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.

Don't let anything stand between you and success. If you want to do something, or create something, and you don't know how to… Learn it!

Nothing is impossible! Or rather:

Everything is possible!

I just love when people take action, don't you? Take a look at this inspirational video. It's starring a young boy (6th grader), who wanted to create iPhone apps. So he taught himself how to do it. He's awesome, by the way. Look, how he addresses the audience in a very professional way.

Ladies and gentlemen - I give you: Thomas Suarez

A question that keeps popping up among article writers is: How long should my article be? Should I write 300 words, 400 words or longer?

And people are always willing to answer this question. The majority says: the shorter the better. If you write long articles, people get bored. So write 300-400 words.

I used to be one of those people who would give that kind of advice. I even told one of my pupils that he should shorten his articles.

Yes, I'm ashamed about that, because he was right, and I was wrong. I have some great excuses, though, and I'll tell you about them, as well as why I was wrong, even though 1) my experience told me that shorter articles were better and 2) my own habits as a reader proved it.

This stuff is important to know, if you're writing articles. If you don't write them the proper length, you might be wasting your time and energy, and not earn your article's full potential.

My Old Boss Wrote Short, Precise Letters To His Clients

Many years ago, I worked for a solicitor, and he taught me a lot about the Danish language. I thought I knew it all, when I started as his secretary, but I was wrong.

One of the most important lessons I got from him was: Write short and to the point.

While other solicitors in the same office wrote long and winded letters that their clients wouldn't understand, he wrote short and clear letters. He saved time, too. He never needed to explain what he wrote afterwards by telephone.

Stephen King talks about it in his book "On Writing", too. When he was young, he worked for a newspaper, and the old editor there told him to take out all the superfluous words. I wish internet marketers would do the same with their videos. Some of them just waste so much of our time, talking and talking, but saying nothing.

Don't Bore Me With Your Long Articles

And that brings me on to the next part of this blog post: Long articles are soooo booooring, right?

More than once did I unsubscribe from ezines or blogs, or stopped reading an article, because it went on and on, and I was bored!

I blamed it on the length. I thought I wasn't able to read a long article. I never stopped to question this, until recently. Because I could read a book, right? That's certainly longer than an article.

However, the general opinion still is that long articles are boring, and that people will not read long articles.

Look at this poster on the Warrior Forum. He writes at least 1,000 words in his articles and says:

"The trouble is that while they may be useful, I think their length makes the reader fall asleep or leave the building."

SEO? Nah, I Never Stuff My Articles With Keywords Anyway

Okay, for SEO length matters. If you want to be found on your keyword, you better show Google and the other search engines, that you mean business. So let them know that your article is about KEYWORD by writing KEYWORD as many times as possible.

Haha, no, Google figured it out, and if you keyword stuff your articles, it will harm you.

What can you do, then, if you want to have your keyword out there four times in an article? You can write a longer articles.

Bingo! So you add a lot of words to your article, and you're now entitled to use your keywords several times more.

Only… This would probably mean a boring article, right?

And in my case, I often forget to put my keywords inside an article, if I don't remind myself of it, so that wouldn't be an argument for me to write longer articles.

Besides, writing longer articles takes more time, so why should I do it?

So WHAT Made Me Change My Mind?

At the beginning of this blog post, I said that I changed my mind about what the correct length of an article should be. I used to preach 400 words, not more. Now I say something different.

I still don't think you should write longer articles, just because you need a longer article. You should write longer articles, because you have something to give, and that it would need more space to share everything you want.

Why?

Because when you give, you should give without ulterior motives. Don't write to get. Write to share. The length of the article will take care of itself, then, and you'll get a nice reward, even though you never asked. Maybe BECAUSE you never asked.

When you share, openly, without holding back, people will love to read your articles. Even long articles. Just don't be boring, will you?

If you're submitting your articles to article directories, other marketers will love them, and they will pick them up and share them with their list members or home page visitors.

You get more exposition; you brand yourself as an expert in your niche; and you could very well end up making a lot more money from one article of 1,000 - 1,200 words than from three of 400 words.

Alexa Smith is one of the article writers that made me change my mind about how short or long an article should be. She says:

"It never fails to impress me, time and time again, in conversations here about article length, how consistently all the successful article marketers I know to be getting syndicated are writing far longer articles than others.Webmasters looking for content for their sites tend to prefer finding something long, simply because it fills more space for them and reduces their time searching for additional material.I reliably get far more traffic and backlinks and income from a 1,000-word article than I do from two 500-word articles."

I trust Alexa. What she doesn't know about article marketing is not worth knowing. And I found that after I shifted my focus and went back to my basic idea from when I started out on the Internet: Giving and sharing, then it was easy to churn out lengthy articles that I felt proud about.

True, I write fewer articles now than earlier, but I give at least the same value away, if not more.

Check This Video - This Guy Checked It Out - Short Or Long Articles For Click Through

This is interesting. This fellow already had a high click through (CTR) on his articles, but what happened, when he wrote a longer article? Did people lose interest and left? See for yourself. Oh, I love his final point, by the way.

What Is The Purpose Of Your Article?

According to readers, they want to get their question answered. They've stumbled upon your article by typing some keywords in their favourite search engines, and they want you to ANSWER that urgent question for them. Not to leave them hanging there, having to click through to your home page, buy a 40 hours DVD video course… They want their answer NOW!

So give it to them, and if it takes 200 words to answer their question? Fine. If it takes 1,200? Even better. Just answer it.

How do I know what readers want?

Well, I'm a reader myself, and besides, others tell me too, like Anita Cross here, who is driven off by spelling and grammar errors, and also says:

"So, yes, I want good solid information; I want resource(s) cited with links where appropriate; I want my question answered, or my problem solved; I want the promise kept that enticed me to read the article in the first place; I want the article long enough to do the job, and not one word longer."

Or Christine Perry who manages to do it even shorter:

"As a reader, I want you to answer my question."

When you write an article, take your time to answer that question. And use as many words as you have to, and not one more. But you should make not expect to be syndicated as much with your short articles as with your longer ones.

I'm participating in a branding challenge, created by Tiffany Dow, and she started out by asking her audience some questions.

I would love it if you would answer these same questions about me in the comments.

So here are my questions for you:

1. What do you like or dislike about me, or my business?

2. What do you trust or not trust about me?

3. If someone asked you who I was, what would your answer be?

4. What main thing do you think I offer as a product or service?

5. Compare me to other marketers in general – how do I stack up?

6. Do I affect your life for the better or worse?

I appreciate you being as blunt as possible. It’s the language I speak best

Don't be shy Speak up, now that you have the chance

Article marketing can work wonders for your business, but many people suffer from a huge waste of time when they initially sit down to write.

They stare at their blank screen or, even worse, they check their email incessantly or play games on Facebook. In fact, they do everything except what they set out to do: Write an article.

Today, I received a great question from a reader of one of my blog posts regarding how to write high-quality articles quickly.

Q: “How do you centre yourself and clear your mind prior to writing? I have a difficult time clearing my mind and letting my ideas flow. I do enjoy writing. However, it just seems that the first 10 to 15 minutes tend to be lost, simply in trying to figure out how to begin. Any suggestions or hints? Thanks!”

A: That’s a great question!

Are you sure you actually need to clear your mind? If you have too much going on in your mind, maybe it’s because of a lack of focus?

One way of clearing your mind and deciding where to start, is to jot down all the random thoughts that appear.

Do you have a clear idea about your topic when this happens? Or do you just sit down and think: “I’ve heard that article marketing is a great strategy. So, I’ll write an article. Now, what should I write about?”

If this is the case, you have some preparation to do, before you even start thinking about writing.

So, before you start, close down all applications you don’t need and which only serve to distract you: Facebook, browsers, email clients, Twitter... If you want to write on the computer, only keep Notepad (or whatever programme you plan to use) open for your writing.

Article Marketing Begins With Your Niche

First of all, you should decide on your niche, or several niches. Brainstorm all the things you would like to write about, and choose one of them with which to start. Decide that THIS is the one you’re going to write about, and put the others aside.

Then write down, on paper, everything you later plan to use regarding that particular niche. You can always later add or remove some of the items you've just chosen. Don’t worry. Just write whatever comes to mind, and don’t judge yourself, or your ideas, as being either good or bad.

When you have finalised your list, (“Yes, you guessed it!”) choose one of the topics and decide that this is the one about which you’re going to write at this time. Put the others aside for later.

Now you have one topic written on a piece of virtual paper on your computer. Next, write 3-5 related sub-topics relating to your main topic. Let these then form the segments for your article.

Practical Example of Article Marketing

As an example, let’s say that you initially found many things about which to write, such as Rift; WordPress; chess; holidays; dog training; golf; getting your ex back and knitting.

You choose one with which you wish to start; let’s say you choose WordPress.

What aspects would you like to write about WordPress? Again, you jot down some ideas:

Toolbars on the dashboard; plug-ins; SEO; comment moderating; themes; menus; widgets...

When you’ve exhausted this secondary list, choose a topic about which you’re both familiar and passionate.

Have you found your topic?

Great! Again, let’s pretend that you chose SEO.

Now, what would be the purpose of your article?

In other words: What action do you want people to take after they’ve read your article? Do you want them to click on your AdSense ads, buy one of your products, or check the sales page for a product for which you’re an affiliate.

With this in mind, find three related items about WordPress SEO.

They could be:

H1-tags; no-follow links; keyword density.

You might want to sell a useful plugin that will assist people in checking how SEO is done, or a Premium Theme that has H1-tags around the headlines.

All this work shouldn’t take you very long. Half an hour? Maybe an hour.

Now it’s time to write, and you'll probably work best when you’re under pressure, such as meeting a tight deadline.

Using a simple timer can assist you in this regard.

Allow yourself a specific amount of writing time, and then take a break.

According to the Pomodoro Technique, you should work for 20 minutes and then take 5 minutes break.

During your working time, you’re not allowed to do anything else but write. If you don’t know what to write at any stage, simply write anything that comes to mind, no matter how stupid it may seem. It doesn’t matter, as long as you don't interrupt the writing sequence.

However, you already have the sub-topics for your article, so this really shouldn't be necessary.

Now, just write!

If there’s something you don’t immediately know and need to research, jot it down to do at a later stage. If you do research whilst writing your article, you risk spending unnecessary time on something that may not even end up being in your article.

When your 20 minutes writing time is up, take a break and stretch your legs. Get a cup of tea - and then start writing again intermediately afterwards.

If you cannot work for 20 minutes at a stretch, start out with shorter periods. It’s okay to do this.

I had to when I first started writing, because I couldn't focus for that length of time. After practice,

I now manage without any problems.

Let me know if this helps you.

This is, more or less, how I apply myself when I need to focus, prior to writing a high quality article. And a high quality article is a must in article marketing.

"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

The rest of the world might have heard these voices a long time ago, but I just discovered them today, from two different sources, and they touched my heart, both of them.

The first song is a very young French singer, he's 21, singing in Corsican. The second is an even younger performer, she's only ten.

You cannot tell from their voices that they are so young. Listen to these two opera style music clips. Just enjoy, and feel happy

At the moment, I'm doing quite a lot of forum marketing, and on one forum after another, I stumbled upon the same man, who made excellent posts. Or so it seemed.

I was impressed, to begin with. I mean, he cranked out one post after another that should be sticky.

But then I saw that same man getting banned at different forums, and other members writing about how he copied posts from Warrior Forum.

What really puzzles me is: Why does he do it? He must be spending a huge amount of time, joining forums, putting up his picture, writing answers to the copied posts, he makes. All that to have his links removed, his accounts banned, and getting himself a really bad name in business.

Romando Popim, is what he calls himself.

When I searched for his name, I saw a full threat of people having been scammed in ad swapping by him. They send him lots of clicks. He never returned the favour.

What's the purpose? Can't he see that he's riding a locomotive that's gaining more and more speed, headed towards a lavine?

Update:This evening, I fell over this man's face but with another name attacked. This time it was Patrick K. O'Brien - http://www.warriorforum.com/members/pobrien.html