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Now playing: Satellite by the Dave Matthews Band
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I've been staring out the window for an hour now. My problem? Well, a foot of snow, for one. Secondly, I have a temporary case of writer's block. My brain cells know it's Friday, you see, and they are already enjoying the weekend.
Writing articles for a blog or web site on a regular basis is a challenge. How can an affiliate marketer overcome writer's block? The cheater's way is to write about your writer's block, like I'm doing right now. 'Cause I'm a big fat cheater.
But a better way is to have a stockpile of articles you've already written during times when the creative juices were flowing. I've learned that when I feel fired up about a subject, it's best to run with it and get it down on paper (or on the computer, more likely). I might not need that article right away, but for times when I don't know what else to post, I can just go to my articles folder and grab one I wrote while I was feeling inspired.
These don't have to be complete, by the way; if only a paragraph or two comes to you, that's okay. Start a folder with partially finished articles. This can be enough to get you going and finish one you've started. Even if it's simply a post title that occurs to you, you should record it somehow before you forget it. One of these may spark ideas when you are looking for something to write about.
You can also go back and take a look at your keyword list and find two or three closely related keywords that you can form an article around. You should be targeting keywords with every article anyway to make sure they're optimized for the search engines, but sometimes we tend to rely on our memories too much. It's good to go back to your list to find some you may not have used yet. Plus sometimes just the word order in a keyword is enough to give us an idea for an article.
Also, remember that not every article has to be dead serious and novel length. They should still be relevant to your site as a whole, but it's okay to show your personality a bit and throw in some interesting tidbits from your own experiences, possibly a collection of links to other sites or videos that pertain to your subject, or even run a contest or giveaway to increase traffic to your site.
I will be running a contest myself in the near future, so stay tuned! For now, let's just have a little Friday fun, shall we?
Friday Fun
Remember the old dial-up sound when you first got Internet service back in the Stone Age? Betcha didn't know where it came from.
Have a great weekend!
I LOVE my “job.” Affiliate marketing takes work, but it doesn’t feel like work.
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ROFL! That is a really cute video!
Great tips for the mild (or sometimes not-so-mild) cases of writer’s block. Heaven knows I’ve been there a time or two myself.
I too have played the cheater and written about my writers block
Although some of my greatest thoughts have come from a bunch of rambling, mumbo jumbo!
I also have a folder in my documents specifically for when a thought strikes me. It’s called my “Articles in Progress” folder and has come in handy way more times than I could ever count!
That’s exactly what I call my folder! I can’t trust my memory anymore, so even if all that comes to me is a sentence or a theme, I write it down quick!
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