Since May of this year I’ve been doing more article writing since it’s part of the weekly blogging services I provide. Then when I recently started my micro niche websites, article writing became an even more important part of my backlink building. This is when much work is done to try to rank all my niche sites in Google’s Top Search Engine.

Well today as I was thinking about what to write for my next blog post, I figured it would be a good idea to critique my own past article writing and share with anyone interested on what are some of the changes I am making to achieve my current objectives. On the same breath I will also share some changes that I’ve recently implemented too.

Why is The Article Title or Headliner so very important

Besides the author’s bio provided at the resource box, the article title or headliner is the most important text in your article.  Now just to put things into perspective here if I may compare an analogy with what experts giving Tips on Public Speaking say “…. the first 10 words are more important than the next 10 minutes…” Similarly people giving article writing tips say “…the first 10 words (the title) are more important than the next 300 words (the body)…”

I strongly believe this to be very true and I can just show you one particular article I wrote in Ezinearticles dated May 8, 2009 and the same article re-written on June 12, 2009:

the one on May 8, 2009:

the one on Jun 12, 2009:

Clearly you can see that the first title looks much better, more inviting and asks a question which is one of the recommended article writing tips. Because there is such a big gap of readers’ views it does make perfect sense to spend that extra effort to write a more enticing article headliner don’t you think? Also if you noticed the first one, 112 readers clicked the author bio’s link compared to just 6 for the second. Well what can I say but first impressions last!

Write Short Articles

Ever since May 2009, I have changed my article writing style to write short articles and have the contents list the numbered points or tips I’m presenting e.g. “Discover 5 Article Tips To Make Your Writing Quick and Easy”. This is perhaps the simplest form of writing an article, at least how I’m finding it. I prefer to write short articles because:

• it’s easy to write and it’s easy for the reader to understand just what you are writing
• it takes a shorter time to write - Ezinearticle accepts 250 words minimum articles so it suits me fine.
• if I write too long I could use the extra points to write another new article with similar topic thereby maintaining the 250 minimum I like to keep at. I get to publish 2 instead of 1 article in this way.

What’s your Objective in Article Writing?

Different writers have different purpose or objective whenever they write articles and publish them at article directories. That determines the kind of topic you can write about. This is especially true if you have lots of websites with diverse niches in your business. For example for my micro niche adsense websites which I focus entirely on products, I never write articles on products as that would be too boring. Instead I write about things that interest me like Internet Home Business which is a lot easier with many broad categories that I can focus on. Fortunately the article directories I submit to do not care much if the content is totally different from the resource box in terms of niches and topics.

My main objective of my article writing today is solely for backlink building for my niche sites and not for any traffic generation strategy. The traffic comes when the keywords I’m ranking for them achieved Google’s Page 1. So far together with Angela’s Backlink Building Program, it has yielded me the results I want.

A new way of getting contents to write your articles

If like me, you have been writing for a while there is one quick and easy way to get contents to write - yes re-write them just like the example I showed you above. Sometimes when I read some of my earlier articles, I couldn’t believed I had written them so poorly. But it’s understandable, we like to think that over time, we learned how to write better, more enticing articles.

A new way of getting new free backlinks from your old articles

I am quite sure for most of us, we have purchased many different domains over a period of time; created many websites and some of them may be inactive. You probably like to terminate them at the next domain renewal. Well if you have written and published articles with links on your resource box pointing to such domains, you are about to get free backlinks. Just go to the particular article directory and edit the links to point to your other websites. I have just got some of them this way over the last one week. I won’t be surprised if some of you didn’t realize that, being caught up in the frenzy of ‘too much to do in so little time’ syndrome.

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