How to Write Quality Articles that Deliver High Traffic: The Seventh Step is Collaboration

Posted on: 2005-11-09 11:11:58
Author: Leanne Hoagland-Smith

So, you have done your due diligence by identifying high topics of interest, researching key words for search engine optimization (SEO), reviewing title selection, keeping the article between 300 to 600 words, writing from a personal perspective and infusing rich and valuable content. Isn't that enough? Frankly, no because there is still one more step in writing a quality article and that is developing collaboration through partnerships with another writers.

Some Internet article authors may hire an editor and if you can afford one that's really great. However, many authors, myself included, are small business owners who can't afford such a luxury because we are using Internet article distribution as an Internet marketing strategy to drive traffic to our web sites through such sites as www.ezinearticles.com, www.phantomwriters.com or www.articlemarketer.com .

However, we can develop partnerships with other authors and colleagues to have them read and critique our efforts. These individuals can play an important part in helping you as an author to truly write quality articles that have rich content.

Marcel Proust wrote that "the true voyage of discovery is not seeking new landscapes, but seeing with new eyes." Through these collaborative partnerships, you have the opportunity to have at least one if not two sets of new eyes that can read your efforts and provide an affordable means to determine if what you wrote makes sense. Sometimes as authors, we become too close to our efforts and read what we think we wrote and not what we actually wrote. Then after we have distributed the article, we see those minor mistakes that diminish the quality of our efforts.

By agreeing to review each other's works, you become familiar with her or his writing style and what she or he is trying to convey through the written word. I have been very fortunate to develop partnerships with three individuals all of whom not only review some of my articles, but have provided me with additional benefits by reviewing my web site content, my marketing efforts such as sale letters, etc. With a limited marketing and sales budget, this partnership of collaboration has been extremely valuable to me. The bottom line is that has enhanced the quality of my writing.

With the Internet search robots becoming more sophisticated, misspelled words or grammar errors may potentially affect traffic to your site. Does it not make sense to develop a partnership that is mutually beneficial?

Writing quality articles is a skill set that can be successfully developed. These seven basic steps will help you to build a solid foundation as you work to drive traffic to your web site.

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