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August 8, 2011
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Hey there,

With my keywords optimized and John's MMM 2.0 technique I started with 2 articles. I've submitted these articles 3 times starting about a month ago, but they get bounced and I can't seem to get them right...

"Must have proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure. While we know there is a variation in what is considered "proper English," we ask that you at least be consistent within your article. Your article must also be proofed and double checked for accuracy. If English is your second language, we strongly suggest that you have it proofed by someone who has English as their native tongue before submitting your articles to us."

Maybe it's because I'm Dutch? 🙂 Could someone have a look at these 2 articles to see if you can find what's wrong?

Cheers, Jasper

1. Best Relaxing Songs To Calm Your Mind

We live in interesting times. It's hard to imagine not having the possibilities of listening to your favourite music at the click of a few buttons. We're discovering new music with great ease, getting our desired relaxing songs right in front of us, without having to leave the room or ordering a CD at the risk that it's not very good after all. Also, most of the chill songs we discover can be downloaded to our computer, cell phone or music player. You just need a Bluetooth or USB connection: both technologies that are already built in most of our devices. It's easy to find websites that have stocked all types of relaxing songs for indie or electronic music lovers from across the world. Our modern gadgets come equipped with huge storage capacity and without any problem we can store thousands of our best songs.

It's all so easy and that's why today's smart consumer prefers to purchase relaxing music online instead of going to a retailer. The online distributors offer a vast range of musical styles and the best new CD releases for different moods: from ambient electronica artists to top indie music. Sometimes you can even find some good free lounge music. The listener just needs to type in artist name, title or genre and search for the desired music. The sound quality seems to have improved greatly over these past years as well. Online mp3's are hardly distinguishable from CD-quality. So, now you can listen and enjoy your mp3 songs at high quality and low cost. So, why wouldn't you?

Different studies have indicated listening to chill soothing songs is one of the best methods of relieving stress. Relaxing our mind regularly is of the utmost importance and listening to relaxing songs is one of the best ways to achieving a calming and clear state of mind. It's because of this effect that we see most of the high school and college students using the internet for downloading and enjoying new cd releases of their choice. Music basically adds some colour to our hectic lives. We need time to distance ourselves from our continuous stream of social and work related thoughts. Listening to relaxing sounds unwinds our mind and releases our stress.

So, the power of online music can do miracles. It's just a matter of finding the right music that can have a relaxing effect on you. You don't need to take a day off or even go outside. Just take a moment to explore the vast horizon of sounds that is already there, right in front of you, and open your mind to different styles of music. Compile a list of the most calming sounds and best relaxing songs and create the soundtrack of your live. It will get you in a relaxing mood before you know it! You may even discover some interesting new electronica artists or top indie music you never knew existed...

To get you started, I found a great producer of <a target="_new" href="http://japjap.net">relaxing songs</a>. This artist creates some of the best electronica songs, really beautiful chillout ambient music. Very epic and relaxing... He offers a track from his upcoming album for free from <a target="_new" href="http://japjap.net/free-track-download">http://japjap.net/free-track-d...../a&gt;. Guaranteed to unwind your mind. Highly recommended listening.

2. Downloading Relaxing Songs and Finding Relaxing Music Online

You are looking to listen to some relaxing music you can fall asleep to at night. Or maybe listen to some relaxing songs when you get back home from a day of hard work at the office. Perhaps even unwind your thoughts with some chillout tunes in your car. You might want to download some new cd releases or find some ambient music to download to your computer.

It's really not a very difficult process. The hardest part may even be selecting what music you want to download: finding the best electronica songs or top indie music chillout songs. But how do you find the most relaxing music online?

There are so many services to choose from, all offering you music downloads from different electronica artists. There are even some free lounge music downloads if you look hard, but you can't probably download every track. It's tempting to illegally download albums, but as this is against the law I wouldn't recommend it. And if you know your way around the internet you'll find there are lots of good free chillout songs out there.

Now this is the hardest part: selecting the music or style that gets you in a relaxing mood. If it's not too unknown it will be represented all over the web, just search by artist name or song title. Most search engines will show you the artist or song very quickly.

If you are looking for a track or a producer that is not very famous it can sometimes be more difficult to find what you're looking for. You can then try searching some popular music download sites and hope they offer you what you want. A great alternative are net audio labels who mostly offer quality CD releases from lesser known artists. A great way to get started building your own collection of relaxing chill out songs. Then, are you going to download this music to burn on a CD or copy it to your music player?

How much music you download will probably depend on what you plan on doing with your music. Always keep in mind that there are quite a few songs out that aren't offered for free anywhere an you will have to pay for these songs. it's easy to forget your budget, so be careful not to download everything you think you're going to like, unless of course you have a lot of money to spend.

The best option is to find some good deals on the download sites you prefer, some download sites offer you unlimited song downloads for a fixed price. If you know you're going to want to download a lot of music it's probably a good idea to try signing up for a deal like that. When you download and buy separate tracks they are going to add up quickly, sometimes without you even noticing. Before you know it you will have collected more than enough songs to fill several CD's or music players!

So just start by checking out a few different music download websites and research who can offer you the best deal. Then, before you know it you will have your very own pure chillout compilations.

To get you started, I found a great producer of <a target="_new" href="http://japjap.net">relaxing songs</a>. This artist creates some of the best electronica songs, really beautiful chillout ambient music. Very epic and relaxing... He offers a track from his upcoming album for free from <a target="_new" href="http://japjap.net/free-track-download">http://japjap.net/free-track-d...../a&gt;. Guaranteed to get you in the right dreamy chill out vibe. Highly recommended listening.

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August 8, 2011
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In the first article,

 First paragraph:

"without having to leave the room or ordering a CD at the risk that it's not very good after all."

would read a little better like:

"without having to leave the room or ordering a CD and risking disappointment.

"we can store thousands of our favorite songs."

 

Second paragraph:

"name, title, or genre"

 

Third paragraph:

"we see most high school and college students"

"using the internet to download and enjoy"

 

Fourth paragraph:

"vast horizon of sounds that are already there"

"soundtrack of your life"

"it will get you in a relaxed mood"

 

Final paragraph:

"really beautiful chillout ambient music, very epic and relaxing."

 

Those are the obvious things that stand out.

 

While reading this, I also got an idea for another article you could do:

Paragraph 1:  Discuss how even though modern gadgets have made things easier, they also make it more stressful.

Paragraph 2:  Discuss how stress is bad, relaxation is the antidote and mention how soothing music is a well-known

stress reliever.

Paragraph 3: How can you get some soothing music to help you relax?  By the very same gadgetry that helped cause all the stress to begin with!  I.e. "The internet and mobile devices make it easy to find the kind of music that will bring your stress level down..." etc.

Then you have a nice short and to the point, 3-paragraph article that will lead the reader to getting some relaxing music immediately.  You might try to come up with a catchy title like, "Technology Stressing You Out?" after keyword research of course. Smile

August 9, 2011
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Tim, thanks so much for checking this out!

So there are some obvious mistakes in there after all... It seems to be a more difficult strategy for me not being native English. I will have to look for a more permanent solution then.

If I want to persue article marketing I'll probably need to hire someone to check my work.

Thanks for helping me with this article!

Jasper

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August 9, 2011
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Oh, and your article idea is pretty good! I will see if I can work with the concept.
Thanks again! Jasper

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August 9, 2011
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For the record,  I think it's pretty shitty to punish someone for knowing 2 languages.

Nice article, Jasper.

August 9, 2011
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Haha, thanks Steve. I should have been born somewhere else I guess 😉 Makes me think about other possible customers I'm missing out on completely doing this in 1 language. I should add chinese and spanish squeezepages. In a next life maybe, if these internet tactics are still applying then 🙂

Or just scale up the Facebook advertising that proved to work great. But that doesn't help my website's SEO...

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August 9, 2011
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Jap Jap said:

Haha, thanks Steve. I should have been born somewhere else I guess 😉 Makes me think about other possible customers I'm missing out on completely doing this in 1 language. I should add chinese and spanish squeezepages. In a next life maybe, if these internet tactics are still applying then 🙂

Or just scale up the Facebook advertising that proved to work great. But that doesn't help my website's SEO...

Funny thing about these tactics is that they will ALWAYS work.

Direct response is working, will work and has always worked.  Let me give you a for instance...

Let's say that hypothetically you were on fire (stay with me here).

You go online and search for "how to not be on fire anymore"

Positioned in the search engine I have an ad/ article titled "Fool-proof-Method To Extinguishing Yourself"

You will probably click the link and visit the website.

On the website I offer you the answer to your most burning question (see what I did there? lol) in exchange for your name and email.

After you opt-in, I show you a really cool video of how I pee on people to put out their fire and tell you that I'll do it for you at the one-time, super low price of $997.

If you really want to not be on fire... you'll pay me to pee on you... but only if you ACT NOW!!!

August 9, 2011
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Haha, damn Steve! You're one crazy visionary 😉
Peeing on people for only $997...

Cheers for that!

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August 13, 2011
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Did you try writing and asking them what the problem was Jasper? I can recall getting this same thing once or twice in the past. Sometimes it's just an error or bad call on the part of the human reviewer. I wish I could remember the details, I just know that I've had this come up before, I wrote them, and it was resolved. There might be a thing or two that could be improved but I don't think the article warranted being disapproved.

There are a lot of people in India and the Philippines who are paid to write articles for other marketers on EZA. Some of the English is horrific. That's what they are trying to keep out and maybe someone just made a bad call here.

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August 24, 2011
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Steve Rodgers said:

After you opt-in, I show you a really cool video of how I pee on people to put out their fire and tell you that I'll do it for you at the one-time, super low price of $997.

If you really want to not be on fire... you'll pay me to pee on you... but only if you ACT NOW!!!

Hahahahahahaaaaa because if they don't ACT NOW, you know, later you might not have to pee.  You killed me with that one Steve!  What a niche you've discovered!

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Yeah... I'm good for one every now and again.Cool

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