Get Article Ideas From Your Own Website

You have more article ideas than you realize.

The most common question any Article Marketer asks is this:

“What should I write about?”

I think folks sometimes get stumped for topics because the expansive sea of possibilities is just mind boggling.

I have a theory though:

You have more article topics at your fingertips than you realize.

You may even have ready-made content just waiting to be tweaked and submitted as articles.

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The “Historical Figure” Article Template

Ever get bored with writing the same old types of articles over and over?

Yes, we want to provide educational helpful info to our readers with every article, but have you ever craved a different perspective, a jolt of creativity, a way to combine a love of history (or TV!) with your article writing?

I’d like to push you a little bit out of the box with this article template.

Use a historical figure, TV character, or any sort of popular icon as an example of the principles you’d like to teach.

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The “Top Mistakes” Article Template

Top Mistakes articles are attention grabbing.

Have you noticed any common misconceptions about your niche, or common mistakes that people in your field make?

If so, you have a prime teaching opportunity.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to see what NOT to do.

Top mistakes articles also tend to catch readers’ attention because they run counter to the popular ‘Top Tips’ articles.

If you’re looking for a new writing template to help kickstart your next article, give this one a go:

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The “Beginner’s Guide” Article Template

Using an article template can make writing easier.

It’s often easiest to write articles when we have some sort of direction, so I’ve got an assignment for you.

I’ll give you the topic, suggestions for titles, a list of points to cover, and an example.

How easy is that?

This is a type of article that pretty much everyone can write with minimal effort–so let’s get started…

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How To Write A Short & Snappy Article

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I have always tended to stay away from the shorter articles, but now I’m seeing that there are some perks to both medium length (which I usually write) and the shorter ones.

The Perks Of Writing A Shorter Article:

• Writing shorter articles can help you get out of a writing slump, if you are used to writing medium or longer articles.

• Shorter articles (when written correctly) can be more hard hitting and straight to the point, which can make it easier for a reader to glean information from them.

• Shorter articles force you to mercilessly edit your content–you will learn to trim any superfluous wording, leaving just the ‘meat’.

• Shorter articles can be written more quickly–it’s a good feeling to be able to write several quality articles at one sitting.

• Let’s be honest–writing a shorter article is better than writing no article at all, isn’t it?

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How To Write a ‘HowTo’ Article in 7 Easy Steps

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Article marketing is all about providing readers with educational articles, and what better way to educate and inform than to write a HowTo article?

As we discussed a few days ago, a How To articles provide a number of perks for authors, just a few of which are:

• HowTo articles allow you to establish yourself as an expert in your niche.
• HowTo articles satisfy the DIY desire of many internet users.
• HowTo articles are easy reading (if you do them in list form).
• HowTo articles are even easier writing.
• HowTo articles are reader-centric and are not usually sales-y or promotional.

But how do you write a HowTo article? It’s actually not that hard when you break it down into steps.

Here’s how to get started:

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How To Write A Great List Article in 10 Easy Steps

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From a reader’s perspective, list articles are very attractive–there is something about a good list that just draws readers in.

A list is basically like providing a built in road map for your readers to navigate your article (and it’s true that we usually skim content that we read on the web, isn’t it?).

A list makes it easier for a reader to grab the basic facts and to take away a few points of value, so if you haven’t tried this article writing technique, I encourage you to give it a go!

But how do you write a great list article?

It’s actually not that hard, but it may have more elements to keep in mind than you imagined.

When you’re writing a list to use in article marketing, here are some key steps to follow:

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How to Launch an Article Series from One Lonely Article

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We’ve been talking about the perks of doing an article series and how to do one correctly (don’t put Part 1, Part 2, ect in your titles!), but today I’d like to share with you a little trick I stumbled upon when I was trying to figure out how to get more marketing mileage out of my blog posts.

As I told you previously, here is one of the ways I morph one piece of content into multiple articles:

“What I do lots of times is I take one aspect of a post and elaborate on it in an article. For example, let’s say my post is about how to do a successful article marketing campaign, and I have listed several brief steps.

I can take each one of those steps and turn them into a stand-alone article by elaborating on them. I can have one article about how to craft a strong resource box, another about how to craft a great article title, and another about how to locate a great article submission service (you know that there’s one that I highly recommend! )

You get the idea–you can elaborate on ideas that you first broach in a blog post, fleshing them out so that they are article-worthy. Depending on the post, you may get several articles out of one post.”

Well, in the same way you can turn one blog post into multiple articles, you can also use one article as a launching pad for an article series.

Here’s how:

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