Mass Traffic Attack: Mass Traffic Attack

Research

There's really two aspects to research for articles; one is keyword research to make sure your article can be found. We will be covering that in the next chapter. The other part is actually gathering research material for your article. This is what we shall cover here.

In a later chapter I'm going to walk you through a “live example” of how to put together an article on a subject that you know nothing about. For now I just want to open your eyes to the massive amount of research material available to you for free. There are literally
hundreds of resources out there that you can use to get information.

Here are just a few to get you started:

Google

Ezine Articles

Go Articles

Wikipedia

Yahoo Answers

Google Scholar

Of course if you are promoting a particular branded product, the best source of information is from the product's main web site itself. We'll take a look at an example later in the ebook. For now let me just show you the power of the above sites as research material. I'm going to enter in the keywords “rabbit training” into the search boxes for each site.

Zoom into the images if you need to.

Google - 5,550,000 Results

Ezine Articles - 1,134 Results

Go Articles - 208 Results

Wikipedia - 1,077 Results

Yahoo Answers - 2,992 Results

Google Scholar - 269,000 Results

No doubt some of that information will be duplicated or irrelevant to your search term but with literally millions of results just from those few sites, you have more than enough material to last a lifetime - just on that one keyword phrase!

Imagine having to write an article 20 years ago without access to the internet as a tool. I
can only guess but I envisage it would have involved several trips to the local library and an investment in “Encyclopaedia Britannica”! Even that would have only given you access to a fraction of the information available.

So use what is out there. Truly you can never run out of content to use as research material. In fact it would be impossible to use even a tiny percentage of it. You might be asking yourself why bother doing any research? Two reasons come to mind:

1. To give you specific ideas of what to write about 2. To gather material to include in your articles

In fact for the vast majority of my article research I don't even bother with Google; I just browse the article directories and see what topics other people have written about. This usually gives me a lot of ideas.

Another great resource you can use to get ideas of specific subjects to write about is to browse forums related to that niche. Simply go to Google, type in

“keyword” forum

and go through the results. Having just tried that now “rabbit training forum” brings up almost 1.2 million results, and “rabbit forum” gives me 3.4 million results. Go through a few forums (obviously not all 3.4 million of them!) and see what questions people are asking.

You'll find some questions get asked over and over again. Then check the answers. Keep a Notepad file open while you're doing this and you'll soon have tens of subjects for potential articles.

One final thing, and this is VERY important. Never ever simply copy and paste someone else's content. Sooner or later you'll get caught out, at best you'll get banned from article directories and look a fool; at worst you'll find yourself facing a lawsuit over breach of copyright. It's simply not worth it, especially when it's so easy to write your own original articles.

Quite apart from that, imagine how you would feel if you found that someone else had copied all the articles you had painstakingly written? Right.

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 1. Introduction

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 2. Why Write Articles?

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 3. Organization and Preparation

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 4. The Right Mind Space

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 5. How To Overcoming Procrastination

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 6. Gain An Efficient Work Space

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 7. An Efficient Work Space

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 8. An Organized Computer

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 9. Removing Distractions

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 10. Writing Great Articles

Mass Traffic Attack - Part 11. Structure