Archive for July, 2006
1. Offer to pay guest authors for their work. A guest author could be someone you found on your bulletin board who happens to write well.
2. Exchange articles with the guest authors site. Your site visitors benefit by providing them with another point of view. And you might just gain some new regular visitors from your guest author’s site!
3. Make sure you get exclusivity. When someone writes for you, make sure they wont submit that same article to dozens of other Websites and newsletters. When your site publishes exclusive content, you have opportunities for syndication in other publications, online and off, and you gain a lot of reader loyalty. The key phrase in a contract with a writer is that youre buying all rights, including electronic.
Another great way to build a quick content site is with other peoples articles using a tool like Article Site Builder.
This tool builds content pages by pulling articles from article site directories like ArticleCity.com and EzineArticles.com
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Heres an example of a bad way to use links:
If you want to read about the latest in cool tricks, check out skateboard.com. For the lowdown on which pro skaters are doing what and dating who, you want to see skatefreak.net. And one of my very favorite places to read blog is liv2skat.com.
Editorials are the opinion of someone whos seen as an expert in the field– (either you or a guest contributor). This makes good content because people like to respond to it, either by agreeing with or opposing the writer. This can make for an exciting page, and youll probably have to moderate it.
Give your people a way to make their views known; put up a bulletin board or guest book on your site. People will come back to read other responses to their comments. And you can use this feedback from your audience by incorporating it into a follow up article in the future.
For instance, is everybody complaining about a new government travel policy? Do an article on it, since clearly thats something people are talking about so they’ll want to read about it.































