Webmasters should take advantage of every opportunity to get free publicity. This includes writing and publishing articles but many webmasters fear that they would not be able to write a whole article. There are ways to ensure articles fit the criteria for publication in ezines.
Most article directories will not accept an article consisting of fewer than 500 words; the most suitable length for an article is between 500 and 700 words. Let's go for 500 words for our first attempt. That might sound a lot but, if you look at the structure of most articles you will see that they are broken down into three sections: introductory paragraph, main content and closing paragraph. In turn, the main content will be broken down into 3-5 paragraphs.
If you plan your article to have three paragraphs of main content, you only need to find 100 words to write in each paragraph and that is a far easier goal to think about than finding 500 words. When you write the article, you obviously won't have exactly 100 words in each paragraph but this rule of thumb gives you something to aim for. Decide in advance on the sub-topic of each of the main content paragraphs, you can give them subheadings if appropriate, otherwise just use the sub-topics to plan your structure.
To get a feel for structure, let's look at an idea for an article. Our subject can be planting spring bulbs and our plan will look something like this:
Introduction - general information eg about types of bulbs available for spring flowering, type, varieties available, colors available, best time to plant, benefits of using bulbs in preference to other forms of planting.
Para 1 - choosing the right bulbs for particular situations eg shaded ground, containers, mixed planting, indoor displays etc.
Para 2 - planting techniques eg choosing growing medium for containers, choosing containers, depth to plant different species, colour schemes
Para 3 - general care eg watering, when to cut down, propagation, naturalisingClosing - brief summary of topics covered or something along the lines of "if you follow this care guidance, your bulbs will provide a colourful display year after year".
In this plan our closing paragraph is very brief but there should be no problem in writing well over 100 words for the first paragraph. In fact, if you are a bulb expert, you could write several articles based on each of the sub-topics.
If you feel you need to write an article on a particular subject but really run out of things to say, there are a couple of simple ways to bring your word count up to the level required by the article directories. Make it a rule, however, that you never use artificial padding to inflate your word count. The trick is to add words that enhance the value of your article, not just puff it up. These are legitimate ways of boosting your word count:
1. Add a sub-title to the article and use sub headings (if appropriate) for each paragraph.
2. If you use acronyms or initials, place the full term in brackets after the abbreviation. eg if you are talking about PPC, add "(this stands for Pay Per Click advertising)" after the abbreviation to add seven extra words.
3. Use quotations or statistics. Some articles can be uplifted by the use of a famous quotation. Inserting the quotation and author name adds several words but you can expand this by adding a brief biographical note about the author eg "the famous Russian metaphysical poet". If the article is not suited to the insertion of quotations, you might be able to add an interesting statistic. The information together with details of its source will add more words.
If you follow the steps set out above, you should find it comparatively easy to write an article of sufficient length for Ezine publication.
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