<h1>Article Writing for Beginners</h1>

Article writing is free and one of the simplest ways to get traffic to your website or referral link when marketing online. Article writing for beginners can be relatively easy to learn. Here are a few article site you can write for as well as some tips to get your article listed in Google quickly and easily.

http://www.Squidoo.com

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.hubpages.com

http://www.pressbox.co.uk

http://www.articlecity.com


Article writing for beginners can be intimidating at first so here are some quick tips to get listed in Google. Check the popularity of a particular keyword phrase in Google that you are going to use in your article. You do this by entering your keyword phrase in to the search engine in quotations. An example being: "your keyword phrase here". Click search and look on the top of the listings close to the right. If you see this term has less than 5,000 search results you may just have a winner, but too few results and it's likely that very few people are searching in these keywords.


Once you have your keywords and are getting ready to write your article, be sure to put (if allowed) the heading tag in your keyword title. To do this your title will look like this: <>your title here< / h 1 >. Enter this code without the spaces. This will serve to make your title stand out and look more appealing to your readers.

Keep your articles between 300 and 500 words. Any more and the search engines may consider your article spam. Any Less and it may not get picked up by them.

Use your keywords you chose (the ones you used in your title) 3 to 7 times within your article or simply 3%-5% of the time. using any less or more could result in the same effect as stated just above.

Lastly, Everyone these days are writing there articles as if they were trying to sell you their product. This is not helpful in article writing for beginners. Don't get me wrong, making a sale/commission is indeed what you want but you should definitely go about it a bit more subtly. People don't like being sold, they want to be convinced but not feeling like they fell for the latest greatest sales pitch later. Sound unbiased, write your article as if you were writing a letter to a friend keeping relevance in mind. Do research on Google, forums etc. To find out how your customers think, what they react to and what they really want to hear. Sound like an authority, like you've been researching this niche for years and years. Also, Send your customers a sense of urgency. For instance: "but you better hurry as I've recently gotten word from the owners that they will be closing doors to new members in just a few days because of the overload of new people signing up, but you didn't here that from me".

If you're doing affiliate marketing you have many choices on what you promote and how you write your articles. But whatever you do give be sure you only promote products you would buy yourself. Promoting junk doesn't help anyone and believe me, selling quality products honestly and fairly will help you sleep at night. Not to mention greatly reduce refund requests and the headaches that go along with them. Article writing for beginners can be easier than you think. Work hard and you will be rewarded! Just remember, the only Failures in Internet marketing are the ones who consider it but never try at all!