So, we are all signed up at these sites and ready to start our article marketing career. Good! Keep up that enthusiasm! Here are some tips for you to consider before you start writing or advertising:

Use WAU Tools:

Here at WAU, there are many tools that you can use to your advantage prior to writing and submitting articles. Some help you research keywords, others help you write or spin articles, and others help you track your progress or monitor clicks on your links.

Action Step:

Take some time if you haven't already and look at the link on the top middle of the WAU website called "Tools & Research". This is going to become your new friend. Some areas as an article marketer that will be most beneficial to you are,

- Keyword Research Tool

- Rapid Writer

Open these tools up and get used to how they work and what they can do. The two main ones you need to focus on from the start are the "Keyword Research Tool" and "Rapid Writer".

Keyword Research Tool:

This tool was designed to help you research keywords and will show you all kinds of important information about them. Everything from how many times the keyword was searched last month to the importance of the clicks. You will use this tool every time you research a new niche prior to your writing of the article.

Action Step:

Use the Keyword Research Tool to research some words that you think are good search words for a product you want to advertise. Record your findings, we will deal with this more later.

Rapid Writer:

This tool was designed to help you write and monitor keyword presence in your articles. It does other things as well, but for right now I only want to focus on the percentage of keywords in the articles you are going to write. I use it solely for this purpose.

Action Step:

Open Rapid Writer and get ready to write. Before you write, enter a keyword on the right-hand side of the page. Then write a short paragraph using the keyword you selected. Notice how every time you write your keyword, Rapid Writer records it and shows you the percentage of usage within the article. We will need this later.

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