If an article of 5, words in length is extremely well written, the people who will be best served by its content and relative value will detect that immediately and likely read it in its entirety. But to slam those on the Internet who are not interested in wading through a 5,word piece, is not really fair play. Anyone can write a 5, piece…. Perhaps Lance misjudges the readers who know a puff piece or sub-standard writing when they see one and elect to vote with their feet.
Naturally, having a directory full of long-winded, ramblling, poorly written 5, word tomes will not do the trick in that department. He would be doing himself a great disservice….. Put yourself in his shoes: this is HIS product, we are privileged to be able to participate.
Indeed, I think a closed fist is smart rather than trying to smack knuckle heads up side the head with a flat hand. Thus, I will continue the fight for what is right, and allowing for a 5, word article on this site shows its versatility and ability to deliver to the most number of viewers with the most varied interests.
Those who wish to write small articles fine, those who have larger ones, why not, there is space, that is not any issue. Do I think email newsletter publishers who come to EzineArticles for content are going to syndicate word articles as their first choice? Most likely not. I truly believe that the best older folks I have ever met with, typically lead by example and have enough experience, expertise and observations to serve the rest.
For those I respect for they have earned it. Before anyone condemns me, they ought to look at the scoreboard. There are writers and there are doers and on rare occassion there are doers who become writers. Those are the people I wish to follow and one Ought Not follow those who condemn on a whim. And I am confident I can write that up in under words as an article to enlighten the average Internet Surfer. It is an art to write good content in few words and not compel it.
To write loads of word just to create a certain amount of words seems to me worthless and hard to understand the meaning with it. And I think that it is time consuming to read them. You know what? I wanted to do that, but I was thinking about a small ebook. However, a free report in this Ezine will be the same thing. Most of my articles are small, I would say 8, to 9, of them are under words and they make up most of my 4.
So, it would be silly for me to pretend that shorter somewhat tight articles are not the way to go for the average internet marketers. Of course, at 40 and retired, I am not marketing anything, more giving out information now. And whereas I side with Roy, Ulla, Chris and others here that, yes indeed it statistically is true to run short and sweet articles; I also realize that sometimes more indepth articles are much better to stay whole, and often the run over 1, words to 3, I believe Christina is right.
I have several things I would like to write and have written that are 5, words and cannot be made into a whole eBook and using the EzineArticles venue to promote these ideas or give them away, seems like a wonderful opportunity.
Our articles can be of many kinds, depending on the subject and our intention. Some articles have to be big if we want to give information, advices and orientation. If we try to make them shorter they lose their essence.
So, the standard shall be articles written with words, but we can have many variations. Each one can be very useful and successful if they are well done. I believe words is good too and another point I would like to make is that when you see word or more articles, the Adsense ads seem to project more apropos ads. Has anyone else noticed this? So this is yet another reason I feel that the minimum count articles, which I confess to have quite a few, may not be the most appropriate for Online Article Marketers who are looking for syndication exploits to increase their viral marketing strategies.
Does that make sense? Very interesting observation Lance! I saw what you said too, and I thought it was intriguing because the ads must have some relation with the text where they are. The most popular articles are between words. To find your word count, go to "tools" in the Windows menu.
There is an automatic word count tab there. Some ezines want articles to contain 65 characters a line. Here is a formatting tool for free conversion to the number of characters you want.
I do not pay for any listings, nor do I charge for my articles. Here are some tips from Ezinearticles. The introduction can be the first paragraph. Make sure the article is keyword rich and reflects the theme of your home based business. Never put the title in the body. Never use more than 3 web addresses and they should all be different.
Print a copy, proof read it, and then ask someone else to read it. Your article should look professional, with no spelling mistakes or vague sentences. When you are satisfied with your article start submitting it to ezines and ezine directories.
Look for ezines designed for work at home people, or whatever your article is related to. It is often more time efficient to write a few articles and submit them all together. It is time consuming to manually submit. Some can be submitted thru the website others want email attachments. Some ezines want to you to subscribe, before you can submit articles. Establish an email address just for ezines.
Consider an address that matches your business, for example if you sell weight loss products use something like loseweight yourprovider. However you need to read through it, as sometimes there is a request to reuse an article or a request for more articles and sometimes compliments.
Some people use different URL's for every ezine they submit to. I have not done this as once they are out in cyberspace articles can be picked up by anyone. So you really do not know where the traffic is coming from. This is the beauty of the Internet.
Good articles are used over and over by many ezine owners. It is imperative to include a 'resource box' or 'signature file' at the end of your article.
This is your opportunity to describe your business in a few lines and include your URL. One of the ways that valuable backlinks can be gained is through article marketing. Article Marketing is the process of writing an interesting and useful article, aimed at a businesses target market. The importance is that the article is of use, as this means there is a higher chance of the article being read by users, and then getting indexed by search engines as it keeps getting hits.
One of the sites that such an article can be published on is Ezine Articles. To publish an article, strict guidelines have to be followed which ensure quality and consistency across all articles being published. Within these guidelines, typical requirements include a mininum word count, guidance on link placement, and the usage or non usage of a clients brand.
This means that Google regards Ezine as being of a high quality, and trusts any reccomendations they make through articles with links in them.
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