I’m taking part in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge so I’ve been reading and researching a lot of blogs that deal with article marketing and home-based business, which is my niche for Quality Business Writing. I’ve learned a lot through my research.

Article Content Provider taught me, by example, a neat way to use articles written by others on my blog. In his post, An Article Marketing Strategy That Works, Allen used an article written by another marketer. He put the entire article in blockquotes and added a comment at the end. I had never thought to do that, but I used the same technique on my Steps to Writing an Effective Press Release, also adding a comment at the beginning. I really like the ways this looks and works.

Lynne Lee, in her post, What Is PLR? And How To Use Private Label Rights To Write More Articles Quickly, gave me some good ideas for using the flashdrive full of PLR articles I have.

Copyblogger offered several helpful posts on writing good headlines (one of my greatest challenges as a writer!). I especially liked 7 More Sure-Fire Headline Templates That Work. I need all the help in this area I can get!

Sadly, as with anything on Google anymore, I had to weed through so many non-related results to find even a few posts worthy of mention. (What does an article titled “How to Speed Up Your Commercial Mortgage Application” have to do with article marketing blogs?!)

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a search engine that could actually read what I type and give me results based on those words rather than trying to be smarter than I am and returning what it “thinks” I want? But I digress.

One final thing I learned that was really more about blogging than strictly article marketing. And that was when I visited the Article Marketing Blog from The Phantom Writers. For a purported article marketing blog (it’s in their title, after all), their front page was filled with post that had nothing to do with marketing with articles, though it was about building a business. It made me aware of my own failings in this areas, since I sometimes post on a non-article marketing topic for several days in a row. I’ll try to be more diligent not to do that anymore.

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