Have you ever read one of those spun articles? They do not always make sense. You may get the gist of the article, but after reading a few lines, it becomes obvious to a native speaker that either the author is a foreigner or the author is on hallucinogenic drugs.

To get quality content you must be able to control what goes in and what comes out. Automated spinners with synonym and thesaurus substitution do not allow it. It would be great if they did. Can you imagine the increase in article production?

If you rewrite your articles, you can use them for PDF files and e-books. You can post without fear of duplication on your blogs or websites. Your bounce rate will most likely drop because readers will find different and unique material hopping from an article to your blog or website.

Submitting your same article to many different directories is the norm. Imagine the advantage you can have over other writers by submitting different versions to those directories. The search engines would love it.

Your readers would too. If they hopped over to your site after reading one of your articles on the web, it would decrease your bounce rate if the reader found fresh content on the site. Wouldn’t it?

Manually rewriting articles for multiple distribution is not practical. It would take hours to produce 10-20 or more rewritten articles. This is where rewriting and spinning meet. New technology now allows you to have 100% control of the content.

There is no doubt that distributing unique articles for mass distribution is good for business. Unlike spinning, rewriting attracts customers. Yet, it is not practical to rewrite more than one or two. To get the job done you need help.

I know of only one article spinner that delivers what it promises, SpinLeverage Technology.

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There’s is nothing more frustrating than reading an article you found interesting and then following the link where you expect to find more interesting material only to find the same article when you get to the new site. It happens for one of two reasons.

One, the author is lazy and doesn’t really care. Or, two, the author doesn’t know any better. You can solve the problem by directing your reader to a different page or post on your site or by rewriting the original article. This article gives some tips on how to rewrite articles.

It first happened to me on my own site. I found an old article of mine on the internet and followed the link to test it. Was I surprised to find that I was directed to the same article on my own website! Not good! Has this ever happened to you?

Being a newbie, it never crossed my mind that I was directing readers to the same article. I am now a firm believer in rewriting articles. Some call it “spinning”. I don’t. There is a difference. Spinning articles implies an automated regurgitation of an original article, either yours are someone else’s doing that is a waste of your time and money.

Read this review on Article Rewriting Software.

Rewriting articles is just that, rewriting your articles. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when rewriting articles.

1. Do your rewriting right after you write the original. It is fresh in your memory and easier to come up with alternatives.
2. Rewrite paragraph by paragraph.
   Use synonyms or rearrange the sentences.
3. Take advantage of unused keywords. Use them in your rewritten article.
4. Do not limit your changes to just words, phrases, or sentences. Change a paragraph at a time.
5. For best results, change all the paragraphs. Write at least two versions for each paragraph, more is better.
6. With two or more versions and a quality rewriting tool, you can easily generate 10-20 new unique articles.
7. Do not use article “spinning software” that randomly replaces words with synonyms or that uses a thesaurus. It is a waste of your time and money and it defeats your purpose. Most often it will result in gibberish.
8. Rewriting your articles and submitting them to different directories increases your search engine optimization (SEO).
9. Always check your work with a good comparison tool and check for uniqueness, 75% or better is ideal.
10. Take advantage of unused keywords in your rewritten article

Remember, your intent is to give a reader a unique article to read. It may cover the same subject matter but it is different. The reader will be less likely to leave your site, if he/she is not reading the same words.

In addition to improving your SEO, rewriting decreases your website bounce rate. Readers are less likely to leave your site if they are reading something different.

I think you would agree that rewriting your original articles for multiple submissions makes sense.

Read this review and decide for yourself.

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Here are three MS Word tools to improve your articles.

1. Check your spelling – This seems obvious. Still many do not use their spell checker. If you use a plain text editor to create your articles, you can easily overlook even the most common of spellings.

Simply copy your text from the plain text editor, like notepad or word pad, and copy it to your word processor and do a spell check. You will be surprised at the misspelled words you may have overlooked.

2. Write at a fifth to seventh grade level. – Use the MS Word Spelling and Grammar checker found under the Review Tab at the top of the MS Word page to determine the age level that you are writing for. After selecting the spell checker and completing the spell check, it will ask you if you want to continue checking the rest of the document.

Respond with yes and a box will pop up called Readability Statistics. At the very bottom of the box is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score. You want that score to be between fifth and seventh grade level. Most of your readers will read at that level. If it is a higher grade level, edit with simpler words.

3. Passive sentences – That same box will also give you the number of passive sentences in your article. You want to keep this at a minimum. You should keep passive sentences to no more than two or three for every five-hundred words. There is nothing wrong with passive sentences and there is no hard fast rule to the number of passive sentences you should use. But, you do want to make your sentences action oriented to help the reader move easily throughout the body of your article.

We have looked at three tips that you can use to improve the quality of your articles and ultimately salability of your articles. Keep in mind that content is king and no tools can create unique quality content like you can.

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Quality content and good copywriting skills are necessarily a must. Let MS Word do some of the work for you. Use the three tips and your quality will improve.

Are you writing good content and still not getting the traffic you need to make sales? The solution is in copywriting. Add copywriting  skills to your quiver of techniques and your sales can go nowhere but up.

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You must be asking, “What in the world is he talking about?” In article writing the rule is active over passive voice, always. Well, that is a good rule. Yet, we overlook the fact that passive has its place and sometimes is a good choice over active voice. Passive can be a preferable construction.

Besides being sometimes preferable, passive voice can also be profitable. Here are three reasons for choosing passive over active voice.

• Variety
• Emphasis
• Keywords

Variety

Active should be the predominant verb voice that you use throughout your article. It does help the reader understand what you are trying to say. It forces sentences to be more concise.

However, an article that uses active voice exclusively can be too staccato and sound like a monotonous drumbeat. Inserting an occasional passive voice sentence will add some variety. In fact, in some situations, you may not have a choice or it would be awkward to use active voice.

Example (passive): “It is written, ‘Thou shall not use passive voice’.” I do not know if anyone has ever written that statement or not.

To change it to active would be awkward. “God, Shakespeare, somebody wrote, ‘Thou shall not use passive voice’.” The passive sentence has a certain mystique or quality that the active one does not have.

Emphasis

Another opportunity to use passive for emphasis is this example. Suppose you are writing an article on reasons why active is the preferred voice to use. One reason could be:

Example (passive): “Visuals are created in the reader’s mind by active voice.” Here the emphasis is on the reason, visuals. To change it to active: “Active voice creates visuals in the reader’s mind.” It is your choice.

Keywords

Here is where using passive is most profitable. As you know, emphasizing keywords is critical to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). As in the previous example, in the passive voice, you can bring those keywords to the forefront in your titles and in your opening paragraphs to capture the reader’s attention.

Example: Let us suppose that your keyword is “apple jelly”. In a title (passive): “Apple jelly is made from good apples.” To change it to active: “Good apples make good apple jelly.” But your keyword, “apple jelly”, may not be read because it is not at the forefront.

Do not abandon passive voice just because your teacher or some computer program tells you it is not the voice of choice. In some cases, it may be the voice of choice.

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In the beginning, you may find it easy to write about something familiar. It is not enough to put pen to paper or punch a keyboard and write a good article.

Although content is king, there are other factors to consider. Here are three tips to consider as you start your writing adventure and ultimately earn money from your efforts.

1) Title

Make sure your title grabs the reader so that he will want to read what you have to say. Use keywords in your title. Still, do not stuff your title with keywords. The title needs to make sense and it should promise the potential reader an answer to his spoken or unspoken question.

2) Keywords

Keywords are important. Without them, there is no exposure, no traffic to your site. Maintain a balance between content and keywords. You can easily insert keywords and keyword phrases in your content that are relevant to your content. Now that the search engines pay attention to Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), there is very little reason to stuff your article with keywords or keyword phrases.

What is LSI? LSI is simply a search engine’s ability to find words related to your keyword not by definition of the keyword alone but more by the context of the keyword in the article.

LSI allows the author much more flexibility in his choice of words and, consequently, it allows an author the ability to write better content and still “sell” his product.

3) Brevity

Keep your articles short 300 – 700 words should be enough, of course, there are always exceptions. Remember that readers these days have a short attention span.

Read any documentation on web browsing and you will find that most web surfers do not spend more than a few seconds looking at a web page. Your article is no different.

There are many more hints and tips that can help writers improve writing skills and earn more money.

Do you want to learn more about article writing? This short article touches only the surface of the art and craft of article writing in internet marketing.

Besides learning the art of writing, you must learn how to market your product with your words and you must learn how to market your own article.

Do you want to learn more about article writing? How to improve your writing? How to make money, writing articles? Of course you do. You owe it to yourself to learn more about article writing and marketing.

CA Perez publishes, The Newbie Affiliates Blog, a candid and informative blog for newbies. Drop by and get your FREE set of 10 videos, SEO 4-Newbies at http://NewbieAffiliatesBlog.com. Don’t forget your 10 FREE videos and be sure to leave a comment.

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As a newbie Internet marketer the task of building your first webpage may seem complex and daunting.  It’s not!  Building your own webpage is easy.  The Internet offers may sites that will help you create your first webpage or website.  Don’t be overwhelmed by the number of sites willing to help you.  A search for “free websites” in Google will return over 55 Million hits!

The Problem:

You can create a webpage from scratch.  Creating it is not overly difficult, if you want a very basic looking page.  You will have to learn some basic Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).  That too is not difficult.  It comes down to a question of time.  How much time are you willing to spend before you go online; before you start making money?

If you surf the Internet and have checked out the competition, you know that there are some very professional looking websites out there.  You would be hard pressed to compete with a very basic looking page.   But, there is hope.

You can outsource your work and have a professional do it.  Well, that costs money and time.  Time spent in coordinating with a web designer, the layout, the content, the colors and fonts.  How long before you can launch it and start making money?

The Solution:

Although you can use template-driven software like SBI or Dreamweaver to create your webpage, nothing beats the ease of WordPress.  If this is your first attempt, with WordPress you can have a webpage up and running within minutes.  You will want to tweak it as you learn more.  But, you can have a live professional looking webpage knocking on your customer’s door very quickly.

As with a search for “free websites” in Google, you can access many a tutorial on the Internet to help.  The difference is the quickness with which you will have your webpage online.

Learn more about WordPress and how to start building your own webpage with WordPress. You will cut your learning curve in half.

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Serious Internet marketers soon discovered that Word Press was more than just a blog tool.  Word press  can be used to build profitable websites.  With it internet marketers can manage  large amounts of text, audio and video content making Word Press a very powerful business tool.

Although you can use template-driven software like SBI or DreamWeaver, after a dozen pages it becomes difficult to manage a static HTML site.   Nothing beats the ease of WordPress.

Using premium Word Press tools you can easily transform a static website, create an article directory, a membership site system, a complete e-commerce site, auction sites, portfolio sites and much more.  You can use Word Press to create just about anything.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is another important element.  By default, WordPress is very good at optimizing and creating SEO friendly content.  However, by utilizing simple WordPress plugins you can increase and maximize your MSN, Yahoo, and Google SEO rankings.

The best thing about WordPress is its flexibility.  You can easily switch between WordPress themes, and improve its functions by using plugins and even some custom programming. Best of all its free!

If you aren’t using WordPress you should.  To power your online business, go ahead and use WordPress!

To discover more about WordPress, I strongly recommend that you visit my website: http://www.maxpressinfo.info

You’ll get tons of step-by-step video tutorials on how to use WordPress, web 2.0 technology, search engine optimization, making money, and so much more. Get more information here.

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Now I know that we all want to build our email lists so that we can sell our product.  Heck, even I have one on this site.  But, sending out autoresponder emails emails everyday?   Sometimes those offers are for the same thing.

At first, I read everyone of those emails and clicked through to see what was being sold.  Most of the links offered very similar product each in its own niche.  But how many gurus are out there?   What’s really annoying are the emails from one source that send you a shotgun splattering of unrelated offers.

There’s niche finding, article writing, secret tools, keyword tools, and the biggest of them all – LIST BUILDING.   One guy has sent 19 messages in 14 days.   Another has sent the same message with the same offer three times in two days.

I guess it works.  But it is very annoying.  You can’t call it spam because you opted-in.  You can always unsubscribe or wear out the delete key.

Lesson: Opt-in only if you really want the freebie that’s being offered.  Choose your purchases carfully.  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

PS:  You can opt-in on this site on the Free Stuff page!

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Like many others that are just getting their feet wet. I have “opted in” to many an offer of free material that promises to help me make millions of dollars.  These offers come in all sorts of flavors they range from affiliate marketing guides, to affiliate marketing for beginners, to beginners marketing guides, and even newbies guide to affiliate marketing.

As newbies our learning curves are very steep. There is a lot of information to be digested and much of it is scattered throughout the Internet. It’s no wonder that so many fail at Internet marketing. You are distracted by all those offers of assistance. You are distracted by all the methods that you can apply to make you successful at Internet marketing. Internet marketing success is like a shotgun blast, there many ways (pellets) to hit the target.  For a no frills, no bull assessment of products visit: http://NewbieAffiliatesDirectory.com

Here is why we newbies are likely not to succeed at this business. As a newbie, after four months, I just now realized how much time I spend reading all those emails that I get. Do you? They offer me new ways and methods to make money online. Many of them come with free e-books and reports. Some offers ask for your e-mail to allow you access to the free give away; some don’t. Regardless, you download the files; you open up the freebie; and you start reading or viewing the information. The next thing you know, it’s lunch time where did the morning go?

What have you done to increase your revenue? What product or service have you exposed to the Internet and to potential customers today? How many websites or blogs have you created today?

That’s the bottom line – Customers. 95% of us newbies fail because we are to busy learning the hundreds of ways of making money, instead of choosing one and sticking with it until we are making money.

It’s time to delete those emails. If you can’t delete them, file them away, unread; and read them on the weekend or when you’re rich.

Another thing we do: visit forums. Forums are a wonderful place to ask questions and learn from more knowledgeable people and to socialize. Before you know it, an hour is gone, maybe two hours. You have read through all the threads on a topic that interests you and the day is gone.

What have you done to increase your bottom line? You say, “I’ve got to learn. I’ve got to read and ask questions. How am I going to make money, if I don’t know what to do next?”

We do have to spend time learning. The question is how much time. When do you put into action what you have learned? It does not matter that your knowledge may not be complete. Will it ever be? Most, if not all, of those gurus that are making those big bucks started at the bottom like you and me. They were once newbies. Let us not forget!

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