Webmasters and newsletter publishers are always looking for good content. Further, aside from your time investment, it's completely free advertising.

Here are 10 practical tips to ensure your articles get published and read by others.

1. Write to serve. Before writing an article, ask yourself what problem it will help others solve. Some of more common issues people deal with revolve around a lack of something, whether it's time, money, self-confidence or just joy in life. How will your article help with these issues.

2. Grab their attention early. If possible, intend to "hook" your reader right from get-go. Ideally, your title should be hook. When creating title, ask yourself if it would make you want to read article. Your first paragraph should also serve as a hook , as well as a general introduction to article content.

3. Write to one person only. Forget fact your article will be read by many people and write to only one person, just like I'm doing with you now.

4. Keep flow logical. Don't bounce around from one idea to next. Each paragraph should logically follow next. Although there may be different ideas expressed in each paragraph, they should dovetail off each other.

1. What is single most important subject from your experience or knowledge that you want world to know about? If there are several topics, which one is most compelling to you right now?

2. How would you narrow that subject down into segments? Do those segments create additional booklets to develop a series?

3. What do you want booklet to accomplish for you? Do you want to altruistically spread word about something? Will a booklet be a marketing tool for your business? Can it be a profit center for you? Would you like it to be a marketing tool and a profit center?

4. What are you often surprised by that people do not know about your subject area? Is there something that seems so 'common sense' to you, while being highly helpful or enlightening to others?

5. What is single most outstanding thing you want people to know? Is is a new skill, perspective, attitude, expanding general knowledge?

6. Does your information need to be presented sequentially or can it be random? Can a specific entry stand on its own or does it need whatever came before it to cause it to make sense to reader?