Just read an email about an article wizard. Every wizard stands behind a curtain. To get to the wizard, you have to travel down the yellow brick road. Lots of toll money to be paid while you travel. On toll-roads, you pay at every exit or after so many miles. Internet marketers charge tolls too.

The new way to extract money from unsuspecting Internet entrepreneurs is the monthly fee. Just give your credit card information in exchange for promises, half-truths, and deceptions. To be clear, not all Internet companies are out to scam, but many will because unsuspecting buyers are lazy or impatient (I’ve done this; maybe you have too).

Article writing takes commitment, practice, and patience. The commitment to write daily. If you can crank-out an article a week, then write 50 words a day. Keep writing at this pace and you’ll have 50 articles about your niche subject in a year. That’s really not too bad. No one else will have that unique content. Of course, you will have to employ other tools to get folks to your site, but search engines, an updated blog, and forum contributions should help.

If you want to pay a monthly fee, the wizard I read about will send your article, or your private label article rewritten by you or a ghost writer to multiple article directories. Each article will possess unique wording on the same subject. At least this is their claim, and maybe that promise works, but I would not count on this or any shortcut for writing your articles.

No matter how you cut the mustard, change the syntax, the grammar, or the vocabulary, its still going to look something like the same article. Sure, there will be some distinctive changes to the original, but just how many different ways can you type the same subject with the same content, and just how well do you think a software program can rewrite your article? I just don’t know. Perhaps this method works despite the disingenuous character of the method.

If you want to preserve uniqueness to what you do, then do it yourself. No one, no software program, no ghost writer can write content or articles like you (an editor can improve or help you improve your writing). The words you write make you distinctive. No one speaks or thinks just like you, so why not write what you think about on subjects you care about? Shortcuts may work for a while until the wizard is exposed, the curtain is pulled aside, or your bank account gets drained.

Echievements receives hundreds of articles a week. Some lack quality content and the writing is sophomoric, or just plain bad. A few authors work at the craft of writing; they care about unique content well-researched. They care because the article is their signature.