Whether you run a blog or a newsletter, you'll always make more money if you're ever present in front of your targeted prospects and customers.

Give them tips, ideas and help to solve their biggest problems. They'll love you for it.

Here are 5 Tips on Writing Articles with Speed and Getting Links to Your Websites with these Articles:

1. Research Your Article Quickly

Use Google's free search tool, Wordtracker or Nichebot to find out what your target markets' dreams and problems are. You can also search the forums in addition. But take the trouble so you're able to solve your prospects' problems, and you'll certainly get loads of traffic to your articles.

Also get expert books at Amazon on your topic and browse in Google to see what other authors on the internet write about your theme. Now, create your own unique and valuable articles to brand yourself.

2. Write the Sub-Titles of Your Articles

Before I write my articles, I break them into 5 to 7 steps. I write a sub-title for each step, and simply fill each step with the content I've researched.

It's very simple, but it works well as the sub-titles create the framework of my article, and it keeps me focused on what I'm writing about.

3. Write a Strong Headline

Simply model effective headlines to draw prospects into your articles. These headlines are always effective:

• 5 Secrets to…
• How to…
• 3 Best Ways to…
• 7 Common Mistakes… And How to…
• 9 Barriers to …
• Success Secrets for….
• Top 10 ……. Tips to …

4. Write Your Article with Blinding Speed

The new Dragon Naturally Speaking Ver. 10 is more accurate and faster than any previous versions. It makes writing articles very easy and extremely fast by simply speaking into a microphone.

And it's much faster than you can type!

So use it if you can afford it. You should be able to write an article in about a third of the time it takes to type it by hand. Remember not to edit your article until you've finished writing it. First get it done, and then edit it later. This is the fastest way to get articles done.

5. How to Use your Articles to Get Links to Your Website

The old method of submitting an article to hundreds of Article Directories to get linking power to your site, is becoming less and less effective.

Find article directories such as ezinearticles.com which have good page rank for its internal pages and submit your articles to these directories. Your article will then have some page rank within these article directories, and you can use your resource box at the end of the article to link back to your website.

This has two advantages. You get good PR links back to your website, and you have unique articles out there which will still be there for a long time to come… What are your article secrets? Let us know

I've set up Blogger, Movable Type and Wordpress blogs, and Wordpress wins the race by a mile. It's easy to set up a Wordpress blog… even if you're not technically minded. And it's easy to add content to a Wordrpress blog too.

This article is about how to set up a basic Wordpress blog to get you traffic and customers for your business. Even if you have a website already, consider including a blog in your site too. The search engines love blogs and generally index the new information faster than website pages.

9 Basic Steps You Need To Set up Your Wordpress Blog

1. Find a Domain Name and Register It

I use Moniker.com. It's an excellent domain company. Use them to register your domain names and keep them locked up safely. Next, setup your blog web hosting. Find a reliable web host make your blog available 24 hours a day, all year round. Here I use iweb.ca. They have the best support I've ever experienced with web hosts,

2. Install Wordpress

The easiest way to install Wordpress is to make sure your web host offers a cPanel and Fantastico with its hosting. Wordpress can be installed automatically with a click or two.

If you can't get hold of a web host with the above features, you can go to Wordpress' website to download and install the blog manually.

3. Find And Install A New Wordpress Theme

Once you install Wordpress, it looks very basic. You then need to go to a website on the internet to find a theme to make it look like a nice looking blog. A theme essentially adds colors, and graphical elements to your blog. Many themes are free and some websites offer professional-looking paid ones. For free themes, check out http://themes.wordpress.net/ and http://www.wpthemesfree.com.

If you intend to make money with your blog consider purchasing the semiologic wordpress software. It has many great looking themes and it takes only a few clicks until your theme is up-and-running.

4. Install Widgets On Your Blog

Once you've installed a theme, install what's called widgets. These are simply additional functions to make your blog more useful to your visitors. For example, you can add a "Recent comments" widget which will enable your blog to display the recent comments of your visitors. Or you can add a "Links" widget which enables you to add links in the sidebar of your blog. Once you've added your widgets, add Plug-ins to your blog.

5. Find and Activate Plug-ins For Your Blog

Plug-ins are amazing, as they add very helpful capabilities to your blog. For example, you can download and SEO plugin which will optimize your blog for the search engines. Or you could install a plug-in which would help you to manage the comments your visitors leave on your blog. These plug-ins automate a lot of functions and saves you loads of time. If you choose to get the Semiologic software, a lot of these plug-ins are already set up and you're ready to start working immediately.

6. Add Your Personal Details to Your Blog
Remember to add your name, your physical address, your email address and your disclaimers. If you're setting up a blog for lots of readers, this information is essential.

7. Write Your First Post and Add Your Categories

Now you can start writing information, tips or articles. In blog terms, this is called a post. If you're not used to writing, you may find it tough at first. Simply keep your posts short. And keep going. Thanks to the internet, you can get a lot of information and advice from other websites, so it's easy to do research and develop more content to write about.

Also tell your story about how you got started in blogging. You don't have write a big manual, simply have fun and share your ideas with your readers.

After writing your first post, you'll see you can then add different categories. Add relevant categories to the topic of your blog. If your blog is about marketing, you may have categories such as "Online marketing", "Postcard Marketing" etc.

8. Write At Least 2 Posts per Week

People look on the internet primarily to find information. Update your blog often and your readers will read your posts regularly. Don't worry if you only have a couple of readers in the beginning. Keep going. Create more content and you'll get more traffic from your articles in time.

Also don't worry if you don't understand all the terminology such as Digg, RSS Feed etc. you hear in the blogging world. Plod along and you'll grasp their menaing at a later stage.

9. Use A Step-by-Step Wordpress Training to Get Up to Speed Fast

I'm in the process of setting up a video course called "How to Setup A Wordpress Blog", to help you create a professional Wordpress blog quickly. The videos are kept online and are always updated with the latest information. It will be available on the 1st July. Click here to pre-order it at a reduced price now.

Up until now, most website owners have been searching for blogs which use the "Do Follow" attribute to get targeted keyword links back to their sites. They then added a comment to the blog and got a one-way link back to their site..

The problem was… the anchor text (the hyperlinked words of the link) which pointed back to their site was their name, such as Joe Smith. If you had a website about blue widgets, you need the link to say "blue widgets" and not "Joe Smith".

Now you can find blogs using the KeywordLuv plug-in to get the targeted one-way links to your website or blog.

How the KeywordLuv plug-in Helps You
Get Targeted One-Way Backlinks.

The Wordpress KeywordLuv plug-in helps you reward your visitors who comment on your blog…. by separating their name from their keywords.

For example, if I go to a blog which uses the KeywordLuv plug-in and comment on that blog, I simply enter
Riggie@Internet Business in the name field instead of just Riggie, for example. The symbol @ does the trick here.

The title of a comment in the blog would now look like :

Riggie from Internet Business says :

instead of :

Riggie says :

This allows me to get a targeted link for the term "internet business".

As you can see, this plug-in allows a visitor to enter his name and his targeted keyword link back to his site. It's a win-win for the blog owner and the visitor. Please don't misuse this privilege.

You're a guest at someone else's blog and getting these targeted links will only work if you give contributing comments at the blogs' you're visiting.

Where You Can Find Lists of High PR Blogs to Comment On…

1. Remember… the blog must be a "Do Follow" blog too. You can find a List of "Do Follow" blogs here at D-List.
2. Stephan Miller has started compiling another List of Blogs using the CommentLuv Plug-in at Link Love for CommentLuv Blogs.
   CommentLuv is another great plug-in which I use on this blog. It highlights the commentator’s latest post automatically by parsing their blog’s feed. This means, with every comment you leave, your latest post is automatically showcased in your comment giving you some exposure with my other readers.
3. Fortunately for us all, R T Cunningham had created a list of blogs using the Do Follow, Keyword Luv and the CommentLuv plug-ins. The list shows you exactly which blogs only use the "Do Follow" and which ones added any of the above plug-ins. The list saves us a lot of time finding the blogs to comment on, and be sure to get a targeted link back to our sites. Thanks RT, you're a star!

Do you have any comment or suggestions about how to get targeted one-way links?