Quick Lessons in Content Building #1
In affiliate marketing, we’re faced with the constant “problem” of writing articles around our niche. Why? Because information is the currency of the Net, and affiliate marketing ties directly in with information. The basic formula is: write an article on a topic to give some enough to make an informed decision on a problem they are having, and then offer them the product or service they just learned about through your article.
Many people have problems writing, or just don’t want to, and thus we have a plethora of products to get around having to actually write. I believe the whole thing causes more problems than just writing your own flippin’ articles, so over the course of a few posts I’m going to show you how to write articles for your website as effortlessly and quickly as possible. It’ll be easy, and we’ll slowly ramp it up over time, so you won’t even notice.
1) Install an RSS reader. If you’re using the Firefox browser (and you should be; if not, get it here), there’s a good one called Sage located here. If you don’t know what RSS is, just think of it as a program that sends summaries of new blog posts, web articles, or news articles to your computer. So if Joe Schmo adds a new article to his blog about his pet parrot, AND you’ve subscribed to his RSS feed, you will see within your RSS reader the first few lines of his article, and a link to the full article. RSS is a great way of keeping plugged in to your niche.
2) After Sage is installed, you’ll need to look for SEVERAL feeds to install within your topic. This can be accomplished by doing a Google search for your main keyword along with word “RSS.” Another way is to search for blogs on your subject matter. Another way is to go to http://news.google.com and search for news stories related to your niche. Also, try RSS search engines such as http://www.feedster.com. Ultimately you’ll want as many as you can find.
4) Keep an eye out for the little RSS symbol in the web address bar when browsing these sources. It’s orange. Can’t miss it. Use this to subscribe to the feed. Do this for every source you can find.
5) Now you’ll have your own news source for your niche.
6) Peruse these news feeds for ONE item that catches your eye in your niche. Think of a ONE sentence comment you can make on any of these: thoughts, opinions, restating what’s in the article. Anything.
Got it? Good. Start doing this on a regular basis, writing only ONE sentence per day on ONE story from your RSS feed that catches your eye. For practice, of course.
Stay tuned for lesson number 2…
Tags: plr, content, articles, writing
