If you are using the web since a little while, you would have come across many ezines.These are on web site promotion, web site designing, search engines,health,sports,computers...You name it... They will be there.

When you subscribed to an ezine it will come to your inbox at particular intervals according to it's publication interval. Most important content of the ezines are Articles.These are short discussions on various topics that related to those ezine.

Why should you write articles for ezines?

• Very effective way of your web site or product promotion.After search engines ezines are the effective way of getting good amount of targeted traffic to your site.
  
  
• No cost involved.All you need an idea to write an article.
  
  
• There are more than 90,000 email news letters(ezines) around the internet and 95% of internet users have email accounts.
  
  
• You can get Targeted visitors.For example you have a search engine submission software that you are selling from your web site.You can write an article on differences between the search engines and directories and submi it to an ezine that is focused on search engine optimization, the readers of that article comes to your web site.The reader who is interested in search engine magazines certainly will be interested in submission softwares.
  
  
• You will develop link popularity.With your article submissions to ezines and web sites, you have to add a resource box with your contact details.So when ever somebody published your article on their web sites, they are also including your resource box, increasing your popularity.
  
  

How to write ezine articles?

PICK A TOPIC AND DO SEARCH IN YOUR FAVOURITE SEARCH ENGINE---> WRITE DOWN THE RELEVANT MATTER ON ONE OR TWO PAPERS WITH SUBHEADINGS. WRITE A FAIR COPY---> AND SUBMIT TO EZINE DIRECTORIES OR PUBLISH IN YOUR OWN EZINE.

STEP ONE:

Pick a topic of your interest that is focused on your service or web site.

Go to your favourite search engine and do search for it. Probably you may get hundreds or thousands of web pages. Because you are going to write a short article it will be enough to go to first 20 - 30 pages.

STEP TWO:

Take a pen and two or three papers.Write down STANDARD subheadings like:

• Definition
• Where you can find it
• Purpose
• How it works
• Benefits
• Tips
• Any advantages or disadvantages
• Ending

If you want you can change the subheadings or add/remove them.

So start with Page 1 in your search results.Read the matter. Pick some relevant points and write it down under different subheadings.Then go to page 2 on search results and do the same.

By the time you finish your 25 pages you will be ending up with good amount of matter.

Check it and rewrite the subheadings and the matter if you want.This takes long time to writing and rewriting.So what you can do is when you are getting matter from search results, you seperate it according to your subheadings.This saves you lot of time.

Now open your Notepad and type the matter with 65 characters per line.

Where to submit your article?

You can submit your article to ezines.Find an ezine of interest at ezine listing directories:

http://www.ezinelocater.com/

http://www.freezineweb.com/

You can also submit them to content web sites like:

http://www.ezinesearch.com/search-it/ezine/ezine-add.html

http://www.ideamarketers.com/

http://www.marketing-seek.com/articles/submit.shtml

http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/articles/submit.shtml

Tips before submitting your article:

1.Select your audience.

2.Try to be brief and clear.DON'T write a topic which you don't know by yourself.

3.DON'T give your article a feel of sales page.

4.DON'T put affiliate links in the body part of your article.

5.DON'T forget to keep resource box at the end of article.Follow the guidelines in displaying your resource box.

6.Keep a interesting headline.Because people scan through the topics.So try to grab their attention.

7.Highlight the text using arrows,astericks etc.

8.Spell check before submitting.

9.Allow space between paragraphs.Try to keep the matter in short paragraphs.

10.DON'T submit the same topic to more than one ezine in the same week.