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Article Writing----Are You Kidding?

By Frederick Corrigan

BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME! That was a great movie and it turned many dreams into apparent reality.

Are we in the movies? Well, we might think that we are as we produce these websites, hoping that people will come.
Many website owners are really just hoping and wishing.

Take a look at some of the facts. I’ve seen websites with an alexa ranking over 22,000,000. That’s 22 million websites that have some form of traffic or (lack thereof). There are still more out there in cyber space, stirring up the internet airwaves and really just ‘taking up space’.

How many people have ‘free’ websites, built by whomever and they think; now I’m in the E-commerce world? There is nothing wrong with ‘free’ if it gets the job done. However, there is a saying, ‘If they sell for less, they must know the value’.

Building the website is only the start of the process. Let’s relate to the movie again. If the producers of the film didn’t advertise it, who would even know the movie existed?

Remember, you had a dream, you wanted to sell ‘widgets’, so you built, or had a website built. You are now ‘one’ of over ’22 million’. You’re large, you’re a star and you’re on your way to E-commerce stardom.

The website is beautiful, has all the right colors, the background is right for selling ‘widgets’ and you’re as happy as a pig in mud. Well, the analogy is right, you’re lying around the the internet mud.

Guess what? Three months later and you haven’t sold a single ‘widget’. Do you have control of your website’s back office or can’t you even tell how many people have come to look at your ‘widgets’?

Now you start to see the small part of the big picture. You MUST market and advertise. If you don’t tell people, how will they know that you have ‘widgets’ to sell. In fact, if you write ‘Everything is Free’ on your home page, you couldn’t give away your ‘widgets’ because you’re lost in the 22 million plus pieces of mud.

Okay, where are we going? We have spent time and money to build our ‘widget’ website. What do we do next? We advertise, advertise, advertise and advertise. That sounds good, but how do we advertise in space?

AH HA, now we’re getting somewhere. Someone told you that article writing was a great way to get ‘backlinks’ to your site and with more ‘backlinks’ you will have better search engine rankings. This in turn could move your website up on the search engine page listings. Guess What? Now people looking for ‘widgets’ can find you.

So you sign up with a company that publishes articles. You read their FAQ’s, their manuals, their privacy policies,their procedures,and their How To's.

Now for starters let's say that this article publisher has a 5 page rank website. You couldn’t get a 5 page rank site to link to you unless it belonged to your mother. OK, maybe your friend. But seriously, every article that you write will get your website a backlink from a 5 page rank website.

Write 25 articles and get 25,5 page rank backlinks. So, now write 50, 75 or 100 articles or more. You don’t have time? What’s the rush? You only want to improve your search engine listings for the website that is YOUR DREAM.

We won’t mention that maybe, as you learn to write desirable articles,you might make money writing articles for other websites.That’s just a little GRAIN to help the NAPPING PIG get out of the mud.

The people you meet are adults, professional people and just plain helpful. These people will only make you a better person and webmaster.