Traffic Building

How to Choose a Topic for Your Article

The first place to start when you are choosing a topic is with your own web site. What products do you sell, what needs do you meet?

Write out a list of 15-20 different ideas or topics about which your typical customer might be interested. If you are having trouble thinking of topics, go to Ezine Articles and look at their list of categories. They have an incredibly complete list of categories from which to choose. Keep in mind that one of your topics or ideas might be in a different category than the one that you would normally think it would be in.

For example, in my case, article writing and article marketing are located in the writing and speaking category, not in the internet and businesses online section, where I am accustomed to submitting articles.

In fact, it is a good idea to look through every category, searching for possible topics that would appeal to your typical purchaser. You see, the more categories and topics you have to work with, the easier it will be to crank out multiple articles per day. For example, in my case, there are about 15 categories of internet and businesses online and in writing and speaking about which I can comfortably write and whose traffic would be a good fit for my web sites. By having 15 categories to work with, I can literally write 15 articles a day before I run out of categories in which to write fresh material. And if I brainstorm some, I can come up with subcategories.

For example, in my case, there is the category traffic building, where I have a lot of expertise. I can write a general article on traffic building as one of my first 15 articles for the day. But if I want to write more, I can write an article on pay-per-click advertising, on article marketing, on email advertising, on safelist and coregistration leads, on JV giveaways, on JV partnerships, and on ezine advertising, and on one of several additional areas of traffic building. By doing this, I greatly expand my ability to mass-produce articles daily. I am really only limited by my time and my concentration; I tend to get restless and bored when I write for more than a few hours (about 15-20 articles in a sitting).

This has been an excerpt from my revealing manuscript, the Article Marketing Manifesto

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