Article Writing - How To Pick Your Topic
Saturday, August 12th, 2006 at 4:18 pm by Evelyn Grazini, AC Student and Staff Writer
You put a lot of thought into deciding what niche to cover. Which you choose will help you pick an article topic. Choose a subject that has a lot of interest, and a targeted niche audience. It helps if it’s a subject you have some knowledge of and are passionate about.
Take a look at what you know and what you do for hobbies. Do you fix pinball machines or garden? Pinpoint at least three areas that you know something about and just start writing. Don’t worry too much at first if the articles aren’t great. You’ll improve.
Check out article distribution sites, such as ezine @rticles and see what others are writing about. You’ll find dozens of topics with hundreds of examples to follow.
Blog sites are also an excellent way to get new ideas.
Search Technorati or use Google’s blogsearch site for some interesting blogs. You’ll find an endless stream of ideas for things that you can elaborate on in your own articles.
Once you have decided on a niche, do a little more research to make sure there is competition in that market. If there is no one else marketing or writing about the same thing, chances are it is a proven loser. (But, hey maybe you have the next big thing!)
Search Google, Yahoo!, and MSN to find web sites that could be your competition before settling on your niche. Make a note of these sites for future reference. You may want to ask the owners if they would like to use your article in their ezine site.
Here’s a helpful free keyword tool from Good Keywords to find out how many searches are being performed on your keywords. WordTracker is also a good tool for researching. It costs a little bit, but if you’re doing research on a lot of keywords, it might be worth the price to get extra keyword ideas.
As you can see, it’s not that hard to find a subject to write about. Bookmark all the sites you find where you can get good ideas, and start writing!
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One extra tip would be to search for your niche in google and make sure that there are many ads showing, it’s best when there are at least 10 advertisers bidding for position, this means there’s a bigger chance you’ll get a good variety of google ads showing in your article page..
keep up the good work
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