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WFConstructionPro · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: How To Write An Article

Many people don't know how to write an article that is going to be submitted to article directories. The first thing to understand is that the article can be self promoting. It must be written from a general standpoint that would be useful for people, not sales copy for your site. This doesn't mean the article won't promote your site, you just have to do it in the right place, which is the author's box.

You also have to format your article correctly. First, it must be at least 500 words. You can go as high as 1200 but that is a little much. 700 words is a good word count for articles. Secondly, iif you are going to type it in MS Word, you need to change a few setting like turning off curly quotes. Another thing not to do is double space after a period; use a single space instead.

So here is an example of how you should write these articles.

Link Building Strategies That Work Time And Time Again

Link building continues to be just as important as ever when it comes to building your site's reputation online and improving search engine rankings. Read on for a few classic link building strategies that work time and time again.

Ask for the link. This is so simple; it seems a little silly, doesn't it? Well don't dismiss the power of politely asking for something. Many websites and blogs are happy to help out if they're just asked nicely.

Answer Questions. Everyone is an expert on something. Why not give back and share your knowledge, all while implementing your link building plan at the same time? Answer questions at Yahoo! Answers or similar sites and place your site's link in your signature. These backlinks will almost always be tagged with the no-follow tag, but experts know that they can still drive traffic.

Be A Blog Citizen. Actively and respectfully participating in blog commentary and conversation is a great link building strategy. But be sure to actually add value and stay on topic, or your comments will be regarded as spam. Again, these links may or may not be tagged as no-follows, but they'll still have value either way.

Write Useful Articles. A long-popular method of building incoming links, and a very reliable and successful method at that, is writing articles that contain your link in the footer and submitting them to several popular article directory sites. Usually, by doing this, you'll also be permitting other sites to use these articles freely as long as they keep your signature and link as specified within in the article. Write quality, useful articles and this favorite link building strategy can really snowball!

Create Link Bait. Find some type of topic that your site or blog already expertly represents and either create new, highly linkable content or commission it to be created on your behalf. By saying highly linkable content, this means something that would be really popular to visitors in your niche. For example, "101 ways to do yada, yada, yada" will likely attract plenty of incoming links throughout your site's niche once you're able to get the word out.

Seek Out Local Links. Many link builders don't end up thinking about this angle, but links are links right? If you happen to be a member of your local area Chamber of Commerce, or similar trade groups, be sure an active hyperlink to your site is presented on all such sites. Also, you might be able to score some high authority links from local newspapers and media too. Link building is always easier when you're familiar with the territory.

Keywords: link building, link building strategy, backlinks
Description: Link building continues to be just as important as ever when it comes to building your site's reputation online and improving search engine rankings. Read on for a few classic link building strategies that work time and time again.

***Notes***
1. You may also want to write your author's box content prior to starting the submission. This will save you time in the end.
2. Use up to 2 links in the author's box and link them to relevant pages of your site.

Contractor Florida · Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 170 Location: Florida

yes this is the right way for generating the links.

Vicbowling · Joined: 28 Jul 2010 Posts: 4 Location: San Francisco

This is really valuable information, Thanks!

I'm not sure how to create link bait for my site that sells toilet partitions though. I mean, it's just not a very interesting topic for most people. This is a tough one if you ask me. I'll do my best to apply your suggestions though because I'm sure they work great if you just take the time to follow them.