You can find plenty of writing concepts for your ebook by drawing from your own life. You will be successful if you are productive, and you will be productive if you draw ideas from the world you live in. Once you learn to gather information from the world around you, you will find a wealth of writing springboards.

1. Amazing probabilities for eBooks can be produced from personal experiences. You should never ignore the importance of your ordinary routine activities nor the places that your every day chores take you. Your next writing venture may reach new heights from an idea that you got while standing in line at the grocery store.

2. Be observant! People watching has helped many writers get ideas that later became their best work. Pay attention and take notes about everyone and everything you see. Although an observation may not seem like anything today, you never know when it may become the solution to a future writing problem.

Third, if you intend to write, you need to read. Reading can lead to inspiration for your writing efforts as well as entertainment and information. You may find an idea that you can turn into a profitable eBook from a book, newspaper, or even a billboard.

4. Speak with others. Consulting with other people is a great way to brainstorm ideas for themes, characters, and dialogue interchanges. Make a goal for yourself to meet someone new every day, always keeping in mind how this new person’s unique characteristics can give you inspiration for your writing.

5. Browse the Internet! Surfing the net is an entertaining way to get new ideas and writing prompts. When you open up your browser, you can travel anywhere you like on the Internet without loading up the car or leaving your front door.

Maintain a journal. Keeping a journal of your ideas is a recommended way to retain that good idea you have waiting in the wings. Experienced writers have said that their journals help center them and that they write down their ideas daily, everyday.

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There are many positive benefits when it comes to employing consumer reports to helping you gauge the information on items that you are interested in. That’s because, when you locate a consumer report that is of interest to the product that you are interested in buying, you get first-hand information from someone with a similar purchasing decision process as you. There are consumer reports that are created by various consumers who have already purchased and used the item in question. Many people actively seek out free consumer reports on the internet whenever they are looking to spend money on an item of substantial worth. Many high-end products like cars, electronics and tools are usually featured in most consumer report media outlets.

Let us use the car as a sample. If you are interested in purchasing a particular brand of car, you want to get as much information as possible before deciding whether or not you are going to buy. Some of that information features honest opinions about the car that you’re interested in. It doesn’t make sense to ask the car salesman for an honest opinion, since his position is to sell you the car. Therefore, you want to get opinions from people who have purchased, driven and used the car. If you can, you should get the information you need on the car you want by reading a free consumer report on the internet.

Consumer reports, because they are designed to be as understandable and as bi-partisan as possible, are often easy to read, simple to understand and feature a mixture of simple information and detailed results. A well-framed free consumer report should be easy to read and understand. If we revert back to the car as our example, you’ll get information on fuel efficiency, safety, engine power, braking systems, cargo space and more. Some consumer reports will actually compare your car to other kinds of cars in the same class.

There are lots of consumer reports that are available for perusal. And, as much as there are consumer report programs available, there are ordinary citizens who simply write their opinion on a product or service and post that information on various free consumer reports pages splattered all over the web. Doing that creates a dialogue of consumer reports that’s open, honest and engaging.

Get honest consumer reports and product reviews to help you make a smart purchase.

- Coston Optinlobe

Article marketing can be the most important activity for the growth of your business.

Are you ready to develop your own breakthrough article marketing? Then pay attention to these five ultimate article marketing ideas. This article will help you begin to create a breakthrough as a result of your efforts.

For break through article marketing, the key first step you need to think about is the creation of your own website. Your website will form the basis for all your other article marketing efforts and must provide a strong starting point.

Another step forward that you should take in breakthrough article marketing is to get your work endorsed by a more established article writer. Such an endorsement will enhance the your credibility and the credibility of your work.

3. Thirdly, it is wise to seek the advice and knowledge of your fellow writers when it comes to your breakthrough article marketing efforts. Other writers will have already tried and established methods of marketing, so you can learn from them rather than have to come up with something completely original.

In general, writers don’t feel comfortable doing their own marketing. It may be a good idea to retain the services of a marketing professional, but unfortunately there are no individuals or companies that specialize in assisting writers market their work.

5. At last, if you want to promote your cutting-edge product, remember to do an effective marketing. As you do your writing work, bring the thoughts from deep down yourself so that it would be creative. The same applies with your marketing work too. You have earned your name as a creative writer. So, it is not going to be difficult to slightly deviate these principles so it can be used to do an effective marketing.

You can get a free copy of our latest ebook by clicking here: The 7 Keys To Business Marketing Success. Sean Milea writes about Business Marketing

- Sean Milea

I have had the opportunity of being an instructor for almost thirty years, and involved in education for more than 3 decades. During those years I have taught grades K-5, grades 9-12, preparatory academy and most recently post high school students. For me, it was a constant struggle keeping lessons fun, interactive and rewarding for each pupil. As my lessons focused on older learners, making the gradual leap from young to older, I noticed a common concern that each maturity level of kids became overwhelmed by: how to write a research paper.

Initially, I thought nothing of the reaction I received when asking for research papers to be completed. At first, I simply defined the usual groaning as a student’s dislike of my love for outside assignments. But, what I was dismissing and defining as being disgruntled, actually had much more depth; these students were sometimes downright panic stricken when they heard mention of a “research paper”.

Worry about the something outside their comfort zone, being buried in volumes of pages, and not having a clue how to brainstorm research paper ideas was frequent. older teens envisioning a brick wall to climb, because they didn’t know how to write a research paper, rarely truly believed me that in life’s big picture, completing a dissertation, even one that was very lengthy, was barely a grain of sand on a beach, compared to much more significant, life impacting challenges they’d eventually face as grownups. Those ideas fell on a non-responsive audience usually.

Unable to look towards the whole essence or the long overall result, their immediate truth was a looming time limit that could only be met by participating in something they weren’t interested in, that conflicted with their social life or that made them uneasy facing the unknown: how to write a research paper, and do it right - not just to pass or fail, but earn the marks that high schools, universities, colleges and graduate schools, both public and private, hold in high importance.

When I first began teaching at the post high-school level I planned to give a semester-long specification to write a research paper on a(n) topic of that particular student’s most passionate concern.

A wise colleague warned me that this would cause me many headaches. He said that even at a university level, simply hearing that you have to write a research paper usually sent many students into a tail spin.

Determined, I ignored his best intentions and ventured into research paper neverland. The first day of the term I handed out the syllabus for the semester. This included the name of the selected text, test dates and the requirement that everyone would write a research paper.

I explained that the reviews as well as the participation in classroom discussions would be a majority of the semester grade and the research paper would be the other 33%. I handed out schedules and due dates for the paper. I wanted the topic they chose as well as a rough outline completed in the first 14 days and then various progress reports throughout the term.

My plan and execution of my set schedule “forced” the paper to be done in small chunks, rather than the typical giant one, when many students, kids or adults, sit down at the last minute and try to accomplish a semester’s worth of work in one marathon of study. Unnecessary worry and anxiety in my way of thinking. And with the fundamentals of how to effectively write a research paper tackled in small sections throughout the class, semester or year depending on curriculum and / or institution, initial panic about even the most simple section, research paper ideas, seemed less and less a major undertaking.

Whether narrowing down a long catalog of clauses formatted neat and succinctly summarizing research paper ideas, writing each necessary element, keeping each research paper properly formatted for an educator who was known to be a stickler about such fine points, or pacing themselves to guarantee paper completion by the due date, when deconstructed into smaller sections, how to write a research paper concerns slowly, but surely go away. Watch for for the up and coming article: Research Paper Ideas, the Easy Way - Minus the anxiety.

In the first of an up and coming series of reports highlighting how to write a research paper without the all too common nausea, instructor Ron Smithers provides one of several, a lesson he extracted from his teaching days. Next , to avoid research paper anxiety, only to be found at the the site that hands over free stuff to college students, and helps you tap into more money with federal education loan consolidation.

- Jackie Black

Grammar rules are not static. Common wisdom states that they change. The rules of grammar supposedly adapt to real-world usage. Real-world usage aside, the pervasive use of “me and so-and-so” in our culture drives me nuts!

Once upon a time, we would say, “George and I went to the store.” A couple decades ago, if someone said, “Me and George went to the store,” the listener would conclude that the speaker was uneducated. These days, turn on the television and the newscaster is saying, “Me and … blah, blah, blah.” Talk radio hosts say it. Even educated people such as lawyers and CPAs have embraced the “me and my client” culture.

You know what’s even scarier? I have intentionally included the “me and George” error and other grammatical mishaps in this article and ran it through Microsoft Word’s spelling and grammar check. Guess what? It didn’t even catch the errors!

Is this poor grammar just the product of a narcissistic “Me, me, me culture?” Are we just getting dumb? Or am I way behind the times and getting dumb as a result because I am not using real-world usage?

I’ll be honest … it’s been a very long time since I sat through a semester of grammar class. I can see or hear what’s off with a sentence but do not know what the error is specifically called. So, instead of finding the right words and rules to explain it, here’s the common sense rule that I learned back in second grade:

Take out the third person and see if the sentence makes sense. If you’re saying “Me and George went to the store,” keep George out of it and try this: “Me went to the store.” Sounds ridiculous, eh? Conversely, split up the proper form and we have, “George went to the store,” and “I went to the store.” You can do this with a variety of sentences to easily figure out what makes the most grammatical sense.

Common sense aside, those of us who are offended by the constant “me and so-and-so” grammar can at least take comfort in the fact that pronoun variations such as “Me and him went to the store” or “Her and me went to the store” have not yet skyrocketed to the top of the common usage charts.

Now that this irritant is off my chest, me going to the store. Maybe George wants to go, too.

Urbain Beck is a freelance writer who has written a number of online and off-line articles and technical reports. If you have written online content and would like to show off your writing, be sure to submit some blurbs at The Blurbosphere. You’ll receive one-way links from PR2, PR3 and PR4 blogs at no charge. Visit www.blurbosphere.com for details.

- Urbain Beck

When you market online it is very important to remember 3 things. You need an expanding market that wants what you have to offer. Secondly make sure that your product or service will solve their needs and greatly benefit them. Thirdly have powerful marketing methods to show them what you have. Lastly and most importantly you need a killer sales page to close your sales.

If you neglect to take the actions needed to make a great sales page, you will end up with little or no sales. You can have a great product, but it won’t sell! Here are some tips to get you started:

1. Find out how the master copywriters succeed. Go to Google and type in ‘copywriters’ and look at the first 10 websites at the top of the search. You can see what they do, how they set them up, etc. Don’t steal their work, of course, but you can get some good ideas.

2. Understand the 3 P’s of Copywriting

a. Make it personal

b. Make it precise and streamlined

c. Make it persuasive

3. Fix your layout for your product or service. You can use many but your sales page should be in the following three parts. a. Emphasize the problem and bring this to your reader’s attention.

b. Next, you present your product or service and show the prospect how it will solve the problem they need help with. Show the benefits.

c. At the end you will have the call for action and the guarantee, etc.

4. Work on headlines 1st and then sub headlines, lastly fill in the details. Remember your headline is your salesman. The headline will attract your reader and make them sit up and take notice. Your sub headlines must also attract attention and draw your reader into the actual sales copy.

5. Make sure you have ‘an iron clad’ guarantee. This encourages your potential buyer to have trust in you and be more inclined to buy.

Take the time to study up a bit on writing good copy. Every pro knows that no sales page is ever set completely in stone, and that a change in a word or two can increase sales.

Split testing: This is a very necessary part of getting your sales copy to produce the highest sales conversions. Here are some steps to do this:

1. Make 2 sales pages for the same product or service

2. Each one should be written with some slight differences.

3. Track which ones gets the most traffic.

4. Drive traffic to both pages.

5. Note which page brings the most sales.

6. Use the one with the highest sales conversion

Mistakes to avoid:

1. Too much hype

2. Poor presentation

3. Using features instead of benefits

These are just a few pointers to help you make a start. Remember to think as a buyer and not a seller. If your page cannot convince you to buy the product or service then it certainly will not convince your reader.

Dan Farrell is offering 7 free marketing videos to jump start any home business online. Marketing online with your own product or someone else’s doesn’t need to be difficult but having a plan and the details of how to profitably execute it is essential. These videos with a fabulous e-course is a great start. Download them at: Work At Home Dan is also offering his ebook, Guide to Newbie Online Fortunes for your subscription to his newsletter.

- Dan Farrell

WARNING! There is no quick method for you to get fantastic rankings and lots of qualified traffic to your website inside of ten seconds, like all of the other so called Search Engine Optimization Experts who jam your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they regurgitate, you might still believe in the tooth fairy or that the earth is flat.

If you would like honest information about how a beginner created and marketed a very successful, profitable website in well under one year, then hang in there. This article is really about what has worked exceptionately well at getting mountains of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.

A year ago I was a complete amateur at this, and I didn’t know what Search Engine Optimization, reciprocal links or article spinning and marketing was. Today I am the owner of a outrageously successful ecommerce website.

Now, I don’t claim to be a Search Engine Optimization guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I’ve been outrageously successful at getting huge amounts of traffic to my website without paying a dime for it. And my ecommerce website also has a much higher conversion rate than many other websites on the web. In other words, my site is well in the "black" and making plenty of money.

Here is a little bit of background information on me: I’ve been in my own business for many, many years and I’ve had a great deal of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within 3 years, and many established businesses fail on a regular basis, I think that over the years I’ve learned how to rapidly adapt to a changing marketplace.

I decided to morph my business into an Internet based business in February. So I bought a copy of Microsoft FrontPage and I started creating a website. At the same time I started transforming my "product" for online consumption. In June, I was 59 and I retired from my professional practice in order to focus full time on marketing my "product" via my ecommerce website.

You must be wondering what my "product" is. My "product" is information. But I’m not going to tell you exactly what kind of information it is that I sell, and I’m not going to send you to my site because I don’t want my competitors to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving - a six month time span.

More importantly, I don’t want them to know the processes that I used to get my homemade website to get to a first page ranking in the Google organic SERPS for a large number of very important keywords, and on the first three pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different search terms. It has taken me way under one year, while lots of my competitors have been working at it for ten years!

I’ll be the first to admit that I wasted a lot of time and money on a lot of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the "Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus." At the same time I’ve learned which Internet software applications are productive and worth spending money on.

HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET - ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING

Many people have used reciprocal linking to promote ecommerce sites. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, I believe that publishing articles that I’ve written on thousands of Internet websites for free has had the largest impact on my site’s search engine ranking and my income. But beware: If you are not aware of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.

WHY IS ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?

It’s simple: 1. The fastest way to rank well on the search engines is to have a lot of one-way links from other on-topic websites to your website.

2. When you write a good article and put it on another website, your "payment" for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your site. The more articles that you write and publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your website. The more one-way links from other on-topic websites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.

3. If you write a good article, you can set yourself apart as the expert in your field. A good article will validate you. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That’s because people will read it, and if you’ve built their trust, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.

NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH - AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER

If you want to be successful then you must get your well-written article on hundreds or even thousands of other sites. Google doesn’t like duplicated content. What that means is that even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other sites, the search engines can find the duplicate articles and only give you credit for the links in one, or maybe a few of the published articles.

So in reality, in order to get the most benefit from your articles and links you have got to create a different well-written article for each website that it is published on. But it is almost impossible to accomplish that, right?

Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer software, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spinning software began to emerge on the scene.

Unfortunately, most spooled articles are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are usually totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is usually all wrong. And anyone who reads them will think that they were written by a three year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.

But if you create an article that has been well-written to start with, and then use the software correctly, the software can re-write it into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that anyone would feel proud of. And more importantly, the articles will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.

If you don’t like writing articles, don’t have the time, or you don’t have the expertise, you do not need to worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spin them! But you are always better off if you can write your own articles.

I’ve used desktop software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create spooled articles, and it works great. As I write this page, I still do use this software for creating articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won’t get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.

Your published articles almost always trigger many more referrals if they are placed directly on your competitor’s website! But it is usually somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting only to article directories.

HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!

There are some very inexpensive Internet sites that allow you to use their article spinning software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of using these services are almost too good to be believed. Let me tell you a little bit about these services.

To start with, the best part about these services is that they can take your article, and they can spin an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they place a different unique version of your article on hundreds or even thousands of on-topic sites. These spooled articles are so unique that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.

This is real power. We are talking about the ability to get your articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer’s websites practically overnight. To sweeten the pot, when these services publish your article on another site, they won’t publish that Webmaster’s articles on your site. This will eliminate reciprocal linking and nets you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.

Unlike most article directories where the number of links you can place in your article are very limited, these services allow you to put up to five keyword rich links in each of your articles. It’s best to have each of those back links go to a different page on your site, not just to your home page.

You should make the links appropriate. So if your story is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you’ll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you’ll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.

The plans for the future on some of these article spinning sites are to spin your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.

Make no mistake; this is not a 10 second "click one button" cure for the huge job of writing hundreds of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of article directories and thousands of peer sites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably believe that the earth is flat.

You will still have to put a great deal of effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you must be willing to put sufficient effort into finding the synonym words and phrases that the software will use to spin or spool your unique article. But believe me, you can not accomplish in a full month what these services can do in an hour.

As an example of what can be done: I wrote 4 completely different articles on different kinds of information that I sell. And after only twelve days with one of these services, my articles were on 242 different peer site on-topic web pages.

You can do the math! With five links in each article, one to my home page and 4 to different deep linked product pages on my website, that’s nine-hundred-sixty-eight links in only 12 days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. A little mathmatical extrapolitation will tell you what will happen after a month, 3 months, a year, etc.!

HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO SPOOL ARTICLES USING THESE SERVICES?

It is so easy to use the software applications that it’s almost ridiculous. You will learn to use it within minutes.

Some of these article spooling services will let you try out their software without charge. Many give a 30-day money back guarantee. So you get to try their service for a full month to see how much it can help your site to improve its rankings and its traffic before you are committed to having to pay for the use of the software. I highly recommend this type of software and you will be happy that you gave it a try!

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Albert Weiss is an amateur at SEO. He is NOT a self-proclaimed SEO Guru. However, as a beginner, he has built and marketed a very successful ecommerce site in well under a year. His website is successfully competing with other top producing ecommerce sites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!

Mr. Weiss has documented the steps that were taken to get tons of free traffic to his website to make it successful by using article marketing, as well as how relying on several other aspects of Search Engine Optimization can quickly make an ecommerce site a success. He built a Free Search Engine Optimization Information Site just for you! So visit www.ArticleSpooling.com right away.

Albert Weiss is a novice at SEO. He is NOT one of the thousands of self-proclaimed SEO Gurus that inhabit the Internet. However, as a novice, he has created and marketed a very successful and profitable ecommerce site in well under a year. His site is successfully competing with the other top producing websites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!

- Albert Weiss

Human Psychology is very interesting to me. What interests me is not so much why people do the things they do, but the fact that so many people do things the same way.

I read that when you look at a computer screen, you are most likely to be interested in what is in the top left of the screen (marketers take note, if you want to do subconscious mind advertising on your web site, your best ad should be at the top left). I think this happens because most of us have been trained to read from left to right. But people who have been retrained to Speed Read do not read this way. Speed-readers read an entire block of text at one time, or go back and forth with their reading, instead of just left to right.

Most people will continue to do things the way they were originally taught, even if a better way is found. It takes about a month of doing things differently to change a habit (26 days to be exact), and even longer to change your subconscious mind thinking — because it has to be constant, conscious effort; not just doing one thing different every day.

If you always look for a better way, you will find it! Your mind IS programmable, and you have the power to choose what goes into it, and what you accept, and/or what you are willing to change.

Your mind is a great source of information. If you’ve ever read a book about Directed Dreaming or Lucid Dreaming you can see that you can get information easily from your Subconscious, OR, spend your dream time getting into your dreams and having a little fun!

Affirmations are important. The mind is constantly taking things that happen and forming beliefs which affect the way we perceive reality. As soon as you accept an input as reality, it becomes reality. For example: If you’ve ever had a job where your boss was constantly putting down your work and telling you it was no good, eventually, even if you were a top producer before, you will begin to believe that you are no good. My advice: Start looking for a new job immediately! It takes a long time to build up an ego, and very little time for someone else to shoot it down.

Here’s the one thing you should always keep in mind: Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. So, believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.

Always focus on the positive, don’t let anyone put you down, and do affirmations to help distinguish negative thoughts.

Evelyn Grazini is the Author of Directed Dreaming Her specialty is Self-Help information including Dreaming, Hypnosis and Psychic Intuition. Her writings effectively condense volumes of professional research into one succinct resource. Get Free Dreaming Reports at: Reawakener.com

- Evelyn Grazini

Because there are so many blogs and web sites about blogs on the internet, it can be to distinguish your blogging web site from all of the others. Whether you are starting up a new web site aimed at bloggers or whether you are looking to make your existing blogging site more distinctive , the key to creating and maintaining a site that will capture the interest and attention of the blogging is finding your niche. If you can fill a need in a way that no other web site does, you’ll be able to build a lasting readership among web surfers. Once you have discovered a niche, you will still have a to do, but finding your place in the blogosphere is the place to start. Every great blogging web site starts with a idea, and you can’t build a site that will last without one. There are many great sites aimed at today’s bloggers, and competition for the attention of this growing demographic is intense. To make your blogging web site stand out from the pack, you will need to offer something that no other site is currently offering, or you will need to the same thing that an already popular site does but in a more or way. One way to find an ideal model for your blogging web site is to look at the sites that have successfully captured a blogging audience already to determine if you can some of their strategies to help realize your vision . Of course, you will also need to add a unique flair to your in order to stand apart from your competition. Many people agree that the web sites that do the best in today’s market are the sites that have the most . The fiercely individual surfers who are bloggers are a demographic that responds especially strongly to specialities, so consider how you can give your site a and attractive feeling by lending your own voice and sensibility to your site’s creation and content. Once you have a innovative idea for your site, have pinpointed a special niche that you are well equipped to fill, and have infused the site with personality, the next step is figuring out how to get the out to bloggers. In the long run, a great idea just isn’t enough to your blogging web site to success. You will need to draft a smart and realistic marketing plan in order to readers to your site. Once you capture a blogger, your content will keep them coming back, but it is to get that first glance or your site won’t have a chance to shine.

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- Thom Dickey

Be forwarned! I don’t have a quick method for you to get top of the list rankings and mountains of traffic to your ecommerce site inside of ten minutes, like all of the other so called SEO Experts who spam your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they regurgitate, you must still believe in the Easter Bunny or that the earth is flat.

However, if you would like some honest information about how a sheer amateur created a very successful and profitable web presence in less than one year, then stick around. This article is about what has worked outrageously well at getting tons of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.

A year ago I was a complete beginner at this, and I didn’t know what SEO, reciprocal back links or article marketing was. Today I am the owner of a highly successful ecommerce website.

Now, I don’t claim to be a SEO expert or guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I’ve been outrageously successful at getting huge amounts of qualified traffic to my ecommerce site without paying a dime for it. And my ecommerce website also has a much higher conversion rate than many other ecommerce websites on the web. In other words, my site is well in the "black" and making plenty of money.

My Background: I’ve been an entrepreneur for many, many years and I’ve had a lot of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within 3 years, and many established businesses fail regularly, I like to think that over the years I’ve learned how to rapidly adapt as the marketplace changes.

I decided to transform my profession into an Internet business in Feb.. So I got a copy of FrontPage and I started designing and building an ecommerce site. At the same time I started morphing my "product" for online consumption. In June, I was 59 and I retired from my professional practice in order to focus full time on marketing my "product" via my ecommerce site.

You must be wondering what my "product" is. My "product" is information. But I’m not going to reveal to you exactly what kind of information it is that I sell, and I’m not going to send you to my website because I don’t want my direct competitors to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving - a six month time span.

More importantly, I don’t want them to know the processes that I used to get my homemade website to rank on the first page in the Google organic SERPS for dozens of important keywords, and on the first three pages of Google, Yahoo, and MSN organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different search terms. It has taken me way less than a year, and many of my competitors have been working at it for up to ten years!

I’ll admit that I’ve wasted a lot of time and hard earned money on a lot of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the "Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus." At the same time I’ve learned which Internet software applications are productive and worth investing in.

HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET - ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING

Many people use reciprocal linking to promote websites. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, it is my belief that publishing articles that I’ve written on thousands of competitor websites for free has had the largest impact on my site’s ranking and the amount of money that I have been able to make. But beware: If you are not aware of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.

WHY IS ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?

It’s simple: 1. The quickest way to good rankings on the search engines is to have a lot of one-way links from other on-topic sites to your site.

2. When you write and publish a good article to another site, your "payment" for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your website. The more articles that you write and publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your website. The more one-way links from other on-topic sites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.

3. If you are able to write a good article, you can set yourself apart as the expert in your field. A good article will create a lot of validation for you in the eyes of the public. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That is because people will read it, and if you’ve built their trust, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.

NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH - AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER

If you want to be successful then you must get your well-written article on hundreds or even thousands of other sites. Google doesn’t like content that has been duplicated on other sites. What that means is that even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other sites, Google can find the duplicate articles and only give you credit for the links in one, or maybe a few of the articles.

So in a perfect world, in order to get the most benefit from your articles and links you have to create a unique article for each website. But it is almost impossible to accomplish that, right?

Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer programming, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spooling software began to emerge on the scene.

Unfortunately, most spooled articles are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are usually totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is almost always all wrong. And anyone who reads them usually think that they were published by a 3 year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.

However, if you create a well-written article to start with, and then use the spooling software correctly, the software can re-write your article into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that you will feel proud of. And most importantly, the articles will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.

If you don’t like to write articles, if you do not have the time, or don’t have the expertise, don’t worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spool them! But you will always be better off if you can write your own articles.

I’ve used desktop software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create these kinds of spun articles, and it works great. As I write this page, I still do use this kind of software for writing articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won’t get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.

Published articles almost always trigger far more referrals if they are placed directly on your competitor’s website! But it is somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting directly to article directories.

HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!

There are some affordable online services that allow you to use their article spooling software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is super easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of using these sites is almost too good to be true. Let me tell you a little bit about these services.

First off, the best part about these services is that they take your article, and they can spool an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they publish a different unique version of your article on hundreds of on-topic sites. These spun articles are so unique that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.

This is real power. We are talking about the ability to get your articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer’s websites practically overnight. To sweeten the pot, when your articles are published on another site, they won’t publish that Webmaster’s articles on your site. This will eliminate reciprocal linking and nets you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.

Unlike most article directories where your links are severely limited, these services allow you to put up to five keyword rich links in each of your articles. It’s best to have each of those back links go to a different webpage on your site, not just to your home page.

You should make the links appropriate. So if your story is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you’ll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you’ll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.

The plans for the future on some of these article spinning sites are to spool your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.

Don’t get carried away, because this is not a ten second "click one button" cure for the huge job of creating hundreds of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of article directories and thousands of peer sites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably believe that the earth is flat.

You will still have to put sufficient effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you must be ready to put effort into creating the synonym words and phrases that the software requires to spin or spool your article. But believe me, you could not do in a year by manual means what these services can do in a matter of mere hours.

As an example of what can be accomplished: I wrote 4 completely different articles on different kinds of information that I sell. And after only 12 days with one of these services, my articles were on 242 different competitor site on-topic web pages.

You do the math! With 5 links in each article, one to my home page and 4 to different deep linked product pages on my ecommerce site, that’s nine-hundred-sixty-eight back links in twelve days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. A little mathmatical extrapolitation will tell you what will happen after a month, 3 months, a year, etc.!

JUST HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO SPOOL ARTICLES USING THESE SERVICES?

It is so easy to use the software that it’s ridiculous. You will learn to use it within moments.

Most of these article spooling services will allow you to test out their service for free. Most give you a 30-day money back guarantee. You will get to try it for a full month to see how much it can help your site to improve its rankings and its traffic before you must pay for the use of the software and the service. I highly recommend this type of online service and you will be happy that you gave it a test run!

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Albert Weiss is a novice at SEO. He isn’t a self-proclaimed SEO Guru. However, as a novice, he has created and marketed a very successful ecommerce website in well under a year. His ecommerce site is successfully competing with the other top producing websites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years or more!

Mr. Weiss has documented what he did to drive lots of free traffic to his ecommerce site to make it successful by using article spinning, as well as how using several other aspects of SEO can quickly make a website a successful money maker. He created a Free SEO Site just for you! So go to www.ArticleSpooling.com right away.

Mr. Weiss has documented the steps that were taken to drive tons of free traffic to his site to make it successful by relying on article spinning, as well as how several other aspects of Search Engine Optimization can quickly make a website a success. He built a Free SEO Information Site for everyone! So go to www.ArticleSpooling.com now.

- Albert Weiss