Have you been trying to decide whether to use a blog or article marketing to market your website, thinking that you can’t possibly have time to do both? Are you already doing article marketing along with a blog, and finding it exhausting to keep writing so much content? If so, I have good news for you!

Both article marketing and blogs are great ways to build traffic to a website and display your expertise. They are marketing tools that work in different ways, and if you coordinate things they can play very nicely off of each other.

BOUNCING ARTICLES OFF OF BLOG CONTENT

Think of your blog posts as outlines for articles. After your posts are published on your blog, go back and use each post as a guideline for an article. Sometimes the topics you cover in blog posts can even be morphed into a several articles.

To make this work, your blog posts should be educational–they should teach your readers something. Ideally they will be fully developed, rather than being the type of blog posts that are ‘quick updates’.

Some guidelines for converting a blog post into an article:

* Do not copy the blog post verbatim–the blog post should be the outline for the article and not the article itself. It’s best if the content on your own site is totally unique.

* The topic should be timeless.

* Your blog post must be ‘article worthy’–there needs to be enough meat in the post to warrant being turned into an article.

* How-to posts, list posts, and any sort of blog post that teaches something is a good candidate for an article.

* Limit links in the article body–with a free reprint article a bit of discipline with the linking can help your article be more attractive to publishers.

* Polish your article–if you make a spelling or grammar error in a blog post it’s not that big a deal because you can make the correction at any time. Articles, on the other hand, will be circulating all over the internet. If you happen to submit an article with errors, it will be reprinted with those errors–so be careful!

USE ARTICLE MARKETING TO BUILD YOUR BLOG’S AUTHORITY

How else can blogs and article marketing work together? When you’re submitting your articles, provide a link to your blog in your resource box. Even if your blog is not your main site, it is still beneficial to market your blog.

The strength of blogs as marketing tools is that they are Google-friendly. Google likes the fresh content that blogs offer, so it can be easier for a blog to rank highly than it is for a traditional website.

So, the idea is to use your blog to leverage your static website. You market your blog, build its authority, and then link to your main website from the blog. Traffic then flows through your blog and to your website. Links from the blog to the website also bolster your main website’s rankings.

If you have a blog you know it’s not enough to just start posting–you need to do something to get the links and traffic coming into it. Article marketing serves this purpose well–link to your blog from your resource box. You can use your articles to build links to both your main website and your blog.

BLOGS AND ARTICLE MARKETING WORK WELL TOGETHER

If you have a blog it’s very easy to start submitting articles on a regular basis without that much more effort. And if you already have both a blog and are doing article submissions, you can maximize the content that you’re creating by bouncing your articles off of your blog content.

Using a blog and article submissions together is a great way to save time, and on top of that you can reap the rewards of having two marketing tools working to drive traffic to your site!

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Many article writers just do not understand that Internet Surfers do not wish to read long articles, they like short sound bytes. In fact maybe this is good for those who have websites who place these articles on their sites because no one will bother to read this boring bunk and therefore are more likely to leave; hopefully by way of a Pay-Per-Click Advertisement. Smart article authors if they want any worthy targeted traffic at all will make their articles under 400 words and preferably under 300 to insure internet users read them thru and click on their by-line.

For the past year and a half I have written 8822 articles and put them online and recently I have decreased my word counts of my articles to the 300 word average range and guess what I have increased my article pickups to 31,600 and am now on pace to clear 35,000 pick-ups within 2 months. But why is this? Well simple because Ezines, websites and even those built for the sole purpose of AdSense like the shorter articles.

Occasionally we here complaints by some article authors who say that any article under 300 words is a joke and cannot be called a real article? Well this is an interesting comment because most articles on the major news media outlets 300 words or less. Does this mean that articles on MSN.com, Google News and Yahoo News are not articles? Sure they are and if they are not, well what are they called then?

If we look at most Ezines, which come into our email boxes the trend surely is for shorter articles not longer ones, because we all know those do not get read all the way thru generally. With over 2.5 Million Article views it is obvious to me that shorter articles are in and the long articles truly do not do the article authors justice or help them achieve target traffic numbers like I am getting on my site. Consider this in 2006.

Do you ever feel like everybody is speaking in a different language and you have no idea what about? Remember the time when your super-smart colleague tried to make conversation with you? You could do nothing more than stare blankly at her before making a beeline for the restroom because you had no idea what she was talking about.

We all have our bad days when we feel left out from the conversation because we have not been keeping up with all the things happening in the world. Well, thanks to the rise of the World Wide Web, even if you find yourself lagging behind in information pertaining to some department, you can always catch up without too much effort. How so? Well, you could try looking up some news & information archives.

Earlier, you had to visit the news & information archives that were run by the government, and these were not always the easiest of places to move around in. But thanks to the rise of archives on the Internet, all you need to do is punch in a couple of keys and watch yourself face to face with a long list of news & information archives. Not only do the news & information archives on the Internet make your search for news and information very quick, but they also save you a trip to those musty old archives of hard copy.

Would you say that we are becoming lazier and more and more spoilt thanks to the ease of using the Internet? Perhaps we are, but do you really care? Isn’t it brilliant how we are able to sit at a desk and view the happenings in the world? Moreover, if you are looking for specific news and information, all you need to do is specify what kind of an archive you are looking for. So you could find an archive of only news stories or an archive of information on population or economics or gadget developments.

News & information archives also help us channel our research. We no longer have to sift through hordes of information that will be of no use to us. It is easier, quicker and a whole lot more convenient.

Keep yourself updated by reading up news articles pertaining to the days when you did not have the time. So the next time that you find a discussion that you would like to be a part of, you will be prepared to join in with gusto!

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Personally I have found that these days many people are launching there sites on celebrity news and gossips. Well, certainly, every one wants to earn something and no doubt that the Hollywood industry is a fabulous place to cash with. It is mere this reason that hundred and thousand of blogs are today available on celebrity fashion, celebrity hair, and news related to them and specially on there private life.

But as soon as one hot news is posted on any of these blogs, a large number of blogs start copying pasting or rewriting the news for there blogs. Though the idea of rewriting is much better than mere single handedly copy pasting but I have even a more better and tested solution.

Yes, not everyone can afford to get a journalist to get news for a blog for the reason of money and sometimes for the reason of access and locality. If you are one of them then here is one and all time solution for your celebrity news and gossips related blog. What you need to do is rather write a review and not just rewriting the news. It sure is one word solution but if you want to know how to actually write a review then do not be panic because this article will tell you all about how to write a review on celebrity related latest news.

Writing a review works like a link bait and can also help you have many backlinks. Many other blogs can link to you for your news story and its review. So here it is.

For writing a review you simply need to follow some simple instructions:

- Your review should be a personal opinion of yourself or of a segment of society. For example what people though about a celebrity dress in any particular occasion.
- You can either praise the news or be critical by again adding some suggestions.
- In a review you can tell the readers about the differences or similarities a celeb had with some other celeb. You can also discuss the behavior of the celeb in a psychological aspect. In other words you can make your review look analytical. A review can be made by simply mentioning any latest celebrity news and then predicting its implications on the celebs life and the industry. You can always fill a review with critical sentences but if they are mature and not just negative would work more likely.
- If your news story about a celebrity is regarding any good step or initiative taken by the celeb then you certainly can have loads of ideas on that. For instance you can talk about other celebs who had also taken such initiatives in the past. You can also make a list of those who have been in such social beneficial practices and those who have not been there.
- If a celebrity news story is about a launch of a news movie, you can discuss about the role of the celebrity and then compare his or her previous work with the latest one. Again critical approach and appreciation can be an option for writing a review.

I am certain you would have availed a lot from this article and if you have then you must check out News world wide blog as I have found it very inspiring in this category and most of the suggestions that I have mentioned in this article, are seen in that blog.

Looking for news updates, check them at www.newsgates.com. You will find latest celebrity news, sports news, technology, lifestyle, entertainment, politics and breaking news from world wide.

Financial magazines and websites are full of Forex news and updates. You can also find tons of Forex tips from these sources or even from people on the street. Everyone seems to be an expert. The truth is that most of these people are far from experts in forex trading. In fact, some of them are totally ignorant of the true nature of the market and how it works.

That’s the main reason why it’s dangerous to follow Forex market news blindly. A lot of these news items and analysis articles are just the opinion of a single person and one who may have theoretical background but little to no real knowledge of the market.

The second danger in following Forex news is that it usually arrives too late for you to really take advantage of it. By the time something reaches a newspaper, it has already been read by thousands of professional traders in banks and financial institutions. They always get the news first. While you’re reading an article, so are thousands of other traders. This means that everyone is influenced in the same way. You don’t have an advantage, you’re part of a flock that’s being driven.

Of course, being aware of what’s going on is important, and knowing the news can lead to more profits, but be aware that Forex trading news items aren’t that effective. In fact, because you will usually not be among the first to read the news, you may even be too late in making a profit and catch the market while it’s going in the wrong way.

As for trading by Forex tips, always question the source of the information. Even if this person has an MBA, does he or she really know anything about Forex?

I’ve seen too many traders fall victim to useless Forex trading tips. You need to develop a healthy sense of skepticism. You also need to educate yourself on the market. In that way, you’ll be able to tell the useful news from the useless and the true tips from the false.

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