Tips for Writing Articles that are Viral
Pick a topic that you know something about and then go to the search engines and find as many websites as you can that deal with that subject. As well as collecting information for your article, make a note of any URLs that offer free resources dealing with the topic of your article. Include those URLs in your article.
You should choose a topic very carefully. Once the topic is selected, doing enough research on the subject is vital. Organize the material and write in an interesting style. Make sure that you provide links to free resources.
The content in your article should not be pure sales copy. There has to be valuable and genuine information. Promotion of your product or service should be subtle. Viral marketing using articles is much different than running an email marketing campaign that blasts millions of mail messages to unsuspecting readers.
At the end of your article, attach a 5 or 6-line "About the Author" box that includes your site URL or autoresponder subscription address.
When you have finished your article, do NOT send it out straight away. Hold onto it for 2 or 3 days and then come back and read it again. You'll be amazed at the improvements you can make. Those final improvements are what make the difference between an article that gets published and one that doesn't.
Once you are satisfied with your article, send it to your own ezine list, publish it on your blog and encourage your subscribers to publish your article on their sites. Additionally, you can use article distribution services such as SubmitYourArticle.com, IdeaMarketers.com and ThePhantomWriters.com to increase the reach of your article and possibly get it published on hundreds of other websites. Plus, once it's online as a "free reprint" article, you'll find that many new webmasters will find your article on someone else's site and re-publish it on their own site including your resource box. This is an extremely powerful form of viral marketing. You are providing valuable content which other websites want and need which in turn motivates those
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