I still remembering reading on Dale Carnegie’s book "for every eight books we publish, we lose money on seven". Why should you bother try to make a name for yourself publishing online? Because this business is very exciting and if you succeed the rewards are golden as well.
On the internet quality is very subjective, this is not a book nor you should try to make it look like one. Speed and decent quality work better than 100% high quality and publishing one article a month. Your work speed need to triple to make a name for yourself. See the internet like a newspaper you read and delete immediately after.
1. Start writing for free blogs where quality is not important at all. These blogs have a lot of articles and your will be just another drop in the sea. Do not try to make money with advertisements, just focus on writing and improving.
2. Test your quality with top article directories such as Ezine Articles. If you can get publishes on this article directory, you can be published anywhere. Ezine articles is a great source of traffic to any publisher who launched his own website.
3. If you pass Ezine Articles quality parameters it is time to try your own domain and your own blog. You’d better pick just one topic and try to get as many readers as you can from search engines, article directories and social networks.
4. It does not matter who are you writing for. As long as you do your best, soon people will spot your skills and try to hire you.
5. Everyone is just trying to survive and you will need to work harder than anyone else if you want survive in this crazy business world.
6. It does not matter how many enemies you make along the way. You will make enemies because competition does not like to see other people succeeding. Many famous bloggers have more negative reviews than positive reviews but those who write negative reviews are just trying to tear down someone far above them.
September 23rd, 2010 at 9:27 am
A good article. Quality takes practice but one should strive to do their best work all the time.
September 23rd, 2010 at 9:41 am
Nice tips to begin and continue as a writer in the on line.
September 23rd, 2010 at 10:43 am
A very well written article. But it is my humble opinion that quality and marketing is more important than Quantity. If you write one good article and market it in such a way that it comes to the top of google search page, then you will have a great asset which pumps in money even when you sleep. The more articles the better. But if one concentrates on more articles forgetting about marketing and quality, none of the articles will make it to the top of search. If you take a monthly report in Triond and sort by page views you will come to know how many articles are “actually” contributing and how many are not. Those with less than 5 views per month can be called dead content. End of the day all that matters is how much of an “asset” each of your article turns out to be. For me the number of articles means nothing but what I am concentrating on is number of page impressions and that will reflect in my badges as well.
Another thing I disagree is with the 400 word articles. One should consider which keyword he is targeting and the keyword density in the article. If by chance your article makes it top to in google search, another person can easily write a similar article with more keyword depth and surpass your position.
Again, I am a beginner in the field of SEO and If my comments does not make sense, please ignore them. These are just my opinions.
September 24th, 2010 at 3:29 am
Nice share. But don’t quality as well before quantity.