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This article on the 10 (no, 11… yes, 11) tips for newbies is not written from the catbird seat point of view of the article publisher or information manager. It is rather by and from the perspective of an author who thinks the early misgivings. It is written particularly for the starting article writer. I have composed and submitted hundreds of writings for publication to numerous of article directories and information managers and still considers article writing my enemy.

1. Necessity vs Desire:
Compositions and Web blogs are unavoidable in present day system of indexing by search engines. Not what the newbie wants to hear. Just remember what the Holy Book states, “there has nothing over taken you that is not common to man”. This is absolutely right! Many of us detest article and blog writing at times, and some of us dread the journey to pen and paper (or keyboard as the case may be) all the time. Many Internet marketer would call them “a unavoidable evil” as they are not mostly anyone’s best wished house keeping jobs.

2. Just Start, It Gets Easier:
First it is sometimes hard to get a subject or theme and to get started. We know writers who literally get sick thinking about the process. Lighten up. There are a lot to write about, name it: alternative medicine, cancer diseases, true religion, life insurance, playing online poker, cheap insurance. Others may think of even more unusual topics such as penis enlargement and cheap viagra. Once an author has a starting point and gets passed the introductory thoughts, blogging and article usually works fairly smoothly.

The essential thing is that you get rolling. Pick a theme you know something about and just start. You will be enjoyably stunned at just how easily ideas flow. Don’t take everyone knows what you know. They do not. Will Rogers once said, “all men are ignorant, just on different subjects”. And, so it is!

3. Good vs Perfection:
Your old English writing teacher is not looking over your shoulder. This paper does not have to be perfect. That is not to say it does not have to be on point or to say that it does not have to be correct. It does or at least it should be. But, our goal is not perfection and is, in fact, seldom possible. Too much detail and you run the risk of losing your reader on various levels. Too long and
most readers simply don’t have the time or interest to browse the whole material irrespective of how good it is.

4. Length of Blog vs Article Length:
Most article publishers want a minimum of 600 words per article – some will let you slide with 400 words. Blogs can be much smaller. Blogs can and maybe should support appropriate images and embedded links.

Don’t over do it though. Too gaudy or too slow to load and you have wasted your time, ticked off a potential reader, and probably upset a publisher who can ban you from their publications. writings, then again, typically cannot carry these extra touches according to the prerequisites of most article publishers.

5. Format:
Save your article in ASCII format. There are a lot of software that does this thing. A search the web for “free ASCII editor” will give you a lot of options. WordPress is a favorite option. If all fails simply use notepad to turn out your masterpiece.

6. Grammar and Spelling:
Once you have your article or blog run it through a good spell checker and a good grammar checker. Microsoft Word has a built-in tool for this. Just don’t use the MS Word copy for composing of your article. Rather use its suggestions to make any essential rectifications to your copy in plain text. The MS Word copy will work for blogs although other editors are preferred.

Like the good old days when you were encouraged by professsor, you will findarticle writing and blog authoring skills become better with time and practice.

7. Publish and Announce:
Once your article is ready you may want to utilize some automatic tools to publish and announce it. First do a search for Blog directories and select those which best suit your needs. Register in one or more and publish your blog there. Then search for blog and RSS announcers and use them to get your blog noticed.

Now that you have that out of the way find an article wizard that will post your articles to free publishers. You can post them one at a time by hand if you are really bored and have absolutely nothing else in life to do. Using an automatic poster you can publish to hundreds of servers in an hour or so. The only way to go.

8. Patience:
Now, have some forbearance. Here is where you lose control. Many of those who host compositions are timely and your writings will be reviewed within twenty-four (24) to forty-eight (48) hours. Others may take days and weeks therefore never date an article – a sure way to get rejected.

9. Rejection – “sorry your article has been declined”:
Be prepared for most hosts to reject your writings. Do not be personal about this. It usually has little to do with you or your article.

Some databases instantly reject compositions for spelling errors when there are none or where there is more than way to spell a word. And, just as in any other endeavor some servers are simply too slow-moving and get so far behind, the best and quickest thing to do (and perhaps the only alternative) is to reject the whole article. You will learn who these are over time.

There are also people who review your writings through the sausage grinder and if they find certain words, irrespective of how they are used, your article are instantly junked. These are those who can’t even publish the Bile because it contains words that offend them or their readers. Don’t worry about these folks who are so heavenly minded they are of no earthly use.

Remember the rule: In every rule, there is an exemption.

10. Always believe, and keep cranking out writings:
Since most authors, particularly newbies, prepare only one copy of an article against the advice of most seasoned authors it is important that the newbie keep his chin up – keep the faith. That will be easier as more and more of your articles are accepted and published getting visitors to your website while creating those all significant back links.

It is not necessary that every host to accept everything submitted to them. After one or two servers publish your article on any given subject, the search engines tend to penalize additional postings of the same article. This is close to spamming and while it could help someone find you, it probably won’t. It is not necessarily, the more the merrier. The additional listings will not step-up your page rankings or links reported by the search engines. It is more significant to get your article published by hosts with the highest Google page rank possible.

Now, one EXTRA Hint for you: Together with “the rejection slip” will usually come a suggestion on how to “edit” your article and a invite that you submit it again. Don’t waste your time. While trying comply with one database manager’s request you could have written a new article where you can get more exposure. There will be enough web publishers will get your article up so move on and save yourself some time and heartburn.

Everybody has an idea or thought at least once a day usually at the most inopportune time. How many of these ideas have been lost because you waited before you write? Don’t procrastinate! Go! Compose that thought before it is gone forever.

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