Step 1: Start writing your summary immediately.

Don’t sit there and think about what to include in your article summary. Start from the beginning of your article and start writing immediately. Your article has numerous paragraphs. Start from the first paragraph.

Step 2: Pick the most important sentence in each paragraph.

Always start by picking just one sentence from each paragraph. Notice that in every paragraph, there is a key message. If this key sentence doesn’t exist, create one for your summary. You should use no more than 2 sentences to summarize each paragraph.

Step 3: Link all the key sentences together.

A summary is like a mini-article for your main article. When you pick sentences from the paragraphs, they may appear to be disconnected. Now is the time to do some “stitching” work. When you are finished, reread the summary again to make sure that the words are flowing nicely.

When writing summaries, do not add anything that you have not written about in the article body. The summary is supposed to be a short paragraph that sums up all the key points. If you add extra materials, they won’t seem to fit. Your readers may also be confused because something new just popped up from nowhere.

With practice, you should be able to write summaries in record time. Try to beat my personal best of 2 minutes! – (Well, it’s a really short summary.)

Hope you find this article useful. Remember, your article summary acts more as a teaser instead of a conventional summary.

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Let’s take a look at why a marketer should go into article marketing.

1) Immediate traffic.

This is something that every marketer wants. Who has all day to wait for traffic to arrive? You want to be able to test your conversions immediately. Article marketing can provide you with instant traffic. The traffic comes from the RSS subscribers.

2) Mid to long term traffic.

As your article remains online for an indefinite period of time, you get to receive mid to long term traffic. New visitors may still find your articles a few years down the road, click on the link in your author resource box, and visit your website.

3) There is a cumulative effect.

When you are just starting out, you may see just a trickle of traffic as you have too few articles online. But as you progress, you soon find that you get more and more traffic. That’s due to having more and more articles published on the world wide web. The more articles you write, the more you grow your traffic levels.

4) More back links for SEO benefit.

You may not be aware of this if you know nothing about SEO. But you are actually doing it. By publishing more articles, you get more back links to your site. Each link is counted as a “vote” for your site. In other words, the more votes you get, the higher your rankings will be in the search results.

5) Ease of execution.

Article marketing is so easy that anyone can get started immediately. You don’t have to worry about complicated software or anything like that. As long as you can write in simple English and can express your ideas, you can get involved.

6) Position yourself as an expert.

Write and submit articles that are useful and valuable. When you do that, visitors tend to see you as an expert in your field. In other words, don’t ever attempt to submit crappy information in an attempt to make a measly sale. Always think about the visitor and share your best information. In time to come, they will come to trust you and start to do business with you.

7) Free traffic!

If you really think about it, there is no such thing as totally free traffic. Free here means that you don’t have to pay a single cent to start receiving traffic. But you do have to put in some time to make this work. Time then, becomes the only price to pay. That means everyone can jump on the bandwagon and get traffic to a website. This method is especially useful for those with a tight budget.

Darren Chow is a full time article marketer and SEO specialist who has helped hundreds of clients promote thousands of websites. Join the article marketing newsletter to find out more about how he gets sites to rank well in the search engines.

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Darren Chow, the founder of the article distribution service, commented, “Since launching the premium packages, 80% of our clients are signing up for premium submissions. Although the normal distributions are much cheaper, most still see value in our Premium packages. Many business owners have seen a boost to their search engine rankings after signing up for Premium submissions.”

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To date, the Company has distributed thousands of articles on behalf of their clients. Their portfolio of clients include many successful Internet Marketers as well as well known organizations.