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Writing Compelling Articles That Make Money Online
Alvin Phang  
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I may not be very good in my English but what I realized as a full time blogger and internet marketer. You do not really need perfect English to sell online, what you really need instead is really powerful and eye grabbing text in your blog post to sell online.

I seen more bloggers did this mistake time after time on their blogs so in this post I wish to highlight to you some tips you can use in your writing to sell much better on your blogs.

1. Give Really Quality Information

The concept is really simple, you do not want to hard sell to your customers. What you want to do instead is to deliver really solid content to your readers or customers to ensure what you write will help them solve problems. I have seen many countless bloggers and marketers who simply just post on blogs to just write raving reviews on products and services but always fail to write the point about what is it in it for me?

A suggestion would be to start thinking about what your readers would like to know more about. Let say for example if I am selling Atomic Blogging - an online blogging guide. So at the title of your blog article you may want to write something you learn from the book rather then just reviewing about the book. For example, if you get the book you will learn details about driving traffic to your blog using free methods that get traffic to your blog like gang blasters! You would want to talk more about the knowledge learn rather then just saying the product is all great and stuff, that’s because no one will know how good a product is until you have shown your readers how you have benefited from the product. You can see a live example of one of my reviews here

And again please only write points about what you have learn from the product and not just raving about the author, that should only be done at the last paragraph of the article. Using a soft sell approach is much better then hard sell approach.

2. Start Using Very Curious Anchor Text

When you install MyBlogLog to your blog, you will be able to find out what makes your readers click and that’s very important information to know. So during the writing of your post, you may want to integrate anchor text links to your post that not only are just links but links that make people really curious what is the link about. For example, if you are seriously looking for ways to make money using my secret tactics which I made well over $5,500+ in just 7 days you will ensure this site will help you improve your business because it did for me and it’s all FREE!

You realized from the example, I put a link on the word “secret” , “$5,500+ in 7 days” & “this site”. This is what I would like to call curious anchor text. The reason you want to ensure your links makes your audience curious about clicking them is because research has shown that if I can get you to see the same website at least 4 times. The chances you will buy the product would also be higher.

Another tip to this is to also implement call to actions on your blog post to tell your readers what to do to get the offer, that would also help you to get better conversion to sales on your blog post. So if you see lots of links of the same url, now you know why I do that ;-)

3. Show Raving Results From Your Efforts

The truth is many people have this weird impression that making money online is really easy and fast. The truth is that it’s easy and fast provided you know what are the processes involved and the amount of time you spend on it. I was talking to a group of 24 students yesterday and I realized most of them had a common mistake and that was they lack the will to take lots of action.

If you seriously read any of my post on getting traffic and really try it at least for 24 hours in just 4 days, you will see extreme results that’s for sure when you take massive action. Trust me no one in this world can make money online with taking massive action, just talk to any guru out there and ask them how much time do they spend on their online business on an average day. I am very sure they would reply an answer you would not believe :)

So what do you do with the results you have gathered? You would want to show them off to your readers. In that way, it somehow will impress your readers to want to know you more and learn from you more. The logic behind this is, if you get more attention from your readers the chances that you will sell more will also be higher too :)

I hope you find these tips useful because these are the few things I do when I blog on my blog and if you find this post useful you may also want to click here to subscribe to my blog :) Feel free to post your comments below too.

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11 Comments »

2008-03-02 10:05:49
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Hey Alvin,

Definitely some very good points, especially about actually trying out new things after reading a post.

P.S. I tried to contact you via Gmail recently, just letting you know.

Thanks
Fabien

Comment by Alvin Phang Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-02 10:21:35
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Yep I got it.. and just replied :)

 
 
Comment by Jeanne May Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-02 11:44:47
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Hi Alvin…

Useful techniques you wrote about! Thank you.

I particularly like you explaining anchor text — I have seen it quite often but never really knew what it was all about and how to put it into place! Thank you for teaching me.

By the way… I think your English is great!

Best wishes
Jeanne
http://www.goalsnaspirations.com

 
Comment by RyanYan Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-02 11:47:25
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Wow! That’s a huge amount of information, I think this will guide me a lot

Thanks
Ryan Yan

 
Comment by Sandra Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-02 15:53:58
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I think your advice is very good
when posting to your own blog,
but I have found if you put links
in an article to post in to article
directories some will not except them
with links in you can only have a link
in your bio at bottom as in ezine articles
Searchwarp are more lenient so I go there
mostly.

Thank you
Sandra

Comment by Alvin Phang Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-02 17:53:24
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Well just flood your resource box with anchor text links and if you do it well you get ranked high on search engines as well =)

 
 
Comment by Philip Ang Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-02 16:55:13
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Hi Alvin,
I have two comments.
The first one…I like item 2 above.If you have a collection of such words and is planning to sell them,let me know.

The second comment..on your students lacking willpower to take massive action:
I think it is partly due to all the hype out there about how easy it is to make money online.
So when people start to venture into online business and they find that they need to put in certain effort and time, it gives them confusing signals or get discouraged.
I don’t know about them but after learning on internet marketing for months now, I feel that my time has come for me to Make Huge Money.

 
Comment by Wong Chendong
2008-03-02 17:04:24
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Ya really good points for me to start thinking and promote products on my blog . Thanks …

 
Comment by Nancy
2008-03-04 02:29:05
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Thanks for the guidelines on successful writing tips for blogs…I certainly plan to keep the list handy…

 
Comment by Srini Saripalli Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-04 08:07:21
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Hi Alvin,

Excellent post. most importantly the Section 3’s second paragraph where you talk about hard work!

Here is a simple formula..there are many variations to this on the internet..hopefully it will convey the point.

Results = Attitude + Actions+ Knowledge+ skills
=====================================================

Attitude is extremely important, Attitude will guide one’s actions. Actions will in turn seek or nurture knowledge and knowledge will boot the skills in your or will help you source them appropriately.

As you see, skills play a part in your success but rank very low in the order.

Most People trying to make it big on internet start backwards trying to acquire all the Skills first and end up gaining all the knowledge in the process without actions & mindset required to create the success in the first place!

Cheers!
Srini

Comment by Sophie MAVEN Subscribed to comments via email
2008-03-06 05:41:24
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Hey Alvin, I know English is your second language… pardon me for correcting your English… I am sure you meant for the title to be compelling articles, instead of compiling articles.

I bought your atomic blogging 2.0, and I am loving it. My new blog. http://www.mavencentral.com/blog/ is set up with your template, and it will be a great case study for you, to show everyone how good your teaching is.

Thank you. And thank you for your atomicblogging 2.0

Sophie Maven

 
 
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