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How to Rewrite Articles – 10 Tips

Jan 18

Posted by C.A. Perez in Article Writing | 1 Comment

This short article gives some tips and ideas on how to rewrite articles. Rewriting articles is one smart way to re-package your articles for posting to multiple directories, your blog, and forums. Rewrite articles to create free reports for your readers.

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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Article Writing – Passive Voice is a Good Choice Over Active Voice – 3 Reasons Why

Dec 1

Posted by C.A. Perez in Article Writing | No Comments

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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Article Writing Help for the Novice – 3 Tips

Oct 22

Posted by C.A. Perez in Article Writing | 2 Comments

Article writing attracts new internet marketers because it is free and because it appears to be easy. Are you not sure where to start? This short article gives writing help for the novice.

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.

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Article Writing – How to Overcome Writer’s Block – 4 Tips

Oct 18

Posted by CA Perez in Article Writing | No Comments

Are you a new affiliate marketer? Do you remember writing your first article? You had a customer in mind.  You wrote like a river flowing in spring.  You showed your reader how to avoid pain, how to gain pleasure or, how to solve a problem. You wrote some other useful information. You knew what you wanted to say. 

The muses and the juices were flowing. Then you wrote your second and third articles. Perhaps you wrote them easily as well. Somewhere along the way, it stopped.  You got writer’s block.  Has this happened to you?  You can overcome it. There are many ways to overcome writer’s block.

Here are four article-writing tips for writer’s block.  They will get you started again.

1)  One school of thought suggests that you start writing to break through writers’ block.  What kind of advice is this? That is exactly what I cannot do!  Are you joking? No. Start by free writing.  Write about anything that comes to mind.  Write crap. Write gibberish. Soon the muses will sing to you again and you can get on with your topic.  Just write.

2) Don’t begin at the beginning.  Start in the middle or at the conclusion of your topic. Very often, the hardest part of writing an article is the beginning. So do not start there. Start in the middle of the article or even start writing the conclusion. Just write.

3) Take a walk. Do something physical. Mow the lawn.  Get away from the computer. Take a pen and paper, if an idea comes to mind write it down. When you are done, do step two. Just write.

4) Pick a subject you might be passionate about or at least interested in and read as much information about it as you can.  Wait a day or two and then start writing off the top of your head as if you were talking to a friend about your interest.  Ernest Hemingway’s editor, Maxwell Perkins said, “Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.” Just write.

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

Learn how to write; how to make money; and how to publish your work. 

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Submitting Articles Directly to Ezines

Aug 31

Posted by Charlie Page in Article Writing | No Comments

A lot of people don’t know that submitting articles directly to ezines is a wonderful way to supercharge article marketing efforts.

It makes perfect sense, but somehow this article marketing method is grossly overlooked by beginners and gurus alike.

Here’s the logic of why submitting articles directly to ezines is a powerful and effective strategy.

When you submit your article to an article directory (and you should) you are one of MANY other articles on the site.

Maybe your article will be found – maybe not.

But when your article appears in an ezine it is the ONLY article in that ezine.

So, every reader of that ezine can read YOUR article without the distraction of a million other articles all screaming “read me!”

Don’t get me wrong, article directories are great. But if you are marketing with articles, or want to, and are not submitting directly to ezines you are leaving money on the table.

I know that’s true because I’ve been there. When I was first a member of the DOE (Directory of Ezines) I submitted articles as often as I could. And it worked.

Effective article marketing is a BIG part of how I went from being a member of the DOE to owning the company.

How can you find the right ezines for your articles?

The DOE of course!

Between our database of ezines and the personal consulting I offer it’s the best value online.

Visit Charlie Page at his Directory of Ezines.

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Article Writing – Adjusting Characters per Line – A Useful Tip

Aug 19

Posted by C.A. Perez in Article Writing | No Comments

Reformatting your article to 60 or 65 characters per line and the word processor won’t cooperate?  Here’s how.

Let’s assume that you are new to Internet marketing and you choose article writing as your primary means of generating traffic. To make your article pretty you choose some exotic beautiful font, pleasing to the eye.  You prepare your article with great care only to discover when you submit your article that the publisher insists the article be 65 characters per line.

If you have ever tried to adjust the margins and manually count the characters in each line to meet the required 65 characters per line, you have experienced total frustration.  If you use MS Word, most of the fonts are what are called proportional fonts.  Their widths vary with the length of the line.  So no matter how you adjust the margins to the longest line and count out your 65 characters per line, the proportional font characters per line just keep on changing.  It’s a nightmare.
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