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While article marketing is easy, and effective, there are mistakes that you must avoid if you are to do this successfully. Making some of the following mistakes can cost your credibility. In the world of Internet Marketing, your credibility is all you really have to fall back on! Protect your reputation and your credibility by avoiding the following pitfalls:

1. Do not allow your article to become a sales letter. The readers are not stupid people, they recognize sales letters and ads when they see them, and trying to pass such off as an informative article will lead to your failure – very quickly.

2. Don’t make your article too short. Your article should be no less than 300 words long. Anything less does not count as an article and probably will not be taken seriously. Alternately, do not make your article too long. 750 words is the maximum length for a good article.

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Writing articles isn’t as hard as you may think. If you understand the rules of proper grammar, and you have a word processor or word processing software that includes a spell checker, writing articles becomes quite easy in fact. Here are some tips to help you out.

1. Don’t make it harder than it really is. This is the first mistake that most new article writers make. Think about what you want to say, then just start writing. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar, just write until you have said all that you wanted to say. Editing comes after the information is down on paper – or on your computer screen in a document.

2. Don’t get stressed over your topic. You already know what it is that you want to sell. Look at your product or service from a customers point of view. Visit forums where your customers participate and find out what their questions are. Base your articles on those questions, answering the questions.

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