South African Freedom Day

Happy South African Freedom Day!

Yesterday, South Africa celebrated its 14th year of democracy since the first non-racial elections on April 27th, 1994. Freedom day is celebrated throughout South Africa and each year the National Celebration provides a constant message of equal rights and unity in diversity for all.

In honor of this day of celebration, EzineArticles expert author from South Africa Gerald Crawford is today’s Author Spotlight.

Born in South Africa, Gerald has studied electronics, telecommunications, eco-travel concepts and promotes responsible tourism in South Africa. An EzineArticles Platinum Author since September 2006, Gerald’s 225+ articles reflect his diversity of expertise from Travel and Leisure to Health and Fitness and result in over 57,500 views. Gerald’s article South African Coat of Arms describes South Africa’s new national coat of arms and its aim to reflect the democratic changes in the nation. His “EzineArticles Expert Author Badge” is proudly displayed on his website and links to his EzineArticles Extended Author Bio and Pic.

Thanks Gerald Crawford for being an Ezine Articles Expert Author and we hope you enjoyed your day of celebration! Take a look at all 534 of our EzineArticles expert authors based in South Africa.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on April 28, 2008 at 10:50 am

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Charles Nash - Author Spotlight

EzineArticles Expert Author and bodybuilder Charles Nash is today’s Author Spotlight.

As a new EzineArticles Platinum Author, many of Charles 40 active articles focus on how to lose weight, build muscle and transform the body with proper nutrition and exercise.

KEY LESSON TO DISCOVER: He has mastered the art of providing actionable quality tips in a ~300 word count range as demonstrated in his articles Muscle Growth Tips and Easy Ways to Lose Weight.

Typically, it’s very difficult to produce a sub <500 word article and be able to deliver real user-perceived value. Many of our members write 1,000 word articles and cut them in half to create two 500-word articles. Anything below 500 words and you really have to make sure you’re delivering solid advice or quality original information that isn’t ‘regurgitated-blather’.

Charles further increased his credibility by creating an extended author bio and uploading his author photo. …now back to the gym!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on April 9, 2008 at 11:47 am

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Stephen Hopson - Author Spotlight

EzineArticles Expert Author and inspirational speaker Stephen Hopson is today’s Author Spotlight.

Profoundly deaf since birth, Stephen Hopson is a former award-winning Wall Street stockbroker turned inspirational speaker, author and pilot. He used law of attraction and other spiritual principles to achieve these dreams. He is a firm believer that we are all spiritual beings having a human experience. He gave up a lucrative six figure Wall Street career to pursue his dreams of using the gift of communication as a motivational speaker. Now in great demand as a speaker, he has spoken all over the country.

As an EzineArticles Platinum Author since 2006, many of Stephens 61 active articles reflect how he was able to tap into universal law in order to manifest his dreams. Stephen attracts droves of new readers to his professional speaking website and Adversity University blog everyday. He most recently released his new professional speaking demo video Transforming Adversity into Success and further increased his credibility as an inspirational writer and speaker by creating an extended author bio and uploading his author photo.

Thanks Stephen Hopson for submitting your inspirational articles and keep up the good work!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 19, 2008 at 9:00 am

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Happy Irish Expert Author Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is believed to have driven the snakes from Ireland. March 17th, thought to be the date of the saint’s death, is a day of celebration and tradition by people from all walks and heritages. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by wearing green, eating Irish food and attending parades and is steeped in folklore; from the shamrock to the leprechaun. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade actually took place in New York City by Irish immigrants in the 1760s.

In honor of this day of celebration, EzineArticles expert author from Ireland Ronan Menton is today’s Author Spotlight.

Ronan Menton lives in Dublin, Ireland and works in the web travel business. His articles highlight Ireland’s vast travel and leisure opportunities and feature many of Ireland’s national attractions and traditions, such as his article Guiness: A Dublin Legacy.

He has mastered the 300-400 word article with ease of read and a flare for “taking you there” with his use of colorful description. An EzineArticles Platinum Member since April of 2006, Ronan has taken advantage of writing and submitting his articles in sets to increase his article inventory and maximize his article writing time spent. He has also uploaded his author pic and utilized the extended author bio. Thanks Ronan Menton for being an EzineArticles expert author and enjoy your day of celebration.

Take a look at all of our EzineArticles expert authors based in Ireland.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 17, 2008 at 6:53 am

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Kay Hutchinson - Author Spotlight

EzineArticles expert author Kay Hutchinson is today’s Author Spotlight.

Kay Hutchinson, CAMQ, CAMT is a practitioner of Chinese medicine, energetic life coach and teacher of qi gong movement. She is the founder of Aiki Healing, a private practice in Austin, Texas, and the publisher of “Health Prosperity”, a publication dedicated to empowering people to manifest optimum health and wellness.

Kay just recently joined EzineArticles and already has 12 active articles with over 1,000 views, plus some encouraging comments from her readers.

In her articles, Kay illuminates the method of qi gong and other Chinese medicine practices to improve health and wellness. She also writes about motivation, goal setting and relationships.

Kay’s expertise and passion to inform is evident in her quality original articles. She took advantage of the extended bio and photo upload, as well as providing a link to her email newsletter publication Health Prosperity: Manifesting Optimum Health and Wellness.

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Posted by Christopher M. Knight on March 11, 2008 at 8:46 am

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E. Raymond Rock - Author Spotlight

EzineArticles expert author and meditation guru E. Raymond Rock is today’s Author Spotlight.

E. Raymond Rock is an expert in mediation and enlightenment and is the co-founder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center.

An EzineArticles member since January of 2007, Raymond has already amassed over 340 articles in over 39 categories with over 55,000 page views. This shows a high level of article submission consistency (something that is as important as quality and quantity when it comes to article writing and marketing) and his expertise shines in each of his original quality articles.

In addition, E. Raymond has uploaded a professional author photo and extended author bio, plus added the ISBN of his first book, A Year to Enlightenment-365 Steps to Enriching and Living Your Life. He even links from his website for the Southwest Florida Insight Center to his EzineArticles expert author bio page listing his articles…further enhancing his credibility as a true expert.

His articles are clearly original content with an intent to enlighten in an easy to read format that makes you want to learn more about what he has to offer. Nice job E. Raymond Rock!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on February 7, 2008 at 9:31 am

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Author Spotlight - Kelly Piet

EzineArticles Expert Author Kelly Piet has an interesting/creative author photo that caught my eye.

Kelly only has one article listed with us, but it’s a very high quality piece that is visually easy to read quickly: Baby Shower Poems - Secrets Revealed!

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 31, 2008 at 10:10 am

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Bills First Hundred Thousand PVs

EzineArticles expert author Bill Nadraszky of Calgary Alberta () wrote a blog entry that caught my attention (What I learned after I got 100,000 views on ezinearticles)

Here’s are some excerpts:

Headlines count for almost everything - ….On the articles as above where I actually use good keywords in the title I would get lots of traffic and still do get lots of traffic for those articles.

Clickthroughs have everything to do with the bio box - In the early days I would just say “Bill is passionate about fitness, to learn more visit his fitness blog at XXXXX” I got about a 1% bio box clickthrough on that but now the last paragraph of my article is actually in the bio box with a distinct call to action and the clickthroughs are around 15-20%. What a massive difference eh?

I struggled briefly whether to share Bill’s blog post with you today for many reasons, including the fact that I find it odd that he will share his wife and children’s name on his website, but finding his last name doesn’t exist (as if he wants to remain anonymous with his own website audience). Also, some of his articles in the blog encourages folks to up the keyword density of their articles (something we’re cracking down on as many unhappy-with-us SEO types are very well aware of), and he encourages public domain content as source material for articles (VERY BAD idea in our books).

So, despite the above, Bill has 165 articles listed with EzineArticles and his tips about the importance of a smart article TITLE are right on. In fact, I’d submit to you that you should forget about keyword density in the article body all together and just get the article title 40% keyword intelligent.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on January 18, 2008 at 8:57 am

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Nice Job Cataunya Ransom

EzineArticles Expert Author Cataunya Ransom recently sent out a press release:

Public relations expert reveals how writing articles about business public relations put her in EzineArticles.com top ten PR business authors in less than four months.

Cataunya is a great example of an ideal EzineArticles expert author because she is a genuine expert who writes easy to digest quality original articles designed to appeal to her target audience.

CR Cataunya Ransom is the Co-founder of Mosnar Communications, Inc and she developed a niche for Luxury PR & Global Marketing. Highly respected as a luxury public relations expert, “CR” consults clients and speaks to audiences about luxury public relations and global marketing practices.

Currently the “underdog” at position (10) in our top 10 PR expert authors by volume.

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on December 26, 2007 at 1:58 pm

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Sharp Brains - Author Spotlight

If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’m into fitness things (racquetball, run, bike, swim, soccer, etc) and along comes SharpBrains CEO & EzineArticles Expert Author Alvaro Fernandez… introducing his unique “brain fitness” articles.

Here’s what caught our attention to Alvaro Fernandez:

1) He produced a beautiful page on his website to showcase his EzineArticles (makes it easy for his audience to find his expertise) and he even highlighted his unique EzineArticles Expert Author RSS feed. Nice!

2) He promoted his unique EzineArticles via a custom press release that achieved incredible distribution including Forbes!

The only improvement suggestion I gave Alvaro is to expand his article title length by 35-40%; but his article word count (575-800) is spot on, Resource Box is easy to quickly understand, and he further expanded his credibility by having an author photo and extended author bio uploaded. Way to go. :)

Posted by Christopher M. Knight on August 28, 2007 at 4:09 pm

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