| Building A Successful Home Based Business struck me | | | | purely selfish: I fear that the cheats have used up all |
| as a pretty good title for an article concerned with | | | | the best titles and I'll never be able to think up a new |
| home based business. Successful Home Based | | | | one. I haven't yet submitted "Building A Successful |
| Business is a decent keyword phrase for the search | | | | Home Based Business " but I fear it might get |
| engine robots and "successful" is on most lists of | | | | bounced straight back at me for re-naming..The email |
| good words to use in advertising, so that should help | | | | from Ezine Articles included some suggestions for |
| attract human readers. Building a Successful Home | | | | inventing good unique titles. One suggestion was to |
| Based Business is also accurately descriptive of the | | | | increase the length of future article titles. I can see |
| content.I was especially pleased with this title | | | | how this would work but, if the cheats keep on |
| because it occurred to me very quickly when usually | | | | publishing at their current rate, we are going to end |
| it takes me longer to think up a title than to write a | | | | up with 95 word titles and people will lose interest in |
| whole article. When it comes to choosing names, my | | | | the article before they get to paragraph one. Any |
| brain just shuts down. It's always been the same, I | | | | minute now, some enterprising Internet entrepreneur |
| can still remember the anxiety caused by having to | | | | will announce that he has invented a "brand new, hot, |
| choose a name for a childhood pet gerbil or goldfish . | | | | original, one of its kind" tool for creating unique article |
| "Goldie" wasn't terribly original but it was the best I | | | | titles "at the push of a button" which he will let you |
| could manage for the fish and I think my mother | | | | have at a "discounted price". In no time at all the |
| eventually had to name the gerbil on my behalf. | | | | Internet will be overrun with wannabe entrepreneurs |
| When it came to naming my children, the | | | | making the same claims. As there is software that |
| responsibility was almost unbearable: not only did I | | | | can do a similar thing with whole articles, titles should |
| have to face the trauma of thinking up names, I had | | | | be very easy to manipulate. Maybe they will find a |
| to try to guess if the child would grow up despising | | | | way of copyrighting titles that they can then hold to |
| me for making an inappropriate choice. A name that | | | | ransom. Imagine the stress of having to bid on ebay |
| suits a cute baby can sound ridiculous when applied | | | | for the title you need for your new article.Another |
| to a clumsy school kid or, worse still, a moody | | | | suggestion was to change the order of the words if |
| teenager. It would be a lot easier if we could just call | | | | your preferred title had already been used by |
| them "child 1","child 2" etc and let them choose their | | | | someone else. Obviously this can work well but there |
| own names when they reach the age of twelve or | | | | are going to be some ugly titles created by this |
| so.Anyway, back to Building A Successful Home | | | | anagrammaticall manipulation. If we take my short |
| Based Business. I had the article ready, I had the | | | | title as an example: "Building A Successful Home |
| great title and then I received an email from the | | | | Based Business", we could rearrange that to make |
| owner of Ezine (one of the places I regularly submit | | | | "Building A Home Based Successful Business" or, at a |
| articles). The email started like this:"Hi Elaine,Did you | | | | stretch "Building A Successful Business - Home Based" |
| hear that we stopped accepting articles with | | | | , maybe we could even push it to "A Successful |
| duplicate titles? | | | | Home Based Business - Building" or "A Home Based |
| This was a defensive move on our part to reduce | | | | Business: Successful Building" but that's about the limit |
| the number of incoming non-exclusive rights article | | | | if we want our title to make sense. After this we will |
| submissions. Now that all 86k of the articles listed | | | | have to look at perhaps changing "A" to "Your" or |
| have unique titles, that means that your future article | | | | adding "Easily" or "Quickly" in front of or after |
| titles may be rejected if it's already in use by another | | | | "Building A Successful Home Based Business". The |
| author... "My first reaction was: "Oh, good", my | | | | length of the title is already starting to grow!To |
| second reaction was: "Oh, no". The second reaction | | | | search engine robots, the word order changing won't |
| was caused by the realisation that things are going to | | | | matter but to human readers it makes a big |
| get more difficult for people who take care over | | | | difference. "At Home Work" already crops up all over |
| their work. Thousands of articles on every subject | | | | the place as an alternative to "Work At Home". The |
| imaginable are being added to the vast Internet | | | | two phrases don't actually mean the same thing and |
| library each day. The quality of some of these | | | | the former phrase is so clumsy. People tend not to |
| articles is dubious. Many Internet entrepreneurs are | | | | say: "I want to at home work". As a Google search |
| putting their metaphorical pens to their virtual paper | | | | term it's fine, it's also very popular and that's why it |
| and churning out poorly spelt, ungrammatical, pointless | | | | gets used, but it's not exactly good conversational |
| articles just for use as vehicles for their resource | | | | English. Just yesterday I saw a website offering to |
| box. Some Internet entrepreneurs cheat by having | | | | help people to locate "an online home based job you |
| articles ghost written and then publishing the articles | | | | can work at home as a successful home based |
| as their own. Worse still, there are unscrupulous | | | | business". What? Well, I suppose it does get the |
| Internet entrepreneurs who use software to churn | | | | message over (just about) but it's not exactly easy |
| out articles that they then pretend to have written. | | | | reading. It's just a collection of keywords strung |
| Worst of all are the Internet outright cheats who | | | | together in an order that barely makes sense and |
| stoop to copying someone else's article, claiming | | | | that is not the best way to communicate with other |
| authorship and slapping on their own copyright | | | | human beings. The addition of "part-time or full-time", |
| notice.The non-duplicate title rule imposed by Ezine | | | | "free", "from home","no risk" and "guaranteed" would |
| Articles is an excellent thing and should cause the | | | | make this just about the perfect title material. Then |
| cheats some problems. My point here, however, is | | | | we could extend it with other popular words like "101 |
| not to lecture on the evils of cheating. There is a | | | | Ways" and "Top Ranked" and "Top Ten". It's easy to |
| saying: "All's fair in love and a successful home based | | | | see how this small selection of words alone could be |
| business" (or something like that) and I'm not about | | | | the start of a whole series of keyword rich article |
| to start my own anti-plagiarist cyber police force. My | | | | titles, it could run into hundreds. I'd better get on and |
| really big concern about this deluge of articles is | | | | write some articles to fit those keywords. |