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Having a good title, knowing what your topic is, and focusing it to convey your message clearly, and in an interesting way is the basic structure of an article. Once you have written your article, you need to distribute it and get it into circulation, right? Wrong! Your next step is to re-write it! Yes. . .you re-write your article. Before this becomes a roadblock in your article writing, let me tell you that it isn't as time consuming and difficult as you may be thinking, but it will actually make writing a lot easier and much less time consuming. Re-writing your article is nothing more than revision, and the first revision takes place when you proofread your finished writing.

As you proofread your article paragraph by paragraph, you will notice more than spelling errors and typos. Thoughts and ideas that made sense when you first wrote them, don't sound good anymore. You find that some of the wording is all wrong and doesn't read right, though it did when you were writing the article. Some stuff is downright weird and you wonder what you were thinking about when you wrote that particular part. That is why your first copy is called a rough draft. You improve upon the rough copy, and revision becomes nothing more than re-wording a paragraph so it reads differently, but still carries the same message. Below is an example:

The center of your internet marketing business is your list. Without a list, you are screaming at a brick wall and selling your products to no one, which probably means you are broke and your voice is gone. The goal is to build relationships with people so they become long term, loyal clients. As people get to know you, you gain their trust, earn their respect, repeat business, and all the business they are going to send you. Honestly know the products and services you're promoting. Buy them, use them, and make sure they are worthy of your precious list.

I'm going to revise the above paragraph so you can see how easy this is:

The core of your internet marketing business is having an active list of long term, loyal clients. Without it you will make exactly zero dollars. Target your audience to ensure you are attracting the right kind of people to your list. The reason for targeting is you want serious clients who will be long term subscribers, not tire kickers who have no idea what they are even doing on the internet in the first place. Your loyal clients will also send you business and referrals because they trust you and your knowledge of the products you market. Another key element to building the list of customers you desire, is testing the products you choose to promote and determine whether they are even worth mentioning to your list.

The two paragraphs convey the same message, but now they could be published to different directories without offending the search engines. Search engine optimization is another key element to building your list. Your articles must be search engine optimized in order to gain recognition and to begin driving quality traffic to your website or blog.

OK, now that you have re-written and re-worded your article, do it again. Now, why should you, why would you re-write your article a second time? There is a method to the madness, I promise.

In optimizing your article for the search engines, you must avoid duplicate content. There are tons and tons of directories available for article distribution, and when you submit duplicate content to all those directories there will be repercussions. No credits will be earned for what you have written, only one site will get credit for the article, and most likely, it won't be yours that gets the credit.

Though it seems redundant, you can see why you need to write your article twice. There is another big reason for re-writing your articles and that is the ability to rearrange one article into many, plus it will keep a constant flow of ideas for fresh content for new topics. You can also build up a stockpile of articles for future use, then it is a matter of copying and pasting them to the directories. Keep a copy of the original, the first revision, and the second revision of your writing and use them to pick apart and use for new articles, which in turn gives you an easy start on anything else you decide to write. Now you can post one article to your site or blog, one to a high-traffic articles site like http://EzineArticles.com, and another to http://iSnare.com, for example. Now you will get the most from using high traffic distribution sites. Your articles will be accepted with few hitches, if any, and put into circulation quickly.

Writing articles is one of the fastest ways to get exposure to you, your blogs, websites, products, and services. It is the fastest way to start getting more traffic and clicks then you'll know what to do with, because of all the different sites your articles will appear on. Maximum exposure is part of the structure of building your list, otherwise you will get buried in a morass of other sites that are just like you. Write your articles twice. It reduces the stress, strain and time consumption of starting from scratch every time you post an article.

I also wanted to touch on sameness. . . .Beware sameness and avoid getting stuck in a rut. There is a website you can go to and it is a tool you can use to determine that the differences in your articles are at least 35% or more, from your other writings. Go to: http://www.dupecop.com.

When you write your articles in such a manner as to get the maximum benefit from using article submission directories, the article writing process becomes much easier and faster. My hope is that this article will help people to move forward to the success they deserve and save them a lot of back pedaling and get them making money in a relatively short amount of time. It's about making good use of your time. Staring out the window with a blank screen in front of you and a nasty case of writer's block will get you nowhere fast.

Just when I thought I was dead in the water, Tellman Knudson fished me out and began teaching me all these techniques and principles and how to apply them. Then it only seemed natural when I was introduced to all these free tools offered online to aid me in getting what every internet marketer wants: Exposure, traffic, an active list, profits coming in daily on autopilot, and the freedom to enjoy it!