Turn your blog posts into articles
Your blog posts, if they have some meat to them, are basically articles. If you make a blog post and you don’t turn it into an article, you are leaving money on the table. Making a few small modifications to some of your better posts will turn them into articles. Since submitting articles to article directories is one of the big ways to promote your site, any re-use you can do will help you reach your goal much faster.
I have taken two of my blog posts and converted them to article.
- http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Important-is-SEO-To-Your-Company?&id=974080
- http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Does-the-Term-SERPS-Mean?&id=948682
Here are some of the things to modify:
1. Make a copy of the HTML version of the post and remove all links.
2. Add a {resource box} to the bottom of the post that includes some information about you and a linke to your web site. Generating in-bound links is one of the main reasons for submitting articles to article directories…unless you get your joy from the writing alone. I like writing, but a little more money would be nice too.
3. Make sure the post does not sound like a promo ad for your blog.
If you are not already a member, here are a few article sites:
- www.articlebiz.com
- www.articlecity.com
- www.articlegeek.com
- www.ezinearticles.com
- www.easyarticles.com
This is really easy and you get a lot of bang for the buck. Oh, and don’t worry if your article is rejected the first time, or second time, or third time… The {article publisher} wants to maintain the integrity of their site. Can you blame them for that? Keep correcting and submitting until the draft is accepted.
Also, don’t stop at one article publisher. Submit your article to as many publishers as you can. Here are some more:
- www.isnare.com
- www.myarticlezine.com
- www.articlesbase.com
- www.articlesnatch.com
- www.content4reprint.com
According to John Chow, at one time he was a member of 1xx affiliate programs. I am currently a member of 12 programs and I plan on joining more. The whole point is to pick the best ad deals out of the ones presented to you.
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This is a great idea. I hope more people pick up on this idea as a simple method of taking the content they already created and distributing it with a wider net.
PS: thanks for the link to our article directory