The name of the game with article marketing is producing lots and lots of good, quality articles that lead to backlinks to your website and therefore improve your search engine rankings. You can really achieve the goal of publishing 100 or more articles on your topic if you push to write more.
Here are ten easy article formats that will help you increase your production. Because they are easy, you may find yourself writing more and possibly producing up to ten quality articles every day.
- List articles are one of the easiest, fastest and most read article formats. Just write down five, seven, ten or more key points related to your topic. Start each item with a strong action verb and then write two or three more sentences of explanation. And before you know it, your article is ready.
- Frequently asked questions or FAQ articles are also very easy to write. Write down questions customers ask you about your field, or create your own questions and then write short or long answers, depending on the amount of response that justifies the question.
- Brain dump. This is a quick way to write many articles in a single day. Just freewrite whatever you can think of on your topic and keep writing for ten to fifteen minutes. Take a break and resummarize what you’ve written and let your mind keep churning out new material. When you’re done, you should have several pages and maybe 1,500 to 3,000 words of material. Then simply edit the material into smaller articles. The good news is that your original 1500 word brain dump will produce more than five 300 word articles because you will often use the same introductory material with each one.
- reviews. Have you recently read a book related to your topic or used a product that fits what you want to write about? Then write a review. Tell readers what you liked, what disappointed you, who you would recommend it to, what their strengths and weaknesses were, and how they could benefit from this book or product.
- Solve a problem. Most likely, people will read the article in your field to solve a problem. Identify those problems and propose solutions. No, you don’t have to go on and on about how to solve it, just long enough for them to want to contact you for more information (that’s why you’re writing this article in the first place, isn’t it?).
- Create a change. A complementary theme to problem solving is looking at the changes that people want to achieve. Show them how to achieve a desired change and your article will be very popular.
- Pros and cons. Discuss a topic and show readers both the positive and negative aspects of the topic. Don’t be afraid to give your opinion. But also, it’s okay to straddle the fence a bit if you feel a balanced analysis is needed.
- Latest developments. This might be the easiest article of all. Just subscribe to Google news feeds on keywords related to your topic and you will receive daily email updates on this topic. Each update might have five or six new items that just hit the web that day for you to write about. Just be a news reporter and give your readers up-to-date information on this topic.
- Ask questions. This is not the same as the FAQ article mentioned above, but rather a way to move your article forward. Just start jotting down all the questions that come to your mind and keep your fingers moving. These questions can be the first sentence of a new paragraph, or they can simply jumpstart you and give you new ideas to keep writing.
- Cut your items into smaller items. In most cases, five 300 word articles will drive much more traffic to your site than a single 1500 word article. As we’ve already discussed in the “Brain Dump” article, get in the habit of splitting your 700-word article into two 350-word articles; and his 900-word article into three 300-word articles. As I also mentioned, the math will always work in your favor because you will probably find that that 900 word article can actually become OVEN 300 word articles because some of the sentences will have to overlap to make your point clear.
Article marketing is all about building traffic to your website. Nothing can do this faster than writing lots of new, high-quality articles. Use these formats and watch your production skyrocket.
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