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How To Reach The 100 Article Milestone In A Year

By Steve Shaw in Featured

You might think that writing 100 articles in a year is a Herculean feat that only the most advanced or professional writer can accomplish, but the truth is that even a beginner can reach this goal with a little bit of planning and consistency.

What’s the benefit of having a ’100 articles’ goal?

When you’re doing article marketing, a pivotal factor of your success will be how consistently you submit articles. Many amateurs decide to try article marketing and then give up prematurely when they don’t see immediate results.

What a shame! Article marketing is one of the most effective, reliable, and user friendly website marketing tools, but you need to submit articles consistently over an extended span of time in order to reap the benefits.

Even when you know you should be submitting articles every month, it can be a challenge to stay focused and write articles on a regular basis.

This is where the ’100 articles’ goal comes in–focusing on that long term goal and coming up with a plan on how to reach it is like building consistency into your marketing plan. Instead of thinking of each article as a one-off, you start to see each article you submit as contributing to a larger goal.

Why should you aim to accomplish this goal in a year?

The goal is not just to submit 100 articles–the goal is to do it in about a year’s time. There are SEO benefits for trickling out your article submissions consistently over an extended span of time. This allows you to build links in a more organic way, which is attractive to search engines.

So, a year’s time is a good time frame. Space your articles submissions out evenly over that time. Submit just 8 articles a month, and you will reach your goal with ease.

Strategies For Submitting 100 Articles In A Year:

Just 8 articles a month will let you accomplish this goal in a little over a year. That’s just 2 articles a week.

• Write one article 2 days a week. Create regular ‘writing days’ where you have a block of time set aside for writing.
• Or schedule, one or more extended writing sessions where you produce multiple articles at one sitting.
• Or you can stockpile articles: Write 5 articles a week for 5 weeks. That will produce enough articles to last you about 3 months and will allow you to take a break from writing for a couple months (while still providing you with articles to submit during that time). Then do it all over again.

Need Writing Ideas?

Easy enough to decide to write 2 articles a week–the hard part is coming up with ideas of what to write about. Here are some suggestions to keep your creative juices flowing:

1. Use a free article writing template that gives you a basic structure for crafting an article on your topic. I’ve created some of my own, and I use them all the time.
2. Adapt content from your blog to create articles.
3. Remember to write for newbies and more advanced readers–you can cover the same topic in two different articles geared towards groups with different knowledge levels.
4. Use customer frequently asked questions as the basis for an article.
5. Use a keyword suggestion tool such as WordTracker to see what keywords your target readers are typing into search engines. Then write articles to satisfy those searches.

Your Assignment:

1. Commit to writing 100 articles in about a year’s time.
2. Develop a plan to reach your goals using one of the strategies I’ve outlined here or customize your own plan.

Imagine how you’ll feel at the end of a year when you know you’ve stuck to your goal and made a huge and lasting impact on your website’s health. Consistency is the key–it is not hard. It just takes writing a steady amount of articles every month. You can do this!

Article Marketing: 5 Ways To Tell What Topics Are HOT With Your Readers

By Steve Shaw in Featured

Are the articles you’re writing striking nerves with your potential customers? If they’re not, you’re losing out on a valuable opportunity to establish yourself as an expert adviser to the folks who might be interested in your services. Being an expert on a topic doesn’t necessarily mean that your articles will be pertinent to your readers. Sometimes as “the expert” we lose sight of the more basic or practical concepts that our readers are interested in.

To a potential customer, you show your expertise by providing them with information that they want to know, information that will help them succeed.

But how are you supposed to know what specific topics are setting your readers’ brains on fire?

It’s hard to be a mind reader, but thankfully we do have ways of getting insight into the minds of our readers.

What types of topics are hot with your customers? You’re about to find out…

1) What questions are customers asking you most frequently?

When we’re trying to think of articles topics, sometimes we completely overlook the obvious. Because we’re experts in our fields sometimes our brains immediately think that the most advanced ideas will be the most perplexing to our customers, but sometimes it’s a beginner idea that stumps folks at the starting gate.

Remember that your readers may be beginners, and they may not even know the very basics of your topic.

2) Which posts get the most comments on your blog (if you have one)?

With our articles we usually don’t get the chance to see first hand feedback from our readers, but that’s not the case with a blog. If you have a blog, have you written any posts that generated an avalanche of comments from readers?

If so, that’s a clear indicator of a hot topic that deserves further elaboration in an article (or several articles).

If you don’t have a blog, this tip still applies to you. Just find a popular blog in your niche and watch to see which posts generate the most comments.

3) Pay attention to mainstream media.

When we’re marketing online we can get “Web 2.0 tunnel vision” and completely forget that there is a whole world out there offering clues to the interests of your target market.

Most of us have niches that in some way blend over into the offline world, so be sure to keep an eye open to print magazines in your niche, newspaper stories about your area of business, and even television shows that frequently talk about your niche.

If you have a very specific area of business that is rather obscure, you may try going a little broader as you look in mainstream media. For example, sometimes when I’m looking for topics in mainstream media to inspire my articles, I’ll look at magazines about writing or marketing. Both of those topics are mainstream, and both cover ideas that my target market would find valuable.

4) Check out Digg.com to see what topics are ranking the highest in your niche.

Digg is one of the biggest social bookmarking sites where readers can vote on online content. To see if there is any content that addresses your specific niche on Digg, just use the search box on the front page.

5) Look at the page views and publishing count for your previous articles.

Most article directories will provide stats of how many folks have read/viewed your article on their site and how many publishers have looked at your “publish page” for your article.

Do you have any articles that have unusually high numbers?

If so, that’s a sign that your article is popular (or at least more sticky than your other articles).

You did something right with that article–why not try further exploring that same article topic in another article or maybe write other articles in a similar topic vein? Seeing your most popular articles gives you an insight into what ideas your target market finds most interesting.

By using one or more of these 5 “topic hotness barometers”, you can gain valuable insight into the mind of your target market. Which one will you start with?

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