Article Templates Part 3 of 3 – Powerful Tips for Creating Article Templates that Slashes the Time Spent Writing Articles

This is the 3rd and final part of a 3 part series (part 1, part2) on creating article templates that reduces the time spent writing articles. The sections of an article template include:

• Title (covered in previous article)
• Author (covered in previous article)
• Summary (covered in previous article)
• Text Body
• HTML Body
• Text Resource Box
• HTML Resource Box
• Keywords
• Categories

Text Body

• 400 words minimum to 1000 words maximum
• Make a list of at least 8 sub-topics with 3 points each
• Write an introduction paragraph with at least 3 sentences describing your article. The first sentence can restate your title. The next two sentences should cover your sub-topics.
• Write one sentence for each point. You should end up with 7 paragraphs containing 3 sentences each.
• Write a conclusion paragraph with at least 3 sentences describing your article. Restate your title for the first sentence. Use the next to sentences to cover your sub-topics.
• With an average number of 14 words in a sentence you should end up with 9 paragraphs, 1 bulleted or numbered list, 27 sentences, and at least 400 words.
• Don’t use Microsoft Word or any word processors to format your articles. Use a plain text editor like NotePad to format and code your articles.
• Don’t promote your products and services in your article body
• Don’t use excessive line-breaks, hard line-breaks, or formatting characters

HTML Body

• The HTML article body shares the same attributes as the text based article body
• The two article bodies should match except for the additional HTML code
• Only use basic HTML styling and layout elements such as ordered/unordered lists, bold, italics, colors, and font types.
• Don’t place links within the first three paragraphs or above the fold
• Don’t include any links to sites you own or operate

Text Resource Box or About the Author

• Maximum 300 characters, including spaces, or 50 words
• You can use sales and advertorial copy in the author resource box. Include a clear call to action.
  Include a maximum of 2 different self serving URLs

HTML Resource Box or About the Author

• The HTML author resource box shares the same attributes as the text based author resource box
• The two author resource boxes should match except for the additional HTML code
• Maximum 500 characters, including spaces and html code, or 83 words
• Include a maximum of 2 different self serving links or URLs
• Only use basic HTML styling elements such as bold, italics, colors, and font types

Keywords

• Maximum 100 characters, including spaces, or about 16 words

Categories

• List the top three article categories that best describe your article and reaches your target audience

This is a basic guide you can use when creating your own article templates. You can create your own variations of these guidelines to comply with the submission guidelines of your targeted article directories.

The objective of article templates is to reduce the time it takes to outline, organize, structure, and layout your articles. With article templates you'll find that you're able to write more articles in less time.

There’s no limited to the number of article templates you can create.