One of the traditional ways to promote an online business is the article marketing. Article marketing is still the best way to promote a blog or an online business. It generates hundreds and sometimes thousands of one-way links to the blog.
Article marketing is the best source of unlimited traffic to blogs in terms of linking strategies and search engine optimization. Articles can be submitted online to article directories and publishers.
There are many ways to write articles. The following are some tips and advices on writing an article that are effective for article marketing.
• Before starting to write an article, ask yourself on what would be the use of the article for your blog. Well, it is more desirable because it is a new fresh way to promote your e-book. Article marketing will also help build your inbound links and bring in a good amount of traffic, when written and distributed correctly. Another good reason is that it is free.
• Article’s title is vital to the distribution of your article. Make sure that the title is catchy and interesting. Use some fresh and flashy words in your title. It is the writer’s job to write original articles. The key to a good title is writing it after you finished writing your article.
• Before picking your article topic, expose your target readers or audience. If you are having trouble determining your target audience, you could take a survey on your blog that gives you some information about your visitors.
• The final piece of the article should be great for it is very important, the author box or also known as the resource box. It should include some elements like your name, a bit description of you and link to your blog. It better to speak in third person. In this way, the article is reprinted on another blog and the text flows better. Also, try to make the author box sound as intriguing as possible.
• Pick topics that will benefit the readers. You should list a plan or a blueprint of what to discuss and what to answer in the article. This will help you avoid straying from the topic and exclude any essential parts. Write only about topics that you know. You can also try to research from the internet. Always keep the paragraphs somewhat short. This will make the readers not overwhelmed by all the text.
• Ask your self on how you will write effectively. This depends on the target audience and readers and the personal writing style. You may prefer to write them to be factual yet as boring as hell or you could try making it interesting with a deficiency of information. Do not make an article that is boring. Ranting about irrelevant topics should be avoided.
• Distribute articles properly. The main purpose of writing an article is for others to read it or distribute it. There are many places you can go to submit the articles you have written for reprints, finding them is the difficult part.
Writing an article takes time just like distributing it.
Article marketing provides and offer many benefits. Some of these benefits are the following:
• Articles help to ‘pre- sell’ products and services. It is the quality of website traffic that counts and not necessarily the quantity. The best kind of traffic you can get is from people who have read your articles and have liked what they have read.
• Article marketing is your best way to get known as an expert in your field. If your potential costumers sees your name in an article that is well written and informative articles appearing in several websites around the internet, then the costumers will regard you as an expert in your field.
• Article writing is a great way to generate content for your own blog. Although you can look at article marketing as an outreach activity designed primarily for publication elsewhere, you can also use these articles in your own newsletters and on your own blog.
• Informative articles build trust in your ability to provide a good product or service. If you are selling online your most important asset can be seen as being knowledgeable and trustworthy if it is written in an article.
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When I had my company..one of the first things I did to optimize the seo was create articles and release them to directories, so when I got on the first page of google for that site, underneath (and sometimes above) my site’s ranking was also the link to article I promoted.
So when in context to your site..articles are a great way for added seo..
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Mel you have a company? Tell me about it!
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Eh..I used to, it was a small financial services company where I was going to specialize in “financial therapy” but after six months I decided to dissolve it
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Hi Ben,
Great post on article marketing. As an article writer, these are great reminders for me when crafting an article. You hit all of the points very well. The hardest thing I find for myself is creating a catchy title that grabs the reader’s attention.
Alan
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Well, coming up with titles is actually fun!
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Hi Ben,
Another great post from you. I am hoping to start my article marketing campaign soon so your points will sure come in handy!.
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Go ahead.. I read your guest post on Peter’s blog, good stuff too!
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I never thought of this things before. Great post Ben! Really gives me some ideas to work with.
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Sure, nice to see you back Aman.
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Great idea for article marketing. I agree with you!
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Finally I see some input from you Toan. Keep them coming..
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Hi Ben,
Indeed it is a very good technique to get free high quality backlinks and traffic.I will also to start a campaign in article marketing as well as to guest blogging.
Thanks for the tips.
Luis
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Yeah its tiring Luis but you just gotta try it.
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Ben, what’s your take on submitting the same article to different directories without rewriting them? I’ve seen discussion where folks say that’s a no no because you get slapped for duplicate content.
Others say to submit first to Ezine and then go from there with the same article that has not been rewritten.
thoughts?
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I used to do that when I first started out until I read quite abit about it.
Yeap submit to Ezine your best works and then use others or try to rewrite part of it and submit to others.
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Article Marketing is a great resource for bloggers, but its time-consuming! I can build 20-30 new links in the same time it takes to write a single article. Nevertheless, article writing is a good way to build traffic for bloggers who can write English well….
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Yeah it really takes some effort to write one article for your blog and then another one for article marketing.
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What I like about articles marketing is, it’s not just the sake of getting SEO or trafficking thing, but you have to feel connected to your readers and foremost provide article that has been tested and research, so the originality is confirm.Smart readers will notice if your doing copy paste or paraphrasing.
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I like to use ezinearticles.com and ehow.com – they both help drive a lot of traffic to your site. You get better results from ezinearticles.com when you have pro status there.
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ehow? thats new to me. gotta check that out for sure.
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I have an article at ehow.com……recently, new rules have been implemented at that site which will make it harder to produce “spammy” articles or articles that are obviously self-serving “puff” pieces.
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its great to do article marketing but its too time consuming to do it and you need to have the will to want to do it because its got to be extremely well written
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Article marketing do consume time, but will built strong foundation to your link coming.If don’t have time you can hire a ghost writer.
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Article marketing is the best and cheap way to promote your site.i also use it..better article better result.
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Of course, article marketing is worth our time. The results may not come in overnight, but this can help in creating a name online.
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