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Article Marketing for Real Writers: Launch Your Freelance Career!Written by Dina Giolitto Looking to build your freelance writing career but don't know where to begin? Maybe I can help. Let's start with a perspective on web exposure and your business. You know you're a wonderful writer. You know you can provide flawless copy for any number of industries! But does anyone else on World Wide Web know? Let's talk about page rank. If you have a website, how many visitors do you get per day? Have you ever typed your web link into Alexa.com Page Rank calculator? If so, what came up? Was it 9,547,893, or something equally upsetting? As you may know, higher your page rank number, LESS visitors you're receiving. Example: Alexa pagerank of 1 is usually either Google, Hotmail or Yahoo (this vascillates daily). That means that these three websites alternately swap title of Most Visited Website in World. Think you can get your website up there, or even close? Umm... no. FACT: Not many writers with websites are getting much in way of web visitors. Most are getting buried by big dogs, or lost in Blogger land. Recently, I tripped over a solution to significantly raise amount of visitors to my site. Then after I tripped over it, it took me four entire months to fully grasp concept. Article Marketing can seriously improve your website rank, put your name out there in Internet Guru Land, and lure customers your way with scintillating copy that you include in your article! For those who remain in dark, article marketing is like exalted link distribution. It's a way to pass your link on to thousands of websites - but in this case, you're not just another anonymous link. Attached to your link will be a free sample of your work, and a way to contact you directly. The Article M.O.: Write an article, attach your website link and a short bio, and then submit to an article distribution website. Publishers will then come along and add your work to their website content. Interested readers will click it, and then they're back on YOUR website, learning about You and What You Do.		Copywriters and Article Marketing: What Should You Write? Written by Dina Giolitto So you've decided to market your home-based copywriting business through article writing. Fantastic! Now comes hard part: narrowing it down to a topic. What heck are you going to say in your article? A friend of mine recently suggested that I write more articles about copywriting. Not such a bad idea, being a copywriter and all. But here's a thought: if all you ever write about is writing, where is proof that you can actually write? At some point, your prospects WILL ask for samples of work for their specific niches; that is, if you plan to serve clients, and I'm sure you do as that's what a "freelance copywriter" does for a living! To copywriter especially, article marketing is a beautiful thing. Why? It allows you to target any audience in any category that YOU choose. Let's say someone out there in great beyond is perusing a vegetable garden website... and this person also has some vague plans to create a gardening website of his own. YOU want to be a gardening writer. Now, if your gardening article is placed aforementioned garden website, along with a bio that describes you as a gardening writer, guess what? Good old Broccoli Rob is probably checking out your work. If he likes what he sees, you've got yourself one paid garden writing project! Brilliant. Another example. You're a pet person. You'd love to write web copy about dogs, cats, gerbils... any and all of God's creatures. But, uh-oh, you have no official experience! So what? Start writing, my friend. The assignment: one web article about How to Paper Train Your Puppy. In your bio, give a brief summary of your copywriting experience and throw in a line about how you're a pet writer. Pretty soon, what do you know... Westminster Dog Show people are knocking on your door asking for an E-book about dogs. Way to go, pet writer!
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Copywriters and Article Marketing: What Should You Write?