How to Re-Write Articles for Unique Content

Melanie L. Marten
Small internet business owners are discovering that writing and distributing quality articles is really helping out their website. It is one of the most popular methods of online advertising right now. Quality is very important: you must get enough keyword for your article to be searchable, and you must use good grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Quantity is also important. The more articles you submit, the more effective it will be for marketing purposes.

You can submit the same article to multiple article directories, or you can submit each article to just one directory. The first can be detrimental to your search engine rankings. The second can take forever!

Why Write and Submit Articles?

Internet marketers write and distribute articles because they are allowed to put an "Author's Biography" on the bottom of each one. This author's bio will include some information about them, their website, or the product they wish to promote. It can include clickable links as well.

Once articles are submitted, other webmasters, bloggers, or newsletter publishers can copy your article and author's bio for use on their own site. Your link and information is spread across the web.

Why Unique Content?

Most large search engines such as Google actually penalize your site for having the same content as many other sites on the web. In general, there is no harm in having your article copied by other webmasters. There is harm, however, in submitting the same article to dozens of different article directories.

Unique content also satisfies webmasters who want to use your article on their site. They don't want to use content that is already used by many others.

Writing unique content articles is helpful to your marketing practices. Re-writing your existing articles for unique content makes it easy.

Maintain Your Keyword Density

The first thing to consider when re-writing an article for unique content is to identify and maintain your keyword density. Your keyword phrase will still have to be included in the new article.

New Headline

An article re-write should be started with the headline. You will need a new headline for your article in order for it to be truly unique content.

Example: How to Re-Write Articles for Unique Content

Might become: Create Unique Content with Article Re-Writes

These two headlines mean the same thing, have the same keyword and keyword phrases, but provide a unique searchable title for your new article re-write.

The "No Three Words" Rule

After you re-write the headline, you must re-write the entire body of the article. Following the "No Three Words" rule is a great way to do this. Basically, you have to make sure that no three words in succession are exactly the same for your article to be truly unique.

Example: Look at the paragraph above this one.

Might become: Re-writing the article itself is the next step after re-writing the headline. Here, you should utilize the rule called "No Three Words." This rule states that you should not use any group of three words from the first article, in your re-written article. This will assured that your article is unique.

The paragraphs mean the same thing and gets across the same information, but they are completely unique content.

You can re-write articles quickly and easily, thus increasing your library of unique content to submit to article directories on the web. By changing the headline and the sentence order and configuration, your content will be truly unique.

Published by Melanie L. Marten

Melanie Marten is self-taught and self-employed. Besides freelance writing, she dabbles in website design and owns dozens of websites and blogs. Work is squeezed in between parenting two boys, homeschoolin...  View profile

  • Most large search engines such as Google actually penalize your site for having the same content as many other sites on the web.
  • Unique content also satisfies webmasters who want to use your article on their site.
  • The first thing to consider when re-writing an article for unique content is to identify and maintain your keyword density.

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  • Susan Ayers4/26/2009

    Very helpful...and I love how it is still benefiting readers two years later :)

  • Jane Meyer2/22/2008

    Melanie, I really appreciate your advice on writing articles. Triond and Associated Content are nice little strams of income. Thank you.

  • Vonnie Chestnut11/13/2007

    Great article, very informative

  • Stefanie1/19/2007

    Great Article!!!!Great information and tips.

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