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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At the top of the list of things that I feel need to be changed is the obvious attention being directed to the commission percent of each product. Right now, it’s pretty much the main thing that people see. And normally, I’d say that’s fine. But there is a big problem with drawing attention to commission percent above everything else.

When somebody sees a high commission percentage they’re likely to choose that product over one that has a lower percentage. It’s human nature. However, let’s do the math. Let’s say that you have a $50 product that has a 75% commission attached to it. If you do the math, that comes out to $37.50 per sale. Now, let’s take a $100 product with a 50% commission. That comes out to $50 per sale. If somebody is just looking at high commission rates, they’re going to miss the latter product and miss out on an additional $12.50 per sale. I’m not saying that one stat should be highlighted over another (it never was) but doing this is giving affiliates a distorted picture.

Another thing that I think needs to be looked at is the number of items that you can display per view. In the old system, you could view up to 50 products at a time. This made finding a product go a lot faster. Now, you are limited to just 10 per view. Therefore, you have to spend more time initiating searches than you did with the old system. I am hoping they will put this functionality back in.

Finally, and to me this is a big thing, there is no longer the option to view just new products. As somebody who is constantly on the lookout for new products, this functionality was a must have. Now, there is absolutely no way to tell what products are new. You can’t really go by gravity or affiliate percentage of anything like that because there are plenty of old products that don’t sell. Hopefully, this will be rectified as well.

I won’t comment on the aesthetics of the site because how people think it looks is totally subjective. What’s one person’s beautiful is another person’s ugly. So I just restricted my comments to the actual functionality of the site. And yes, sticking that big old commission percentage up there like a bulls eye IS functionality. It all depends on how you look at it.

Anyway, head on over to the new marketplace and see what you think of it. If you think changes should be made, let ClickBank know. I’m sure they ultimately want a positive user experience for everybody.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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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.

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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.

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Do you have to be a genius to be a successful Internet marketer? It’s a pretty simple and straight forward question. The answer that I’m going to provide you with is probably going to surprise you in many ways. You might want to read what’s coming next. See, I am a genius.

No kidding. I was tested at an IQ of 148. That technically makes me a genius. However, the answer to the question I asked is going to surprise you. No, you don’t have to be a genius to be a successful Internet marketer. In fact, I’m not sure it even helps at all. Why do I say that?

When I first started doing this Internet marketing thing, I was a total failure. I made all of $28 in my first five months online. So obviously being a genius didn’t help me one bit. I had no clue what I was doing and it showed in my results.

See, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. Internet marketing is not a “smarts” kind of thing. It’s really very basic and by the numbers. Anybody who can read and understand simple instructions and hit a few keys on a computer can do this…successfully. The reason it’s not all that hard is because you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. You don’t have to think things to death. The basic concepts of marketing are simple. Find a hingry market, find a product that they want, and then give it to them in a way that makes them want to buy it.

And the beauty part of it is, you don’t have to think of this stuff yourself. Can’t write a sales letter? No problem. Go hire somebody who can. There are plenty of great copywriters who can write you a sales letter that will convert. Can’t write articles to get traffic? Hire somebody to do it for you. Once you learn the marketing techniques and what works to bring in traffic, there is no law that says you have to do each thing on your own. Do you think Donald Trump lays brick for every building he puts up?

Once you understand what is required to get a prospect’s attention and convert that prospect into a paying customer, the only thing left to do is execute the plan by putting all the pieces together. If that means you have to hire seven different people to put those pieces together, then do it.

You don’t have to be a genius to be a successful Internet marketer. What you have to be is motivated enough to get the job done.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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Building your first website is easy with today’s free easy website building tools.  Blogger.com, WordPress.com, and WordPress.org are just three of the more popular website building tools available to create your website.  Within a few hours, a newbie can have a respectable looking website up and running.

For the novice, web design and web development are synonymous.  Web design leans more toward the presentation of the website.  While web development leans more to the functionality of the website.  Some may argue with those definitions.

Too often, the novice pays too much attention to the presentation of his website and not enough to its functionality.  You certainly want your website to be pleasant to the eye of the visitor.

Content is just as important as the presentation.   As a beginner, you often overlook this part of the equation.  I have seen some very basic looking webpages/websites with very compelling words.  Words that make me want to go pull out my credit card right now.

Never mind that they look like a child’s coloring book full of colors and different sizes of print.  They work or they wouldn’t be out there.  This is not to say that you do not want to have a nice looking website.  Yes, you do.

Beware of the “this is my baby” mentality and forget the main purpose of your webpage/website – SALES.  Pay as much attention to the word content of your website or webpage as you do to the visual presentation.

A good coaching program can guide you and teach you not only how to install the software, but also what to do with it once you have it installed.

More importantly, it can teach you how to make money with your new site using the right content.

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