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Article Marketing is Boring but it Works
By selfemployedblog | October 22, 2007
I have to admit, writing articles to promote your web sites can be a long and boring process. However, I wouldn’t stop doing it because it works. Once the articles I submit are indexed, I get pretty decent traffic to my sites. The process can be tedious due to having to research your topic before you begin writing an article about it.
The Best Article Directory So Far
The main article directory that brings me the most traffic is EzineArticles. I have submitted articles to various other directories regularly but EzineArticles seems to get the most love from the search engines. At least that is what I have experienced. For the month of October so far, one of my sites received 158 visits from articles I submitted to EzineArticles. Of course, a lot of it has to do with what you have written as well.
My Article Writing Process
Writing articles isn’t difficult at all. It just takes time to do some research and putting your thoughts together. Here are the steps I take to writing my articles for submission to the article directories.
- Research problems/issues people have related to your site topic
- Use Google Suggest and the free Wordtracker tool to discover search terms
- Use search term keywords in my article title (very important)
- Research the topic and solutions
- Write the article in my own words (helps if you have experience too)
- Try to have the keywords sprinkled throughout the article
- End each article about how to learn more about solutions by visiting your site
- Make your resource box interesting as well (include the benefits of visiting your site)
As you can see from the steps I take, article writing can be a big turn off for people because of all the time it can take. I do feel that putting in the effort pays off in the long run. You begin to get traffic and build back links for your sites. There are other methods to article creation that can speed up the process.
Faster Ways to Submit Articles
One way is to use article software that can pull content from other articles and manipulate it to be “unique” content. You can then take what it produces and add to it to make it even more unique. Using article software can be a benefit for people who want to maintain several niche sites and need content on a regular basis. Another method is to purchase PLR (private label rights) articles but that can be an added expense when you’re just starting out.
Whatever method you choose, article marketing is a great method of free marketing. I plan on using article marketing for years to come.
Topics: Marketing |
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
A person has to waste a lot of energy and time to write for an article directory. Don’t think I can do it =(.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I have been slowly outsourcing my article writing. There are ghostwriters that charge from $5.00 and up per article. Then you can place those articles in the directories. Its a good investment. =)
November 8th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
David, the energy and time is not wasted if the process works!
As for article software, does anyone have any experience with this? Most of what I have seen either creates poor content or takes just as much time in the end.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:42 am
While I too have found article marketing time consuming, I have enjoyed it. Often I can take a subject I blog about and turn it into an article. This strategy allows my blog post to serve double duty. The traffic and search engine position I have gotten from article marketing has been pretty good.