One of the most amazing strategies ever incorporated with online advertising is article marketing.
It has proven to be the most profitable and effective form of marketing.
The term itself says it all. Article marketing is exactly that. Articles preferably written by you about your Business, product or service. Promote or should I say market your business, product or service.
You see with the 80 million people who surf the Internet every day. The idea is that you get a few… or let’s say a few thousand, yes? find his many articles sharing his knowledge about his business, products, etc. Let’s say your articles get some attention, as people take the time to read them. You’re lucky. These readers are what? Traffic! Yes. Traffic! What is potentially equal? Customers! Buyers! Members! affiliates! Which for any business is huge, right? To the right mate.
How does article marketing work?
Here’s an overview of the article marketing process to guide you on how to write the type of articles that will add value to your business. Remember, General Overview. Good!
To get started, you need a high-quality, informative, 300-500 word article on a certain topic related to your business. Rich in content. Important.
For example, if your business is all about affiliate marketing, you might write an article that delves into the many aspects of affiliate marketing. Otherwise, you may choose to write separate articles on each aspect of affiliate marketing. For a newbie like me, there are loads, IE. Very much. Your articles should always be about a topic that you specialize in, are passionate about, a hobby, or your business. It could even be an affiliate product or service that you are promoting.
Once you have written the content, you can now include a resource box at the end of the article. The resource box is basically a short summary about you, your business with a link to your website.
Putting a link to your site in the resource box is an absolute must! After all, the purpose of your article is to provide useful information to the reader. In this way, adding value to your knowledge or business. So hopefully now they will be curious to visit your website, right? To the right mate!
Articles with relevant content, well written and easy to read will always keep the reader mesmerized, so to speak. Mesmerized would be nice, right? Then you could have triggers that would make them click through to your site. Once there, you would have another trigger for them to buy or join. Finally, a trigger on your thank you page to wake them up and get them to immediately get to work on the new company they just bought. Wow!
(just kidding) 🙂 Does anyone know a real wizard out there? Well, I’d better stop dreaming and get this over with.
Once your articles are ready, you should submit your articles to as many article directories as you can. Now, there are so many Directories out there, you have to choose the right ones so that value can be added to your Business. You can try EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticleCity, and Squidoo to name a few good ones. Take a look at some forums and post on them for advice on the best directories to use for your articles.
The more readers that enjoy reading your articles, the better your chances of them linking to your site or using your articles on their blogs. Yes, I wish. Regardless, references to your articles could go viral. Wouldn’t that be great?
Good articles, they can generate a lot of links for your sites. Just think what that could do to your business. Besides RSS feeds, what would feeds from the top-ranked sites on the Web do for you? for your business? Hmmm, if only? You’ll see that with RSS feeds, your site will basically be sharing something, better yet, sharing all the same traffic browsing the top ranked sites you have a feed on. Is this great for your site as your page rank increases through this feed? Increased traffic, right?
It won’t happen overnight. Be patient, while you wait for your article to be published, you might publish one more article. Don’t stop there mate. Write another, and then another, get the idea? You’ll soon earn a reputation as the Man! sorry, oh woman! for articles.
The next thing you know, you’ll be getting requests to write content-rich articles for people. Guess what? You could have created another source of income without even knowing it. Wow!
Now, if you think you’re bad at writing articles, you can always buy some online or hire ghostwriters to provide articles relevant to your business or product. Try Elance or Scriptlance, just two of many on the web. You could even pick some free ones that you can edit and republish as your own. Or, worst case scenario, you can get some of the article sites, but you have to abide by the rules and keep the author links in the articles.
A piece of advice from someone who had not written an article a week ago. Then in the last 7 days various items. Go figure? During 10 months on IM you could say he was petrified when he thought of writing articles. Then I came across an Affiliate System and Ta da! I am writing articles. Now I say this not to impress you, but to instill in you that it doesn’t matter how you feel or fear. Please, please, please try it.
Well, just go and do it. I expect to be floored by most of my first few articles. Hey everyone has to start somewhere Mate.
Bless everyone. May you all succeed.
