How To Be A Web Content Provider!

Aug 6
21:00

2004

Stuart Elwell

Stuart Elwell

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How To Be A Web Content Provider!

Would you be happy with reaching literally millions of
people by being a web content provider. Whatever you're
selling, it would be nice if you could do this on a
regular basis, FOR FREE, through a large number of
other people's ezines and websites, wouldn't it?

Well this is what you can be doing when you start
writing content and articles for the countless online
newsletters, ezines and webpages that are looking for
your input. One thing common to all Internet publishers
is that they are all looking for good articles to publish.

If you can be a content provider of interesting and
informative articles for them you stand a good chance
of getting included in their website/next publication.
However you probably won't get included if it is
simply a sales letter disguised as an article. But if
you can provide good quality and informative web content
you can often be their savior.

Then, they will give you what you need in exchange. They
will give you exposure for your business...

How Web Content Providers Benefit:

The publisher will actually expect you to include a small
advert at the end of the content you provide. This will
get published along with the article itself, and is seen
as a fair exchange for the content you have provided.
It's how you benefit from the deal!

This small ad is usually referred to as a "resource box",
but you can put almost anything you like in here so long
as it is only a few lines long. You are free to advertise
whatever you are promoting. You could point people back
to your website, affiliate program, or tell them how to
subscribe to your own newsletter etc.

If you're like most web content providers you probably
don't consider yourself a writer. It doesn’t matter, it
is your knowledge that's important. What do you know
about your industry? If a friend who understands very
little about your specialist subject was to ask you
about something related to that industry, what would you
say. Write it down. You don't have to write like an
English professor. If fact this would put a lot
of people off from reading all your article. To be a
good web content provider you should write as you speak,
be down to earth and user-friendly.

The Internet often seems so impersonal. Your readers are
seeking someone who is real, so why not write as a real
person in a conversational manner.

Have a think and try to choose a hot online topic. Look
at the articles from other magazines and newsgroups in
your industry. A good web content provider should write
about current subjects that you're pretty sure will
interest people.

The title is important and should grab people’s
attention otherwise they may never read the rest of the
article. If they don’t read the article, they won’t see
your resource box. Therefore have a good think about the
title and live with it for a few days until you feel you
cannot improve it.

For the actual web content, around 500 words is a good
rule of thumb. Try not to be too long winded. Most users
will do a quick scroll to see how long the article is
before reading. If it's too long or too short you may
lose them. People don't like to read for too long online
so stick to the point.

At the end of the article add your resource box info. You
will receive the best results if you can include a short
message related to the article you have just written.

If you have impressed readers with your expertise, there's
a good chance they will want to learn more about you and
what else you can offer them.

Just like with the headline, you'll need to leave your
article for a short while, and "sleep on it". Come back to
it the next day and edit it. Improve parts that you then
feel could be made a little better. It's amazing what a
short rest will do for the creative process.

Once you're happy and cannot improve the article any more,
now it's time to submit to ezine publishers. Below I have
provided a list of places that ezine publisher look to
find the articles of web content providers. If you can get
your article published at these websites, getting into
many ezines should be the logical outcome.

http://www.web-source.net/
http://groups.yahoo.com/
http://amazines.com/
http://bpubs.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://goarticles.com/
http://promotenewz.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.certificate.net/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://ideamarketers.com/

Remember, this process could get you huge targeted exposure,
so it's well worth the effort - and it costs you nothing but
your time.

Best wishes for your future.

Stuart Elwell

Article by:
Stuart Elwell, Webmaster for WebSmart-Marketing.com; http://www.websmart-marketing.com/home.html
which provides sound advice and strategies for making
money from the Internet.