Article writing and submission is a well proven and infallible way to build a steady flow of traffic to your website, but to work effectively this strategy requires a disciplined approach to article production.
No matter what article target you set yourself; one a week, one a day or five every morning, at some point you will come across the inevitable problem of not knowing what to write.
Here are three little tips to get your creativity flowing again.
Tip #1 – Start with the structure. You have probably already started experimenting with the basic article structures; bullet points, threes, fives, the story approach etc. One way to get going is to choose one of those structures, let’s say, the set of three.
All you need to do is sit at your keyboard and type three sentences related to your area of interest. Type them as quickly as possible, without worrying about spelling or grammar – try to access your subconscious if you can.
Whenever I do this, I always find at least one of those sentences will immediately suggest an article topic or a new angle and sometimes, I end up with two or three.
Tip #2 – Play with your keywords. If your article marketing is part of an overall web strategy, then somewhere you will be making use of keywords, whether in your articles or in a separate pay per click campaign.
Try typing out those keywords as a sentence and insert prepositions like ‘and’ or ‘to’ or ‘of’ in between them at random. For example, if your subject area is gardening you might produce a keyword sentence like this :
“Horticulture of seed-beds and saplings to cultivate and germination under fertilizer”. Of course, it doesn’t make sense, but it will make you see the different niches of your subject in new ways. If your first pass doesn’t inspire you, try moving the keywords round in the sentence till something clicks. It always will.
Tip #3 – Just start typing. Finally, my faithful standby to kick-start my brain and begin to produce something new is to just start typing sentences. Anything at all will do as long as you keep your subject area and keywords in your mind, what you type will be somewhere in the region of where you want to be and as soon as you have typed three or four, I can guarantee that you will ignite the spark that will create your next article.
In the same topsy-turvy way that simply smiling makes us feel happier, I have found that simply typing will produce articles. The answer is in your fingers.
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