How to Find an Article in Yahoo Groups for Your Ezine

If you have a business, an ezine or email newsletter is a tremendous way to accomplish several tasks. You can use an ezine to stay in regular contact with clients or employees or you can use an ezine to promote the sale of products or services. For an ezine to be productive, it should be delivered via email on a regular basis. To keep members interested and staying on your ezine list, you will want to provide fresh content. A great way to find this content or articles to include in an ezine is by searching in Yahoo Groups. It's not difficult at all to follow the steps below and find plenty of articles for your ezine.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Go to Yahoo.
   

2. On the main page you should find a link labeled "Groups."
   

3. Click on the "Groups" link.
   

4. In the search box where it says "Find a Yahoo! Group" you will want to type phrases like "Articles for ezines," "Free articles," or "Content for newsletters."
   

5. After you click on "Search," you will be directed to a page with a list of a possibly hundreds groups. All of these groups will not be what you are looking for.
   

6. Browse the groups listed reading the descriptions of the groups looking for "Articles to reprint online."

7. If you find a group that looks promising, you will want to check and see if the archives are public or for members only. Look just below the group name!
   

8. First check out the "public" groups. You will be able to read the articles without joining the group and see if those articles interest to you.
   

9. Once you find a Yahoo Group or Groups that fit your needs, click on the link to visit that group(s).
   

10. If you are looking for articles on a particular topic, do a search on that page for articles in that group.
    

11. If you are not sure what type of article you are thinking of using, you can also browse through the articles and get some ideas.
    

Tips & Warnings

• Most of the free articles for ezines or newsletters will have stipulations such as free to use but don't change anything or you must include the byline (who wrote the article) in your ezine. Others may require a link to a certain Web site, so you will have to decide for yourself if you want to follow these requirements before you use the article.
• When looking for Yahoo Groups watch for ones with lots of members, also listed under the title of the group. The more members means more articles are available.
• Make sure you do not do your search in the search box at the top of the page where it just says "Search." This box will search the World Wide Web, not just Yahoo Groups.

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