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• How To Write A Killer 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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  Author: Steve Shaw
  Date Posted: October 27th, 2008
  Tags: article marketing, article writing, HowTo, submit article, submit articles, submit your article
  Categories: Creativity, Writing, Article Marketing, HowTo, Productivity for Writers
  Comments: 5 Comments

• Lack of Submissions: How To Sabotage Your Article Marketing #1  
  
  
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  This is Part 1 in the 10 part series How To Sabotage Your Article Marketing…And What To Do About It! 

  This has happened more than a few times:

  Someone writes in to say, "I've been doing article marketing for the last 6 months, and I don't see any difference! What gives?"

  Then I look at their submissions to try to help them figure out what the deal may be. Indeed, I see that they did start submitting articles 6 months prior, but guess what?

  Over the past 6 months they submitted only 3 articles.

  Hmmm, I wonder why their results are less than they hoped ?

  The Solution 

  There is a delicate balance with article marketing–submit too many articles and publishers won't appreciate it, but submit too few and you won't make enough of an impact on Google to see much of a difference.

  The solution is to submit between 1-8 articles every 30 days (this is what we recommend at SubmitYOURArticle.com). 

  That is a moderate article submission schedule, and if you stick within that healthy range you'll have the best chance of seeing optimum results.

  I often tell folks that article marketing is a "less is more" situation, but don't take that too far and stop submitting entirely! You must submit a steady amount of articles (1-8 a month) to see lasting results.

  9 Tips for Developing a Healthy Article Submission Habit  

  Of course there are events in life that make it so we don't write as often as we had planned, but if you're finding that you are consistently not submitting articles even though you'd like to, here are 9 tips to help you get back on track: 

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  Author: Steve Shaw
  Date Posted: August 4th, 2008
  Tags: article marketing, article writing
  Categories: Creativity, Writing, Article Marketing, HowTo, Productivity for Writers
  Comments: 13 Comments

• The 5 Most Popular Grammatical Errors Of All Time (and how to fix them)  
  

  Oh, how I love this post over at CopyBlogger: Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb 

  I'm sure from time to time we've all helped make these grammatical errors "popular". I think it's just a matter of trying to write quickly, and a number of these errors are homophones (the words sound the same but they're spelled differently), so they're easy to get mixed up.  

  Let's take a gander at each, and see if any of these hit home:

  1) Your vs. You're

  Your is a possessive pronoun, whereas you're is a contraction for the words: you are. If you're not sure which one of these to use, try using "you are" instead, and that should make it pretty evident which version to use.

  2) It's vs. Its

  I think for many of us it's not that we don't know the difference between it's and its, but that we're so used to typing "it's" that we go on auto-pilot and automatically put it in.

  Just as a refresher, it's is a contraction for the words it is or it has. Example: "It's so gorgeous outside!"

  Its is a possessive pronoun. Example: "Did you know that your article list has its own RSS feed?"

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  Author: Steve Shaw
  Date Posted: May 5th, 2008
  Tags: article writing, grammar, writing
  Categories: Writing, Article Marketing, HowTo
  Comments: 4 Comments