How to be a Successful Author at Ezine Articles

Everything you need to know about being a successful author at ezine articles.com

If you're a Twitter user who doesn't follow @EzineArticles, you're missing a lot of great EzineArticles information and training!

The following is a list of (30) assorted author tips, insider info, fun facts and reminders we tweeted in the month of October. Any one of these could have been just the tool you needed to turbocharge your article marketing efforts.

Just CLICK on any of the "ReTweet This" links to auto-populate your Twitter status field. Then just edit for length and retweet to your heart's content!

EzineArticles Tips and Training Snippets:

• A trap to avoid: Making the focus of your articles about what you are AGAINST. Instead, argue your points about what you are FOR & why. [ReTweet This]
  
• Resource Box Tip: Never pretend or say that a self-serving link is not your own when in fact it is. Build TRUST, not deception. [ReTweet This]
  
• Tip: Excessive HTML in your article body makes it hard for publishers to use, meaning you and your links get less circulation. [ReTweet This]
  
• Punctuation Tip: Reach the period sooner before later. Don't drone on and fail to close your thought. [ReTweet This]
  
• Article Writing Tip: Make connections with your readers by envisioning yourself speaking directly to them. [ReTweet This]
  
• Article Body is where you GIVE; Resource Box is where you TAKE. [This is one of our core tenants.] [ReTweet This]

EzineArticles Fun Facts:

• Fact: 6484 articles were Scheduled for future release in the month of Sept by our Premium members. [ReTweet This]
  
• Website Magazine's Top 50 Websites for 'Net Professionals named EzineArticles #18! http://is.gd/4zvYk Cool! :] [ReTweet This]
  
• No surprise here: 19% of all problem articles not accepted are in the 250-299 word count range. 41% are under 399 words. [ReTweet This]
  
• "Mavis Beacon" is an excellent example of an unreal person that is used as an exclusive image to represent the brand in the market. [ReTweet This]
  
• EzineArticles members submit an avg of 2+ articles in their article submission session. Smart, because it leverages their time. [ReTweet This]
  
• 46.8 percent of EzineArticles members use FIREFOX for their browser! Wow. Best reason to use FireFox? Built-in SPELL CHECK! :) [ReTweet This]

EzineArticles Inside Information:

• Clickbank Affiliates: We've never allowed clickbank URL's in the past and now we're auto-rejecting at the front door. [ReTweet This]
  
• We've significantly tightened up our anti-derivative content filters last week. Yesterday alone 741 articles rejected at the front door. [ReTweet This]
  
• How big should your Resource Box be? Between 7-15 percent of your article body in terms of word count and line length. [ReTweet This]
  
• Want a reason to keep your self-serving links in the Resource Box and not the Article Body? Links in article body are set to NOFOLLOW. [ReTweet This]
  
• We disagree with using iStockphoto for fake/pen author names. Reason: Because the photos aren't exclusive to your name. [ReTweet This]
  
• We're not automatically declining articles with locations in the title; but article body needs to deliver specific locale info. [ReTweet This]

Motivational Moments:

• "Being a published author is a big, fat billboard that says, I'm SMART!" - Arielle Ford [via @LisaDSparks] [ReTweet This]
  
• Figure out what your readers want, then think about what they need. Find the balance between the two, and watch your readership grow. [ReTweet This]
  
• Enthusiasm is contagious. Market a product/service you're passionate about, and chances are others will become excited about it too! [ReTweet This]
  
• Only EXTREMELY rare expert authors can write high value 250-400 word articles. The rest of us deliver value in the 400-800+ word count range. [ReTweet This]
  
• Always know your purpose for writing each article. This will keep your content focused, concise, and easier for readers to understand. [ReTweet This]
  
• Quality trumps Quantity. If your articles are failing to deliver, slow down, start over and allow yourself another perspective. [ReTweet This]

Misc. Words of Wisdom:

• Blogging and article marketing are natural partners. Both present info, articles just do it in a non-promotional, more formal way. [ReTweet This]
  
• 1 of the biggest advantages of article marketing is getting targeted traffic. You miss out on that if your links don't match your articles! [ReTweet This]
  
• Have your checked your ARTICLE DIAGNOSTIC CENTER lately for dead links that need fixing? Fix 'em and get your FREE traffic back! :) [ReTweet This]
  
• Looking for fresh content? Try mentoring a newbie! You'll be surprised at how much you learn and a new perspective is fertile soil for ideas. [ReTweet This]
  
• Derivative = Spun or re-hashed content that is NOT unique as it delivers the same information only re-worded. This adds NO value. [ReTweet This]
  
• Want to improve your readers trust in you, your articles, and your expertise? ADD AN AUTHOR PHOTO to your profile. :-) [ReTweet This]

Have you got a Twitter question? Post it here to get some answers: http://blog.EzineArticles.com/2009/11/article-writing-tweets-to-retweet.html

Hope you found that useful - EzineArticles.com is the Rolls Royce of article sites and it's worth taking some time writing and submitting and offering good quality content if you want to get it indexed high in Google!

Tip- Just like EzineArticles do in the main body of the article, I've made all the links to them rel="nofollow".

I might like them but I don't like my sites leaking my lovely link juice BACK to Web 2.0 properties

Beat The System

On my way to the forum I passed through the valley of the shadow of Deadheads!

When I'm bored, which is very rare as I am so busy, I go and visit the SEO forums...

Like all Web 2.0 properties I have various sign ons and personas depending upon which specific subject I'm commenting on. Sometimes I even forget who I am!

Comment spam certainly works and if you follow my previous posts on the matter, you'll be shown some succesful ways of doing this for commercial keywords.

Personally I can't be bothered - which is why larger SEO companies outsource this labourious task to third world countries (whoops aren't they called emerging these days?).

No, the reason I really visit the SEO forums in particular is to wind up the perennial posters and so called SEO experts who spend their days talking about webmaster guidelines that waste their time (and everybody else's); by vehemently disagreeing with some of the rubbish they post.
By 'Wind Up', I mean I like to use various techniques to initiate a response, one of which uses the NLP technique of reframing the original problem. This invariably enflames the forumophiles....
Certain of these forums have these Kudos buttons that the long term bullshitters take pride in accumulating self-appointed 'points'.

Here is a truth

I have never learnt one constructive fact from any SEO forum that has helped me in monetarising my network!. These people that post a million times to forums cannot by time default alone, be running succesful internet marketing businesses.... they are your daytime TV metalities!

By all means get as many free backlinks from 'on-theme forums' as you can, but I'd advise you not to look at forums for answers, especially to accept advice from so called 'veterans', an example of which is the 'WebProWorld 1,000+ Club'......



........ These people are all shouting from the towers of Babel in their own sad 'huis clos'!

Don't waste your time!

Beat The System