3 Tips to Writing Successful Articles

Articles are very important for business owners to write. It’s important that you submit them on a regular basis. Monthly is good, but weekly is even better.

There are three things that you need to do when writing articles. You want to write articles that are successful and do what they are supposed to do. To make this happen, you need to make sure your bio is good, you want to use the appropriate keywords, and you need to submit them to the directories.

In this article we will discuss the reason you ad a bio to your article, how to use your keywords, and why you need to submit your articles to the directories.

• Bio

When you write an article, people won’t know who wrote it and where to go to find out more about the author if you don’t include a bio. Your bio needs to be about you and your business. You don’t want to include more than two links and you need to make sure they are clickable and typed correctly. You also want to make sure that your bio is not too wordy. Wordy bios will bore your readers and they won’t go to your site.

You can read my bio at the end of this article and that will give you an idea of the length you will want to use. You will also get an idea of what to include in your bio so that others will want to click to your site.

• Keywords

Most article directories give you the ability to search for articles using keywords. If you don’t use keywords when you add your article to the directory, then you are missing out on traffic. When you don’t include those keywords in your article, you are losing out on readers. Keywords are very important in search engine results. Don’t use your keywords to much throughout your article or you could get tagged as SPAM and you definitely don’t want that.

• Directories

When you spend all the time it takes to do the research and write an article, you don’t want to let it collect cyber dust. It’s a waste of your time if you write it and not publish it.

Do a Google search for article directories and then spend some time looking through them to see which ones will fit your article needs. Look at the categories that they offer and see how many articles and authors they have. You don’t want to put your article in a general or other category so you’ll want to avoid sites that don’t have a category for you. Make a list of these sites and then go back and set up accounts. You’ll want at least 15 to start with. Once you get going on your submissions, you can add others and submit to those as well.

Now you know the three things that are important when writing a successful article. Remember if people don’t read your article it’s not successful. The only way they will find your article is if you submit it to directories. Good luck!

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Corrie Petersen runs a successful Virtual Assistant business. She is also a ghostwriter and writes articles for clients to help them out with their article needs. If you’re ready for maximum exposure from articles, check out her site at www.ghostwritertotherescue.com.

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