Fact and opinion are two different things. In most cases, people can tell the two apart. However, there are some very fine lines that many writers have problems with. They claim personal “experience” as fact and that can be a dangerous thing. I have been just as guilty of this as anyone else, so I am speaking from opinion. In this article, I’m going to show you how to separate fact from opinion so you don’t make some of the mistakes that many article writers make when reporting the facts.

Let’s start off with easy fact and opinion. It is a proven scientific fact that the Earth revolves around the sun. That is a fact. It can’t be disputed. That you think bananas are a tasty fruit is an opinion. Not everybody has to agree with it, as I am sure there are quite a few people out there who don’t like bananas. This is a pretty clear cut example of fact versus opinion. However, there are some gray areas that I’m going to get into next.

Let’s take an article in the area of making money online. You’re reporting on a way to drive traffic to somebody’s site. You’ve personally used article marketing to do this and find that it is very effective, for you. So, you report that article marketing is a great way to generate traffic to your web site. You present it as fact. Well, let’s slow down a minute and examine this issue.

What’s involved with article marketing? Well, there is the ability to write articles. Certainly that’s important. Then there is the niche you’re writing for, the landing page you’re sending people to, the product you’re promoting, and so on. All of these variables come into play to determine how effective your article marketing campaign is going to be. Point is, there are many people who use article marketing as a means of driving traffic to their site who are NOT successful with it. Therefore, it is not a fact that article marketing, in itself, is a great way to drive traffic to your site.

You have to be very careful with what you declare as law. Sometimes there are gray areas involved and those gray areas can turn a fact into an opinion real soon. There is no doubt that the Earth revolves around the sun. However, there is plenty of doubt that just because a person uses article marketing to drive traffic to their site that they’re going to be successful doing it.

And that’s where fact and opinion part company.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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