Re-writing an article in your own words isn't all that hard you know. In fact with a bit of common sense you could re-write an article every 5-6 minutes.

Now I am not going to re-write an entire article but what I am going to do is go through a few things with you and show you how to do it.

Below you will find part of an article I wrote some time ago about dating. Any text I change will be in white highlighted in purple so you can see clearly what it is I have changed and what it is I have left alone.

The original article is below:

Popular Online Dating Activities For Men

Heads up, gents. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

Looks Count

Comment on how attractive she is. Yes, women do want to know they are pretty, even if they’re online and you can’t see them and have no idea. So in your communications, ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way like – how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

Kindness Counts

Point out nice things or the lemonade in life – nice things the other person has mentioned, nice acts the person has done, good things on the news latterly, etc. Be upbeat, and forget those lemons in life.

Even in email a person can shout, by using all capital letters. So show manners and kindness. Keep swearing, unkind remarks, prejudice, etc. out of your communications. And “do unto others….”

So add some helpful real-world tips that do work (a lot of the time anyway) into your online dating equations. And come up on the positive side of romance – and enjoy more lemonade!

Obviously the first thing I would change is the title,

“Popular Online Dating Activities For Men”

Highly Recommended Dating Activities For Men

Now if you noticed I didn't change the title much and I made sure to keep the keywords Dating Activities and Men, in this case.

In the second paragraph I would only make a few minor changes such as,

Heads up, gents. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

Above highlighted in yellow you will find the words Heads up, gents now I personally don't use that terminology all the time but if the article was written by someone else then they may and so it is wise to always make sure and change anything that can or could be associated directly with an articles writer.

After all every writer has there own style and we all have our favorite phrases and terminology we use. So to be safe rather than sorry I would change this.

Attention all you, gents out there. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

So far we have changed the title and text in the first paragraph,

Highly Recommended Dating Activities For Men

Attention all you, gents out there. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

Now I always aim to change most of, if not all of at least two paragraphs in every article I re-write if it is 500 words or more long but just 1 if it is 350 words long so I would do this with the next paragraph.

Comment on how attractive she is. Yes, women do want to know they are pretty, even if they’re online and you can’t see them and have no idea. So in your communications, ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way like – how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

It is wise to tell her how attractive she is. Believe it or not but women do actually want to know how beautiful they are, even if you can't see them in person and there on-line. So in your communications, it is key to ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way. For example how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

So now we have so far,

Highly Recommended Dating Activities For Men

Attention all you, gents out there. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

Looks Count

It is wise to tell her how attractive she is. Believe it or not but women do actually want to know how beautiful they are, even if you can't see them in person and there on-line. So in your communications, it is key to ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way. For example how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

I would only make minor changes to the next paragraphs

Kindness Counts

Point out nice things in life – nice things the other person has mentioned, nice acts the person has done, good things on the news latterly, etc. Be upbeat, and forget those mistakes and upsetting news in life.

I would leave the next paragraph completely alone,

Even in email a person can shout, by using all capital letters. So show manners and kindness. Keep swearing, unkind remarks, prejudice, etc. out of your communications. And “do unto others….”

and make only one small change in the last one,

So add some helpful real-world tips that do work (a lot of the time anyway) into your online dating equations. And come up on the positive side of romance – and enjoy more lemonade!

I would remove the section that says – and enjoy more lemonade

So the finished article looks like this, 

Highly Recommended Dating Activities For Men

Attention all you, gents out there. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

Looks Count

It is wise to tell her how attractive she is. Believe it or not but women do actually want to know how beautiful they are, even if you can't see them in person and there on-line. So in your communications, it is key to ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way. For example how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

Kindness Counts

Point out nice things in life – nice things the other person has mentioned, nice acts the person has done, good things on the news latterly, etc. Be upbeat, and forget those mistakes and upsetting news in life.

Even in email a person can shout, by using all capital letters. So show manners and kindness. Keep swearing, unkind remarks, prejudice, etc. out of your communications. And “do unto others….”

So add some helpful real-world tips that do work (a lot of the time anyway) into your online dating equations. And come up on the positive side of romance!

and below you can see it more clearly without the highlights

Highly Recommended Dating Activities For Men

Attention all you, gents out there. Online dating can open up new doors of opportunities with a little help from real world dating tips that work. Spice up your matchmaking with some of these ideas.

Looks Count

It is wise to tell her how attractive she is. Believe it or not but women do actually want to know how beautiful they are, even if you can't see them in person and there on-line. So in your communications, it is key to ask questions that would help you know, but in an unobtrusive way. For example how do you wear your hair? And then say how attractive that must look.

Kindness Counts

Point out nice things in life – nice things the other person has mentioned, nice acts the person has done, good things on the news latterly, etc. Be upbeat, and forget those mistakes and upsetting news in life.

Even in email a person can shout, by using all capital letters. So show manners and kindness. Keep swearing, unkind remarks, prejudice, etc. out of your communications. And “do unto others….”

So add some helpful real-world tips that do work (a lot of the time anyway) into your online dating equations. And come up on the positive side of romance!

Now although it may look like I have due to the highlighting, I haven't actually made that many changes to the original article and for 5-6 minutes work we have a completely re-written article that you can use not once, not twice but several times over.

They key here is to make sure you begin with a good article in the first place, that it has all the right ingredients and making changes isn't going to be over complicated.

Another secret is to have a good dictionary close by and then take words and meanings from articles and find alternatives and use them in place of the originals. Keep things simple, don't use big words, don't try to be too clever and you won't go far wrong. 

Once you master the art of re-writing articles it makes life a lot easier and it helps save you a lot of money too. Remember an article can be re-written many times over meaning you could pay someone to write a professional article for you and then you can re-write that article many times over yourself.

Just think if you re-wrote 50 articles and with practice it shouldn't take more than 5-6 minutes per article then you could use those articles not once but 3-4 times over so out of the original 50 articles you would potentially get 150-200 articles out of half a days work.

Not bad eh?

At this rate it wouldn't take long for you to be able to flood the market with your articles and more importantly your link back to your website or the affiliate product your promoting resulting in bigger profits for you.

In the next ezine I will cover how to use a article directory bio box correctly and let you into some insider secrets and show you where a lot of people go wrong when filling in a bio box.