Phone In Your Content: How To Sabotage Your Article Marketing #6
This is Part 6 in the 10 part series How To Sabotage Your Article Marketing…And What To Do About It!
Article marketing is where art, craft and technology meet.
When we think of SEO and technology, we sometimes think that things are super-complicated, that you need to think like a machine, but actually that couldn't be further from the truth!
Your ability to write a thoughtful article is much more crucial to your success than understanding the technical stuff surrounding article marketing.
Surprisingly though, sometimes the area where people slip up the most has nothing to do with technology, but involves more the "art" and "craft" part of the equation. Instead of producing well-written educational articles, folks can fall into the habit of phoning in content.
To determine if you've fallen into this trap, let's look at the 2 areas where "phoning in" of content occurs:
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Author: Steve Shaw
Date Posted: August 15th, 2008
Tags: article marketing, grammar, SEO, writing
Categories: Writing, Article Marketing, HowTo, SubmitYourArticle.com Info
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9 Must-Do Editing Tips That Will Improve Your Article Writing
You many not consider yourself to be a "writer", but the truth is if you are using article marketing as one of your marketing and link building strategies you will have to figure out a way to produce quality articles on a consistent basis.
Not only does the article need to be well-written and free of grammatical errors, but there are word count limitations, as most quality publishers don't like extremely short or extremely long articles.
Keeping this in mind, at SubmitYOURArticle.com we have word count boundaries of 400-1500 words.
I myself am naturally prone to write the epic 1500 word articles 
, but I have learned to edit my articles so that they stay between 700-800 words, which is the sweet spot with article marketing.
Well-written articles that are 700-800 words not only have a better chance of getting picked up for publication by online publishers, but they are also ideally suited to being published by ezine editors. Now, that's a plus!
Okay, you've written your first draft, now what?
Dustin Wax at Lifehack.org has a great list of editing tips that a writer of any skill level can do. Here they are (these are Dustin's tips with my commentary):
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Author: Steve Shaw
Date Posted: June 10th, 2008
Tags: article marketing, editing, grammar, writing
Categories: Writing, Article Marketing, HowTo
Comments: 10 Comments
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