Are You Creating Residual Income Through Writing Articles?
May 4, 2009 by Sharon Wilson
Filed under Diversify Your Income, Sales & Marketing, Spiritual Business Building Tools
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Content is King”?
When it comes to running your business, that phrase truly applies in every aspect of your marketing – and it’s actually an exciting part of being a Spiritualpreneur, because it’s a tremendous opportunity to offer great value to your subscribers (and potential subscribers) through the regular words that you are offering to them.
That being said, have you considered regularly contributing articles of great content and submitting them to be published online?
The importance of articles in today’s websites and internet based companies are immeasurable. It has actually become a key element in bringing profit to a business.
If you own or operate a website, it is important to include articles in your site that will work for you and earn you the many benefits articles can give to your business.
Why is this so important?
Articles have been known to be the driving force in sending traffic to a website. Articles factor heavily into giving a site high rankings in search engine results. The higher a site ranks the bigger slice of the traffic flow pie it gets. Increases in traffic flow bring about more profits and more potential for other income generating possibilities – including residual income.
But remember, it is not just about stuffing your site with articles! There are certain requirements that should be met to obtain the maximum benefits that an article can provide for your site.
A well written article will catch the eye and interest of your subscribers and keep them coming back for more. It can be a great service that you provide, and raises the potential of your site being recommended to others.
As you begin creating your articles, remember the following four tips that all articles should have to be successful and helpful in bringing overflowing traffic to your site!
- Keywords and Keyword Phrases
An article should always be centered around keywords and keyword phrases. This is because you don’t just want to get traffic coming to your site – you want to get targeted traffic – people that are looking for what you are offering.
It’s fairly basic – a searcher goes to a search engine like Google or Yahoo and types in the keywords they are looking for (i.e. Toyota Matrix, Common Cold Remedies, Tax Accountant, etc.).
The Important thing is that your article that has the keywords that are related to your site. For example, if you maintain an auto parts site, you will want to write articles about cars and their parts.
There are many tools on the internet that provide service in helping a webmaster out in determining what keywords and keyword phrases are most sought after (like Google AdWords). You can use these tools to determine which keywords you should use and write about.
- Keyword Density
Now that you have your keywords and keyword phrases, make sure to use them fully! An article should have good keyword density so that a search engine can “feel” its presence. Articles should at least have 10 to 15% of keyword density in their content for search engines to rank them high in their search results. Getting a high rank is what articles do best for a site.
Keyword density is essentially the number of times a keyword or keyword phrase is used on an article.
This number varies depending on the number of words used in an article. An effective article must have a keyword density that is not too high or too low.
With a very high density, the essence of the article is lost and may turn off a reader (as well as the search engines). It comes off as overeager. A low number may be ignored by the search engines.
- Good Article Content
This is crucial! Make sure that you do not just riddle an article with keywords or promotion. Look at writing articles as a serving aspect of your business – and remember that you want them to be regarded as good reading material.
Articles should entertain and inform in a way that assist people in solving their problems and meeting their needs. They should be written well with correct spelling and good grammar. If you want people to trust you, take care to make your work good and well thought out.
People respond well to stories, figures, facts and statistics. Always give great information and support it with as many facts as you can. A good and well written article will boost your reputation as an expert in your chosen field or topic. As more people believe in you, they will be able to trust you and your products.
- Linking Articles
Finally, if you are going to submit articles to ezines and/or contribute your articles to newsletters and other sites, don’t ever forget to include a link to your site! Write up a little resource box with a brief description of your site and always place it at the end of your articles.
If people like your articles, they will most likely click on the link directing them to your site, thus bringing you the traffic you need to build your business!
That’s the best thing about contributing articles – once they’re written and submitted, they are now out there working for you to create residual income that only increases every time another person gets a chance to click on your article and see how you are serving them with great information!
If you want to learn more tools for building your business from both an Inner and Outer level, visit the Empowered Spiritualpreneur Program site to find out how you can join in on day and evening classes that are starting soon! As a special bonus, the Program also contains a Content Creation class with my personal marketing consultant, the JV Queen, Gina Gaudio Graves! You’ll learn how to start making more money right away on the Internet!
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Hi Sharon,
I’ve never heard the phrase Spiritualpreneur before, but I really like that! It sounds like we have similar motivation, so I’ll keep checking your site for new articles. Thanks and keep it up!
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Nice information about article writing.
Interesting web… If the business is increases the more opportunities in business comes also,directly proportional..isn’t it
I have recently begun writing articles to be submitted to ezines and directories. This is indeed a timely post to read for me.
Thanks for providing such awesome information about article writing. It could be very helpful for me. I also refer it to my other friends a well.
Great post. Creating quality articles is one of the most lucrative ways to monetize a website and building residual income. They drive loads of traffic as well as getting repeat visitors. This is how I got started in Internet marketing.
Thanks for these wonderful tips! I’ve bookmarked it, I am currently trying to get as much info as possible regarding getting traffic on your articles. I will read them later on and try to apply them as well when I start my blog this month sooner.
Too many people just throw up junk in order to try and get links. Fortunately the article directories that are popular are catching on to this and starting to implement some minimum standards.
Thanks for your advice in your article. This information you’ve shared is of great help.
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This article is great. Now, I have an idea on how to get more traffic.
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Best way to grow traffic period.
I have read all the articles. Very useful information was written. Thanks
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Page rank was much more valid for making money a few years back when you could easily sell out without the risk of losing it. As far as ranking goes though, relevance of backlinks has more importance affiliatethan pr of backlinks. PR of page itself has very little relevance, look at the pr of the site ranking 1st for Make Money Online…Griz is a legend, but it shows PR is not important for ranking.
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Thanks you for this incisive article.
These tips should certainly help pages rank higher in the search results.
Good content would however need to be complemented with off-page link building for the best results.
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Great article on writing articles for SEO and traffic! Very well written and clear. I’m going to send this article to all of my out-sourcers when I want them to write articles for me. Thanks!
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I once outsourced a project and found out that they wrote out the links in the article, but didn’t use to backlink to our site! Ouch!
I met Gina Gaudio Graves at an internet marketing seminar. She’s very nice and knows what she’s talking about.
After reading a lot on article marketing I wanted to give it a try, but didn’t quite know where to start. Your article gave me the confidence to jump in with both feet. Many thanks, I’ll keep you posted.
I totally agree that it’s not just about stuffing a website with articles. I came across so many bad articles. As you say, articles should catch the eyes of the visitor and also propvide something useful to the user.
This article is great. It is clear and easy to understand. It explains the purpose of writing articles not as a chore. I will start to implement the four tips. Thanks
sometimes it is hard to write original articles for blogs but i always seems to manage creating fresh original content for blogs:*’
Well that’s really nice post about creating an effective promotional campaign within no time, although its for amateurs but still very useful. The author discussed many useful things about online promotional activities using social media. Thanks
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Fantastic article. Clever and creative. Thanks for providing such awesome information about article writing.
I also focus my energy on Article Writing. Article writing also promotes your website and branding. “:~
Article Submissions is quite tiring sometimes because of the effort that you have to put in it.*:.
Took me long to all the remarks, but I really enjoyed the article. It proved to be very usable to me and I am sure to all the commenters here! It?s always good when you can not only be educated, but also involved! I?m sure you had fun saving this article.
sometimes article writing too much time and effort, specially when you are writing lots of stuff:’`
writing articles is what i do as part time job, i enjoy writing and rewriting-*’
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I would love to be able to write my own articles, I can never seem to put into words what ideas I have going round in my head, it’s quite a frustrating trait.
A great sight on this you have got, despite the fact that I do not agree with almost everything which has explained I can see your case.
I have been putting off testing out this methid of traffic generation as it seems so labor intensive. But after reading your post I think I will give it a crack, thanks
writing is my passion that is why it is easy for me to do article writing in less than a hour or so -,`
Great article and good food for thought. Will look more into this.
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No, but I guess it can be a great source of money if you can produce a large about of articles.
You are absolutely right, Article writing is passion for many writers who can share their creative work through articles.