Article Writing Mindset
Ed writes:
First of all how do you write Articles? Second is how do you start writing articles in your mindset?
Chris Knight responds: Invest a night of reading a few hundred articles in the Writing Articles or Article Marketing category to discover many different views about how to write articles. Next, the mindset of an article writer will become evident to you when know have an article writing plan and know why you’re working the plan (ie: What’s your end outcome?).
Rose Marie asks:
If I write an article and submit it to ezinearticles.com, can I also use the article on my website or is that considered “duplicate content”?
Chris Knight responds: We require that any article you submit to EzineArticles be an original article that you wrote and have an exclusive right to the article (meaning we won’t find the same article anywhere else on the net under someone else’s name) but the article does not have to be exclusive to us. Many members have told us they do all kinds of tests and we hear pretty consistently that it does and doesn’t matter if you do what you propose. Many experts on this issue have been encouraging others to have one set of unique content on your website and another set of unique content for your article syndication activities. Also, see this blog entry: Web Content Mix Strategy
Ted asks:
What is more important for article submissions – keyword optimization or compelling narrative?
Chris Knight responds: Compelling narrative with a subtle level of keyword intelligence is best. Most people over do the SEO thing and we recommend that you focus on writing for your ideal reader.
M asks:
I wonder to know if in short essays citation is essential or not?
Chris Knight responds: For the typical article found on our site and due to the syndication nature of how EzineArticles works, we recommend that you don’t use 3rd party sources for any of your content even if you have a fair use doctrine claim to the right to do it. Life becomes very complicated when your cited source complains. Therefore, citation is not necessary because we recommend that you don’t include works from others in your articles.
Recently, Google expanded the details of their Webmaster guidelines and duplicate content was one of the areas they added information about. Here is the link to the page about duplicate content:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66359
For more info on other guidelines they updated, you can read this: http://pinscreative.blogspot.com/2007/06/google-gives-webmasters-more-details.html
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