How to Write Articles to Promote Your Home Based Business

By Alan Scholtz

Lots of people feel intimidated about writing their first article, but I will show you some easy ways to write quality articles that you can use to promote your home based business.

First of all what are good articles - that is any article that can accomplish the following,

* Generate free traffic to your site.

* Send traffic to a web site that you are promoting as an affiliate, (via your link).

* Provide quality content for a blog or lens.

* Combine several articles to make small reports or your own e-books.

People use the Internet to gather information, or to solve a problem, they want to learn something quickly, that is why your articles must be brief and to the point.

The quickest way to write article.

With all the tip websites, and online forums, there is no need to come up with all the content off the top of your head.

However - never take another persons word or article, do not even copy a sentence, that is illegal

Learn for their content, find similar content, until you have a good understanding of the topic, then write the article in your own words based on what you have read and learned from all the articles that you have gathered from the Internet.

Have a look at other websites in your own niche, you can write an article on why your home based business is different, what are the products different that you are offering and how are these products going to help your visitor.

How to find good Information.

If you want to write an article on "how to loose weight - for teenager's", search Google or any one of the major search engines for "weight loose forums" or how to "diet" or something similar, have a look for forums and discussion boards on the same topic.

Obviously, your articles must be the same product or very similar as the products on your home based business that you are promoting.

Now all you have to do is read the posts and the various responses and use this information to write your article.

If you find a great information product on clickbank, or any of the other affiliate programs that is the same as your article, you can promote that product at the same time. So now not only are you writing a great article but you are also getting money from your article when people click on your affiliate click.

Another place to gather information is at the "Frequently Asked Questions" at FAQ.org and groups.google.com.

Remember to keep your article short, to the point and with loads of helpful tips and good advice.

How to Write your article title.

Your title is one of the most important parts to your whole article, this is what gets peoples attention, whether they decide to read your article or to pass it by.

Your title must convey exactly what you are offering in your article, think of the following titles,

"help your teenage children with their weight" or "diet programs for teenagers", these are kind of boring and do not really stand out.

"7 steps to an active & energetic teenager" - this title is much better, a good test to see if your title is good enough, is to submit a few articles with different titles to a few article directories and see which article gets the bigger response.

Finally

Now know that you have a good title, a great article that is promoting your home based business. The last part is to add some good long-tailed keywords that you know people are searching for, into your article.

If you want to learn more about writing articles or how to promote your business with articles, then get a copy of Article Writing Secrets, you will soon be churning out quality articles like a seasoned writer.

Alan Scholtz is the owner of How to DebtFree if you are looking to start a Internet business, then start here first.

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