Banking on Your Blogging

If you blog and also write articles for promotional purposes is it sometimes difficult for you to figure out how to write an article after composing blog entries all day. Do your ‘creative’ juices seem to run dry after a few hours of blog posting thus leaving you on ‘empty’ when you sit down to writes articles? If that is the case you are not alone.

The need for frequent blog posting is necessary in order to maintain fresh quality content on your site to satisfy your readers. On the other hand, time and energy is also need to find useful information upon which you can base your article writing? The question here is can both these tasks be done in less time and with less effort? My answer is yes!

Today we are going to discuss 3 ways in which you can quickly ‘dissect’ your blog post into a more workable and reusable format for article writing.

Outline the Main Ideas of Your Post

Take an old post and determine what its main point(s) are and make note of them. Assemble your notes in the order in which you intend to present them and arrange them into a format that is appealing and makes sense.

For the purpose of article writing the use of bullet points, numbering or sub-titles is popular and easy for the reader to follow.

Discard Rewording

Avoid the temptation of trying to simply ‘reword’ the old post since this approach could likely get you caught up in duplicating the content. Another drawback here in this approach is that it actually takes more time and effort to ‘rethink’ words and phrases. Do not bother yourself by attempting this and instead simply stick with your ‘outline’ since that will be all you need.

Write from Your Outline

After choosing the format in which you intend to present your article simply go back to your outline and with a fresh approach, quickly make or explain your points. You will find there will be no need to refer back to the content of the post itself since all the points you will be making will come straight from your thought process. This will take less time and make your efforts easier than if you were trying to ‘rethink’ or ‘rewrite’ words or phrases.

Now you will have fresh quality content for your article without duplicating your blog post.

Learning how to write an article based upon an old blog post can save you much time and effort. Frequently composing blog entries is a necessity for maintaining a healthy base of readers. This continuous flow of quality content used on your blog can also be converted into useful information upon which you can base your article writing. Streamlining your efforts in this way can free up time for you to devote to other areas of your business or life. That choice is yours!

Publishing content on the internet is a very effective online marketing strategy since it not only gives you massive exposure but also helps build your credibility. This approach however can be labor intensive therefore it is always a good idea to look for ways to make your content distribution efforts more efficient.

When using content as a promotional means you are not only distributing it but also developing it as well. Both these tasks by themselves are time consuming so it would more efficient if they could be consolidated in some way.

Let’s look at 3 ‘tools’ available to you that could be used not only for content distribution but also for developing new information as well.

Digg

This is one of the largest social bookmarking sites online and is designed to bring late breaking news and other interesting content to you. The value of this site increases for someone who is involved in content distribution. Digg allows you to publish your own content to the site and then circulates it amongst a significantly sized membership base.

As your content gets circulated it can then quite easily go viral leaving the site and infiltrating other areas of the internet.

Delicious

Much like Digg this site also makes available to you information or news that is current and makes it easy to bookmark any content you find interesting. Searching for information relative to any topic you choose is made easy since content is ’stored’ on the site and is categorized by descriptive tags and keywords.

The search process on this social bookmarking site is much more time efficient than what you would experience by using online search engines.

Submitting your own interesting content is encouraged on this site and shared with the membership which once again is significant in numbers. Here too the circulation of content is NOT limited to just the site itself.

TweetDeck

If yesterday was your first day online you have probably already heard of Twitter the social networking micro blog. This site offers many ‘down loadable’ applications but one of the most valuable is Tweetdeck. This app allows you to search multiple topics or keywords simultaneously for information of interest to you.

If you are using content online for promotional reasons you will never be at a loss for freshly updated information to use. The best thing is your searches yield real time results which make for the freshest content you will find.

From this same platform you can also broadcast your own content to other site members. Being Twitter is one of the fastest growing and largest social networking sites online you will not be shortchanged for the exposure you can receive.

Publishing content as a means for gaining exposure online is a very effective technique that offers several benefits. This particular online marketing strategy however could be even more effective if the process of content distribution and development could be better consolidated. By incorporating the 3 tools we spoke of here today in your efforts when using content for promotional purposes you will experience considerable time savings. These tools are not only great sources for new content but can also offer you significant exposure as well.

Learning how to write captivating article titles is one of the best ways to get people to read what you have written. When writing articles it is normal to focus all your time and energy on the content thereby giving your title less attention than it deserves.

Now there is no doubt that the content of your article is important, it is the ‘meat and potatoes’ by which you will ultimately be judged. But what good is all that effort if no one evens reads it?

Look you want to write popular articles right, well in order for them to be popular they must first be read. Topping your content off with catchy titles is like the icing on the cake. This is what will attract attention and get your articles read.

Here are 3 different ideas or templates you can use to develop the catchy titles you need to get more of your articles read.

Teaching or Instructive

Composing an article title that ‘promises’ to teach the reader something caters to the insatiable attitude of ‘what is in it for me’ that most people tend to have.

Writing a ‘How to’ type title normally captures the attention of anyone with even a remote interest in that subject. What you are actually doing with a title like this is assuring readers upfront that will come away from your article with a new found knowledge or insight.

Engaging

Drawing the reader into your article by using an article title that immediately engages them is great approach. Asking questions of the readers in your title is very effective at getting readers attention and also their involvement.

Developing titles in this way also tends to attract the more ‘targeted’ reader to your articles. For instance if you ask “How Would You Like to Learn to Fiddle in Just 30 Minutes?” you will obviously attract only those with that particular interest.

By posing questions or making statements that get people thinking you will arouse their curiosity compelling them to read further into the article itself.

Using Your Primary Keyword

Taking your primary keyword and placing it into your title helps to emphasis exactly what the main theme of your article is. This makes it easier for readers who are ’scanning’ titles for content like yours to notice your article. Of course it still helps to word the title in an intriguing fashion but there is yet another huge advantage to this approach. By using keywords in the title of your article you are also making it much easier for search engines to find your content. The search engines will than display your article higher in their results thereby increasing your traffic.

Your article titles are crucial in attracting the attention of readers. It is common for most anybody who invests the time and effort in writing articles to overlook or de-emphasize their article title. The feeling is that who needs catchy titles with all the great content you just wrote. Well great content is important and a requirement for all popular articles HOWEVER it must first be read. The right title will accomplish that for you and by using any of the 3 ideas we discussed here today you can easily develop one that will attract readers. So remember the next time you are writing articles to ‘top off’ your great content with an equally great title! If you want to learn how to REALLY produce great content and lots of it Click Here!