Writing Articles - Advice For The Do-It-Yourself Webmaster

As an SME it is virtually impossible for us to hire thepremises she was working at. They were the wrong
services of a good SEO company that is going toshape for doing a good job! The following day I
spend time optimising the site, adding new contentspoke to the company and they agreed we could
and gaining good links for the site, simply because ofput our own in. Then I realised that this was a
the cost involved. Other SME's are I am sure in aproblem in many places especially domestic
similar position. They would all love to have a webhouseholds. So I wrote my first article about toilet
site that ranked highly in google and the other searchbrushes and the why's and how's of how people
engines and brought in a constant flow of newshould approach the purchase of these objects. Once
business. However to hire an SEO company to do allstarted the words flowed. I submitted this to two
those things above is often beyond the reach ofarticle distributors and one ezine. To my surprise it
many small companies especially those just startingwas accepted and I have not looked back. I now
out.write on average two articles per week and have
However as a company providing services ourselvesreached the grand total of 24 published articles. Each
and 80% of our new business coming via thearticle gives me about five links on average, some
internet I can thoroughly recommend that you find aprovide more, others less, it depends on who picks
company, invest the money because you will soonthem up and republishes them. Most importantly it
get the rewards back. If you feel that you stillhas boosted my visitors and my backlinks and
cannot quite afford to go down that path becausetherefore my search engine position. When I did a
money in the company is tight then the other coursesearch on who was linking to my site these articles
of action I can recommend is to write articles. I keptproduced 12 backlinks for google and a staggering
seeing and reading all this free advice from SEO's out186 on MSN. It was incredibly interesting to see
there on the Web about the benefits of writingwhere my articles were ending up, often in very
articles and submitting to article distribution centresunexpected places, and it is global, so they can be
and e-zines. I used to think when reading thesepicked up anywhere in the world.
words of wisdom how wonderful it would be if only IDo not be put of by the thoughts
could do that, but I never did it. Until recently that is.· I cannot write
About a month ago I decided I would try writing an· I have nothing to write about
article. First what would I write about? Big problem,· Nobody would want to read the things I know
what could I write about that had any relevance toabout
my website or the services we provided and be ofBecause you are wrong on all counts. There is a lot
interest to anybody else? So I did a search on oneof advice freely available on how to write good
of the article distribution sites looking for articles thatarticles, go search it out. Everybody who is running a
had relevance to my own sites content and foundbusiness has expert knowledge on some subject, and
nothing of real relevance. So nothing for it I wouldlastly the whole world is your audience so there will
have to write my own. It still took another weekbe many people out there who are interested in
before I came up with any ideas. I focused on whatwhat you have to say. Surprise yourself, as I did,
services we provided and how I could turn these intogive it a go. After the first or second article you will
articles. Still nothing actually came of these thoughts.find that they just flow and writing becomes much
Then one night I was talking to one of our cleanerseasier. Very importantly however they do wonders
who was telling me about the problems she wasfor your website.
having with the toilet brushes on these particular