Article Marketing Reviewed

An increasing number of website and business owners are turning toward a new approach to advertising and, best of all, it’s free. Article marketing, as it is technically known among webmasters, is achieved by translating expertise into a written article and effectively promoting it across the web. This can be achieved by the use of blogs, content directories and direct agreements with webmasters to publish your article in exchange for a link back to your website.

Article marketing is somewhat new in its technique, but is very effective if done properly. Free publicity is achieved as the article circulates more and more across the web. If you post your article to content directories, other webmasters may pick up your article and post it to their website with the only requirement being proper credit for the work. At the end of the article, the author’s name is shown, along with their business name and a direct link to their website. As the work circulates onto new sites, more customers will have the opportunity to read the article. If it is interesting and successfully grabs their attention, they will be likely to visit your site in search of more information.

The key to successful article marketing and free publicity for your website is to possess a certain amount of knowledge about your subject. Your expertise will show through in the work that you do and will entice others to want to read more. By sharing what you know with others, customers will respect you and appreciate your willingness to help. For instance, if you operate a home improvement website, perhaps you would write an article detailing some home improvement tips. Try to avoid the commonly known hints and direct your article toward lesser known tips. If you share the rare information that you know, and it works, customers will be so happy with the new tips that they have learned and your business will be given instant credentials in their mind.

The best part of article marketing is the fact that it is free and it generates free publicity for your website. Once you get a new website up and running, you will still have to find a way to spread the word about your new venture. By enlisting the article marketing technique, you will be saving a lot of money on advertising costs. Print publications and other conventional advertising methods can end up costing a bundle of cash and, since many new businesses struggle just to stay afloat in the beginning, it’s a good idea to save as much as you can.

A final thought about article marketing and free publicity for your website is to make sure that your articles are informative, thought provoking and rich in keywords relating to the topic of your website or service. The articles should reflect your website or service in some way and should always be relevant to the product that you are selling.
By Daphne Succes

Daphne is a Writer, Business Owner, Motivator and Self-Starter and full-time Mom. She enjoys writing articles about small businesses and family and tries to motivate other women with the same desires. She can be reached at 1-877-TOY-DIVA http://www.daphnespassion.com

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Each time I study the vast world of online affiliate marketing, I often detect that most affiliate marketing websites fall into 2 major categories. The first growing are those parading host of links to other sites selling services and products. No doubt these sites do come up on major search engines like Google, but they are commercially useless.

The second group are those that you can actually call affiliate marketing sites - they have links to other sites but understand the principle of article business marketing very well. They contain lots of useful contents specifically to inform and educate visitors. Now, what does “content” mean, anyway? Content is simply an internet term that means articles or information on a web page.

Why is the second group of sites incorporating the principle of article business marketing better than the first group? The answer is simple. If you search for “how to repair PC” would you rather stay with a site with plethora of links or a site with baggage of information with ready answers to your problems? Which one will likely trust and buy from its recommendation? The second group of course!

If a web surfer stumbles upon your site, finds your articles well-written, informative and fun and then sees a link to buy a product related to the article, your chances of making money off of that customer go up 100 times. The big secret to affiliate marketing isn’t a magic formula or miracle - but it is well-written content.

And the good news is that there are many professional companies online that will write good articles for you. And also there are some affiliate programs that makes your article business marketing easier because they supply endless stream of high quality of articles and other content for their affiliates to use FREE of charge.

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Article writing has become popular recently. Search engines have changed the way they rank web sites and have begun to place a stronger value on good content. Correction: they have become better at filtering out commercial content, sales pitches, and advertising posing as content.

One incredibly good method of achieving a web presence with good content is that of article writing. Why? It provides the content that the search engines are looking for. It provides meaningful content for the individual searching the web for good information. And it provides an avenue whereby the article writer can be noticed on the web.

Where does niche marketing come in? First of all, lets define niche marketing as marketing that is designed to meet the needs of a small group of individuals (a niche), rather than the mass needs of individuals. For example, a particular type of pet owner, a particular type of web user, or a particular religious faith might be considered niche markets.

For niche markets like these, traditional forms of mass Internet marketing, such as banner ads, classifieds, and traffic generation programs, are not as effective. The mass advertising forms are much more effective, cost-wise, when promoting a product that has wide market appeal.

So what does the niche marketer do? Assuming he has a web presence, and provides a quality product or other solution to the niche customer’s needs, he can become involved in article writing. The articles would be of a particular interest to the niche customer. They would contain valuable information that the niche customer cannot find anywhere else.

Sometimes article writers will write generic articles that really don’t provide any real benefit to the reader, thinking that an article is an article. That is simply not true. Think about yourself. When you read an article, if you do not learn something new when you read the article, are you disposed to learning more about the person, company, or products represented by the article writer?

The key to writing articles for a niche market and effectively gaining web presence by doing it, is to write quality. Fill the article with useful information. Show the reader that you really are an expert in your niche. Give the reader a burning desire to want to hear more of what you have to say about their need. And the only way you can create that burning desire is to give them quality information in the first place.

Good, well-written, articles are the key to niche marketing in today’s Internet marketing environment. Write articles, submit them to the most-used article databases, and watch your web site traffic grow.

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Search engine optimization is comprised of two different aspects: on page SEO, or the tactics you can employ on the pages of your website; and off page SEO, or the tactics you can employ once your website goes live.

Off page SEO is mainly - and some would say entirely - comprised of strategies that will help you build your link popularity. Your link popularity refers to the number of back links in the World Wide Web which point to your website.

Hence, we can say that the road to search engine prominence is paved in back links - lots and lots of back links.

And the best way to build up the number of links to your website is article marketing.

What Is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is a strategy that involves the submission of informative articles to the many article directories in the World Wide Web. Every internet user is searching for a particular piece of information. If your articles provide the information they need, these internet users will naturally seek out your works. And since your articles will be hosted in a multitude of places, it will be easy for them to find what you have written.

So, how does this work to your favor, exactly?

* Your articles are your copyrighted works. By submitting them to the article directories, you’ll be inviting web publishers to reproduce your articles in their websites. However, this comes with the condition that your articles should not be modified in any way. They should all be kept intact.

* You are allowed to include a resource box per article. In this resource box, you can briefly introduce yourself as well as your business, and more importantly, you can include a link to your website. Since your articles should be reproduced in their entirety, your resource box will be preserved and your link will appear in every website where your articles will be published.

* You alone hold intellectual ownership over your articles. Hence, even if you’d submit them to the article directories, there is no bar in using the same articles for other endeavors in the future.

The Benefits Of Article Marketing

There are many reasons why article marketing has become a powerful online marketing strategy in this day and age. Let’s take a look at them:

* Article marketing will allow you to build up your links pretty fast, depending on how many and how regularly you will submit your articles.

* Article marketing, in effect, will help increase your link popularity, which in turn will help increase your website’s page rank. This means that your website will fare better in search engine results for relevant keywords.

* Article marketing will help you build your brand. People will view you as an expert. As such they’d have an easier time trusting you. This is excellent for pre-selling tactics and building relationships with your prospects.

* Article marketing plants perpetual seeds that you can harvest for many, many years. For as long as the articles are hosted in the article directories, you’d always have a chance of winning some visitors.

Writing Your Articles

You can write your own articles. Preparing a 250 to 1,500 word article is not that difficult, if you have the writing skills as well as the time for the same.

But if you have neither of these, you can always hire a content writer. Fees range from a low $2.50 to a high $30 per article. You can always try freelancing websites such as www.rentacoder.com , www.elance.com and www.guru.com to find the writer best suited for your needs.

Once your articles are finished, you can submit them to the many article directories out there. The most popular - and the most efficient - ones are www.ezinearticles.com , www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com .

By Mark Flavin

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When new article marketers discover they have to write 5-10 articles a day many become daunted at the thought of doing the task even once a week. Thoughts of slaving away in front of the computer with frustrating spurts of writers block come to mind when article marketers are faced with the undertaking of writing articles. But it doesn’t have to hard work with you nearly pulling your hair out as you struggle through each article. It can actually be enjoyable. Here’s 3 ways to make the article marketing process easier so you can stay on target.

1. Choose a Niche That Interests You

It’s very important to at least be partially interested in your chosen niche that you are marketing products for yourself otherwise you will become bored quickly with the task of marketing and especially article marketing. Readers will sense your lack of enthusiasm and interest in the content you write and will be almost as bored reading the article as you were writing it. Plus, writing one article for each niche, which interests you, makes the work of writing less about the work and more about your interest.

2. Fire Your Mental Editor

Turn off the mental process of editing and nitpicking nearly every word your article as you go along because it slows you down and distracts you from getting the task done. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of writing an article you will think it is not good enough and scrap it when in reality it was just fine. The mental editor wastes your time and actually makes you less productive. Fire him! Go back later and edit your work once you have completed every article. This will make the process easier and faster.

3. Have Your keywords Ready to Go

Do your keyword research the day before you start marketing you articles. While keyword research is a key ingredient of article marketing (also referred to as bum marketering) it will put the brakes on the process if you try to do it right before you begin to write your articles. Having your keywords ready to go enables you to write all of your articles for your different niches all in one sitting instead of stopping and starting to look up relevant keywords for each of your articles.

There you have it 3 ways to make article/Bum Marketing process easier. If you follow these steps you’ll not only make the process easier you may even have a little fun your writing articles.
By Elliot Hanson

Elliot Hanson is a syndicated writer and marketer. Find out how you can make $150 a day Bum Marketing with Bum Marketing Secrets.

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Have you ever ponder upon why more and more people are using articles to market and create exposure for their sites? This is so as Article marketing is still one of the best ways to drive web traffic to your site, be it for new or existing sites.
Here, I will provide you with 10 surefire tips on using article marketing for your website.
1. If you have a new site and want to have it indexed in the major search engines, writing an article on the niche topic based on your niche site and submitting it to the major article submission sites will get your new site indexed quickly.
2. Article marketing allows your articles to be picked up by other publishers and posting it on their site with your resource box on their site creates a one-way backlink to your site. Having lots of these backlinks from these sites based on the keyword in your resource box will make your site ranked higher in the search engine for the specific keyword.
3. Also, when submitting articles, submit it based on several keywords. Also submitting it to 2 or 3 categories in the article submission directories allows you to cast your net wider to a larger group of publishers.
4. Always create a headline that will grab your reader attentions and make them click on your article. Your eye catching headline will make a difference whether your article will be picked up by publishers to be published on their sites.
5. Make sure that the contents of your headline deliver the promise as made on your article headline.
6. Create a call to action to make your users click on your site after reading your article. This can be done by providing a backlink to your site.
7. Always take a break after writing your article. Re-read and check for spelling mistakes before submitting to the articles submission sites. Publishers will not be tempted to publish your sites if it’s full of spelling mistakes.
8. If you don’t have much idea, you can always use Private label rights articles; rewrite them to make it unique before submitting it the article directories.
9. Also, create keyword-rich articles. However, make sure that it makes sense when you re-read the keyword rich article you have written. Don’t put in the keyword for the sake of placing them in the articles and end up making the article looks bad.
10. Article Marketing is free and it provides free publicity for your sites, especially if it’s a new site.
Most importantly, article marketing is still one of the best ways to drive web traffic to your sites in the viral manner as more and more publishers publish your articles on their sites. So, use article marketing for your site now!
By Vincent Seah
Vincent Seah is the owner of http://www.vincentseah.com. He provides more onsite and offsite SEO optimization tips on his website. He is also a participant of the ambatchdotcom seocontest World SEO Championships 2006 currently.

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If you are just starting to market your website, then this review of article marketing is a great source of information for you.
Article marketing for beginners

Article writing and marketing is one of the greatest form of advertising online today. In fact, the importance of article marketing has grown in the past years to become arguably the number one method of web-site promotion. Much of the success of article marketing is due to the existence of numerous article directories. These directories are essentially online websites that display content and they have become great places for internet marketers to promote their sites, for bloggers to gain free content, for webmasters to gain free content, and for readers to learn from experts on virtually every single topic imaginable. Assuming that you do all of your article directory submissions manually, your out of pocket costs will likely be close to zero.

In no time flat you can establish yourself as an expert on any subject that you happen to be knowledgeable on. Because article directories are voracious carnivores for quality content, they are always looking for fresh NEW content to add to their databases for their readers, webmasters, newsletter, and e-Zine publishers. Additionally, because article directories are full of keyword-rich content, they tend to rank well in search engines such as Google. Therefore, they are not surprisingly lightening rods for traffic and are seen by millions of people each and every day. You can easily take advantage of this traffic by simply writing and submitting articles to these directories. Its an excellent, low cost way to build credibility and to drive traffic to your website or blog.

When you submit your article to the directories you are allowed to include your URL in your signature. This URL ultimately becomes a backlink to your website. Backlinks are an important part of search engine optimization and the more back links to your site, the higher your search engine ranking and page rank will be. These links should link readers directly to your website, whether it be an online store or a content site. The more articles that you have distributed across the internet, the more links you will have. Search engines are looking increasingly towards the bigger article directories for use in their ranking methods, so writing articles is definitely a productive way to promote your site provided you include working links back to your site. But the back links included in your articles submissions are really just the first stop for your article. A large part of doing well in your article marketing is getting picked up by publishers with a large audience and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work.

Unfortunately, the article submission takes time and you don’t want to waste that time. Fortunately, article submission does not have to be done manually, site by site, which is particularly useful for people writing large numbers of articles and trying to get them onto a large number of sites. Belonging to ArticleMarketer or iSnare, for example, or other article submission services available online will greatly increase the number of articles you are able to submit as well the messages in your email box from the article directory owners. If you still want to maximize the number of directories you are able to submit your articles to but can not afford the fees of the article submission services you can always opt to purchase various article submission software programs. Unlike articles submission services, article submission software only entail a one time fee. Although articles submission software will certainly save you time, some article submission software is semi-automatic. This means that you will still have to click from one article directory to another to post while other, more expensive versions are fully automatic.

While article marketing provides you a simple and effective way to market your business, understand that the entire process involves an intricate web of individuals. The three main groups that make article marketing possible are the authors, the sites that are looking to publish, and the article directories themselves. Each relies on the other to uphold certain standards in order to maintain the credibility of the article marketing business. As everyone does their job and holds up their end of the bargain, the article marketing process will continue to function effectively.

By Zachary R. Skinner

Zachary R. Skinner is an up and coming Internet Marketer who was once told he looks like James Dean. He is also the owner of <strong> http://www.resell-profits-up-the-yin-yang.info <strong>

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Article marketing can increase your web site traffic and web presence. Let us look at all the benefits of article marketing as a online marketing strategy.
Article Marketing: How to Publish Your Way to a Stronger Web Presence

In this web-driven economy, it’s more important than ever to be competitive online.

But a website alone cannot give you the Web presence you need to capitalize on all that Internet activity. With an estimated 8 billion individual documents on the Web, a single website is like a needle in a haystack.

What you need is a way to be more prevalent online — a way to put your message in front of consumers who use the Internet to search for products and services like yours.

From a marketing standpoint, your website should function as Web-Marketing Central. It should be optimized to capture leads or generate sales. But you can’t do either of those things without driving qualified traffic to your website. And you can’t drive traffic without a strong Web presence.

That’s where article marketing comes in.

What is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is the process of publishing articles online through an article distribution site. Article marketing takes an educational approach to marketing, which is part of the reason it’s so effective.

Traditional marketing says, “Here’s a product or service I want you to buy.”

Article marketing says, “Here’s a product or service I want to educate you about. And by the way, I also provide it. You can learn more about it by visiting www…”

What’s the Purpose of Article Marketing?

Article marketing can increase your online exposure, improve your website’s search engine rankings, drive qualified traffic to your website, and position you as an authority in your field. Each of these things can help you capture leads or generate sales through your website — provided your website is optimized for that purpose.

What are the Benefits of Article Marketing?

* Website Traffic - when your articles get republished on topical websites relevant to your product or service, they generate traffic to your website.

* Search Engine Ranking - article marketing generated relevant links from other websites to yours. Thus, it can improve your search engine ranking.

*Positioning & Credibility - when your articles get published on other websites (especially prestigious websites), you gain third-party credibility.

* Simplicity & Cost - article marketing requires no special software or equipment, just a computer with Internet connection. And the only cost you’ll incur is your time and energy. Try to find rates like that in traditional advertising!

Conclusion

Here’s a picture I want to leave you with:

John and Jane Doe go online to research topics related to your product or service. They use a search engine and enter a few key phrases. On the first page of search results, they encounter a couple of helpful, well-written articles that give them the exact information they were after. And at the bottom of each article, they find an “About the Author” note with your name and a link to your website.

That’s article marketing!

By Brandon Cornett

Brandon Cornett wrote the book on article marketing … literally. And you can learn about it or download it through Brandon’s blog: http://www.articlemarketing101.blogspot.com. In a former life, Brandon worked as a web writer in the direct marketing industry. In this life, he manages a number of content-rich

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