article_announce-subscribe@egroups.com
mailto:articles_archives-subscribe@egroups.com
There are many other free content lists and websites out
there. Search around and you should find more to post your articles too, including
ones dedicated to specific topics which may be more relevant for your article.
Once
you've posted your article to the free content mailing lists, you need to start
contacting individual publishers. Start making a list of newsletters and other
publications which will accept your articles by contacting each one. It will require
a little work, but many even provide an address for article submissions. Ask each
if they will accept article submissions from you, what address to send them to,
and be sure to allow them to remove themselves from your list if they ever want
to. Build up a list of publishers over time and send your articles to them each
time you write a new one.
Write articles on a consistent basis
(monthly works best for most people), keep the quality of your writing up, and
you should have no problem obtaining substantial free traffic from your work.
Good luck!