I work from home where I write a lot of articles for my blogs but today I have a few more blogs than I can write for so I look for articles on article networks. I don’t care to use the article directories to find articles any longer as I try my best to avoid duplicate content and go for content that has been spun into a unique article. As long as it’s worthy and that takes some doing these days.

Sadly many authors and blog owners only care about getting content out there pointing back to their web pages and will allow quality to suffer to achieve quantity. I don’t accept those kinds of articles where keywords no longer exist and words have been replaced with other words that don’t fit the context, so many ways to screw up an article and they manage to find them all.

So what do I look for on the article networks I use? Here is a short list of things that are easy to do and can make an article that gets rejected into one that’s readily accepted.

1. Sentences And Paragraphs Should Be Short And To The Point. I go for short sentences and paragraphs with a couple or three sentences each. Short and to the point works for me.
2. Bullets and Numbers Make Articles Easy To Scan. When I look at an article that contains bullets or numbers I give it a bonus point because using them allow your readers to scan your content for what they desire.
3. Talk In Word I Understand. I am not a highly educated man and when I find an article that I can’t make sense of or have to get my dictionary out I get a little defensive I guess and usually reject the article. Don’t talk over my head.
4. Please Take Time To Check Your Spelling And Grammar. I don’t always get it right, a few typos can slip through and my grammar isn’t always the best but I at least try. Too many articles today on the article networks are just too poorly written to accept, mostly due to typing errors and very bad grammar.
5. Articles Need To Be Keyworded And Catchy. When I look through the titles for articles to accept or reject I instantly check the ones with BAD titles. The title is almost the most important part of your article. It’s what the search engines show in the search results. If it sucks it’s not likely to get accepted.

Article marketing is simple, until you start using article spinner incorrectly, leaving you with a bunch of low quality articles, when, with a little effort you could have had lots of quality keyworded articles people love to accept.

I do a lot of article spinning and still manage to have quality and keyworded articles. I use The Best Spinner to spin my content, however I don’t automate the process and pick each word and phrase replacement manually.

I have found it much tougher over the past year to find quality articles on these article networks and had to step back to look at the time I am spending there looking through articles. Recently I found a site, called iWriter.com where I can pay low amounts to have people write content for me specifically.

Most of the time I get quality because if I don’t I reject the article and the author doesn’t get paid, so it’s definitely to their advantage to produce quality. I can also reject and ignore authors that don’t meet my expectations. I have actually found a few authors I request in some of my niches because they do such a great job.

Like I said it’s at iWriter.com and I have been happy with the results I get there, so head over and see for yourself.

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Are you a skilled enough writer that you can continually create unique articles that are still high quality articles day after day? If you can my hat is off to because not many people can accomplish that task without help.

I would love to be a skilled writer like my copy writer friend Larry is, so as a work from home blogger I have to work hard at content creation for my blogs.

It’s now 2012 and I’ve got more than a dozen niche blogs to produce quality and unique content for, five days a week to keep them updated for my readers and of course for the search engines.

Is this sounding all too much like yourself, well not to fret because I found the answer to my content creation problem. It’s called The Best Spinner and I can spin dozens of articles from a single article. Just one article can give me a dozen or more unique articles for my SEO needs.

So if you find it tough to come up with the unique content for blogs you’re not alone. I spent a lot of time sifting through my thesaurus before The Best Spinner came along with it’s huge user generated database of synonyms.

Because I’m not a professional write I work very hard for the niche focused articles I write daily to write the 10 or 12 articles I need for my blogs every few days. I was getting stressed to say the least and even tried hiring a writer but it can be tough to get the writer I need so you have no idea how happy I was to learn about The Best Spinner, article spinning software.

Now I can spin content that’s unique without messing up the thought process and keyword focus, however it doesn’t happen by automating the process. I pick each word or phrase replacement using The Best Spinner much quicker than I could write a new article.

Use an article spinner like TBS to rewrite or spin new articles doesn’t just leave me with a single new article. Not at all, instead I have dozens of unique articles when I’m done that I can publish around the net pointing to my money pages.

I started my love affair with The Best Spinner using their 7 day trial for $7 and you can as well. The Best Spinner Trial Offer

While some use The Best Spinner to spin hundreds of articles from just one article I don’t. Instead I prefer to create just a few articles that are as close to 100% unique as I can, without destroying my thought process or keywords of course and that takes a little extra planning, but is so worth it.

Some Features of The Best Spinner

• Massive user generated thesaurus
• CopyScape support to check article uniqueness
• Converts Spin Formats
• Multiple nested spin levels with colour coding
• Article rewrites can be sent to the clipboard
• Full sentence rewriting, one of my favourite features
• Able to create personal favourites for synonyms and word replacements
• Supports multiple languages including French, Italian, German and Spanish

You can see that The Best Spinner is a perfect way to create a multitude of spun articles for your needs. So, take a few minutes and check this awesome article spinning software for yourself with the 7 days for just $7 trial offer.

I love my guitar. There I said it. Learning how to play guitar, even at age 47, was one of the best things I ever did. I just wish I had learned to play guitar back when I was 16 and girl crazy but I was a kid on a farm with no money or transportation. A rather strict life where freaky hippies weren’t allowed and that meant guitars.

A couple of students I was teaching computer courses to invited me to a party they were having and told me it was a guitar jam. I had loved guitar since before these guys were even born but had never actually learned to play. I was in.

Well long story short they had extra guitars there and at one point stopped playing and talked me into picking one of the acoustic guitars and get a feel for it. I have never looked back and that was just over 10 years ago. About the same time I started my online business.

I had already been a work at home computer instructor, although I also had employment as a computer instructor when I got the invite. But a work at home computer job isn’t what the title says is it?

I was getting around to it, hold on. Thanks to my two guitar buddies I fulfilled a life long dream of playing guitar. I never had dreams of being in a band, just being able to play guitar and now I do.

Work From Home As A Guitar Instructor

There are a number of ways to learn how to paly guitar but I still prefer one on one training when I can get. If I am at a guitar jam and someone new is there I learn from them whether they know it or not. And I don’t have to pay for those lessons, unless I drink too much of course, then I pay.

But seriously I do enjoy one on one learning because I learn so much faster than written instructions and even videos if I can’t get something right. A one on one guitar instructor can instantly correct me, even if I don’t know I’m doing something wrong.

I keep myself extremely busy with my online business and only allow myself 40 hours a week to work. So being a one on one guitar instructor is only for my closest friends and guitar jam buddies. If you get in the group I will help you learn but only for fun, not money.

My off time is too valuable at my age.

Okay back to being serious for a minute.

Are You Skilled on Guitar?

As a past computer instructor, in this life though, I know how important it is to be patient with students. My patience kept me working and being praised for 20 years. In all that time I only ever embarrassed a student once and it wasn’t intentional.

If you can help people learn how to play guitar and make them feel comfortable doing it you should have a work from home job teaching people how to play guitar. They will praise and pay you and it will come right from the heart. As a guitar player, if you are one, they you know how guitar makes you feel inside. That’s what you would be giving others you teach.

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As a work from home blogger with a decade of online marketing behind me I have learned the importance of owning keyworded domain names and have made a few bad purchases that cost me money every day.

Today I only purchase keyword focused domain names and it’s one step you don’t want to miss out on when it comes to online businesses such as work from home blogging.

I am quite happy with GoDaddy.com for my domain purchase and for a good reason. They provide me with domains. They also show me other domain extensions such as .org and .info in case I want to purchase those as well as .com as I usually purchase.

I have been more than pleased with GoDaddy.com service, although I have only needed it a couple of times in all the years I have been doing business with them. Service is so important to me as I not only have domains that are mine I also have domains that belong to clients and I don’t need headaches.

So now you know I am please with GoDaddy and I also highly recommend them for your domain purchases. Now let’s get into how I make a domain purchase.

Go To GoDaddy.com

I guess the first step would be to head on over to GoDaddy.com where we can get started. Of course this is after you have done your research and found just the right keyworded domain name.

No need to be a GoDaddy client right this minute however once you have found the domain name that you desire you will need to signup to make a purchase.

You can see the search box for a Domain Search. This is where you will enter your keyword phrase, without spaces though. Directly to the right of the search box is where you can specify the extension such as .com, .net, .info and others.

Note: What comes to mind for most people today, when thinking about domains is .com. It’s just an automatic things to put .com on the end, even if someone tells you it’s .net or .info.

So try to get your keyword phrase as a DOT com first.

Okay let’s give it a try then.

I am looking for a new domain for my home garden site and would like to rank for. I used Keyword Elite to find keywords and to evaluate if I should go for them or not based on data gathered by KE.

Exact Match Keyworded Domain

When I use keywords to find my domains I like to get the domain for the exact match. So let’s say I wanted the phrase ‘raised bed vegetable gardening’ then I would be looking for the exact domain which would look like: www.raisedbedvegetablegardening.com.

The thing is there are likely to be others before you with the desire for that specific and exact match keyword phrase, so what does one do.

1. You could purchase something other than .com. Just remember that .com has been burned into people’s minds for more than a decade meaning they might forget you extension and just use .com and landing on your competitor’s site.
2. Using hyphens. The downside to using hyphens is they are a pain and people easily forget them if typing in your domain and again land on your competitor’s site.
3. Add a suffix to your keyword phrase. If I can’t get the domain as a perfect match and didn’t want to go for option 1 or 2 I would add the word tips and if that doesn’t work I may use my city name: www.raisedbedvegetablegardeningtips.com.
4. Add a prefix to your phrase. I always go with a suffix first as it leaves my keyword phrase at the beginning which makes it more keyworded than if I add a word to the beginning something like, www.monctonraisedbedvegetablegardening.com.

After I did my research and found that I wanted www.raisedbedvegetablegardening.com as my domain name GoDaddy told me it was taken. I didn’t want anything but a .com. I didn’t want to go the hyphenating route so I tried a suffix. I used ‘tips’ as my suffix and found it was available, as a DOT com without hyphens. Perfect.

So before I ever went looking to GoDaddy.com to find my domain I did my keyword research so I could get a keyworded domain. This is the first step toward your blogging success. Again I use Keyword Elite or Micro Niche Finder for my keyword research but a few years ago I was using Google’s Free Keyword Tool.

Blogging is a great way to make money working from your home, even if you’re an old hippy like me. All you need to get started is a desire to make money, a willingness to work for your money and access to the Internet.

Of course Internet access will only get you online, you are still going to have to do some learning before the money starts rolling in or before you start writing anything.

So it’s important I point out the fact that blogging for profit does take work but also that it is so worth investing the time it takes to learn. how to start a work from home blog that’s profitable.

Step One – Learn How To First

My biggest blunder when it comes to my online business was taking so long to decide to learn how to make money online. Don’t try to wing it hoping it will work for you as it will most likely just frustrate you. So the biggest mistake in marketing is NOT LEARNING FIRST.

Learning how to start your work from home blog for profit has to start with more than just a desire to make money. It will take some niche research so you can be sure you’re going to be blogging for profit in a niche you can rank for without working for years to do it.

Know right up front that the vast majority of those who try to make a profitable blog never actually make any money. This in my mind makes it vital that you learn how to succeed with a blog before ever writing a word.

First steps first …

How To Find A ‘Profitable’ Niche

Finding a profitable niche is important if your goal is to make money blogging but no this that most niches are profitable. The trick is to find a niche you can profit in which means a niche you can stick with long enough to make money.

It’s really not the niche that’s not making money, it’s the blogger who isn’t making the money, yet so many other are able to make money in that niche. Why is that?

Your Niche Has To Keep YOU Interested…

… long enough to get traffic that you can keep interested long enough for you to profit. Get that right and you may just have a winner.

Take the time to match a niche with your interests and you can go far. On the other hand pick a niche you think the money but don’t have a strong interest or experience in and you could be spinning your wheels for a really long time and never make any head way or income.

Where To Look For Profitable Niches

One of my favourite places to look for niches I can profit with is to head over to Amazon.com where I can find best sellers in every category. I just start going through the categories that I have hobbies and interests in.

Amazon makes it so easy to find products in niches I like and from there it’s all about finding the keywords and phrases that I can create a profitable blog with.

Enter A Niche You’re Knowledgeable About

I suggest one niche per blog so you can stay focused on one topic to help you gain ranking for your pages easier. Get too many topics in one blog and it’s hard for the search engines to narrow down what your site is about.

There is a number of methods used today to get content on ones blog but if you have a niche you have know-how in you will find creating your own content the best way to go at the start.

As I started to gain momentum and ranking with my blogs I began receiving request by guest bloggers. They wanted to write content for me, at no charge, how cool is that. Today I have blogs I seldom need to create content for as guest bloggers are giving me all the content I need to gain in the rankings and make money with my blogs.

Although I have some how to make money working from home blogs most of my blogs are hobby related like my fishing, gardening, acoustic guitar, and puppy potty training blogs.

Researching Your Niche Choices

Okay, you’ve found a few niches you’re interested so now it’s time to learn more about the competition in these niches. You don’t want to go for a niche that’s going to take way too long to rank for. However that doesn’t mean you want to avoid that niche.

Every niche I work through my blogs was hard to rank for when I wanted the top keywords but I didn’t go with the top keywords as my main focus. That would be blog suicide really as the competition for the niches I have are strong.

Instead I use tools to help me find the best keyword for me to use NOW, TODAY.

I started by using Google’s Free Keyword Tool, easily found with a quick Google search but once I had the money to invest I purchased two keyword tools that make my research a breeze. The two keyword research tools I purchased are Keyword Elite and Micro Niche Finder, you can check them out for more info.

Next Step Is A Keyworded Domain Name

Now if you are here and haven’t purchased a domain yet I’m proud of you as your domain name is an important step in having an optimized niche website. Example: which domain name do you thing I would get better ranking for as a home gardening blog, www.hbb2obm.com or www.backyardgardeningtips.com.

Well both those are my blogs and both are about gardening but the keyworded domain, which was started a year after the non keyworded domain is getting more than a thousand unique visitors per day over the non keyworded domain and is making considerably more income for me.

I use GoDaddy.com for all my domain purchases and highly recommend them. Learn how to purchase a domain on GoDaddy.com here.

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