The Value Of Good Articles

In your Internet travels, you probably read a great deal of articles. These articles may be on a website, a blog, or a newsletter. Some are quite informative, and provide the information you are seeking. Others are nothing more than poorly disguised sales letters. Some are so badly written that it is a struggle just to read them. But do you fully understand the value of a good article?

A good, well-written, informative article can be worth thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not only by way of providing useful content, but to the author of the article as well. Articles, for all intents and purposes, are viral. When something is viral, it means that you do it once, and you reap the benefits of that one task over and over again. It spreads and keeps working for you. It’s like the flu, but in a good way.

Let’s look at an example. You write a great article, or have a great article written for you. You publish the article on your website, on your blog, and in your newsletter. Next, you submit that article to the top article repositories (also known as article banks), and from there, you send your article to other newsletters publishers whose readers will find the information relevant.

The newsletter publishers spread your article. People go to the article repositories and find you article, which they then use on their website or blog. It just spreads and spreads. If the article was good enough, and it was written on a popular topic, that one article could be posted in thousands of places in just a few months time.

The information in the article is valuable to the readers, but the author’s resource box, at the end of the article, is what becomes so incredibly valuable to the author. You see, when the article is reprinted, those who reprint it are required, by the author, to leave the entire article intact, including the authors resource box. 

That resource box should have a link to the authors website, or to a particular page on the authors site where the reader can sign up for an email course to learn more, or sign up for a newsletter, or read a relevant sales page, or read a pre-sell page for a relevant affiliate product.

Sales get made. Never doubt that! That one well-written article is extremely valuable, and when you write one article a week and distribute it as described above, you are almost guaranteed success!