Archive for November, 2006

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

If I could pause and walk I would turn and run, This gun that some label my tongue Becomes my weapon of survival, And the contents of what I speak becomes my bible, The fable creature of instruments that writes Leaves blood in my hands And excites command in man, So I speak that I can’t defeat The devil of paper… Financial acquisitions become null and void… My heart becomes paranoid Of life, so my soul avoids the conflict And the non-sense of trying to make it When even it, doesn’t try… When enemies pose as friends when I cry, Even strive to keep the dirt in my eyes Although I am already incapable to see… I am crushed from my feet, So I find myself unable to proceed, The greed is as green as struggle, And it hurts that I have no leverage to pull in this game of war and tuggle…

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

When you talk about article marketing, you need to know that only some articles will really prove to be effective. It is not so much that there are real “secrets” about it, the problem is that people are trying to use a tool that they often are not willing to sharpen. Sharper tools enable you to get the job done with a lot less effort, and make it more worthwhile. One well-written article could very easily draw more targeted traffic than 10 articles that do not quite “follow the rules.” If you want to use article marketing to promote your business or Web site with power, you need to sharpen your ability to write them - or have someone else do it for you. You should not expect to draw 10,000 people with a single article if you are not willing to get serious about producing a quality article that can do that. Just like you cannot expect someone to play Beethoven who is just starting out, the sweet music of what article marketing can really do will only be discovered by those who are willing to put some serious effort into it. Here are 5 things that need to go into each article to make it produce the results you really want from article marketing. 1. Learn What Works This is where you start to be effective. You must read articles like this that will teach you something about how to do it. It will take some study and reading to know what makes it effective. It would also be a good idea to go to some article distribution Web sites and carefully look at and analyze some articles that get the highest amount of views. 2. Use Hot Titles One of the key factors in article marketing lies in the title. People will quickly skim over titles until they find one that grabs their attention. You do the same thing. Ask yourself what it was that raised your curiosity when you read this title and then started to read this article. You will need to think carefully before you place any title on an article in order to accomplish the eye-ball grabbing title that make people immediately think “I gotta read about this!” 3. Practice A Lot The title, however, is only the beginning. Once they start to read the article, it needs to deliver what was promised. You have only a couple of seconds to get and keep their attention. If that fails, they will never click on your link at the bottom. So before you quickly write another 5 articles for your article marketing, be sure to put into the article the tips you learned here. Then, even if you are not the best writer, remember that no one that can write well now was born writing that way. They had to write and then write some more. Each new article was then written with a deliberate effort to produce a better one. Eventually they became better and so will you. You will need to do the same in order to become more effective in your articles. This sharpens your ability to be able to produce an article that is worth reading. Professional writers will often let an article sit a day (at least) and then come back to it to see if any changes or improvements need to be made. If it isn’t quite where they know it should be in terms of effectiveness and quality, they will not use it. This is a good tip for you, too. 4. Choose Keywords Carefully Article marketing can really get exciting when you see one of your quality articles start to direct some targeted traffic your way. This traffic can start almost immediately, however, if you take time to find the keywords you need to get the job done and put them into a quality article. Don’t expect to throw any general keywords in your article and get the traffic you want - it won’t happen, especially if you have a theme and use keywords that the big companies are also using. They pay big bucks to get something of a monopoly on those terms.

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Have you ever read something that made you stop and say to yourself, “what the heck does that mean?” I know I have and usually it’s because someone has destroyed an otherwise coherent sentence with a dangling participle or a misplaced modifier. The majority of small business owners rely on the written word to convey their message, communicate their services and attract their customers. If that writing is not clear, concise and comprehendible you could be losing customers and money! A participle (or modifier) is a word or phrase that alters a clause usually in a confusing manner, because it could apply to either the subject or the object of the clause. Here’s an example: We picked Tricia up from the store and we fed her puppies. The phrase “we fed her puppies” is a dangling participle. It is not clear to the reader if we fed Tricia’s puppies or if we fed Tricia to the puppies

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

The importance of articles in today’s websites and internet based companies are immeasurable. They dictate a lot in the success and the drive of traffic into one’s site. It has become a key element in making a site work and earns a profit. A website operator and owner must have the good sense to include articles in his or her site that will work for them and earn them the many benefits articles can give to their site. Articles have been known to be the driving force in driving traffic to a website. Articles are a factor in giving site high rankings in search result pages. The higher a site ranks the bigger slice of the traffic flow pie he gets. With a huge number in traffic flow, there are more profits and more potential for other income generating schemes as well. But, it is not just about stuffing your site with articles; they have certain requirements as well. These requirements must be met to obtain the maximum benefits an article will provide for your site. A well written article will catch the eyes and interest of your customers and keep them coming back for more. They would also be able to recommend your site to others. Here are some tips to help you and assist you in making your articles. Below you will read about four things all articles must have to make it successful and helpful in making your site a profit earning and traffic overflowing site. • Keywords and Keyword Phrases. An article must always be centered on the keywords and keyword phrases. As each website visitor goes to a site, there are those who are just merely browsing but actually looking for a specific something. When this happens, a searcher usually goes to a search engine and types in the keywords they are looking for (e.g. Toyota Camry, Meningitis, Tax Lawyer and Etcetera). It could be anything they want. The Important thing is that you have an article that has the keywords that are related to your site. For example, if you maintain an auto parts site, you must be able t have articles about cars and their parts. There are many tools in the internet that provides service in helping a webmaster out in determining what keywords and keyword phrases are mostly sought out. You can use this tool to determine what keywords to use and write about. Keyword Density Know that you have your keywords and keyword phrases, you must use them fully. An article must have good keyword density for a search engine to “feel” its presence. Articles should at least have ten to fifteen percent of keyword density in their content for search engines to rank a site high in their search results. Getting a high rank is what articles do best for a site. Keyword density is the number of times a keyword or keyword phrase is used on an article. The number varies depending on the number of words used in an article. An effective article must have a keyword density that is not too high or too low. With a very high density, the essence of the article is lost and may turn off a reader as well as the search engines. It comes off as overeager. A low number may be ignored by the search engines. Good Article Content Like what is stated above, you cannot just riddle an article with keywords. They must also be regarded as good reading materials. Articles must be able to entertain people as well as provide good information and help for their needs. Articles should be written well with correct spelling and good grammar. If you want people to trust you, make your work good and well thought out. People respond well to figures, facts and statistics. Try to get great information and as many facts as you can. A good and well written article will boost your reputation as an expert in your chosen field or topic. As more people believe in you. They will be able to trust you and your products. Linking Articles And another important thing to remember. If you are going to submit articles to ezines and/or contribute your articles to newsletters and other sites, DON’T ever forget to include a link to your site. A little resource box with a brief description of your site and you should always be placed right after your articles that you have submitted. If people like your articles, they will most likely click on the link directing them to your site. David White ArticleBench free Articles Directory .articlebench.com

To make a six-figure income as a freelance writer, to need to be an expert. You need your name to jump to people’s lips when a particular job or challenge comes up. “Direct mail for software? You should get in touch with Bob. That’s what he does.” Insert your own name and specialty where appropriate. You can’t get that kind of awareness or referral if you’re someone who just writes about anything in any medium. Nobody is going to believe that you are a trusted expert in absolutely everything. So how do you determine a viable ‘niche’? You have three choices… 1. Niche by industry… That is to say, work within a particular industry. For years I worked with pharmaceutical clients. All my clients were drug companies. I wrote direct mail, brochures, sales aids, video scripts. I wrote anything, so long as it was about pharmaceuticals. That was my niche. And my clients knew that I was knowledgeable in that area. So they came to me. 2. Niche by medium… In this scenario, you make a particular medium your specialty. After my years with the pharmaceutical industry, I decided to specialize as a direct mail copywriter. And for that period, about 15 years, I ONLY write direct mail and associated media…like inserts, fliers, postcards etc. I was a direct response specialist. And I wrote for all kinds of different industries - financial, cable TV, magazine publishers and more. My specialty, my niche, was as a direct response copywriter. Other writers have built their careers around writing annual reports, radio scripts, white papers etc. 3. ‘Double-Niche’ When you double-niche you are making a specialty of serving a single industry through a single medium. For instance, writing direct response for the financial industry. And ONLY writing direct response for the financial industry. In conclusion… As I said at the beginning, you can’t be an expert at everything…not within every industry, not with every medium. So you need to take some steps to find your niche. How do you choose? First, know yourself. Know what you are good at. Know what you like. Also, be smart. Create your niche where the money is. Find your niche where there is a strong market. And be smart about the size of your niche. Don’t go so narrow that you’re forever starved of work. Don’t go so broad that people view you as a Jack or Jill of all trades, a generalist. About The Author:-Please browse for more information at our websites .allfreereports.com

As a webmaster you probably now know that writing articles and submitting them to article directories is a great way to increase traffic to your site. And not only can article marketing increase the traffic and visibility of your website, but it can also make you appear to be an expert to the entire internet world. Does it get any better than that? Before you can get started with article marketing there are a few details that you will want to become familiar with. After all, the more that you know about this way of marketing the better chance you have of achieving a high level of success. Here are four tips that you will want to keep in mind at all times. 1. Use short paragraphs to get your point across effectively. Articles are meant to be concise essays about a topic, so it is important to keep paragraphs fairly short and simple. If you force the reader to wade through more than five or six sentences to find the information, the reader will lose interest. So keep things short, direct, and simple. 2. Use bullets and numbers. In order to help keep things short and simple, and to more easily convey your message, use bullet points or numbers. This helps you present information in a more organized form, and it helps the reader find this information more easily. 3. Pay attention to article quality. In order for this strategy to work, you need to write high quality articles that offer good information. The articles must be grammatically correct and must provide useful information. Therefore, if you feel you are not capable of writing your own high quality articles you should get in touch with a professional who specializes in this. You do not want to risk your reputation by distributing poorly written or useless articles. Fortunately there are several good article writing services available over the internet. 4. Be patient with your article marketing strategy. It takes time for this strategy to start generating results. Many people get started with article marketing just to quit a few weeks later. It is going to take several months of hard work before your articles finally start to make their rounds. The more articles that you submit to directories the better chance you have of speeding up the process. If you give up too early you will never be able to reap the many rewards that go along with this way of promotion. These four tips should help you to achieve a higher level of success. Although these will help you to get on the right track, you need to do most of the work on your own. If you want to be a success with article marketing you can be. Just remember, it is going to take hard work and determination. It will be worth it in the end!For more useful tips & hints, please browse for more information at our website:- .writing-fast-cash.com .articlemarketing.reprintarticlesite.com

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

What is “SEO,” or “ Search Engine Optimization “? SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) is one of the most effective things you can do online, getting your web site optimized in such a way that the search engines will reward you by basically sending traffic your way. SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) is not really that simple, but the bottom line is, if your page is optimized both on page and off, you generally get higher natural search engine rankings, which leads to traffic for you. If you have spent time online recently, you have probably read the term “SEO,” or “Search Engine Optimization. But what does it mean, exactly? “SEO” ( Search Engine Optimization ) is a term that is used to describe the process by which traffic to a particular site is increasingly generated by search engines by way of search results. The quality of visitor traffic to a site can be measured by analyzing how often a visitor who uses a specific keyword phrase in a search actually performs what is known as a “conversion action.” That is, how often those visitors make a purchase, download materials, request information, or interact with the site in any other way that indicates interest in the product or service the site offers. for more information: knowledge-about-seo.blogspot.com/ Simply put, SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) is marketing through an understanding of how search algorithms work combined with a knowledge of what human users might search for. knowledge-about-seo.blogspot.com/ The end goal is to create a site that contains words for which people will likely search when looking for information such as that contained on your site.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

So you want to land your business message on the web pages of the different websites in the Net. Then, it is high time you concentrate on incorporating article marketing on your online business. Successful people in the world of online business already know the power that article marketing can bring. They know how it made great changes in their lives. Article marketing is all about making informative articles and distributing them to different websites and allows them to reprint your articles. And without you knowing it, great traffic will soon be generated and your profits will just keep on going as your visitors on your website keep on growing. Consequently, it has been known for so many years now that since the advent of information technology, contents had been acclaimed as the King of the Internet. This is because content is the primary factor that would drive great traffic on your website. Not only that. With contents or articles that you will be giving away for free, you give the value that most people are finding in the Internet. It is the information that they obtain by simply reading your article. In this way, you make great changes in their lives. Hence, in this simple gesture of charity, you earn yourself an equal dose of goodness. You get the traffic that you need without having to spend more money. All you need is your think-tank, where you get all the ideas in order to come up with an article that is very interesting, edifying, and instructive. Sounds easy? Not really. If you want to utilize the maximum potential of article marketing ingenerating profits for your website or online business, you have to work doubly hard. You have to consider some factors in order to achieve that huge article marketing success. You can never achieve it just by writing articles alone. Success in article marketing is a conglomeration of all the factors needed in the process. And when you have utilized all of these factors, you will definitely reap the profits that you have long been wanted. Here is a list of the factors that you need to consider in order to be successful in article marketing: 1. The quality of the articles Since you are dealing with the articles, it would be better if you will write articles that are not just plain write-ups. It is important that you write articles that are of high quality. It does not necessarily mean that you write articles that are informative or interesting but also it must incorporate the proper principles of effective writing. For instance, in order to achieve success in article marketing, you should make articles that do not have lengthy paragraphs. It should not have words that the readers will have difficulty to understand. Hence, if you write articles, write with ease based on the standards of effective writing. 2. The keywords If you really want to succeed in article marketing, then you should also take into account the importance of using quality keywords in your articles. Instead of using polysyllables and highly technical words, you should use keywords that would generate good traffic. These keywords are the ones being used by the people whenever they are looking for some information in the web. So, it would be better to use them in order to generate good traffic. 3. The directories or places where you will submit your articles Choosing the best place to submit your articles is relatively important. This is because the place where you will submit your articles are the primary factors that will determine your article marketing success. Think about it. If you will just submit your articles to any website or article directory that you see on the Internet, do you think it can automatically generate good traffic to your website? It is not that simple, right? It’s because not all websites and article directories are created equal. Websites and article directories have their own skills and capacity to promote your articles. Hence, if you will submit your article to a place where there are only a few visitors that browse their website, where the traffic is relatively low, and where people do not trust anything that is within that site. Also, keep in mind that you do not have all the time in the world to wait for your profits to grow. What you need is immediate exposure in the virtual community of the Internet. 4. Resource box Your resource box is considered to be the very core of article marketing. Without it, submitting articles to different article directories and websites will just be a waste of time. Keep in mind that the main reason why your submitting your articles is that you want to promote your business and you can never do that without your resource box. Therefore, it is necessary that you include all the pertinent details into your resource box like your name, your websiteís address that is written correctly, your sales pitch or your marketing strategy, and the way you will compel people to respond into action. All of these things are important in order to achieve huge article marketing success. So, if you really want to have the best things that article marketing can bring, consider these things and you will definitely reap profitsFor more useful tips & hints, please browse for more information at our website:- .internet-copycatting.com .articlemarketing.reprintarticlesite.com

At nine o’clock on the morning of November 3, 1885, steam whistles blew at the foundries and mills across Tacoma, to announce the start of the purge of all the Chinese people from the town. Saloons closed and police stood by as five hundred men, brandishing clubs and pistols, went from house to house in the downtown Chinese quarter and through the Chinese tenements along the city’s wharf. Sensing the storm ahead, earlier in the week, about five hundred Chinese people had fled from Tacoma. Now the rest were given four hours to be ready to leave. They desperately stuffed years of life into sacks, shawls, and baskets hung from shoulder poles — bedding, clothing, pots, some food. At midday, the mob began to drag Chinese laborers from their homes, pillage their laundries, and throw their furniture into the streets. Chinese merchants pleaded with the mayor and the sheriff for an extra twenty-four hours to pack up their shops. Early on that cold Tuesday afternoon, armed vigilantes corralled two hundred Chinese men and women at the docks. The governor of the Washington Territory, Watson C. Squire, ignored telegrams from Chinese across the Pacific Northwest urging him to intervene. The mayor and the sheriff hid out at city hall as the mob marched the Chinese through heavy rain to a muddy railroad crossing nine miles from town. The merchants’ wives, unable to walk on their tiny bound feet, were tossed into wagons. Lake View Junction was a stop on the Northern Pacific Railroad, which had been built by Chinese laborers. A few of the evicted Chinese found damp shelter in abandoned storage sheds, in stables, or inside the small station house. Most huddled outside. During the cold and rainy night, two or three trains stopped at the station. People with cash paid six dollars to board the overnight train to Portland, Oregon. Others crammed onto a passing freight train. The rest began the hundred-mile trek south to the Chinatown in Portland, where they hoped to find sanctuary in a community that had just refused the town’s orders to leave. For days they were seen following the tracks south. Others fled the country for Canada. Two days later, Tacoma’s Chinatown was destroyed by fire. Lum May Territory of Washington County of King June 3, 1886 Lum May being duly sworn on his oath said: I was born in Canton, China, and am a subject of the Chinese Empire. I am aged about 51 years. Have been in America about eleven years and have been doing business in Tacoma for ten years. My business there was that of keeping dry goods, provisions, medicines and general merchandize store. On the third day of November I resided with my family in Tacoma on the corner of Railroad Street some little distance from Chinatown. At that time I would say there were eight hundred or nine hundred Chinese persons in and about Tacoma who . . . were forcibly expelled by the white people of Tacoma. Twenty days previously to the 3rd of November, a committee of white persons waited upon the Chinese at their residences and ordered them to leave the city before the 3rd of November. I do not know the names of [the] white persons but would recognize their faces. The Committee consisted of 15 or 20 persons . . . who notified the Chinese to leave. I asked General Sprague and other citizens for protection for myself and the Chinese people. The General said he would see and do what he could. All the Chinese after receiving notice to leave were frightened lest their houses should be blown up and destroyed. A rumour to that effect was in circulation. Many of them shut up their houses and tried to keep on the look out. About half past 9 o’clock in the morning of November 3, 1885, a large crowd of citizens of Tacoma marched down to Chinatown and told all the Chinese that the whole Chinese population of Tacoma must leave town by half past one o’clock in the afternoon of that day. There must have been in the neighborhood of 1000 people in the crowd of white people though I cannot tell how many. They went to all the Chinese houses and establishments and notified the Chinese to leave. Where the doors were locked they broke forcibly into the houses smashing in doors and breaking in windows. Some of the crowd was armed with pistols, some with clubs. They acted in a rude boisterous and threatening manner, dragging and kicking the Chinese out of their houses. My wife refused to go and some of the white persons dragged her out of the house. From the excitement, the fright and the losses we sustained through the riot she lost her reason, and has ever since been hopelessly insane. She threatens to kill people with a hatchet or any other weapon she can get hold of. The outrages I and my family suffered at the hands of the mob has utterly ruined me. I make no claim, however, for my wife’s insanity or the anguish I have suffered. My wife was perfectly sane before the riot. I saw my countrymen marched out of Tacoma on November 3rd. They presented a sad spectacle. Some had lost their trunks, some their blankets, some were crying for their things. Armed white men were behind the Chinese, on horseback sternly urging them on. It was raining and blowing hard. On the 5th of November all the Chinese houses situated on the wharf were burnt down by incendiaries. I sustained the following losses through the riot, to wit: 2 pieces silk crape trowsers female, 2 pieces black silk, 6 silk handkerchiefs, 2 crape jackets, 10 blue cotton shirts, 8 pieces black cotton trowsers, 12 Pairs Chinese Cotton Stockings, 2 Leather trunks (Chinese), wool great dress female, 4 flannel jackets, 3 pairs embroidered shoes, 1 dressing case, 6 white cotton shirts, 1 carpet bag, 2 white woolen blankets, 2 red woolen bed covers, 1 feather mattress, 1 spring bed, 2 tables, 6 chairs, 2 stoves, 4 pictures and frames, 1 large mirror, 2 woolen trowsers (male) and solvent debtors (Chinaman), 1 business and good will, loss of perishable goods, total $45,532. A few of the Chinese merchants I among them were suffered to remain in Tacoma for two days in order to pack up our goods or what was left of them. On the 5th of November, after the burning of the Chinese houses on the wharf I left Tacoma for Victoria where I have since resided . . . No Chinaman has been allowed to reside in Tacoma since November 3rd. Mayor Weisbach appeared to be one of the leaders of the mob on the 3rd of November. I spoke to him and told him that Mr. Sprague had said the Chinese had a right to stay and would be protected. He answered me: “General Sprague has nothing to say. If he says anything we will hang him or kick him. You get out of here.” I cried. He said I was a baby because I cried over the loss of my property. He said, “I told you before you must go, and I mean my word shall be kept good.” I desire to add to this that . . . it is ten years since we began business there. Lum May Tacoma’s Chinese residents did not go quietly. On November 5, 1885, aided by China’s consul in San Francisco, they compelled the U.S. attorney to arrest the mayor of Tacoma, the chief of police, two councilmen, a probate court judge, and the president of the YMCA. Then they filed seventeen civil claims against the U.S. government, for a total of $103,365. The Tacoma roundup was one of a hundred Chinese pogroms that raged across the Pacific Northwest in the late nineteenth century. In the winter of 1885-86, the raids and arson in Chinatowns reached Portland, and the Chinese refugees from Tacoma fled again — some to San Francisco, some back to rural hamlets in the Washington Territory closer to their old homes, some to the East Coast, and some to work on plantations in the South. Word of the raids resounded in newspapers, in state capitals, in the boardrooms of railroad companies and lumber mills, in Congress, and across the Pacific Ocean. Defying protests from both Republicans and Democrats, President Grover Cleveland decided to accede to the refugees’ demands for reparation, with the hope that this might cause China to revive trade talks with the United States. China’s population of four hundred million people, he believed, could purchase America out of its deep economic depression, and China’s government might open trade routes for a nation come lately to foreign expansion. Congress was ambivalent. It understood that whichever party controlled California would likely control the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the next presidency. The firestorm of roundups in California was compelling evidence of the sentiments in the golden state. The violent raids were bannered in the press — in the local Tacoma Register and the Eureka Times-Telephone, and nationwide in The New York Times and Harpers Weekly. Most Americans knew of the Chinese purges in California, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Nevada, and Colorado. But before Congress complied with Cleveland’s request, it wanted to know the economic value of a Chinese life. In 1886, at the order of Congress, Governor Watson Squire desperately sought to track down the two hundred Chinese men and women who had been driven out of Tacoma so that they could bear witness to the public violence done against them in his name. Ultimately, he could locate only a few. Most were unable or unwilling to be found. Lum May had fled to Victoria, Canada. He and his wife had legally entered the United States in 1874, before the Page Act of 1875 banned the entry of almost all Chinese women and before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 — the first immigration law to exclude people based on their race — banned the thousands of immigrants who crisscrossed the Pacific each year from reentering the United States. Governor Squire found Lum May, but as a subject of the Chinese Empire, he was barred from testifying in a U.S. court. Through his written affidavit, Lum’s is one of the Chinese voices that speaks across the silent years since being Driven Out. Copyright © 2007 Jean Pfaelzer from the book Driven Out Published by arrangement with Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc; May 2007;$27.95US/$34.95CAN; 978-1-4000-6134-1 Jean Pfaelzer is professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware, and director of the University Honors Writing Fellowship Program. The writer of numerous articles on nineteenth century women’s literature, feminist theory, and cultural theory, she has been appointed to the Washington D.C. Commission for Women. She lives near Washington, DC. Visit .udel.edu/PR/drivenout/ for more info.

Article writing is a skill, although it is possible to make money from article marketing without being able to write. Basically you employ a ghostwriter to do it for you. The main focus here is not to comment on article writing per se, but on how to make money from article marketing. Article marketing allows you to forget about websites, forget about blogs, forget about WEB2 sites and forget about just about every other way of marketing a product, including pay per click advertising except article writing. You could even wave Google bye-bye, were it not for the fact that you can even get free advertising from search engines by having your article listed. Here is the procedure: 1. Find a good niche. That is a subject or product class that is not oversubscribed, and that does not have massive competition. You want a niche from which you can make money, and for which you can find a good product to sell. 2. Find a good product to sell. It could be your own product or somebody else’s you are selling as an affiliate. It must, however, have a landing page. Now you are likely thinking that I just said you didn’t need a website and now I am talking about landing pages, and you would be right. However, I didn’t say it had to be YOUR landing page. It can be anybody’s landing page, including your own, so long as you are getting the credit for the sale. 3. Find some good keywords. These are keywords that few others are using, but that lots of people are using as a search terms on search engines. There are plenty of good software packages that help you find them, including some great free ones. 4. Write an article on the topic of the product, and sprinkle a few of your keywords around the article. Use one or two in the title. Put a link to the landing page for the product in the resource section of your article. 5. Submit your article to as many article directories as possible. Also submit it to ezines that are relevant to your product. Then all you have to do is wait until all that lovely cash rolls in! Or so they say! There is only one problem with that theory: it doesn’t always work. Oh, article marketing can work, because I can make it work practically any time I want, but there is more to it than just the bald instructions above. Here are the problems: a) There are still good niches to find, but you have to know how to find them. It is getting increasingly more difficult to find niches that lots of people are not already using to make money. However, it can be done, and there is software available to help you. There also a few tricks you can use, such as using eBay to find what is hot, and then checking up to determine what the supply for these products is like online. The thing is, you don’t have to sell the products - you can sell information about them. b) There are ways to find good products to sell, but you have to know what they are. Without that knowledge you might find it very difficult to find something that is not already being sold by countless others. c) Good keywords can be hard to find unless you know the right software to use and how to interpret the results. Without good keywords that not too many people are using on their websites you might have too much competition for you make much money. d) Not everybody can write articles, and many ghost writers are next to illiterate! I know, because I have used some in my business as an article writer. I employ others to write some of my articles, but I frequently have to let many go because their standard is so low. An article has to be well written to make you money. e) Unless your article is well written, it will not be accepted by directories, and certainly not by ezines. Not only that, but you only have to submit to a dozen or so top directories for maximum results. It’s knowing what these are that’s the secret. As you can see, each of the five steps has a drawback, and the need for you to understand more about what you are doing. Oh, yes - you can make a lot if you know how to make money from article marketing, but unless you know a fair bit about article writing, how to submit them and how to find the right products and keywords, then you will more than likely fail. To find out the right way to write and market articles, check out Article Czar and get a gift just for visiting. Here you will find out how to make money from article marketing, as well get the chance of a free copy of my acclaimed ebook, SEOcious