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Article Marketing for Your Business
By selfemployedblog | March 5, 2007
Article marketing is one of the great ways to receive free publicity for your web site. Posting to most article directories is free of charge. The key to drawing traffic to your web site is by writing a helpful article and utilizing the bio box at the end of the article. You can use the bio box area or include your bio at the end of a article. The important thing to remember is to use this area to advertise a link back to your web site. Include your name, a catchy statement (relevant to the topic of the article), and a link or two back to your site.
The big drawback that most people feel when considering article marketing is that they feel as though they are not good writers. You don’t have to be a published author to put out decent and well written articles. The method I use (and most people for that matter) is simply this:
1. Tell the reader what you are going to write about.
2. Write about it.
3. Tell them what you just wrote about.
By using that basic outline, you can crank out articles in no time, ready for distribution among many popular article directories. The other advantage to article marketing besides traffic is the ability to acquire back links to your web site. Back links are a way search engines measure the popularity of your site, thus placing it higher among the search results. You also brand yourself as an expert in your particular field. The trust you build with readers can turn them into loyal customers.
Article marketing can work best if you write several per week or month. This is a great method if you are not able to have a budget for advertising using PPC (pay-per-click) ads such as Google Adwords. The work comes in taking the time to write the articles. Article marketing experts have mastered the art of article writing and some have even got it down to writing an article in 30 minutes or less.
The article marketing directories I submit to on a regular bases include:
Ezine Articles
GO Articles
Article Alley
SearchWarp
Be sure to read the article directory’s rules for posting. Try writing a few articles and see how it improves traffic to your web site.
Tags: article marketing, article writing, web site marketing, online marketing
Topics: Marketing |
January 28th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Hi Eartha,
Just stumble upon your blog while doing some research on the net. I’m not a blogger but more of a renegade internet marketer. I’m still learning this internet thing try to find ways to make real money on the net with stable long time income started with as less money as possible. To many distraction on the net and with all those scam things.
I always admire people who put a lot of efforts while trying to make money online. not many people do this online. most of them are try to find the shortcut to success with only small effort on their part. Feel so sorry for them because they will miss the jewel on the net. make money online will become easy when we has the credibility and trustworthy. so from the way you are doing right now if you keep doing it you will succeed. I confident 1 year from now you will have a lot of smile in your face.
Since you write articles a lot I would recommend you try articlemarketer.com submission services. they have a free service to promote their paid services. and they also has affiliate program too. if you find their biz help your biz then you could promote it and earn commission. All the best to you in 2008.
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
- Dale Carnegie
January 29th, 2008 at 12:12 am
redspace - Thank you for your great feedback. I totally agree with you as far as shortcuts go. Making money online takes work and there are no fast ways to get rich on the internet.
I will check out articlemarketer, thanks for the tip!