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Freelance writing is as much about selling yourself as it is about writing. With this in mind, we asked some of the employers who use our site, and others like it, just what it is that they look for in a freelance writer. Here’s what they told us:

1. Employers won’t go looking for the information they need

“A lot of the freelancers who replied to my advert just sent me their quote and nothing else,” says Angel, who advertised for a freelancer in July. “There was absolutely nothing to set them apart from all of the other writers who responded, and I’d have had to contact them with questions to try and get the information I needed out of them. Needless to say, I didn’t bother. I employed one of the writers who took the time to tell me a bit about herself, and why she was right for the job.”

2. Employers won’t ask the same question twice

If an employer asks a specific question: “what’s your writing experience?” say, or “who have you worked for before?” they expect an answer. Strangely, not all freelancers give them that answer.

“I advertised for a proofreader,” says Jason. “One freelancer responded with a huge spiel telling me what a wonderful writer he was. That’s great, but I wanted a proofreader. Rather than emailing him back and asking about his proofreading qualifications, I chose one of the people who’d answered my question the first time.”

3. Employers appreciate courtesy

“A few weeks ago I was looking for a freelance writer,” says Samantha. “I posted an advert on a number of different writing sites, and said that I would send a written brief to anyone interested in the project, to allow them to give me a quote. I was shocked by the responses I got, particularly the number of people who just emailed one line saying ’send me the brief’. I mean, is it really so much effort to write a proper email, giving your name and addressing me with mine? Does ‘please’ take too long to type? Apparently so. Needless to say, those kind of emails didn’t get a response. I wasn’t just looking for someone who could write well: I wanted to hire someone who’d be easy to work with. I don’t want to work with someone with no manners.”

4. Your writing matters – even in a query letter

“One freelancer proofreader asked me a question via email,” says Jason. “She ended the question with four question marks. She didn’t get the job.”

5. Employers aren’t always looking for the cheapest possible quote

“Some of the quotes I received were really shockingly low,” admits Angel. “I just thought that if someone is willing to write an article for $10, they must really be struggling for work. And if they’re really struggling for work, they must not be very good. I went with someone who charged what seemed to be a reasonable rate: she wasn’t the cheapest I found, but quality was important to me.”

Amber McNaught is the owner of http://www.WritingWorld.org, a community for freelance writers, editors and proofreaders.

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Amber also offers an article writing and distribution service through her business, Hot Igloo Productions

WRITERS ARE THE PUBLISHER’S AND WEBMASTER’S BEST FRIEND

As a writer of free-reprint articles, I know full well the
intentions of the writer’s who make their articles available
to publishers and webmasters as *free* content.

When the game is played correctly, the free web content is able
to provide value to everyone involved. The people who benefit
from the content includes the people who read it, the ezine
publisher who publishes it, the webmaster who posts it on their
website, the advertisers who support the publishers, and the
writers who take the time and initiative to develop the content.

But, when the rules of the game are broken, everyone suffers.

THE BENEFITS OF FREE CONTENT

As writers, we fully appreciate the value gained by everyone
from the distribution of free-reprint articles.

- The End User -

The people who read the content benefit from the knowledge that
is being shared with them. The content usually helps them to
learn something he or she has wanted to learn.

The article might teach someone how to make a tasty Cajun
chili. It might teach someone how to help their children with
the problems that children face everyday. The article might
even teach someone how to overcome the obstacles to owning
and operating a successful online business.

- The Ezine Publisher -

The ezine publisher is constantly under pressure to deliver the
kind of content that their readers want, which is necessary to
attract and keep readers for their publication.

- The Webmaster -

The vast majority of Internet surfers use the search engines
as a starting point on their active hunt for information and
products. Recognizing this fact, webmasters often use free
content to build their keyword ratings in the search engines,
thereby improving upon their chances of being located by
Internet searchers.

The hope is that by providing targeted content to search engine
users, webmasters can bring in people who are ideally suited to
purchasing their products or services.

- The Advertiser -

The advertiser benefits from the free content by having a good
ezine or website on which to advertise their products and
services. The stronger the ezine or website, the more likely
the advertiser’s money will provide a good return on investment
for the advertiser.

- The Writer -

Writers honestly do not create content for ezine publishers or
webmasters from a purely altruistic point of view.

In fact, just as the reader, publisher, webmaster and advertiser
do, writers also receive a benefit from the content they create.
Through the *article resource box*, writers also have the
opportunity to create traffic and sales for their own businesses.
The *resource box* is the real reason writers make their content
available to the world.

To protect their own rights, writers usually include a *Terms
of Reprint* with their articles. Hyperlinking URL’s is often a
very important component of the writer’s *Terms of Reprint*.

*Free-reprint rights* does not mean that there is no cost
involved with using the content — it only means that their
is no monetary cost for using the content. The actual cost of
using a *free-reprint article* is that the *Terms of Reprint*
must be honored in full.

When a publisher or webmaster breaks the writer’s *Terms of
Reprint*, the writer’s legal position to seek monetary payment
is assured — even when the article was released as a
*free-reprint article.*

BASIC TERMS OF FREE-REPRINT

You must leave the resource box unedited.

You may not change the recommendations or context of the
body of the article.

You may not use this article in UCE (Unsolicited Commercial
Email). Email distribution of this article must be opt-in
email only.

You must forward a copy of the ezine or newsletter that
contains the article inside to the author’s email address.

If you post this article on a website, you must set the links
up as hyperlinks, and you must send the author a copy of the
URL where the article is posted.

WHY THE TERMS OF REPRINT ARE IMPORTANT

Writers are in the same boat as the publisher and webmaster.
They have started their online business for the purpose of
making money from their website. For the writer, the article
that they provide to others provides a small advertisement for
the writer’s business in the writer’s resource box at the end
of each article. This small advertisement in the resource box
of the article IS the writer’s payment for all of his or her
hard work.

Webmaster’s spend a lot of their time building links to their
websites for the purpose of promoting their own websites. Yet,
for some reason, some publishers and webmasters think it is
okay to cheat the writer of the same benefit.

THE LINE IN THE SAND

If you are using a free-reprint article in your ezine or on
your website and you are not following the *Terms of Reprint*
to a tee, then you are in violation of those terms and using
the content illegally.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Here is the deal, if you don’t honor the *Terms of Reprint*
associated with a free-reprint article, then the writer has
every right to ask for a cash payment from you for the use of
the article. Should you choose to continue to deny payment,
the writer has every right to contact your webhost and make
them aware of your violations of Copyright Law.

Read the *Terms of Service* from your webhost provider — I
guarantee you that your webhost provider explicitly prohibits
the use of illegally obtained content on your website. Failure
to adhere to the writer’s *Terms of Reprint* could realistically
result in your site being shut down by your webhosting provider.

Considering that you could be put out of business by using the
writer’s content illegally, wouldn’t it make much more sense
to honor the writer’s stated *Terms of Reprint*?

Do the right thing. Use our content that we are kind enough to
provide to you, AND make certain that you honor our *Terms of
Reprint* on every point. Your future success could depend on
all of the decisions you make concerning your use of OUR
content, which we are kind enough to make available to you.

MAKE NO MISTAKE

We writer’s really do want you to use our content. We want for
you to be successful, and we know that our content can help you
to find the success you are seeking. In our hearts, we really
do have an altruistic nature, but we must watch out for our
own interests also.

The content we develop requires a lot of time and hard work
— this article alone took more than 12 hours from idea to
fruition. We do need to be paid for our work, even when we
do not require a cash payment for our work.

Hyperlinking the URL’s on a website and in an HTML ezine is
very important to our success. It is also important to your
success since your failure to hyperlink could result in your
not being able to use our content, and could even result in
the termination of your online business.

Let us continue to work together in a way that benefits both of
us. We will continue to create the content that will help make
you a success. And you will pay us for our work by including
our resource box with the article and hyperlinking the URL’s
in our resource box.

Let’s face it. We both need one another. Let us continue to
work together in a way that will continue to benefit all of
us. Do the right thing.

Copyright Bill Platt – All Rights Reserved. Reprints allowed with article and resource box unedited. If you post this article on a website, you must set the links up as hyperlinks.

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Million Dollar Baby follows the Hero’s Journey template…

Call to Adventure – where the hero is pushed to resolve a challenge. Maggie needs to escape her White Trash roots and Frankie needs to resolve issues concerning his daughter.

Refusal of the Call – where there is refusal, resistance, warning and foreboding. Frankie refuses to train Maggie.

The Supernatural Aid – where a mentor encourages the hero along the path. Eddie (Morgan Freeman) begins to help Maggie with her training and simultaneously guides Frankie towards her. As is usual, the supernatural aid has a challenge of his own (Danger Barch).

First Threshold – where a point of no return is crossed. Maggie persists in the gym. There is no dissuading her or going back for her.

Physical Separation (Belly of the Whale) – where the hero physically separates from his Old World and heads into the Transformation. Willie leaves Frankie, who has little else to do but train Maggie.

Transformation (Road of Trials) – where the hero significantly, but not completely, transforms. Maggie becomes a professional boxer.

The Ideal and the Seizing of the Sword – where the hero faces a difficult choice and journey to (often) the heart of the antagonism. Maggie buys her family a house and Frank takes on the role of father.

Rebirth Through Death – where the Hero is reborn. Eddie saves Danger Barch from the gym bully; Maggie doesn’t know what to do about the bear.

Atonement with the Father – where the hero confronts the obstacle to the apotheosis. Maggie loses to the blue Bear.

Apotheosis – where the hero has the illumination. Maggie should have listened to Frank and protected herself.

Ultimate Boon – both hero and heroine get a family.

Refusal of the Return – where the hero is repulsed by his Old Self or, on a practical level, there is refusal on some level. Frankie refuses to go back to the gym.

Magic Flight – where the hero attempts to escape from the antagonism or, for some reason, is unable to confront it. Frankie takes Maggie away and attempts to find doctors who can reverse the situation.

Rescue for Without – where the hero is pulled back toward his or her challenges. Maggie’s family return; Frankie wants to replace them and resists their arrival.

Crossing the Return Threshold – where the hero confronts the antagonism. Maggie loses her legs and asks Frankie to kill her.

Master of the Two Worlds – where the antagonism is defeated. Frankie kills Maggie.

Freedom to Live – where the hero is freed from the antagonism. Frankie does not return to the gym.

Learn more…

The Complete 188 stage Hero’s Journey and FREE 17 stage sample and other story structure templates can be found at http://managing-creativity.com/

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Kal Bishop, MBA

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Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. His specialities include Knowledge Management and Creativity and Innovation Management. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached at http://managing-creativity.com/

William Faulkner, the great Mississippi writer, said, “The tools I need for work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”

Every writer needs certain tools to accomplish the task of being a writer. For some, it is a simple assortment of equipment, basically paper and a writing instrument–a pencil or pen–and nothing more while most need a typewriter or a computer and nothing more while still others need a special place with a special ambiance–quiet, background music, lighting, a comfortable desk and chair, and a special beverage–coffee, tea, etc., or like Faulkner, a little whisky.

Today’s writer will most likely opt for a computer of some sort–desktop, laptop, or even a PDA of some sort. Paper is no longer an essential because most work can be saved to a hard drive or diskette, and sent to it destination via the Internet. Tobacco is becoming obsolete as more people are kicking the habit due to the health concerns. Food is still an essential, but others will forgo the whisky.

The computer has taken much of the drudgery from writing. A good word processing program is an essential and there are many on the market but the two most common and acceptable are Microsoft Word and Corel Wordperfect although other can be used. For the financially struggling author there is OpenOffice, which is a free program from: openoffice.org. It has all the power and flexibility of the first two mentioned as well as being able to convert any file to PDF format which makes it possible for any platform to read it whether PC or Mac.

Many experts advise that a writer should have a dedicated place in which to write. I suppose this is true of the freelancer more than the salaried scribbler. Perhaps such an area is more conducive to the discipline needed to put thoughts to paper or monitor screen, but certainly not every author can find such a location. If the writer is a harried housewife on a limited budget in a limited household, such an area might be hard to come by, but it might be profitable to find a spot and use it consistently to make writing a habit. Since human are habit oriented creatures, creating a writing habit seem like a good approach.

Most writers also need other tools: a desk, a comfortable chair, a dictionary, a thesaurus, pens and pencils, and paper of some sort for quick notes–notepad or secretary notebook–a calendar. Others need a radio, a CD player, or connection to the media on the Internet and maybe that little whisky that Faulkner found so helpful.

Like Faulkner, though, the essential tools are pencil or pen and paper. More than one writer, and some very famous ones, was able to create masterpieces with these simple bare necessities. The main tools are the writer’s thoughts and ideas.

Charles O. Goulet has a BA in history and a BEd in English literature. Several of his novels have been published and are available at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Barnes and Noble, and many other bookstores.

Writing articles is one of the best and most effective ways
of promoting your business because it does three things:

*Brands you as an expert. *Makes your marketing efforts
viral. *Gives you content to attract potential buyers.

There are several things you can do to make sure that your
articles get read.

1. Write an article potential buyers will find interesting.
Even if you know your topic very well, it pays to do
research. Find out what changes are occuring in your field
and include that material in your articles. No one wants to
read something that is outdated or inaccurate. Readers will
find your material far more interesting if you tell them
something they don’t already know, and you present it from
your own unique perspective.

2. Submit your article to the right places. Article
directories are a great place to submit articles because
they are high traffic sites. Many offer a wide variety of
categories so you can submit just about any kind of
article. It will also increase your ranking in the search
engines because you are linked to high traffic sites.

There are also other options for submitting your articles.
You can use lists that accept articles, as well as submit
to sites that accept articles on your topic.

The way to find sites that accept articles on your topic is
to do a search in the search engines. Search on your topic
plus the key words “article submission”. Then when you find
sites in your topic, read the guidelines carefully. You
want your article to have a higher chance of getting
accepted. The way to do this is to follow the guidelines.

Here are several places you can submit your articles:

http://www.goarticles.com http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/article_announce
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content

3. Write regularly. Most sites, and especially lists, will
only accept article submissions on a weekly basis, so to
write more often than that, is a waste of time. However,
when you submit your articles on a regular basis, it
establishes a relationship with the reader. The reader will
begin to trust you, giving you credibility.

Credibility is one of the hardest things to establish
online. By writing articles that readers will read, you are
building a relationship with readers. Building a
relationship with the reader will get them to trust you.
Once they trust you, they will buy from you.

Write articles on a regular basis and you can establish a
reputation for credibility online. Write about things that
people want to read about, and you will be well on your way.

Jinger Jarrett is a former newspaper reporter and military
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I’ve been back in Maryland for almost three years and some days that seems like a lifetime. I miss Hawaii with all it’s beauty but most of all I miss the ocean. Each beach offered a different wave pattern. Some were calm and mellow, perfect for families vacationing in the area. Others had ten foot waves, each adorned with one or more surfers. Still others had thunderous shore breaks, the waves crashing upon the beach and sucking anything it could reach out to sea.

Different moods found me sitting on different shores, watching the waves whether gentle or harsh. The ocean often inspired me. >From these visits came stories of comedy, horror and mystery. The ocean contains an endless amount of material. Characters were waiting to be discovered in family interactions, cautious flirtations and the playful nature of the honeymooners. Every minute brought a new scenario and potential for another story.

I not only derived characters from these visits but settings as well. I took my notepad, or sometimes my laptop, to the beach with me and described a sunset as it occurred. I noted the texture of the sand and the smell of the kelp. I listened to the sounds of the pigeons as the searched the beach for a bit of spam leftover from some Local’s lunch.

For hours on end I watched children play in the surf, noting their various reactions. Some children were terrified of the water, clinging to the parents and screaming in horror as the water reached out to graze their toes. Others were fearless, charging in without a second thought, daring the water to do it’s worse. The reactions of the adults were much less notable. They rarely ran into the surf with complete abandon and those too scared to enter laid on their towels far above the reach of the surf.

It’s amazing how many ideas can be born of one single thing. Tales of the ocean range from adventure to romance. Each individual interprets the scene in a different way. Seeing the ocean from all sides of the island, I understand how diverse each viewpoint could be. Dozens of beaches attracted millions of visitors, each with their own agenda. The idea of the perfect beach varied depending on what the individual was searching for, calm or chaos.

One single entity, the beach, can spark an abundance of creativity. It can inspire a story in every genre; each author picking up different nuances and producing a different tale as a result. One day of sitting on a beach can provide a lifetime of inspiration if you keep your eyes and ears open.

While the beach is often my source of inspiration, any setting can be rich enough to feed a writer’s muse. Take a pad of paper and a pen to a favorite location and jot down notes about what you see and hear. Write about an interesting person you see and what they were doing. You might not use these notes right away, but someday they may become the backbone of a story.

Web videos are a critical way to market your firm’s services. For sure there are numerous other marketing approaches around from article writing to blogging, from press releases to RSS. Nevertheless, nothing says “cool, connection, & creativity” like a web video.

More and more companies of different sizes are making professional videos about their services. They’re not only adding them on their company sites, but they are putting them to their blogs. To gain global twenty four seven publicity, business videos are being published to a lot of video-sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. And why not ? it’s free, easy-to-do, & can have a massive difference, in many cases, on the traffic it drives to your site.

There are a lot of other reasons why short format videos are a good way to advertise your company.

Professional videos benefit from a large circulation: Videos by their very nature are simple to “package” which means they are good to go into a variety of different distribution circulations. You can add them on your businesses website or blog, you can save them onto your laptop & show them over and over at a business show event. You can upload them to several Internet video-sharing social websites. You can copy them onto CDs & give them away or sell them. You can even forward them by email.

Professional videos are a marvellous way to advertise. As our utilisation with technology changes, so do the methods in which companies like to interact with others. Most individuals are visually oriented meaning that is how they best understand & work with their world. This makes video commercials the perfect company strategy to communicate with today’s public.

These are just some of the numerous reasons why commercial videos might be an effective way to advertise your organisation’s services. Discover more about this area to see how you could leverage your time, funds, and energy to speak to your target consumers in an innovative and fascinating way. Maximise the value of your video content through Vidify’s video distribution partnerships.

Online readers love free information. They scour the
internet daily looking for the specific information to
solve their problems, help them be successful, live longer
or get healthy. You should join the information revolution
too! Publish your free helpful solution-oriented articles
to the web. But wait!

There are a few things to keep in mind when writing for the
web. Long paragraphs are usually acceptable for print media;
they are not for the web. If you want to write articles that
web users will love to read and put to use follow these
seven simple tips:

1. Make your article scan ready. A study by Jakob Nielson
publicized as guru of web page usability by the New York
Times published that only 16 per cent of his test users
actually read the copy they found online; 79 per cent of
them simply scanned it. Your impatient web readers will
want important information to jump out at them.

Some practical ways to make your text scannable are:
headings, sub-headings, bulleted list, numbered lists, easy
steps and/or typeface variation. For example, compelling
headlines are considered an art. Are you drawn to the
author’s article as “How to Write Web Articles” or “5 Tips
to Write Winning Web Articles?”

2. Keep it short. Get and keep the attention of web
readers by delivering short messages. You put effort into
gaining your web reader’s attention; now make their click
worthwhile with brief compelling copy in bite sizes.
Start with the conclusion. Your readers may not make it to
the end of your piece to get it. Web readers don’t want to
get bogged down in long blocks of text. So get to the point
early and use the rest of your article to support that main
point.

3. Make Your Title Sizzle. Dull titles will not capture
your readers interest. It will make your article fade into
the sea of other boring articles listed in article banks
these days. You have to create a title that will reach out
and grab your reader by the —- urgm…collar is what I was
about to say.

To get your article read, start with a sizzling title.
Make it short. Create interest. Include the main benefit or
solution in your title.

4. Talk to Your Targeted Audience. Your information is not
for everyone. Avoid generalities. Choose a friend or family
member that’s interested in your topic. Write your article
to them. Writing to a friend will make your copy personable
and friendly.

You won’t come across as a fussy hen, do this, do this,
don’t do that. You will connect with your readers as a
friend giving advice. Your article will do a better job of
building creditability for you. Creditability inspires
trust and readers only trust their friends.

5. Add substance. Resist fluffing your articles. Include
practical valuable information in your copy. Everyone loses
when you don’t take the time to impart substance. It
increases the reputation of the web being an unreliable
source of knowledge. Additionally, lack of substance will
block your road to profitable referrals.

Do the research and/or draw from your knowledge and
experience to illustrate. Your stories and real life
examples will meet your reader’s need for practical
information and connect with their emotion. It’s a known
fact emotions will move people to action. Whether you
desire them to act by signing up or making a purchase, add
substance and improve your reader responses.

6. Make it web professional. Create a more web
professional look by using short sentences then format your
page to approximately 65 characters per line. Long stringed
sentences that stream from side to side of the web page
look visually unprofessional. Select a layout for your
article from several short article formats that include the
how-to, tips list, question-answer, problem-solutions and
interview.

Make your introduction and summary short but do add one.
Your web readers don’t want just a list of boring facts and
information. They want to connect with you by reading your
personable introduction and practical tips with a definite
ending or summary. Remember excited readers become
enthusiastic buyers and enthusiastic buyers will refer your
product or service to all their friends.

7. Use your keywords. Thread your keywords throughout your
short article as naturally as possible. Otherwise your copy
will sound stiff and dull. To gain visibility on the search
engines, your site must be “indexed” by their robotic
software.

In its most basic form, they must be able to compare the
code, keywords and other Meta tags with the actual content
of the site. From this they reach a conclusion regarding
the context of the site. This and other factors will affect
how well your copy or website places in the search engines.
You may use these guidelines for all kinds of web copy.

The same elements of using keywords, making your article
professional, adding substance, keeping it short and making
your copy scannable will improve the quality of your
articles. Practice the above simple principles and write
winning articles to distribute on the web everywhere.

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The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon – understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

The Hero’s Journey:

Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.

The Hero’s Journey is also a study of repeating patterns in successful stories and screenplays. It is compelling that screenwriters have a higher probability of producing quality work when they mirror the recurring patterns found in successful screenplays.

Inner, Outer and Romantic Challenges

In successful stories, the hero has three challenges (inner, outer and romantic). The process of resolving these challenges and the point of resolution is nearly always the same:

Romantic Challenge: Often resolved first and is the reward given for Seizing the Sword and completing the Rebirth Through Death (Meeting with the Goddess and Woman as Temptress stages). In Dances with Wolves (Academy Award Winner Best Film 1990), John Dunbar marries Stands with a Fist AFTER retrieving the guns from Fort Hayes and battling the Pawnee.

Inner Challenge: Often confronted at the Atonement with the Father stage and resolved in the Apotheosis stage. In Dances with Wolves (Academy Award Winner Best Film 1990), John Dunbar (having conquered his romantic challenge) confronts Kicking Bird with the truth about the White Man – that they will come and they will be “as many as the stars.” In Raging Bull (1980), this is where Jake confronts Joey and finds out that Vickie has been sleeping will the whole neighbourhood.

Outer Challenge: Often confronted and resolved at the Master of the Two Worlds stage. In The Matrix (1999), this is where Neo confronts Agent Smith and wins. It is important to note that there are multiple catharses in the resolution of the outer challenge – clearly seen in the Bond franchise, where the hero confronts the antagonist, the lieutenants and more.

The detailed, complete deconstruction and the Complete 188 stage Hero’s Journey and FREE 17 stage sample and other story structure templates can be found at http://managing-creativity.com/

You can also receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your email address at this site.

Kal Bishop, MBA

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You are free to reproduce this article as long as no changes are made and the author’s name and site URL are retained.

Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. His specialities include Knowledge Management and Creativity and Innovation Management. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached at http://managing-creativity.com/

The secret to getting the best search engine traffic is often known, but ignored. Many people are hyping new methods, spam bots, and the newest tricks to get more traffic. The best ways are usually the simplest ways. This is even more true in this case.

There is a way that with just investing a few hours of time you can get tons of backlinks from great websites, and lots of people to your website. It’s doing what I’m doing right now. An article.

Yes, that’s right, a simple article. A few paragraphs, and you’re pretty far along. And the better you get at it, the more effective it is. The key to it is submitting it to many article directories. They absolutely love more content. This also gets you massive exposure.

Be absolutely sure to put a link to your website in the resource box. Without that, it won’t work. This is how you are getting tons of high-ranked sites linking back to you. As a bonus, when people read the article, they will most likely visit your website. One single article can results in hundreds of quality backlinks.

Every search engine, especially Google, puts content at the top of its list. You are leveraging the power of all these websites from one article. Normally, as publishers and website owners can grab your article(fully, including links, etc) to use, each article directory site you submit it to can result in 10-20 backlinks almost immediately.

The hotter the topic, the more it gets picked up. If you submit to 100 directories, that’s 1000-2000 backlinks. It’s being done all the time, and I myself have done this, and it works. And the best part, it’s all free!

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