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Do you regularly find yourself writing a collection of articles? In all honesty, it really doesn’t matter if you write for a career or just for fun; writing is writing. However, no matter what your reason for writing, there many come a time when you are unable to do so. This is most often due to writer’s block. Writer’s block is a common occurrence, even among professional writers. Although it is hard to associate writer’s block with good news, there is good news. That good news is that there are a number of different approaches that you can take to get around writer’s block. Just a few of these approaches are outlined below.

Perhaps, the most effective way to get over your writer’s block is to not think about writing for a while. The amount of time that you are able to take off will depend on your deadline, if you have one. Even if you are only able to take a ten-minute break from writing, you are urged to do so. However, it has been noted that the longer the break the easier it is to overcome writers block. Depending on your own personal preferences, you could take a break and curl up with a book, wash your dirty dishes, or run a few errands. It really doesn’t matter, as long as you can take a break. When you have spent a few minutes or a few hours away from the pressures of writing, you are more likely to overcome your writer’s block; thus making it easier for you to concentrate and write.

In addition to taking a break, you can also continue working however, you may want to think about changing the way that you are working, even if it is only temporarily. For instance, when you write do you have to be surrounded by peace and quiet or do you like a little background noise? If you prefer quiet, you may want to think about turning your television on in the background. In fact, you may even want to think about putting in your favorite music CD and putting on a pair of headphones. Many writers find it inspiring to listen to their favorite music groups or songs. If you prefer to work with background noise, it may be a good idea to give peace and quiet a try. Some times, the best way to overcome writers block to change the way that you are writing.

Speaking of the way that you work, how exactly do you work? Better yet, where do you work? Do you sit at a desktop computer? Although desktop computers are nice, they may be limiting your abilities. Whether you have your own office or if you are just working for a desktop computer setup in your living room, you may need a change. This change is best implemented if you can purchase a laptop computer. Laptop computers allow you to move, virtually anywhere; you can work in you living room, or on your bed, or even outside at a picnic table. In fact, you are urged to find a surrounding that inspires you. Inspiration is the best way to get over writer’s block. That is why it may be best for you experiment and find which areas you are able to work in and which areas you are unable to work in.

It is unknown exactly what causes writer’s block; perhaps it is boredom or the loss of thought. No matter what the reason for writer’s block, it is something that many writers experience. The above mentioned approaches are just a few of the many that you can take to overcome writers block. Writer’s block, its cause, and its cure are all unique among different writers. That is why you will need to experiment and find the approach that best helps you to overcome writer’s block. Keeping the above mentioned points in mind will help.

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This piece of writing aims to help you to write successful press releases. Here you can find some easy tips and communication techniques to write an effective press release. While there are no set rules for writing a press release, there are some basic course of actions that point the way to more successful press releases.

To start with, the first thing that really distinguishes a good press release from other middling ones is the value of the news which needs to be properly pooled in with a unique style and format. The length of the press release also affects the interest of the reader. Making the press release long can easily disperse the interest and make the news boring and tedious to read. The length of a press release should not be more than two pages. However, the optimized length is of one page except in rare instances.

Usually, the reader feels to go further reading the press release only if the first paragraph seems to concern him with anxiety or curiosity. Also the title needs to be catchy in order to hold the attention of a person looking for news.

Another issue that can make a press release more interactive in nature is giving emails or contact number of the writer. Telephone calls are generally unwanted. An email option is fast and intrusive. It takes just a second for the reader to contact the writer of the press release through email.

Avoid a marketing pitch in your press release, as it really lacks substance. The words are just meant to take up more space. The best place to put the promotion is in one direct quote or maybe.

Therefore, get to the top and tie your press release with a current news!

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The thought of having to write a short article is overwhelming to a lot of people as they don’t feel confident as an article writer. This article will discuss some short article writing tips for people who can’t even string a sentence together and how easy it is to make a full time income online by writing articles for a living.

There are numerous benefits for writing and publishing articles. It is a great way to get free publicity to your website, it gets valuable targeted traffic to your sites and you will get an increasing number of backlinks to your site, which can ultimately affect your page rank.

However, a lot of people refuse to dabble in article writing because they think because they can′t write that they can′t publish their own articles.

Not true!

You are not alone and savvy internet marketers have listened to your words of frustration by creating niche content sites especially for people who can’t write ebooks, ecourses, articles and niche reports.

What these content sites contain is private label content. What makes this kind of content so attractive is that it has ready made content for you to put to work as soon as you download it. Many of these sites release hundreds of articles every month for hungry niche marketers. These articles can then be published or rewritten and published and released around the world wide net with your own name attached to it as the article writer and your own resource box at the end where you promote your product and service in a compelling way.

A lot of research goes into creating these niche content sites and the ghostwriters of these products have already found a niche topic that is searched for a lot online.

Other than purchasing plr content you can learn how to write an effective short article. Articles don’t have to be 800 words. A good article can be just 300-350 words. By the time you have written a compelling introduction and conclusion half of the work is done for you.

Another way to write a short article is to use a lot of bullet points in the article and also numbering so that the article actually appears longer than it actually is.

Another method people use to “write articles” is by hiring their own ghostwriters. Some forums in particular like Digital Point and the Warrior Forum have ghostwriters promoting their services for a very reasonable fee. However, be sure to see a sample of their work before you place an order.

Many people online are now becoming full-time, profitable internet marketers by becoming proficient short article writers. As long as your articles are interesting, well set-out and have a compelling conclusion and resource box, you can eventually replace a lot of your income solely through article writing. Not only that, if you become good at it you can also become a ghostwriter yourself or sell your articles as content on certain content sites.

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Of the many different writing styles, viewpoint writing is probably the one that works best for aspiring writers - but what is it?

Viewpoint writing is used extensively in modern novels, especially ones that contain fast-paced action. As its name suggests, it’s written from the active character’s viewpoint, telling the reader what the character sees, how they feel, what they know, and so on. In this first section we look at seeing through your character’s eyes.

Maybe you think this is easy. Well, it is - up to a point. It’s surprising, though, just how many writers unconsciously lose control of what they are writing and wander off into other writing forms. In viewpoint writing it is essential that you, the author, are ‘not present′ in the scene you are describing. What does that mean? Put simply, you must never, ever use phrases like ‘little did he know that later…’ or ‘he had no way of knowing that the killer was just next door’. Why?

By writing intrusive sentences like the ones above, the illusion of experiencing the story through the character’s eyes - as it happens - is shattered. You’re reminding the reader that you, the author, know exactly what’s going to happen and that this is, after all, just as story.

When readers pick up a work of fiction, even though they know full well that it is just that - make-believe - they enter into what’s called a ‘state of suspended disbelief′. Now this isn′t some weird mental condition. It just means that, while reading your book or short story, they’re quite happy to accept that Captain Jake ‘shoot-’em-on-sight’ Bullet of the 6th. Precinct is indeed a real person.

Why else do people happily read fantasy fiction? They know it’s not real but are willing to forget that in order to enjoy the story. The last thing they want is to be reminded that it’s not real - hence viewpoint writing.

Let’s run with Jake Bullet. He’s just about to enter a bar where he goes on a regular basis. What he doesn’t know is that there’s a gunman waiting for him. How can this be written? Well, for a start you don’t describe the bar. Jake knows it well and he would only really pick up on something different. So this is wrong -

‘Jake walked into the bar and took a seat at one of the barstools. He looked at Henry, the barman, who was a big guy and looked as if he’d been in a few brawls. The mirror behind Henry revealed the other drinkers who sat at the tables Jake knew so well. Looking up and down the length of the bar Jake thought how polished it was, as usual. Then he saw the man standing at the end. Little did Jake know that this man was one of Big Mike’s torpedoes, sent to shoot him.’

What’s wrong with it? Well, Jake goes in the bar every day. He wouldn’t notice, on a conscious level, Henry’s appearance, the tables or the polished bar. He’d just see the man, who is a stranger and have no idea who he was. Compare it to -

‘Jake walked into Henry’s and sat down on one of the barstools. ‘Give me a beer, Henry.’ He tossed a bill to the barman. Glancing up the bar has saw a heavyset guy watching him. He saw the guy suddenly pull out a gun from inside his jacket.’

Jake only sees what he sees and only knows what he knows. All he knows in this scene is that a stranger sat at the end of the bar has suddenly pulled out a gun. What happens next is up to you!

It would have been fair for Jake to look around and describe what he saw if he had never been in that bar before. As it is, it’s his favourite bar, a place he knows well, so there’s no need - from his viewpoint - to describe it. Maybe the previous scene was written from the gunman′s viewpoint. In that case, you could have ‘introduced’ Henry′s bar to the reader through the gunman′s eyes - it would be new to him and you can bet he would be looking around pretty carefully.

By writing these two scenes you would have accomplished the introduction of the bar, the entrance of the gunman and, in the next scene, Jake’s entrance, setting the stage for what is to follow - but the really important thing is that your reader will be immersed in the action without your intrusion.

Steve Dempster writes fiction, copy and informative articles such as the one above. His website can be found at iwanttowrite.co.uk I Want To Write!

Surprise your potential buyers. Give them chocolate frosting!

After we entered school we had a lot to learn. We left the sand box, the nap, and the all day playing with our imagination. No wonder we have lost touch with our original, playful, creativity. Now in the information age we expect to read short, concise pieces. Yet, we can, if we play a little, add more of our original ideas to our books if we use metaphor.

Metaphor means wedding a word to an image, sound or feeling. Metaphor is a fusing of dissimilar entities into one new image. Metaphor asserts a likeness between two unlike things. Images are word pictures that give language power and richness by involving our senses in the experience. When you wed an image or feeling to something totally unexpected, you produce a new pattern–a metaphor that creates a powerful picture and reader enjoyment.

The purpose of metaphor is to intensify your awareness of the images around you. Clichés are worn out metaphors. Avoid platitudes because your reader will be bored with them and not read on. Write naturally and avoid pompous words like “utilize.”

Metaphors create tension and excitement by producing new connections. Hence, they reveal a truth about the world we previously didn’t recognize. The power of metaphor is to surprise us…. Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, says, “Metaphor builds a bridge between the hemispheres, symbolically carrying knowledge from the mute right brain so it can be recognized by the left as being like something already
known.”

When your potential customers glance (about 12-15 seconds) at your front cover and back cover, and see originality there through metaphor, they will gain insight that sheds new light on a familiar concept, idea, event or feeling. Your metaphors hook and seduce them. Now, they will hand you their check or credit card feeling good about themselves for the decision.

To Enhance your Writing Practice This Fieldwork:

1. Start a Metaphor List. Keep it filed where you can find it easily and add to it. Every time you hear a good one, write it down. Use other people’s metaphors as a springboard for you own.

2. Play with these exercises:

Practice: Writing is…as painful as a tooth being pulled… riding a roller coaster… a self-revelation. Now try your book’s title or part of your “tell and sell” (unique selling proposition which includes benefits), and back cover copy. Self-care is…a bubble bath in the middle of a workday… breathing in the mountain air… lighting a candle near my workstation.

3. Complete these metaphor starters: Remember to use concrete words–of image, sound and feeling. Forgo all clichés.

I’m as silly as
I′m as frazzled as
I′m as happy as (no clams, please)
I’m as frayed as
I’m as dizzy as
I’m as low as
I’m as powerful as a
I′m as sleepy as
I′m as tired as
I’m as cold/hot as
I’m as energetic as
I’m as spiritual as
I’m as comfortable as
I’m as loose as

Expand the list using the subjects of your book. Think and picture your audience as you create more powerful writing.

4. Re-define all general benefits in your introduction, “tell and sell,” or sales letter. Instead of saying, “Read my book and live life well,” make your benefit more specific such as “Read my book and your life will look like….” Or, “Read my book and your life will feel like….”

5. Finish These Statements to Warm Up:

-Stress is…
-Authentic is…
-Health is…
-Spiritual is…
-Marketing is…
-Promotion is…
-Profits are…
-More life is…
-Better Communication is…
-More money is…

Let your potential buyer know how they will see or feel themselves after they read and use your book’s ideas and
suggestions. When they can see or feel it for themselves, they are more comfortable buying. They need to see the results (benefits) and feel themselves better for using your product.

6. Just for fun:

“I was as dizzy as a dervish, as weak as a worn-out washer, as
low as a badger’s belly, as timid as a titmouse, and as unlikely to
succeed as a ballet dancer with a wooden leg.”

Each of you has the powerful potential for making connections
and seeing relationships in your own unique way. Metaphor
making is a highly personal and richly creative experience. Play
with metaphors and use them in all of your writing–even your sales materials.

Judy Cullins © 2004 All Rights Reserved

Judy Cullins, 20-year Book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in people’s lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Judy is author of 10 eBooks including Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast, Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market Your Book Online, The Fast and Cheap Way to Explode Your Targeted Web Traffic, and Power Writing for Web Sites That Sell. She offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, “The BookCoach Says…,” “Business Tip of the Month,” blog Q & A at bookcoaching.com bookcoaching.com and over 185 free articles.

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How do you put a dollar value on your writing? Are you charging too much? Too
little? In your creative small business, pricing issues will come up again and again. I
struggled with them for years, until I managed to get them straight in my own mind.

Now I price my writing and writing services to ensure that the buyer is getting MORE
than his money’s worth. When I’ve set the price to my own satisfaction, I’m happy to
negotiate, because I know my base price. I know what I’d like to get, and I know the
lowest price I will accept. This makes for peace of mind.

=> Are you an apprentice or a master?

All things being equal, you will be able to charge more for your creative services if
you′re highly experienced. This is because you will bring more to each project. You
will see ways of doing things better, faster and more effectively, because you′ve
done similar projects many times, and have made all the mistakes possible and
won’t make them again.

For example, I create many news releases for clients in my copywriting practice.
News releases seem easy on the surface, however to write a news release that will
get coverage is a complex skill, much of which consists in knowing what not to do. I
charge more for news releases than other writers, because I have the skills and the
contacts that ensure that my news releases work.

=> Are you selling or licensing your work?

As creatives, we have the option of licensing rights to our work, or of selling works
outright. Much of my work — my business writing and copywriting — is work
done for hire. The buyer gets all rights to the work.

When you sell all rights to something, that work has gone for good. You can′t reuse
it, or resell it. Therefore it’s important that if writing (or any other creative
occupation) is your fulltime work, you devote some of your working time to creating
products which you can license.

For writers, these products could include books (fiction and nonfiction), magazine
articles, scripts, and ebooks.

Be aware of rights issues, and of which rights you’re selling, at all times. When a
magazine editor offers you fifty cents a word for FNASR (First North American Serial
Rights) you need to know exactly what that means. It means that you know that you
can still sell second NASR, and you’ve got the rest-of-world rights to play with too.
I’m in Australia, so for short magazine articles, I’m quite happy to sell First
Australian Serial Rights quite cheaply, because I know I’ve got lots of rights still to
sell— although “license” is a better term, because when you “sell” rights, you’re
licensing your work for a specific use and for a set period.

If you’re not a hundred per cent sure of how copyright and the rights to your work
operate, please buy a book on the subject. It’s worth spending the money, to have
the information at your fingertips.

When you know how rights work, you can ask an editor who’s offered you a dollar a
word what rights she’s buying. If (horrors) she tells you she wants all rights to the
piece for a dollar a word, that perceived good price starts to look shabby if you′ve
been intending to use the material in other ways: as a chapter in a book, for
example, or if you′ve been counting on selling only FNASR, and wanted to sell UK
rights as well.

=> Learn to negotiate

Most creatives are not born good negotiators. You can however, become an expert
negotiator. Here’s how:

* know your base price: your rock-bottom limit. When you know your base price,
you can walk away;

* set your preferred price a third higher than your base price

* offer a sweetener rather than reducing your price;

* be patient when negotiating;

* in complex deals (like books) get someone (an agent) to negotiate for you.

=> Your ability to price your writing will develop as you continue to work at your
trade

The ability to price your creative work develops over time. You’ll make mistakes.
You’ll kick yourself for signing poor contracts. Look on this as paying your dues,
and move on.

Review your pricing structures regularly, and keep up with the latest news on
copyright and rights issues. As a creative, your rights are your nest egg, your money
in the bank. Guard your rights, but don’t become paranoid.

Your most important task is to get your pricing straight in your own mind. When
you’re happy with the prices you charge, you will become a superb negotiator.

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How to emotionally detach from your article inventory:

Your articles are tools for you. The moment you become emotionally free from them, you’ll have a new perspective that allows you to see them as business tools rather than adjectives that describe your soul.

Most authors have an easy ability to connect with their content… but I’ve noticed that the 80% of authors who produce less than 10 articles are often the authors with an increased emotional attachment to their articles to the point that it becomes a block or obstacle that prevents them from entering the minority of expert authors who produce more than 10 articles.

Why emotional-detachment from your articles benefits you:

1) Detachment from your articles is not the same as indifference from them. You can still care about the quality of the content even if you’re not emotionally attached to it.

2) You are more than your articles. Your value and worth is unrelated to what you’ve written in your articles.

3) Sometimes when you become too emotionally involved with your article content, you lose objectivity.

4) You’re not phased negatively when you receive negative comments or rejection from your content. Rejection or negativity sent your way will now be viewed as either suggestions to help you improve your content or opinions that have nothing to do with you (example: A commentor on your article is having a bad day and takes some anger out on you as if you had anything to do with their experience.)

5) Deep down inside, you already know that it’s not good to emotionally attach to your articles. You can still use your emotions and passion to write excellent article content and then set them free to work for you.

Emotional involvement with your article content is quite natural.

Life would be pretty boring if we didn’t emotionally attach to things from time to time. What is important is to step back and notice your own attachment to your articles… so that you can ask yourself some of these questions:

* What would happen if I became emotionally detached from my articles?

* Would I write more articles and worry less?

* Would I have less anger, disappointment or rage and could I use this newly found time to be more productive and happy?

* If I was able to detach myself from how difficult it is to produce 10x the number of articles I’ve already produced, would I be able to produce more quality original articles?

Being detached from your articles and the whole article writing &amp marketing process allows you to say, “I′ll be fine whether I achieve my article writing, marketing and traffic attraction goals or not”… and you will find yourself faced with multiplicities of new found possibilities (how’s that for a tongue twister!) that didn’t seem to exist before.

Lastly, there is nothing wrong with using your emotions and passion for your niche topic within your article content! By releasing your attachement to your articles, you’ll increase your objectivity and productivity at the same time.

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Sometimes writers block happens because you′ve gotten in a rut and the air has gotten stale. A good way to get your brain and the creative muse moving again is to get moving yourself. But you don’t want to just put on your jacket and walk out the door. Follow a simple writers plan to make the exercise productive.

While this doesn′t require a lot of preparation, you want to make sure you have a few things with you. Remember, this time is for regenerating your writing juices and getting the words flowing.

Location: public bus, subway or similar mass transit vehicle

Essential equipment: notebook of some kind, pen or pencil, map of the routes and schedule, and (most importantly) the writer’s eye.

Plan on spending at least 2-3 hours riding the bus (or subway or whatever). Check out the routes a little in advance so you don’t get stuck out in west podunk for two hours between runs. You’ll also want to sit near the back of the bus so you can see everyone who gets on or off.

Once you get on the bus you have two options.

Option One

You can simply make notes on your fellow passengers as character sketches. This includes descriptions of them, their clothing, and their cell phone conversations. It’s also fun if you try to figure out what they do for a living and what their personal story is. Imagine what is going on in their mind right now and where they just came from and where they’re going when they get off the bus. Do this for as many people on the bus as you can.

Option Two

Pretend you are one of the characters in your current story. So while you’re writing about the other people riding the bus, you can write about why your character is on the bus and what she notices about some of her fellow passengers. Her attitude, likes, dislikes, feeling about who sits next to her and how she takes the experiences are useful to note. This is especially effective if you’re not sure what to do next in the story. At that point, make your character ride mass transit and write about the experience. Something is bound to turn up.

When you get back, consider subjecting each of your characters to the same bus ride and see it from each point of view. How would they describe the same passengers your initial character saw? How would they feel about riding the bus and rubbing shoulders with some of the same people?

After a few hours you will have something in writing and more than a few character sketches, descriptions and other goodies that you can weave into a story. Not a bad way to get taken for a ride, now is it?

To get a free copy of the

Sometimes, you might come across text on the web that appears to be jumbled. It is full of odd foreign letters, is unreadable, and it takes ages to load. Do you know, nine times out of ten the culprit is a program that many people use every day.

It is Microsoft Word. Or popularly called “Word”.

Microsoft Word is the world’s most popular word processor. But while Word might be perfectly good for producing documents to print and email to people, Word is bad for the web.

The Quotes

The design of the keyboard comes from the age of typewriters and the symbols present represent the kind of writing that appears on typewriters. We have stuck with our keyboard designs. All the extra characters and letters of modern fonts have to be accommodated in that very keyboard. The solution thought was to code the new characters.

This led to the quote problem.

Take a look at your keyboard. Notice how there is only one kind of double-quote mark - the straight one. When you want a single quote, you have to use the same key as for apostrophes! Now, if you were writing on paper, you would put different shaped quotes at the start and end of a quote, instead of just making straight lines. But this is not so in case of typed texts.

Things that would be represented by five different marks on paper only get two symbols on the keyboard.

Long ago, Microsoft decided to solve this problem. First, they set up Word to look for quote marks and replace them with nicer, curly quotes, known as ‘smart quotes′. Then, they took some unused character codes and decided that they would represent these new, pretty quotes.

Everything was fine until, years later, people started copying text they had written in Word and pasting onto the web. Because Microsoft didn’t stick to any international standard when they chose how to represent their smart quotes, the quotes ended up displaying as all sorts of unintended strange letters in web browsers.

Word’s users never meant to do this, but Word had gone ahead and done it for them, because smart quotes is turned on by default!

Not so smart after all, was it?

Poor HTML

There is more to all this. When Microsoft finally caught on that the web was going to be big, they quickly added web features to Word, not least of which is the ability to save documents to HTML. Microsoft again failed to stick to any standards at all. They made up their own HTML tags to represent the layout of Word documents, purely to make sure that the documents would look the same if people wanted to open them in Word and save them in another format. These proprietary tags now pollute HTML documents all over the web, simply because the people who created the pages by saving as HTML in Word don′t know enough to remove them –– and they make pages load much more slowly.

Smart Tags

It does not end there. For their latest versions of Word, Microsoft added something they called ’smart tags’. It is a kind of ‘link′ that adds contextual information to things you type. For example, if you type an address in your document, that address allows you to link through to a map.

The problem comes when documents containing smart tags are saved as HTML. The tags are saved too! This means that documents all over the web have odd text linked to completely frivolous places, simply because Word thought it looked like an address. Not only do these links take ages to load correctly, but they′re ugly too.

They are nice features when you use Word to print documents or email. But for the web they cause messy pictures. Do you wish to see the impact they have produced on the web and amount of cautions they have generated. Visit an article directory and you will find a whole page devoted to how to remove smart quotes. Or they will have special paste link if you are copying from Word.

What is the solution?

Best would be not to use Word to write for the web. Use a text editor instead. Notepad is the simplest example but there are many other available which are much more advanced. As usual many are free and others come at a price.

If you still would like to use Word then turn the smart quotes off by going to options.

This will save a lot of headaches to many people including you.

Arun Pal Singh is a doctor, writer and internet marketer. He runs membership site homeforprofits.com homeforprofits.com where he offers downloadable products and traffic strategies which you can resell and use to build your own business.

Do you write articles for squidoo? I want to say up front that writing articles for squidoo is no different than writing articles for any other online medium that you want to get high search engine rankings for. You see, when you are writing articles for squidoo, are going to be writing articles in such a way that the search engine will pick up your article and place it in the top 10 search results for your given keyword phrase.

The bottom line is writing articles for squidoo is about creating good content. Good content on the Web wins, and copied or plagiarized content on the web does not win. Writing articles for squidoo can be extremely easy, but one of the things that you must remember is that people are looking for specific information.

When people are looking for specific information, they are looking for title pages that match the information for which they are looking.

So you have to write highly targeted articles, use highly targeted titles, use highly targeted keywords, and use a highly targeted keyword linking strategy.

So, back to writing for squidoo. The first thing you should do when you’re writing articles for squidoo is, like I said, use highly targeted topics, and use the first paragraph of your article to introduce that highly targeted content, topic.

The second thing you need to do in writing for squidoo is to simply answer the question whatever the question is, and then answer the question for the people. Remember people are reading the articles, not machines. However, the machines can tell how well your content is keyword optimized, so you need to keyword optimize your content but you need to make it read well for the human reader if you want to get human clicks to your squeeze pages.

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