I write some articles, nothing too long, nothing too short. and i would like to get some feedback becuz friends dont always say the truth if you know what i mean
I’m in college, i dont study english and i live in egypt so it’s kinda hard to get good advice
Total_Praise I tried to contact you but ur email is not verified, or so it says here. I’d love for you to help me so could you please contact me
Hi there. You should visit The Readers Retreat at www.thereadersretreat.com. They allow new authors to submit work, share ideas, get feedback and even get paid for short stories that are accepted for sale on the website. Check it out. And good luck with your writing!
Jon Baxley
FiveStarAuthor@aol.com
THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY
A new medieval fantasy epic from Five Star and Thomson Gale.
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I’m helping with a school play. We’d like to get more media coverage than a tiny listing in the newspaper.
On average, how many Different press releases should we expect to send out before we get someone to write about our show?
How many newspapers should we plan to contact?
Your question is not clear. Are you publicizing and event or are you reporting on the event? Are you looking for a critic to come write about your show?
If you are publicizing and event: Get it to as many community calenders papers as possible. All the need to know is the Who, What Where, When
If you are sending it out to get some one to write about you: Send the releases with the w’s to as many many theater papers/editors/reporters as possible.
If you looking for a critic to come: Find a local critic that would care and invite S/he
Please suggest me any genuine online article writing job…
Hello Peter,
The same question was asked by my cousin sister when she was in India. You see there are number of sites that claim to provide Online job, but most of them are fake and demand registration fee. So, never join any such site. So, My advice is before joining any site take your friend’s advice.
I can suggest you one Genuine Indian site http://www.engineering360.blogspot.com .
It really pays for posting articles on any topic, and it’s Free to join this site.
It gives upto Rs 40 for an article. There minimum pay out is Rs. 400 and they pay weekly.
To know in details about their Article writing program follow this web page: http://engineering360.blogspot.com/2010/02/earn-money-from-article-writing.html
Thank you
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Ron
We have created some software and we want to integrate it into Blogging applications starting with the 5 most popular.
Here is a systems that helped me.
http://www.getyourearnon.com/BloggersGuide.html
Whether you’ve just published a book or have a book that isn’t selling, now is the time to start marketing the easy way today! It’s one thing to write a book, but an entirely different thing to write one that’s saleable, viable, and marketable. Ensuring the success of any book is something even the biggest publishers have never been able to guarantee, but with a good book, a little or a lot of money, and just plain hard work the odds are in your favor; many have done it.
Using press releases for marketing or promoting your book or book’s website has become increasingly popular as publishers discover the powerful benefits of using press releases. Invest in press release submitting software and set aside time every week to send out a press release online to the press directories. Mail a press release to all the trade journals in your field over and over again; you can use the same release.
Learning to write and use powerful optimized press releases can often drive tons of traffic to your website while providing multiple back links that can lead to increased page rank and numerous top ten search engine rankings for your targeted keywords. When picked up by wire services, a press release can easily end up generating hundreds of mentions for your book. Send out at least 10 press releases to the print and broadcast media in your area every month.
Send out the same press release to the editor of your local daily newspaper every week until you are called for an interview or are written up. Press releases can easily generate thousands of dollars in sales when picked up by national trade or print media.
Why not give away a copy of your book in a local raffle to get more book recognition? Make sure your sales letter or flier is first class; this is your formal presentation of your title to the prospective buyer. If your book fits a specialty market, find a store that fits the genre and offer to leave books on consignment; many publishers have sold thousands of books this way.
Build a web site that provides another avenue for ordering, a virtual online press kit and link exchanges with sites that relate to your topic. Every day it’s important to focus on a variety of marketing approaches. Get as many testimonials about your book, as possible, from experts in the field relating to your title, not customers; use on your fliers and back of books.
Offer to trade writing a monthly column in a trade publication in your books’ genre, in trade for display ads on the same page. Find a non-exclusive distributor with a good reputation to carry your book for the book store trade, as well as for other retailers. Arrange to give a simple talk at local, regional and national events that relate to your book topic; bring books along and have an associate sell them at the back of the room.
If your book solves a problem, focus on it in your marketing. Remember to make sure your book is listed in Books-in-Print; don’t assume it’s already listed. When you get a nice write-up or feature about you and/or your book, have it laminated and set it up on an easel at trade shows.
Your sales letter or flier should include an eye-grabbing headline, the benefits to the buyer, the book features, book sales information and testimonials. Be your own publicist and send a press release along with a review copy of your book to publications in your book’s genre and to book review magazines.
It’s important to publish a website that focuses on your title; you’ll be able to refer editors and customers and all interested parties to your book information with the click of a mouse. Make sure to promote and market your book each and every day, both online and offline.
With well chosen book marketing and book promotion, online and offline, you’ll reap the profits you deserve for your efforts by way of the Internet and in your mailbox. Don’t delay another day if you’ve fallen by the wayside; make sure to focus on promoting, selling and marketing your book each and every day. I hope this article has provided you with some easy, helpful tips to accelerate your book marketing and book promotion efforts.
Helen Hecker
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/market-and-sell-your-self-published-books-easily-127901.html
You can have the best book in the world, but if no one knows about it, no one will buy it; publicity, promotion, marketing and a focus on selling more books should now be a big part of your daily life. Authors, self publishers and book publishers can be very unhappy when they see boxes of books delivered from the printer, loaded onto pallets in their garage and not have any idea on how they’re going to sell them; don’t let this happen to you — be prepared. Your book selling, book marketing, and book promotion planning should begin before the manuscript is completed.
Using press releases for marketing or promoting yourself, book or book’s website has become increasingly popular as publishers discover the powerful benefits of using press releases. Don’t underestimate the value of a good press release for making book sales. Your book press release should not be written as you would a sales letter or flier, it should be written for the editor and tell about your book in a factual way, no opinion or glowing remarks.
Learning to write and use powerful optimized press releases can often drive tons of traffic to your website while providing multiple back links that can lead to increased page rank and numerous top ten search engine rankings for your targeted keywords. Press releases can generate thousands of dollars in sales when picked up by national trade or print media. Invest in press release submitting software and set aside time every week to send out a press release online to the press directories.
Send out at least 10 press releases to the print and broadcast media in your area every month. Make sure your press release spells out the ‘who, what, where, when, and why.’
Get as many testimonials about your book, as possible, from experts in the field relating to your title, not customers; use on your fliers and back of books. I’ve seen publishers lose a lot of money paying for expensive display ads, so beware if you do this; I don’t advise it in the beginning — get your feet wet first so you know what you’re doing. Make sure not to overlook the Internet; get yourself interviewed or profiled for sites both about writing, publishing and about the topics covered in your book.
If your book fits a specialty market, find a store that fits the genre and offer to leave books on consignment; many publishers have sold thousands of books this way. When you get a nice write up or feature about you and/or your book, have it laminated and set it up on an easel at trade shows. Your sales letter or flier should include an eye-grabbing headline, the benefits to the buyer, the book features, book sales information and testimonials.
Make sure your sales letter or flier is first class; this is your formal presentation of your title to the prospective buyer. Find a non-exclusive distributor with a good reputation to carry your book for the book store trade, as well as for other retailers. I’ve not found that book signings sell many books for publishers and are often a waste of time; better to spend it elsewhere.
Submit articles to online article directories that focus on your book’s topic to drive customers to your website. Place free ads periodically for your book’s website on Craigslist in different categories to drive even more traffic to your website. Create an online contest and list it in online contest directories to drive traffic to your website.
Market your book to your number one market first, and then go after the secondary markets. Build a web site that provides another avenue for ordering, a virtual online press kit and link exchanges with sites that relate to your topic.
Print and online publications provide longevity to your marketing campaign in terms of having something tangible for people to reference ongoing. If your book solves a problem, focus on this in your marketing.
The success of any self-promoting, book promoting or marketing effort depends on a good book and just plain hard work; it’s been done many times before and you can do it too. With well chosen book marketing and book promotion, online and offline, you’ll reap the profits you deserve for your efforts by way of the Internet and in your mailbox. Make sure to do some serious marketing and promotion every single day, no excuses.
Helen Hecker
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/promoting-yourself-and-your-self-published-book-133072.html
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean – Heroes of Justice and Democracy
by Cherie Pugh
Cherie Pugh discovered the true story of the Nassau pirates when sailing through the Caribbean on a traditional wooden ship. She found the court records of their trial in London, and spent years researching and writing her novel
“Mary Read – Sailor, Soldier, Pirate”.
This ultimate pirate yarn is now available as an ebook or paperback from www.womanpirate.com
The real pirates of the Caribbean were mostly desperate British sailors, abandoned by their government after they had fought and won Queen Anne’s war. From 1702 to 1713, England, Holland and Germany challenged the might of Catholic France, in a terrible war waged in Flanders and Spain. This war, fought nominally over the succession to the Spanish throne, raised England to a super power, won her entrance to the immensely profitable slave trade, and ended the centuries old dominance of France. Yet England now required no more than skeleton crews to sail her ships back, and her well-trained sailors were left begging for bread in all her scattered colonies. Other European powers also abandoned soldiers and sailors, and there were many Dutchmen, Frenchmen and Spaniards who had deserted their posts, and were now without a home.
Many of the sailors stranded in the Caribbean were forced to cut logwood in the jungles, the desperate life uniting them into tight-knit brotherhoods, sworn to protect each other through malaria, Indian attack and starvation. When the captain of a trading ship tried to cheat Charles Vane’s Company, Vane killed him, and commandeered the ship. And all over the Caribbean, the brethren followed suit, and returned to the sea as pirates.
At the same time, a massive fleet sailed from Cartagena on the Spanish Main, carrying the treasure stripped from South America during the years of the war. Now that peace had been declared, the Spaniards decided to take the immense risk of getting it home. Yet they had barely set sail when a terrible cyclone smashed into them, leaving corpses and gold littering the beaches of Florida.
The pirates heard about the treasure when Captain Henry Jennings rescued a drowning Spanish sailor. When the gallant Welshman refused to throw him back overboard, despite the mutterings of his crew, the grateful Spaniard revealed the fate of the treasure fleet. Jennings then united the pirates, and led them in an overwhelming attack on the Spanish salvage camp. They sailed off together with a fortune.
Jennings then led them to Captain Mission’s old pirate base – the port of Nassau on the island of Providence in the Bahamas. Because of the trade winds, the Bahamas stand directly in the line of sail from Europe to the New World colonies, and every merchant ship would have to run the pirate gauntlet. Nassau harbour, with its reefs and shallows and extreme tides was also too dangerous for a large, square-rigged Navy ship to enter.
Urged by Jennings, the pirates united under Captain Mission’s code, which insisted on the honour of the Brethren of the Sea. The pirates claimed they were true gentlemen, and those well-born were but a pack of wolves that gorged on the helpless and weak. Mostly poor sailors, most had been shanghaied by their own government, that required hundreds of men for each ship in their navy, yet in never managing to feed them properly, due to the corruption of the Navy commanders, killed thousands of their own men every year, many times more than were ever killed in battle.
It is within a cultural disdain for the life of the ordinary man or woman, that the pirates evolved. These men came from the 80% of Britain that lived in desperate poverty and lawlessness, and having all suffered from injustice, they chose not to tolerate it, or perpetuate it. If they captured a ship captained by a tyrant, the pirates would encourage the crew to ‘tickle’ him, before dropping him into his ship’s boat, keeping his ship for his crew to share. To them, this was justice. The pirates also released slaves from the ships they captured, for they abhorred slavery as much as any Quaker.
The Caribbean pirates lived by strict rules, chosen by themselves, and clearly expressed in their Company Articles. Marcus Rediker, in “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – A History of Anglo-American Seafaring…” examines six surviving sets of signed Articles which all insist on one man, one vote. Their officers were openly elected, and could be challenged by any of the crew. The quartermaster’s role was to defend the rights of the crew against the captain, who could only give orders when they were ‘chasing or being chased’. Every man had an equal share in the plunder, except the captains and quartermasters, who had a share and a half.
They expelled any man who stole from the Company, even to the value of a piece of eight; any who took an open flame below deck near the gunpowder; any who raped a “prudent” woman found aboard a prize; or who bought boy or bawd aboard for amusement.
I have found the court records of two women aboard pirate ships, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, and they are the exceptions that prove the rule. Mary Read masqueraded as a man for most of her life, including her time with captain Jack Rackam. Anne stole two sloops for Rackam’s crew, dressed in trousers when attacking, and though living openly as a woman pirate, and Rackam’s wife, was manifestly good for business. Even so, it is probable that the two women contributed to Rackam’s downfall.
[For more information on these fascinating women, see my coming article
“Mary Read and Anne Bonny - Pirate Women of the Caribbean”]
As they had sworn binding oaths not to spill each other’s blood, the pirates marooned any who broke their rules. A man could be made the ‘Prince of an island’ that was no more than a strip of sand in a blinding sea. With no water, food or shade, he would die in agony within three days. Or he might be left on a verdant isle with all he needed, and the likelihood of another ship dropping in for water.
Perhaps the lasting achievement of the Nassau pirates was the introduction of the bird-wing sail to Europe. John Haman built the pirates’ small fast ships at Harbour Island, basing his designs on the sloops of the Malacca pirates, ‘fast to attack, faster to run’. The pirates easily outran the square-sailed Navy ships, and their agile sloops could easily negotiate the dangerous reefs and shallows of the Caribbean on much lighter breezes. It was not until the Navy adopted these sloops, that they threatened the pirates at all.
[For more information on Nassau, see my next article
“Nassau – Pirate Haven in the Caribbean]
By 1715, pirate fleets of small, quick sloops dominated the trade between England, Africa and the Caribbean. They kept themselves well-armed, making their own powder and grenades, and stealing all the large and small armament they needed. Sailing up to a merchantman, King Death flying from the mainmast, drums and trumpets blaring, their sloops crowded with hundreds of armed men with blackened faces cursing like the Devil, and promising mercy only upon instant surrender, they must have seemed truly terrifying. The small, under-paid, starving crew would indeed surrender instantly, knowing the pirates’ reputation for fairness to the ordinary sailor, whose sea-chests they never touched.
When their holds were full, the pirates sold their stolen goods openly at auction on the docks of the corrupt colonial governors, who disliked buying expensive, highly-taxed goods from Europe.
At its height, the Brethren of the Sea was a close-knit organisation of thousands of well-trained sailors, in companies of hundreds of men, in large fleets of fast sloops. Openly devoted to the ethics of justice and democracy, they committed a great deal of theft, but little murder. That they have been slandered as psychopaths is an ongoing injustice.
[For more information on the British Government's slaughter of these pirates,
see my coming article “The End of the Pirates of the Caribbean”]
The ultimate pirate yarn is now available as an ebook or paperback from
www.womanpirate.com
Cherie Pugh
http://www.articlesbase.com/history-articles/the-real-pirates-of-the-caribbean-heroes-of-justice-and-democracy-755244.html
If you’re starting out or moving up in the entertainment industry, knowing what pay rate to ask for is particularly hard, so here are some guidelines to go by.
In general, it’s very important not to sell yourself too short OR price yourself too high. What determines this is not just the “market rate” for the services you’re delivering. When you’re setting your fee for a job, take the following into consideration – every time:
RATE “CALCULATOR”
1) What the market rate range is for the gig;
2) What experience you’ll gain;
3) What contacts you bring;
4) What contacts you’ll gain;
5) What relationship(s) you’ll form with whom;
6) What credit you’ll receive;
7) Who is issuing that credit (it matters!);
What experience you bring to the table;
9) When you will be paid.
Seems like a lot! Believe it or not, ALL of these are monetized in the entertainment industry. So do that 9-point checklist on every offer and adjust accordingly. Let me quickly break down how to use the list:
1) Market Rate. This is your opening number. You can always start with Guild tables; for screenwriting and teleplays, for example, the Writers Guild posts a Schedule of Minimums for payments. If you AND your potential employers are novices, this quote will probably be too high for you, for the reasons on the rest of the list. So beyond the various guilds and unions for your industry, a great way to research the market rate is to ask someone who recently was promoted past the position you’re considering. They’ll be happier to quote their former rate than reveal their current one! How to find them? Get online on the industry Forums and boards! Join a Yahoo! Group in your field and post away.
2) Potential Experience (“-”). If you’ll get important professional experience from the gig, this is worth lowering a quote in negotiations with someone who cannot pay much. The new work experience will help you get better jobs (and pay) as you rise. If the employer is a complete newcomer, however, be realistic about what kind of training you’ll actually receive. The key question to ask is, “What are the credits and background of the most experienced person I’ll actually be working with?” That will let you know how much you’ll learn in the process of doing the job.
3) Your Contacts (“+”). If you are bringing key industry names to the project, and that is part of what you are expected to contribute, that’s a bump for your fee.
4) Potential Contacts (“-”). There’s nothing worth more money in this business than personal contacts. If you’ll walk away with a great database of vendors, staff, crew and other industry contacts you connected with, take that into consideration as you set your price.
5) Potential Relationships (“-”). Beyond contacts, if the gig has you working closely with major players in your field, it’s worth flexibility on your fee. This isn’t just who will be on set with you. Which legitimate agents, managers, designers, network execs, bookers, casting agents, etc. will be part of the project and seeing you shine? Relationships are worth MORE than money in Hollywood.
6) Your Credit (“-”). If you have to choose between money and a better credit, in the beginning, go for the credit – as long as it is an accurate one! In other words, don’t trade a writing credit for a “co-producer” (meaningless) or “producer” credit if you only wrote the script. Your producer credit will be vetted and tossed out in any credit dispute if the project goes anywhere. But if you’re working on a TV pilot and they can’t pay well, but you can get an Associate Producer rather than a Production Assistant title, that is worth money in the bank on your next job. So work with them on your fee.
7) The Credit Source (“-”). A credit only means as much as the person who gives it to you. If a major company offers you a lesser credit, don’t dismiss it outright. That company’s good reputation and position in the industry might give you more heat when you go to your next gig – and it certainly can open that next door a lot faster.
Your Experience (“-”). If you’re new in the game, this is where you’ll potentially shave quite a bit off of your quote, and that’s a wide open range. If you’ll be working for an established company, there still are minimum expectations for rates (again, check with outside people at the level above where you’re being hired). Established companies are offsetting the lower rate with a list of career and future financial benefits. Newcomers are not. So if you are providing a real product or service to a fellow industry newbie, you must be paid for it. And not on the “back-end” (where unicorns and Bigfoot and other myths live)!
A producer who can’t shoot a film without your script…can’t shoot a film WITH your script – because they don’t have money. It costs money to make a movie, and part of that should go to compensating the writer, especially since, unlike the crew, you are getting no other tangible experience in the process, and your writing credit will be skeptically received on an indie film that never saw the light of day. But if you’ve never had a script produced or done a modeling shoot or been in a play, and a newcomer wants to hire you, don’t even think about holding fast to union minimums. Work with them on a fee or some tradeoffs, per the list above and the tip that follows.
9) The Pay Date (“+”). The later someone is going to pay you for your work, the more you can bump (slightly increase) your fee. Almost everyone reading this has been approached by someone who wants them to do work for free (on “spec”), with promises of payment “on the back end.” That’s meaningless because you’re pretty much never going to see a back-end payment (it’s possible; just not likely!). So here’s a rule. If you are doing physical work for someone (writing a script, walking a runway, doing a photo shoot), you must arrange to get physical “payment,” of some sort, when you do the work.
If the employer is an established company and you are a working professional, do not do spec work for them. Once you do it for free, you will always be expected to do it for free – or at least for too little. Thank them for the offer of employment, let them know you don’t work for spec but are excited to work with them, then work out a deal memo through your lawyer, offering them an introductory fee for this first project and establishing a minimum “floor” for any projects that follow. Established companies are never shocked to talk to lawyers (that’s how we do things in Hollywood), and they are more than used to paying for people’s work.
Newbie employers can offer you “deferred payment” – but also request a guaranteed in-kind benefit you can leave that gig with (and sign that in a deal memo, too). If you’re doing a fashion show for someone, ask them if they will at least hire a professional digital photographer (or let you bring one) so you can get shots (free clothes aren’t enough – those won’t get you your next gig!). Ask the designer to alert the photographer that you’ll be bringing a laptop or memory stick to download your images before you leave, and bring a thank you note and truffle for the photographer. If you’re writing the script for someone’s film, ask them to buy a copy of professional screenwriting software and turn over one of their access codes to you. Work with strapped newbie employers to see what they can offer you in exchange for your labor – since they’re not offering you entrée to the contacts, relationships and respected credits that would otherwise make a lower rate worth it.
ONE LAST WORD. As you work more steadily in this industry, your “rate” transforms into your “quote.” Your “”quote” is what you were paid on your most recent gig(s), and it’s the magic number everyone expects to pay you on your next gig. So once you begin working more steadily, you must be very protective of your quote, regardless of the additional benefits a certain gig would offer. Be particularly wary of being asked to accept a lower rate in exchange for a higher credit because that sets a ridiculously low quote for your new credit level. Sounds pretty sticky and uncomfortable? That’s why people have agents.
DMA/Donna Michelle Anderson
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/breaking-into-hollywood-how-much-should-i-ask-people-to-pay-me-118572.html
1. Traffic
2. Links
That’s right! The reason why we online marketers and other folk bother to submit articles to article directories is because we want to get free web traffic from those directories and send it to a destination domain of our choice as well as get backlinks!
Seems pretty straight forward, huh? So what’s the catch (there’s always a catch right…well in real life at least!). The catch is that writing an article is not the end of the story; you need to actually get people to read that article.
Think of it this way. Imagine that you have invented the world’s most useful product but nobody knows about it, which means that nobody is ever going to use that world’s most useful product! For that essential invention of yours to be embraced and used by people they first need to know that it exists!
Same thing goes for your articles; you may have written the world’s best article ever, but if nobody bothers to read it then that great article of yours has achieved far less than a poorly written, inaccurate, poorly performing article that is at least performing!
Which brings us to perhaps the most important aspect of article writing, and that is:
Getting Your Article Read
So how do you get people to read your article?
Ever heard of the 80/20 Rule? It comes in many guises but for purposes of this article I shall define it as follows:
The Headline Is Responsible For 80% Of The Success Of An Article
This statement reinforces what we just discussed, about how useless even the best written article is if nobody ever gets to read it. Basically what I am saying here is that the headline will make or break your article, in that if it is not captivating then people simply won’t bother reading the rest of the article!
So ideally your heading should be riveting, gripping, captivating, intriguing, exciting…I could go on and on but I think you get the point. Your heading should be an eyeball magnet!
The Rule of Three Eees!
Ever heard of the rule of Three Eees (as in three letter Es)? Anyway without further ado, here’s what the three eees stand for:
1. Engage
2. Educate/Entertain
3. Excite
That’s right! The best articles incorporate at least 75% of the above three parameters.
1. Engage: Let’s consider point one, “engage”; this we have basically tackled with respect to the headline seeing as it is the headline that will capture your would-be reader’s attention. That part covers the engagement aspect of the three Eees (sounds like some band from the sixties).
2. Educate/Entertain: Most times when browsing for information on the internet people are expecting one of two things: to be educated or to be entertained. If your article covers any of these two aspects in a comprehensive and easily digestible manner then you are way ahead of the game. If it so happens that your article is both educative and entertaining then you have hit a home run!
When you educate a reader with an article you have written you are inherently giving them a solution to a problem that they need fixed. By entertaining your readers you are enabling them to de-stress in a fast-paced that has stress oozing from its pores!
3. Excite: The best way to get a response from anybody is to get them passionately involved in your topic. It is a well known fact that the best kind of marketing appeals to the emotions as opposed to cold harsh logic, and it is done through none other than the humble written (or spoken) word! Let’s face it, if your writing is boring and uninspiring the only thing that is going to get excited (maybe) is the search engine spider, which if your lucky drool itself into a frenzy to web that new content…but then again you aren’t writing for a machine are you now?
Across the passage of time people who understand the very enormous power of the written word have invoked it time and time again to stoke the fires of war, excite the depressed new impassioned and energetic fervor, change bad habits into good (and vice versa) and so on and so forth! Thus the saying: “The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword!”
LINKS: Getting Links Through Article Submission!
Okay, so we have dealt with the traffic portion of this equation now let’s tackle the aspect about linking. As mentioned earlier the 2nd reason that people bother to submit their article to article directories is (no…not because they simpleee love those article directories) because they wish to get backlinks for their domain from the article directory and also from other websites belonging to those folks who subsequently downloaded their articles.
If you are wondering why anybody in their right mind would want to give you links for no reason at all, even when you haven’t bothered requesting a link swap, well ley’s just say it all boils down to one word…LAZINESS!
Yup! Most of us are downright lazy and given the chance, if we could get from Point A to Point B without lifting a finger we would…in a heartbeat! Being online doesn’t change our lazy tendencies, in fact if anything the internet magnifies our lazy tendencies. We have come to expect instant gratification thanks largely to the internet and indeed we expect the internet to make our lives that much easier!
Which brings us full circle to this question about links, writing articles and people’s inherent laziness.
Most Folks Would Rather Download Your Article Than Write Their Own Content!
We have just ascertained that the vast majority of people are just as lazy online as off, if not more so online. A good number of folk find writing a tedious and thankless chore (evidently non-writers) but are savvy enough to know that if they want their online piece of real estate (blog, website etc) to graduate up the search engines, they must supply additional content consistently and on a regular basis.
And where do they get that new content from? From you and me Pal! They can get hold of our mouthwatering articles through the various article directories where we submitted them!
Anybody can download articles covering almost any subject under the sun from any one of hundreds of article directories on the internet and they don’t even have to sign up for nay kind of membership! The rules are simple governing article redistribution are straightforward. So long as you have given your permission to whatever article directory that anybody can download your articles and paste them on their own website or blog they can do so, just so long as they leave your link(s) in place and do not tamper with the text of your writing.
Thus in this manner you can get thousands of people downloading your article resulting (theoretically) into thousands of backlinks from different IP address all pointing to your own website or domain. However there’s a definite skill and art involved in getting your article downloaded in the thousands as opposed to single digit downloads!
Gary Neame
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/how-to-get-your-articles-downloaded-683360.html
