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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