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Which Article Directory Script to Choose?

Nail — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:07:04 +0000

The basic monetization model of an article directory, if it is not paid, is to use Google Adsense ads on it. Most of the ones with paid membership options serve ads as well. I did a simple research and noticed that there are hundreds of article directories around and most, if not all, might be making some good money with Adsense.

This idea lured me and I started thinking about creating a simple article directory site, where I could post the PLR articles I have collected up to now. Besides, I would be posting my own articles for backlink purposes and other article marketers might be interested in posting their articles on my article directory as well. For that reason, I brainstormed some domain names suitable for an article directory and checked if they were available or not. Luckily, found some good ones ready to register. But before registering the domain name, I checked the available article directory scripts.

Next step was to find a good article directory script. I didn’t want to pay a big amount for a custom created one so that I searched for free scripts in search engines and in forums. I’ve found a number of free article directory scripts and some of them had paid versions too.

What I realized after a few hours of search was that running an article directory as a business model might not be as lucrative as it first seemed to me. In most of the discussions, people told that article directories are not well performing as they were before because of the competition. Many article directory sites are opening and closing every year due to poor strategies. To be successful and make a name as an article directory, and in return make money, unique features should be offered to article writers to post articles on the directory. This idea discouraged me a bit and I realized that I will need to go with a custom build article directory script if I go on with this project.

Anyway, I made a list of article directory scripts and will talk about them briefly below for those of you who want to start an article directory business.

Article Dashboard

Article Dashboard is an article directory itself and it offers the script it uses for free as well. What I learned about this script is that it is no longer reliable and not preferred by serious people as it is open to hacks and attacks. It is really simple in design and although I will not recommend using it, for a first try, you may check how it looks and performs. The download link is here.

Article MS

Article MS is another free article management system, it seems to have a better design than article dashboard. It has different templates you can choose from and a WYSIWYG editor for article submissions. This script can also be tried, you can download it here.

Article Friendly

Article Friendly is a newer and more preferred script amongst others. It has two versions, standard for $25 and pro for $50. Most of the article directories I came across are using this script. I guess it is a good choice for someone who has a little money to invest in it. However, to distinguish from others, this is not exactly what you need.

AJ Articles

Another paid article directory script is AJ Articles, I haven’t seen much directories using this script, since it looks more like a news blog or portal rather than an article directory site. Nevertheless you may check it yourself and decide if you want to go with it.

Those were the article directory scripts that I came across during my search and I hope it helps on your decision. Just not forget that simply creating an article directory and loading it with tons of PLR content is not a wise business model anymore unless you have the time to waste.

5 PLR Articles Related To Twitter Marketing

Nail — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:42:00 +0000

I want to announce that I put on sale 5 PLR articles related to Twitter Marketing on the Digital Point Forum. You can see the details here:

5 Unique PLR Articles About Twitter Marketing

Please leave a review on the thread if you happen to buy a copy for yourself. There is a link to my Ezine Articles account on the thread so that you can see my article samples. In fact if you have been following this blog, you know about my writing. I am not an expert article writer; however, I am working on it and reading and writing a lot. You may remember my last post about My First Article on Ezine Articles, now I have 13 live articles and 596 views with a 2.6% CTR. 3 of them are published and 1 emailed.

Again, if you are going to target Twitter marketing niche, this articles will really help you.

How to Write an Article About a Topic That You Know Absolutely Nothing About

Nail — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:27:36 +0000

First of all, let me tell you this: I don’t recommend you write an article about a topic that you know nothing about. Though, I know that sometimes you may need to do this.

It is apparent that, there are people who can create really high quality articles about topics they are totally a stranger, in a short time. This is a skill that’s developed in time with practice and experience. So, hearing claims such as “Give me any keyword and I’ll write a 300-words high quality article around it in less than 30 minutes.” shouldn’t surprise you.

Writing is a skill that is built and developed over time with more and more practice. If you keep writing and follow the ones who are good at it, your writing will become better eventually.

If you want to write quality articles in any topic, you need to start with exercising it on subjects that you are familiar to. By doing so, you will build your own style of writing and your writing speed will increase too.

Once you are comfortable with the articles you’ve written, submit them to article directories and see if they will approve them. Approval will be a measure of feedback. Furthermore, it is also a good idea to ask your friends or others to review your articles. Take all the feedback you can and adjust your articles accordingly.

At some point, you will feel confident enough to write about things that you know less about. Try writing on some subtopics that you will not need to do further research to write. It will be slightly difficult at the beginning, but when you start writing, it will flow naturally and you will not know when you are finished a 400-words article.

The next step is to write about topics that you will need to do a little research to be able to compose an article. For those kind of stuff, make a preliminary research and try to base your article around a question related to the subject or make a list of items to write about.

A how-to article will be easy to start with. for example, “How to register a domain name?” or “How to install a wordpress blog?”. You will be able to find a great deal of information on how-to subjects on the internet.

Another type of article to start with is a list of items like “7 things to keep in mind before starting a web business” or “Simple steps to build a wonderful garden”. The idea here is to split the article body into smaller parts and complete it step by step. In a short time, you will notice how fast you’ve become in writing.

Finally, and the hardest one, we come to the topics that you know nothing about and the ones that you hear for the first time. Anyone can write crappy content about anything, however, as a wannabe quality article writer, we are after quality content here.

To accomplish this, you will need to do more research and will be reading until you get to a point that you learnt enough to start writing. For some topics, this may take hours, yet for some others, this may take days or even weeks. And for some specific ones like extremely detailed medical subjects or engineering trends, which will require professional background, you may not be able to write at all. That’s fine, hey, you don’t need to write about everything right?

The First Article I Submitted to EzineArticles Got Approved

Nail — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:58:46 +0000

Can you believe me that I resisted to post an article on EzineArticles.com for more than one year? I created Squidoo lenses, Blogger blogs, WordPress sites; promoted Clickbank products, Amazon stuff; tried PPC, Google Adsense, in-text ads, CPA, shortly, I conducted nearly all the things related to internet marketing. Yet, I hadn’t written one single ezine article till last week, when I forced myself to write an original article about building relationships. You can see it here: Build Trust and Credibility by Following One Simple Method.

Now I have two live articles on EzineArticles and I can’t wait to write more. I have 100% approval rate so far -I know this is not something big for two trials. I am getting some views though not URL clicks yet. I need to work on writing articles that leads to URL clicks.

Honestly, I don’t know why I resisted to write articles on EZA to build authorithy and get traffic to my sites. I should have done that the first time I heard about them. Maybe I wasn’t experienced enough to write articles that I liked myself.

In summary, I am very happy that I jumped on the Ezine Articles train, even if it is a bit late. I believe that it will be good for my business as long as I provide quality content. I recommend anyone who wants to play in the garden of internet marketing, make use of Ezine Articles, if they haven’t already.

Does Your Writing Suck? – Improve It by Applying This Simple Method

Nail — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:47:19 +0000

So, you feel that your writing sucks and you want to improve it but you don’t know what you need to do.

Well, what you need to do is really simple.

Before going into that, let me ask you a question that will take your attention to one thing I want to emphasize. Think for a moment that you are a newbie artist and you want to improve the quality of your paintings. What would you do? That’s somewhat obvious, you would read books, take courses and attend seminars about painting, in short, you would master the theory. With that knowledge on your mind, you would take action on what you’ve learned and start to paint. The more you painted, the better you would become in time. However, you would know that wouldn’t be the case if you had given up when you saw that your first trial was not much better than the previous ones.

Like painting, as with all other skills you can think of, the only thing to get better on something is to do it again and again.

Now, you know what you need to do to improve your writing: To write more and more. This is what I tried to explain in my free ebook The Last Ebook You will Ever Need to Read.

If you haven’t written anything before, just go and push yourself to it. I know it will be really hard at first to compose even one short paragraph. Just don’t give up or delete it because it sounds bad. Believe me you will feel much more comfortable when you start writing the second paragraph. and when you are done with your first article, you will feel much better.

One last thing to keep in mind is, as like the artist example, in order to improve your writing you still need to read books, and listen to others who write well. However, you can not just expect to writte better just because you’ve read a lot and know what it takes to write better. You actually have to write and practice more to improve yourself. For me, reading weighs 20% and practicing the writing weighs 80%.

Now, it is time to grab a pencil and a paper and start writing.

What is the Truth about the Duplicate Content?

Nail — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:33:20 +0000

I bet nobody on the planet can clarify the duplicate content debate to a hundred percent. Too many questions have been asked about the duplicate content penalthy, if it exists, and how search engines treat the duplicate content. Some people are really confused with the duplicate content stuff and some others don’t give a tiny bit to it.

I am either not much confident about the topic, though a recent video published on Google Webmaster Central Blog, gave some insight to the subject. You had better watch the video if you are unsure about the subject too.

The link to the video is : Duplicate Content and Multiple Site Issues.

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