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18Apr/080

Websites: Money Making Tips

Making money from websites is a serious deal. Successful websites know the customers they have in mind and the questions they need to answer to get a customer base. Good websites have a mix of good graphic content and written material that answers visitors questions. Visual imagery should not be used without it meeting strategic needs to communicate the solutions to questions of its audience; building an audience is necessary. The key to having an audience is to create a website about something that you know a lot about and share your information, ideas, pictures, photos and passion.
Websites often make the mistake of putting too much information that results in nothing but junk. What is important is not the length of the content but the content itself. So, it is often better to have less content and have a concise site, rather than having lots of junk and an ad bloated site. It's imperative that you write excellent copy on your website that is effective at communicating your message online. But, pleasing your online clients and audience is not the only thing you have to consider.
You also have to please the search engines, because search engines bring you traffic, which in turn increases the amount of customers. When people use search engines they enter keywords to find your content. This means that you need to use words, which people search for as part of the content on your site. And you need to use these words prominently on your page. Remember that keywords in your HTML coding are NOT enough. You need to make your site attractive, providing great content so it becomes "popular".

29Mar/080

Article Templates

How to Write an Article

Now this may seem like teaching granny to suck eggs; however, I assure you it is not. Assignments frequently arrive for articles to be delivered in batches usually following a related or common theme. They may need to be twisted slightly to accommodate different keywords and phrases for SEO purposes or indeed to generate interest for the sake of pure marketing and promotion.

Ask yourself how you would handle twenty 500 word articles on male pattern baldness and your deadline is 24 hours from now?

Using a template will help you focus on delivering the content in a structured fashion that keeps you on topic without meandering through hours of fruitless research or preparation. You do not need to be a slave to a template but I use them frequently and alter them as seems fit depending on the project I'm working on. Below is a template I use and have saved as a Word document and reach for it whenever I am starting a new batch of articles.

There may be cries of "foul" from some of you, but my time is my money and the same applies to anyone seriously looking to earn a living writing.