Software I’m using to help me create articles.
When I first started Internet marketing I looked at the variety of methods I could use to get my name out there and drive traffic to my sites.
The problem with Internet marketing is that, for the inexperienced, traffic isn’t easy to come by, and without traffic we can never hope to build a business.
Despite what some would have us believe, generating traffic is not easy for the inexperienced just entering Internet marketing.
There are many methods of generating traffic to our sites, and common sense says they should all work, – although some better than others -
But, they will all rely on TWO things –
PERSEVERANCE and CONSISTENCY!
We can learn to write better, we can improve our effectiveness when it comes to our “Google Adwords” campaigns, but in the early days PERSEVERENCE and CONSISTENCY are what count.
No method will work straight off the bat, which means we all have to put in the time to develop our skills!
One of my preferred methods of driving traffic to my sites is article writing. I write an article and then submit it to various article directories. Once they approve it, they will publish it online for others to read. Although few of these directories will allow hyperlinks to be placed within the body of the copy, we can usually link back to our site from the resource box below the article.
When I write articles I always use several tools to help me.
None of the tools I use will write the article for me, but they can make the process a lot faster and more efficient.
I use “Instant Article Wizard” to help me with basic article research and recently I’ve started using “Mass Article Creator” and “Mass Article Submitter”
One of my favorite software authors Jon Leger created “Instant Article Wizard”. I use “IAW” for all of my research and then my basic article writing. “IAW” works by taking a group of keywords that I provide and then sources subtopics around those keywords, from there it’s relatively easy to create a coherent and knowledgeable article about virtually any subject even if I know little about it initially.
All the text I select from the mountains of information “IAW” provides, I then copy across to my word processor where I make the final edits to my articles. “IAW” saves me a great deal of time and frustration when gathering subject material for my articles whether I then go on to use them on my blog or publish them in article directories. The one thing I must emphasize is that “IAW” will do most of the work for me, but when it comes to the finished article, I still spend time tweaking it, I wouldn’t consider publishing it “as is” because the software isn’t really designed to give me the highest quality I expect, but that is my own personal preference. Others use the software, apparently with great success whilst doing a lot less editing (horses for courses I guess).
A couple of years ago a succession of programs came onto the market claiming to produce any number of articles out of the one I’d written.
In effect I’d create a single article, feed it into an article spinner and the program would spit out 10,20 even 30 articles.
I bought several of these article “spinner” programs but they never lived up to my expectations. They all suffered from the same weaknesses in that they were all blunt instruments, and any documents they put together needed a lot of editing otherwise they read as though they were put together by a computer program (which to some extent they were).
For the last few weeks I’ve been trying a new program called “Mass Article Control” which again is a “spinner” type program but with this one I have a lot more control over the output and it also “learns” as I use the software. “MAC” has a built in thesaurus that improves and gets ever larger with my usage. “MAC” allows me use specific keywords that are explicit to the particular niche I’m writing the article for. “MAC” allows me to edit and replace single keywords or even entire keyword phrases.
I can put my original article into “MAC” and then (depending on the length of the article) I can reformat it into maybe 30 or more different articles all needing the minimum of editing at the end of the process. Again, I always read and final edit by hand, although many others don’t – but that’s just me!
This is saving me loads of time and increasing the number of articles I can submit. The software is also growing with me and my business because of the dynamic thesaurus it incorporates.
