Article Templates Part 2 of 3 – Learn How to Create Professional Article Templates Quickly and Easily

This is the 2nd part of a 3 part series (part 1) on creating article templates that reduces the time spent writing articles. Article templates have three primary benefits:

1. Article Ideas (covered in previous article)
2. Efficient Article Submission
3. Quick Article Writing

Efficient Article Submission
Articles written with article templates are much easier to post to your site and submit to article directories. They are universally formatted to make article submission more efficient.

The submission and publishing guidelines for each article directory varies. Some article directories accept HTML and links while others don’t. Some allow 200 words while others require at least 400 words.

Properly developed article templates will account for these various submission guidelines. Once a template based article has been finished, you should be able to post your article to your targeted article directories.

Quick Article Writing
Article templates provide a pre-formatted outline of articles for you to plug in sentences. This reduces the time wasted on figuring out what to write and how to organize your article.

Article Templates and Boilerplates

Article templates provide a very simple framework to add boilerplate text to your articles. Adding boilerplate text to your article templates will further speed up the article writing process.

Boilerplate text is designed to provide simple "copy and paste" versions of text which is easily edited and manipulated into your article. When you open an article template, all the boilerplate text is ready to use.

To avoid duplicate content filters, make sure that you’re not using too much boilerplate text. Boilerplate text should be used to help you start or complete sentences.

Article Template Sections

Writing an effective article that delivers results requires that all of its parts work together. Your article should build credibility in the readers’ mind and guide readers to take action.

Article templates help you write quality articles in the shortest possible time. Well crafted article templates contain several sections:

• Title
• Author
• Summary
• Text Body
• HTML Body
• Text Resource Box
• HTML Resource Box
• Keywords
• Categories

Title

• The article title should contain a maximum of 100 characters, including spaces, or about 16 words
• Start each title with your keyword phrase
• The article should be in title case and don’t use all caps
• Don’t end the title with a period, include excessive punctuation, and enclose the title in quotation marks
• Don’t include contact information in the title field

Author

• Use your real name or a pen (pseudo) name
• Don’t use your company name, web site address, or contact information

Summary or Description

• The maximum number characters including spaces shouldn’t exceed 400 characters or 66 words
• Don’t include your name, contact information, or tagline
• Alternatively, use the first couple of sentences of your article as the summary