Like I’ve written earlier on this blog and as comments on Tiffany Dow’s blog, I use iWriter as a filler. If I have a few minutes (at least 15), and I don’t have anything else to do, I go there and check, if there are any interesting jobs.

Obviously, I check the following:

• How high is the requester’s approval rate?
• What does the Special Instructions say?
• How many words is the article supposed to contain?
• Any specific keyword demands?

If I feel that this is an article I’m able to write and do well, I take the job.

Yesterday, I discovered that there was a flaw in my method.

Poorly Defined Request - This Should Have Been a Heads-Up Already

The job, I found and thought looked interesting, just told me to write a 500 words-article around the keywords “Internet Marketing”.

The special instructions told me not to use the keywords more than 3.6% of the time, because the article should be used on Ezine Articles.

No problem. I tend to write too few keywords, unless I force myself to repeat them more often.

So I clicked on the Write Article button, did some brainstorming, wrote an outline based, included the four learning methods, and wrote the article.

After I finished (at 529 words), I ran the article through WhiteSmoke to check for spelling and grammar errors.

After that I submitted the article.

Then I got this strange feeling…

Slow Approval - Give Low Stars in the Ratings to the iWriter Requester

Poor writers in the elite group? Or a difficult to please requester?

iWriter wants us to express with our star ranking how we were treated by the requester. Does he approve fast? (Meaning faster money to you.) Does he comment and tell you his reasons for his review and the rank he gives you?

I should have checked this requester, before writing for him… This is what happened.

After I’ve hit Publish, I got this strange feeling, so I repeatedly went back to iWriter to see, if my article was approved.

It wasn’t.

Not until this morning, I could see that it was approved, and that I’d scored my first 4 star rating. No explanation at all. What didn’t he like? What was wrong? I had no idea.

I Should Have Known - and This is Why You Should Check the Requester Thoroughly

Although it seemed that this requester got a high rank, 5 Stars, if I’d moused over his rating, I would have noticed 4.9 stars. And that’s for a requester who’d asked for hundreds of articles.

Digging down in the reviews, I saw several complains about missing explanations for why he had only given 4 stars, or why he’d rejected an article.

That’s certainly not the kind of requester, I would like to write for. So I should have checked this before accepting the job.

I mean… Although I hate getting a 4 star rating, I would accept it if I’d known WHY he didn’t totally love my article. Was it because he’d had other ideas, but just didn’t give away any clues about those ideas? Did some grammar og spelling pass unnoticed through WhiteSmoke?

WHAT?

Anyway, I learnt my lesson, and I’ll certainly include a mouse-over star ranking check the next time, and if I see less than 5 stars in total, I’ll go through the reviews.

Do you write for iWriter? What do you do to protect yourself from bad rankings or rejections?

If you are going to make some extra money writing for iWriter, you can just as well do it in a way that will bring in the most money. This blog post will teach you some iWriter strategy you hopefully can use.

First, I want you to know that I only recommend ghost writing for others as long as you don’t have other projects that can bring in passive income. When you are writing for iWriter or other places, you sell your time. If you write PLR articles, or eBooks and reports, you sell yourself, you can get passive income even years later.

Read more about my opinion of iWriter in this blog post: Earn Money by Writing articles – Is iWriter an Option? Or Should You Stay Far Away?

If iWriter promote their service as a way to “get dirt cheap articles” (see Tiffany Dow’s comment here), you can just as well fire back with some strategy to make you more money.

Reach Elite Status

You can earn more per article, when you reach Premium or Elite status. You will still get 81% of the price for the normal articles, but you get access to write higher priced articles from people who wants Premium or Elite writers to write their articles.

The price of these articles can get really high. A few moments ago, I saw an offer of a 300 word article for $8.10 in profit to the writer. Not bad!

So if your strategy is to make money writing on iWriter, I highly recommend that you get there as fast as possible.

To become an Elite writer, you need at least 30 articles approved, and at least a rating of 4.6 stars.

What is the fastest way to get there?

By writing 30 x 150 word articles for requesters with a high rating.

Why Should You Chose 150 Word Articles at iWriter?

Why 150 word articles? Because they are faster to write. You’re even given some of the 150 words, since the requester will ask you to write specific keywords in the article. So a 150 word article will quickly end at 130-140 words.

Here’s a guy who wants a review done for an Amazon article - 150 words. THAT’s a guy who knows nothing about affiliate marketing, but what do you care?

He has the following keywords: “Booster Pac ES2500 900 Peak Amp 12 Volt Jump Starter” - 10 words. If you have to mention them twice in your article, that leaves you 130 words to write. How fast can you type down 150 words?

Oh, by the way, that special job might not be for you. Guy wants “Usa writer only.”

Later in this blog post, I’ll give you another reason for writing the 150 word articles.

Why Should You Care About the Requester’s Ranking?

When you write an article, and get it either approved or rejected, you can give star rankings to the requester.

If a requester approves very fast, and if you were happy with the job, give him 5 stars. Please, also write in your comment WHY you gave him 5 stars. This will help other writers decide whom to write for.

A requester with a high ranking is a good requester to work for. If he approves articles faster, you get your money faster.

And you can also see how many percentages of the articles he’s approved and how many he’s rejected.

To begin with, you should only write for requesters who approve 100% of the articles. Obviously, if you do a lousy job, he might reject yours, but you’ll avoid serial rejecters, and you stand a much higher change of having your article approved.

Size DOES Matter at iWriter

If we don’t take special requests and Premium and Elite article requests, and only look at the amount you’ll earn from writing an article, size does matter.

Yes, you make more dollars from a 1000 word article than from a 150 word, of course, but let’s look at the price per 100 words instead.

These calculations tell a totally different story.

So if you want to gain as much as you can per word, you must write 150 word articles. Given that you’re even offered a lot of those words as keywords, your gain gets much higher.

Write Well and Get Tipped

If an article requester is satisfied with your work, he can give you a tip. See it as an opportunity to get paid to become a better writer.

My guess is, though, that you will not get many tips from people who want 150 word articles, or even 300 word articles, because they are after the “dirt cheap” articles, Brad Callen promoted.

(Ironic, though, that people who are really cheap skates and orders 150 word articles, pay more per 100 words than the others, hehe.)

Do your best, but don’t spend hours writing these articles. If you feel that an article will take you long time to research and write, then don’t take that job. Remember: You are selling your hours for money. Use them well. Pick the articles you can crank out fast, and still deliver high quality.

Wrap It Up: iWriter Strategy

Get to Premium or Elite level as fast as possible.

Stay there by delivering high quality articles.

By doing a good job, you also get a change to receive tips.

If you’re after the highest pay per word, write 150 articles - and second best: 1000 word articles.

And remember, always: Use this as an extra income stream. Not as your main income. You don’t build your business this way. You only sell your time.

There are two ways to earn money by writing articles:

• The good way (as passive income)
• The bad way (one time payment)
• The not so good or not so bad way (oops, that was THREE ways…)

Let me be more clear: The best way to earn money by writing articles is to write once and get paid many times.

But that is not always an option.

So let's look at when it's better to get a one time payment for an article, and if it's worth your time to try your luck at iWriter.

Sara Young Recommends iWriter - Why?

Nobody had told me anything about iWriter, before I received an email from Sara Young that said:

“Can I Hire You to Write for Me?”

Normally, I don’t want to write articles for others, because they might choose topics that I find it boring to write about, and I don’t want to waste my time doing boring stuff. (If I wanted that, I would have kept my day job.)

But the headline sounded intriguing, so I opened up the email and read:

"I’m looking to hire people that can write simple 150–500 word articles for me…

with a dream service you can use anytime you want to earn extra cash.

And there are about 2,400 additional clients who are looking for articles as well.

We’ll pay you for every single article you write. There’s no limit to how much we’ll pay you. Write as much as you can, and make as much as you can.

I figured I’d rather give the work to you than to people I don’t know."

A few days later, Sara also sent out an email where she invited marketers to use iWriter to get their articles written.

I joined iWriter the same day, but I didn’t write any articles before later. Actually, I wasn’t very impressed by the prices, I saw. “As low as $2 for an article” is written with large, friendly letters on the front page.

Well, I’m not spending my precious time writing for as low as $2, that’s for sure.

Tiffany Dow Doesn’t Recommend iWriter - Why Not?

Tiffany Dow is an internet marketer that I follow and trust. She never hides her opinion about anything, and one day, I noticed a blog post she’d written about iWriter. The title was:

“iWriter – Why Marketers and Freelancers Alike Should Avoid It”

Oh? The place I joined? (At that moment, I’d already written more than 30 articles for them and made a nice amount of money from it. I’ll tell you shortly, why I changed my mind.)

Tiffany Dow doesn't like that iWriter promotes the site by saying that people can buy "dirt cheap" articles there.

Tiffany was approached by Brad Callen (the owner of iWriter), who wanted her to write a review of the site. Tiffany refused because of the low prices. Then she continues:

"But apparently yesterday they send out an email to the WRITERS on the site (an error perhaps?) and boy did it piss off the people who had signed up to freelance there! (reading on the WAHM forum looks like a lot of people had the same reaction).

The title of the email said, “Where I buy all of my articles and content. Dirt cheap.” Well that’s the way to motivate more freelancers to get onboard, don’tcha think?"

Yes, and no, because as somebody pointed out in the comments to the above mentioned blog post, the prices could go a lot higher.

What This Young Man Said About iWriter - At First - And After He Became an Author There

A young man, who had read some of my posts at the Warrior Forum, approached me on Skype. He asked politely, if I wanted to buy articles from him, because he wanted to make money writing to support his family.

I said, no, I preferred to write my own articles, but I would help him get into contact with marketers.

Shortly after, I heard about iWriter and told him that he could write articles there and make money.

At first, he said no, because he didn’t want to sell his articles for less than $1 per 100 words (which is a fair price).

When I started to write there myself one day, I didn’t really have other plans, I quickly found out that the prices could get a lot more interesting.

• If you became a Premium or Elite writer, you would get access to higher paid requests.
• If somebody requested articles from you directly, you would earn more.
• If you became a Premium or Elite writer, the percentage you earn is higher.

My first articles were about Rift, and they were short 300 word articles. They took me less than 10 minutes each to write, so even though the price wasn’t that high ($2-something), my hourly pay was okay.

Then I wrote an article about internet marketing, and I noticed an interesting request: Somebody wanted an outline for a report.

If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s outlines. I’ve been writing them since … well, since high school, but in a professional context since 1998. So I wrote it, and he loved it, and he made a personal request for more than 20 outlines.

I began to see new and higher paid requests appear, when I logged in, so I took a screen dump and showed it to my young Skype friend.

He joined.

Shortly after, he thanked me and told me that he’d become an Elite Writer. He was very happy to sell his articles at iWriter.

If you want to read more about how to obtain the best price for your articles at iWriter, read this blog post: iWriter Strategy - Work Smarter, Not Harder.

My Thoughts About iWriter

At first, I found the prices way too low. Some of them still are.

But the thing about iWriter that I like is that if you don’t have other ways right now to make money, you can always go there and see, if there are some interesting requests. If there are, and if you have the time, why not write an article and make some money?

Years ago, I joined services as Elance and all the others, and I often get direct bid requests (notice: BID requests) from people who want 100 500 word articles written by tomorrow at noon, in perfect English, without spelling or grammar errors, and for less than $1 per article, of course.

No, thank you.

I can say no, yes, but one in a while there happens to be an interesting BID request. I go there, waste my time bidding, and then somebody (who wanted less for their time) wins the bid war.

No, thank you.

At iWriter, if I see an interesting request, I can click: Write Aricle, and nobody else but me can write it.

If I do my job well, I sell my article. No haggling over the price. On the contrary - the requester can even offer you a tip, if he really likes your article.

Would I make this my main income source? Absolutely no! It is still to exchange my time with money, and I much prefer to make passive income.

But at the moment, I spend 5 hours in school every day, do my home work afterwards (1–2 hours), go to evening school twice a week (2 x 3 hours), so there is not much time left for creating products.

On the other hand, if I have a free 15 - 45 minutes, I can write one or several articles, depending on their length.

Your Thoughts About iWriter

Now it’s your turn. What do you think about iWriter? Would you use it? Why? Or why not?

Tell me in the comments.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" -- Mark Twain

It seems nearly every internet marketing-related forum shows threads relating to the death of article marketing. And “Yes”, Google's latest update called 'Panda' resulted in much lower traffic to many article directories, so it may seem that article marketing has received a tough blow.

Should you consider this as a sign that you might just as well give up writing articles and spend your time doing something else?

No, on the contrary! Article marketing will prove to be more important now than ever before. Be aware of the rules, though. You can no longer spit out low-quality articles and hope to gain back-links galore.

Before we discuss regarding how to write your article, let me give you some real world examples of why you shouldn't rely solely on search engines.

Google Updates

Do these seem scary to you? Probably not. If you create a large amount of unique, quality content, no search engine will ever harm you. The targeted sites mostly contain crappy content, whilst the quality sites are immune to any blows.

However, many things outside your control can happen to upset the apple cart.

My Site was Hacked

What every online marketer fears happened to me: my site was hacked!

Something scary happened - I couldn't see the harmful content the hackers planted on my site. The work was of such a clever nature that the human eye couldn't spot the spam that was put online. But Google could! And they removed my site containing more than 1,400 articles from their index – just like a farmer digs up weeds from his field.

This could easily happen to anyone - even you! One outdated script on your server, and smart hackers can use this hole to creep in and spread their deadly poison.

They Won Over Google and Were Punished

Newspapers from Belgium didn't appreciate the fact that Google took their content and, without their permission, added it to their server. If anybody else did a thing like that, it would be called theft and violation of copyright. However, the newspapers took Google to court and won their case.

As a 'reward', they found their sites completely removed from Google's index.

This might be something that is unlikely to happen to you, but you should be concerned about falling into disgrace for other reasons.

What can Article Marketing do for You?

Article marketing, done the correct way, actually means syndication.

Many people write and submit articles to obtain back-links. Forget about using this this strategy. These back-links may count a little, but what help will that be to you, if your site has disappeared from the search engines anyway?

The sole aim of your article should be to get it syndicated. This means writing high quality articles containing useful content.

The more value you give away, the more likely someone would want to publish your article. This is a win-win situation. Whoever who uses your article saves their time having to write their own, and you obtain exposure to maybe thousands of people.

Remember to write a compelling resource box at the end of your article, which will invite your readers to click through to your offer. This will be your ultimate reward for writing a great article.

Now, I will reveal for you that I'm a diamond level author at Ezine Articles and author of the eBook "How To Write 8 Articles in 2 Hours Or Less" http://seferim.com/8articles/ and I'm offering a free report about how I went from zero to more than $1,000 per month with a few hours work: http://getmoneymakingideas.com/free.html

More than a year ago, I invested in Jeff Herring's article templates, and time and time again they have saved me, when I ran out of ideas. I just open my binder with the templates, pick one of them, and immediately I get ideas about what to write, and how to write the article.

If you want a more detailed review, take a look at this articles that I had published on Ezine Articles:

Instant Article Creation Templates 2.0 - a Product Review - How to Write Articles Faster and Better

By Britt Malka

Nothing beats article marketing when it comes to promoting a product, a blog or a website.

However, not only does it take time and effort, it also requires that each article is of a high quality in order to obtain the maximum benefits from article marketing.

But, all is not lost...

Jeff Herring has produced a software tool that will not only make it much easier for you to produce high quality articles in a very short time, it will also assist in removing any writer's block you may experience.

With the new package, Instant Article Creation Templates 2.0, you get:

* 37 article templates

* 3 audio files

* 6 video files

* 4 extra bonuses

When I first heard about an 'article template', I was puzzled.

What could it be?

I didn't understand the concept; that is, until I downloaded the two free templates that Jeff Herring offered. Then I immediately saw the potential offered.

Although I always have been a quick and prolific writer, I could now write many more high quality articles - and in a much shorter time.

Jeff Herring's templates are almost "fill-in-the-blanks" templates. If you need inspiration to write an article, you can just flip through your templates, choose one, and start writing immediately.

For each template, you get tips for the title, the structure, and for the content. Not only do you get the blueprint for each template, you also get a live example as well.

In the video files, Jeff Herring further elaborates on this, and explains in an easy-to-follow manner, how to use some of his best templates.

Article marketing doesn't stop with just writing articles however and, in this package, you also get tips to delve further. You can easily start out by writing one article, turn that same article into eight articles, and those eight articles into a book.

From a book, or an article, you can then progress to audio, video and even more. You'll acquire those tips, plus many others, from the audio and video files - and also from the bonuses.

You'll probably need, at one time or another, to write innumerable good quality articles, so the investment in these article templates can save you a lot of time and potential problems. They are definitely well worth the price.

Even though I cannot reveal the content of the article template package, I can give you my free report about "How to write blog posts in 5 minutes or less": http://FreeContentSystem.com/5minblogs

Thank you for taking your time reading this. I am Britt Malka, and I've been making a living online since the year 2000, and loving every minute of it - even the early struggles endeavoring to make ends meet.

Article Source: Instant Article Creation Templates 2.0 - a Product Review - How to Write Articles Faster and Better

A short while ago, I dreamt the whole back site of a novel. You know, the place where you read about what you'll find inside the book.

When I woke up right after this dream, I ran upstairs to write it all down, so I wouldn't forget it.

But I already had another idea for a novel. Yeah, I have even started writing it, but got stuck. No writer's block. Just... don't know. Stopped writing, probably because of lack of confidence in myself and the project.

When I wrote to my proofreader and editor about my dream, he wrote back something that got me thinking (yes, that happens to me, too )

And I quote:

"Do I dare to write it?"

The answer is definitely a great big "YES!"

Creativity works best when you allow it to it to flow and, in most cases, is most productive when you're working on several different projects at once.

If you stop the flow in any way, there is a tendency for all those different channels to dry up.

Go for it, Girl!!!!

So... as you can see, I really have no choice.

I'm all for the concept of taking inspired action, and today I read about a product that promises to teach me to write my novel in a month. I checked the Web to see if somebody had written a review, and it seems that some known authors recommend it (like Nick Daw).

So I went ahead and ordered the cd. (Why didn't they give me a download link? They should know how impatient I am )

Anyway, that gives me the time to prepare myself to the fact that after this, I really have no excuse. I only need to spend 40 minutes a day, writing, and they have a strong guarantee: If I haven't written and published my novel in 30 days, I can get my money back.

Of course, I'll write a review here, when I've received and studied the material. You'll know it, whether I liked it, or if I asked for a refund.

First, I'll give you a short review of the product, which can also be found under the name "Seven Secrets to Ezine Domination".

After that, I'll give you a short, but very important warning about the product. I have it. It's great, but there's two of the advice you should know something about.

Review of "Seven Secrets to Ezine Domination" by Rob Howard - Newbie Made $100 on the First Day

By Sarah Aston

Would you like to copy this newbie who made $100 online on his first day? I know that I wouldn't mind an extra $100, just from one day's work. So how can you easily obtain the same result? Here's how!

The newbie in question had purchased "Seven Secrets to Ezine Domination" by Rob Howard, and immediately began following his advice. He quickly made some affiliate sales and put money in the bank.

The product consists of five videos, which you can either watch online, or download in a zipped format.

Each video explains, in detail, how to do your research for an article; how to write it; how to prepare your author bio box, and how to get traffic to view your article.

According to Rob Howard, the most important thing about article writing is to write it short and hot. No long and boring newspaper-like articles, please!

One of his secrets is the 3 P's. That means your articles should be:

* Punchy

* Provocative

* and to the Point

He also gives away his own formula on how to quickly write an article; how to craft the headline; how to start the article, and what to put in the body etc. And he also tells us how to format the article to gain the most views.

In addition, you also get a very smart tip about how to use your 'author' picture in the bio box. I had never thought about that, but it seems rather obvious. In fact, this little trick alone should lead to a lot more URL clicks.

I would have loved a transcript of the videos, which is not available at the moment, but there are a lot of other cool bonuses that come with the course.

So while you are learning about making money online, don't forget about healthy eating...

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Article Source: Review of "Seven Secrets to Ezine Domination" by Rob Howard - Newbie Made $100 on the First Day

Now for Some Important Warning

Those videos make great information! No doubt about it!

But one video talks about how to format the text by bolding words here and there, and Ezine Articles does not allow that.

Another video tells about how to buy traffic to your Ezine Articles to get them among the 15 most viewed. This is not permitted by Ezine Articles. Don't do it!

Let your articles speak their own language, and they will show up on that top 15. And that would be honest. Buying your position would not be.

Now go get those videos for the incredible low price through my fantastic affiliate link, will you?

Get instant access to "Article Marketing Secrets" here

Now you may find that I'm rather outdated and old-fashioned, because why in the world do I start talking about a manuel writing tool like the Montblanc Fountain Pen?

That's because you need one. Even though you do your daily article writing or book writing on a computer, you need an a pen too, and you need a good one. Let me tell you why.

A computer is brilliant, when it comes to writing articles, books, short stories, novels, etc, but when it comes to short notes, nothing beats pen and paper.

On my desk in front of me right now, lies two Montblanc pens and a notebook. When I need to make a quick note of something, I jot it down on the paper.

Brainstorming for new articles? I put those on paper too. It's faster and more convenient than having it on your computer screen.

A pen, yes, that makes sense, but why a Montblanc?

A Pen Is Not Just a Pen

When I met my husband many years ago, he spoke a lot about a big wish he'd always had: To own a Montblanc pen.

I had heard about them, and I knew that some crazy people were collecting them, but I've never seen one. On a holiday in Spain he found a Montblanc pen in a shop, but I couldn't understand what all that fuzz was about. Why pay so much for a pen that didn't even look pretty?

My husband was really happy about his Montblanc Fountain Pen, and I was happy on his behalf.

One day, I had to write something down here and now, and I didn't have a pen within reach - except his Montblanc. So I grabbed it, and used it, and I totally changed my mind about this writing instrument.

Although I've had expensive pens before, none of them wrote in the way this pen did. It was so easy to write with it, and the ink came out of it in a nice, flowing stream, not leaving any spots in it's trail. It was plain joy to write with this Montblanc Fountain Pen. Now I understood, why he had talked so much about it, and why he still was so happy about this pen.

He gave me one for my next birthday, and although it's many years ago, it is still the pen I use daily. Now I have several others, among those a cute, tiny one with a notebook in my handbag, so I can always be ready to jot down an idea, when it occurs.

I feel that it's not only easy to write me, it also inspires me to start writing. I love the sight of virgin paper, and my Montblanc, just waiting for me to come up with new article ideas, or ideas to new information products. This pen has definately made me more money than it ever costed.

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People tell me they don't know what to write about on their blogs. And yet, all the same time they tell me interesting stories.

Like today.

My husband and I were talking over lunch, and I told him something about how a person was asking others to pray for his kids.

So my husband told me a story (that he had told me several times before, but I don't mind) about a couple who had six (6!) kids, and whenever they asked others for help - just to get some time off by themselves, or some extra money - these others would answer: We'll pray for you.

His solution to their problem surprised me, but it was a wise solution.

He told them that they had chosen to get the kids, and now they had to accept that they had them.

They also had to learn that you do not need time without kids. You can fullfill yourself with kids, just as well.

My husband has a blog about psychology, so I asked him: Why don't you write a blog post about that?

He answered: About what?

Me: Well, about the story you just told me.

He argued that why should people want to read about that story, but I said that many people could learn from it, even though their problems were not exactly like this young couple's.

So there you have it!

Write down the stories you tell others in your blog.

If the subject isn't fitting for the blog? No problem! Create another blog.

I have blogs about different subjects like writing, making money online, cats, computer tips, herbs and oils, the law of attraction and other things I'm interested in. I don't write on all those blogs daily, but whenever I feel like writing about something, I always have the right blog to write on.

Now if you would like to know how to write a quality blog post in five minutes or less, get my free report here: http://freecontentsystem.com/5minblogs/

And then - just go write stuff

At Yahoo Answers somebody asked a question about how to give a unique title to an article. She wanted some tips to help her out.

My answer was chosen as best answer by the asker, and I'll bring it below.

What kind of articles are you writing? I don't mean topic, but are you writing for newspapers, magazines or the Internet?

First of all you should always remember that the title has only one purpose: to make people want to read your article.

So use means to make them curious. Ask questions, they will only be able to answer, when they have read the article (questions that cannot be answered with Yes or No is better)

Or give a promise that you fulfill with your article, like "Seven ways to get rid of acne for good".

If you are writing for the Internet, you should make sure to have keywords in the title. What will people search for on the Internet? Put those words into your title.

It's also a good idea to reuse those keywords or other related in a way that you start with the main keywords. Examples: "Money Online - Are You Making These 7 Deadly Sins in Internet Marketing?" or "Weight Loss - Can You Lose Fat Playing Games on a Wii Fit?"

But then again, it depends on what your purpose is for your articles, because titles for newspapers and magazines are often shorter, and you don't have to think a lot about keywords for them.

Hope this helps