Monday, March 8, 2010

Proven Tips for Successful Online Article Marketing

If you're looking for a free, easy method for attracting more targeted traffic to your blog or website, consider article marketing. The process works by slowly introducing the reader to your company and what you expertise is. It's a step that comes before you even pre-sell your product, which translates to more conversions. Most people don't use article marketing any longer because they consider it to be ineffective, a lapse on their part and also not true. But in fact it remains one of the best and most practical ways to attract visitors to your website or blog and increase profits. Of course there are other ways to accomplish this, but article marketing has the advantage since it can be incorporated into any type of business, which means you'll have the freedom to choose from a variety of fields. However, you must follow a correct strategy in order to achieve the best results from this marketing technique. This article will go over several article marketing tips that can bring a vast amount of improvement to the success your campaign experiences. Article marketing has applications for all types of niches for example you could have an article about foreclosure cleanup in the real estate niche.

An ebook that is a compilation of your quality articles is a good marketing idea. That's right! Quality articles that pertain to your subject matter can be put to good use in the form of an ebook. You've certainly put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into writing your articles, so it's only sensible to find a way to use them again in the future. Once you create this ebook (which shouldn't take long) you can distribute it through your blog, website, email lists or your own customer/subscriber list. Of course you'll need to give readers the distribution rights, so that the articles can be forwarded to family, friend, colleagues, and others. If you make your ebook brandable, the readers will be able to use their own links to customize it. You may find some solid results using this kind of viral marketing method. It's always fun to distribute free stuff, and if your ebook is exceptional everyone will want to read it. You should also instruct your readers to spread the book to their own subscribers and visitors. Watch your traffic increase after you give readers the keys to promote the ebook. If you have an article about foreclosure cleaning and want to be sure your readers visit your site be sure to link to your real estate site with foreclosure cleaning as anchor text.

Many people make the mistake of writing 2,000 word articles that are highly informative but still lack the charm. If you're writing for an internet audience your text should be short and to the point. You need to concentrate on the meat of your article and leave off the garnish. When you publish online it's a different world from doing so in the corporeal world. You need to make sure your articles are build on compact information rich paragraphs with a lot of open white space to rest your audience. Longer articles are not usually read all of the way through, as readers are distracted by everything else on the Internet. It is important that your readers stick with your writing and visit your site for more. Another reason why long articles don't get a good response is because the reader never reaches your resource box, which means they don't get to read about your website. When writing for the web, be precise. Keep the information direct, in the same way that you do when you are speaking to someone. Keep it short and sweet. Whatever you do you must remember that the anchor text used in the articles is what you are trying to get your site ranked for. So if you want to rank for foreclosed cleaning, you'll need to use that as anchor text in your article.

All in all, the whole article marketing process depends on how you take it. If you continue to produce high-quality articles that are published on a regular basis, your target market will respond well and you'll be pleased with the results. The tips that we talked about above will help you create this healthy flow of traffic to your site if you do things carefully. Quality articles will continue to send you qualified visitors; carefully crafting your articles and ensuring quality are the keys to success in marketing.

17 comments:

  1. These are very good tips to be followed. Actually, i love article writing and marketing. Article writing requires a lot of knowledge and i will follow the tips you have provided.
    Thanks

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  2. You can easily get a lot more attention for your articles if you make...nice post

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  3. Quality content should be stressed here. Remain consistent and you should be good.

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  4. i think article writing is a very benefical thinking because it raise your confidence and by sharing your thoughts with others you can reach the right path by listning to their views

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  5. Would landing text be a successful tip since you used it all throughout this post?

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  6. This concept of making an ebook from your own articles is extremely effective..especially the part on making it rebrandable which sounds complicated to many but is easy to do with the resources I give away for free ;)

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  7. Here i am interested to know that How do I maximize the benefits of article marketing and social bookmarking to rank for keywords I want?thanks.

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  8. Very nice article and I believe that writing articles is one of the best ways to get noticed.

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  9. Nice article, The problem with article marketing is that most people don't read all the article but skip most of the content. A solution for this is to divide the article with a lot paragraphs and put some images inside it!

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  10. Benefit of writing quality well SEO optimized articles can boost your SERP and good way to start building authority status on your name.

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  11. Article writing is pretty much the foundation of a lot of seo company services - it's so easy to do that everybody should be doing it for themselves or hire someone direct.

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  12. Interesting and concise article, with some really useful tips. Good job! It’s great to read such topical stuff on the web as I have been able to discover here. Thanks for publishing such great reading material!

    Josh

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  13. I have never compiled any ebook, however, submitting articles to the article directories works fine for me. I like the fact that you are doing 2 things in the same time. Fist, you are promoting your website because you can get organic traffic (and highly targeted, if you write articles related to your niche). Second, you build links to your website so you improve its position in SERPs.

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  14. Write articles that are highlighting the benefits of the services and products that you are promoting and then post them to article directories that are visited by millions of people daily. This will help you a lot.

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  15. I recommend writing a high quality article and submitting it to a handful of the most popular article directories. There are hundreds of article directories out there, but I don't waste time submitting to all of them.

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  16. Very nice article and I think that writing special articles is one of the best ways to get noticed

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  17. Internet marketers will often try to maximize the results of an article marketing campaign by submitting their promotion to multiple article directories. However, most search engines filter duplicate content to prevent the same content from appearing multiple times in searches. Some marketers try to circumvent this filter by creating multiple variations of an article, called article spinning. By doing this, one article can theoretically gain traffic from multiple article directories.

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