» By: Robin Piggott

Here is a very useful article writing strategy just devised, for those of you who are starting off with your Blogs and Web Sites. If you seem to be stuck for content and are suffering from Writers' block then a subscription to Google Alerts is a very good way of giving you the insider slant on any topic you choose.In your own particular field you should have a good think about the keywords that reflect your own special niches and then create an "Alerts" account with Google for these.

Every morning in your inbox you will have a large selection of hot breaking news flashes from around the world that you can digest and then turn into an article or post or even a series of articles.

Be careful about the choice of keywords you select since you may end up getting mountains of news clips which have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with your subject. This is the down side to this strategy ...it takes a little while to get a handle on it and fine tune your "Alert" keyword selection but believe me it will provide you with insights into your own particular field that you missed or were completely unaware of. Of course the beauty of this system is that it is targetted to your specific needs as opposed to getting a pile of RSS feeds that while they may be very interesting in themselves, only serve to distract you from your main objective.

As a person who has been known to suffer from Information Hyper-overload ...I can tell you that you need to be much more disciplined with this approach and we all know that Discipline is the key to many of the goals we need to achieve in life be they Personal or Business. Implementing this system would make a really achiveable Goal for a Web Site Owner who needs fresh content frequently. Here are my Top Ten Tips to getting the best out of this strategy.

(1) Read the Alerts before you do anything else when you open your e-mail inbox in the morning.

(2) Delete immediately the ones that are unrelated.

(3 Read quickly the ones that interest you by clicking the link and decide then and there which clip you will use for a future article or post.You don't have to then and there decide which article you are going to write today.Just work the system.

(4) Copy and paste the article clip into a Word file with Date and Headline of your choice and file in a pre setup Folder for that particular topic.

(5) If you don't have time at that moment to draft your article that's no problem; you have an ever growing file of Content Magic that you can refer to again and again.Some marketers refer to this as a swipe file.

(6) Keep a separate file that is at the top of your Inbox Folders for immediately filing those e-mails that you are going to keep for future use, so you can easily access this in an instant without trawling through the minefield of other folders to find what you are looking for.

(7) If you have several niches or topics that you write about then you need of course to keep each clip in its correct sub folder.

(8)Sometimes I find that I might get stuck into a rather deeper exploration of the particular topic than previously envisaged so I would part write the article and come back to it later.

(9) One final point...if you want to keep cranking out fresh content and blog posts regularly you should discipline yourself to using this system first thing, before you open the rest of your e-mail inbox every morning. Opening the e mail will just distract you. Get the article (from your previously filed clips) written and posted before you get stuck into that wonderful experience of the ritual opening of the Inbox and you won't be wishing at the end of the day that you had written more.

(10) Just do all of the above every day without fail!

One Article a day will put you up there with the most prolific of writers, web site owners and Bloggers and will get you much more traffic to your sites as time goes on when visitors notice your regular output

Remember the purpose of this exercise is to inform your readers and subscribers and get them to recognise you as the one with whom they should do business!

Robin Piggott is running a Driving School in Limerick Ireland and is branching out now into the ever widening sphere of Marketing on the Internet through Blogs and Articles.If you are thinking of driving in Ireland as a visitor or even settling permanently then a trip to his Article library, web site and Blogs will give you some valuable information to digest.

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