Why spamming with articles is bad for your business

Here's some reasons why submitting 'junk' articles in large quantities ( ie. article spam )is almost a complete waste of your time and likely to prove bad for your online network marketing business.

	no webmaster of a halfway decent site will ever bother including your articles as content on their website. You may get some articles appearing on other spam-type websites. That will probably end up lowering your page rankings over time, the complete opposite of what you want to achieve.
	60% - 70% of article submissions are rejected on average. No prizes for guessing why. You've wasted your time writing and submitting them.
	even if you attempt the automatic submission route and do succeed in getting some posted, you will find that those sites that accept junk content without review just don't get used by anyone as a content source. As an article publisher myself, I do not want to sift through hundreds of articles just to find one or two good ones to use for content.
	junk articles tend to equate with a junk web site in peoples minds. No one will click on your resource box link. A poorly written article is not the same thing as a junk article. You can be a novice writer but still get articles published because they give useful information to the reader.
	you 'brand' yourself as a 'spammer marketer'. Does this matter? It sure does - your business reputation is just as valuable to you on the internet as it is in your normal life.

Use the authors resource box properly

Most article directories don't allow affiliate links to be used in the authors details box. This needn't be a problem. Direct them to a splash page you've created on a website you do control, and use that to send them to your affiliate web page.

Above all, DO NOT attempt to stuff your details box with every link for the 18 web sites you own plus your 107 affiliate links. There are webmasters I know who automatically reject submissions when authors attempt this. Why? Because they recognise that this spoils the experience of their own visitors who have no interest at all in wading through a list of links.

A good author always does his or her best to make life easier for their publisher and his web site visitors. Ideally, only include one link, on the principle that giving the reader one choice makes it more likely for that choice to be selected. Thats good for you, and it also shows you appreciate and value the service your publisher offers. Your publisher will like you, and making friends is usually better than making enemies.

Don't know how to write?

This is not as great a problem as you think. You don't need to reach the standard of a best selling fiction author or the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. You will find plenty of information about good writing practice via the search engines.

Write about the things you know, do your best to say something 'different' and don't just rehash well known information. Use a spell checker, keep your paragraphs to a maximum of 3 or 4 lines, and keep it concise.

Visit the article directory sites and look through the articles available. Which ones did you like most and which ones did you not even bother finishing? Why?

Chances are that the reasons you ignored some articles will be much the same for everyone. Learning what NOT to do when you write articles is almost as important as learning what TO do.

How long should your articles be?

I see lots of articles that are around 300 - 400 words in length. Many of these read just like the trivia pieces used in magazines to fill up the blank spaces. Unless you are an experienced writer it can be difficult to write good short length articles that convey much valuable information.

I personally think you should make your articles a little longer, say 500 - 800 words. If your content has 'meat' to it, the reader is far more likely to feel they  have learnt something worthwhile. That means they will look out for your future articles, and are more likely to use them on their website for content.

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