So rather than rush off and put everything I’ve got so far into a blog I decided to be a bit more experimental. I had a good look at ezine articles. Not as straight-forward as I had first imagined.

I did manage to find some quite detailed guidelines about how to write them, what makes a good one and what not to do. Most of this came via the ezine blog. This has to be essential reading. The guide tells you exactly what makes a good article in their terms, exactly what they think is good content. So that’s helpful.

I also found out from the ezine terms and conditions that you mustn’t link to your affiliate scheme anywhere in your article. Not even in the resource box. You can link to your web site, blog, squidoo or whatever there but not your affiliate. Niet. Nada. So I won’t do that then! I think Rob could have made that a bit clearer in the video.

Finally I signed up for and had a good look round Squidoo. I read lots of lenses on all sorts of topics to get a feel for what needs to go there.  So tomorrow is a big writing day. Blogger, Squidoo and Ezine. Three focussed and quite different articles.

Blogger gets 4 or 5 of the shorter more topical blog posts re-worked from tumblr, Squidoo gets some sort of longer article listing article probably with images and Ezine gets something more detailed. Phew!

Too tired to do any more now….what a day!