domingo, 29 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing: What Constitute Good Content For An Article?


Article Marketing: What Constitute Good Content For An Article?

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374

Summary:
Article marketing is simply the process of writing articles, publishing your articles on article directories and syndicating your articles.

To be successful in article marketing, you need to:

1. Write high quality and keyword optimized articles.

2. Submit a series of such articles to article directories on a regular basis.

An article that has good content and that contain the keywords that readers are searching for has many page views. Imagine if each article gen...


Keywords:
article marketing, article writing


Article Body:
Article marketing is simply the process of writing articles, publishing your articles on article directories and syndicating your articles.

To be successful in article marketing, you need to:

1. Write high quality and keyword optimized articles.

2. Submit a series of such articles to article directories on a regular basis.

An article that has good content and that contain the keywords that readers are searching for has many page views. Imagine if each article generates a page view of 500 readers, if you have ten of such articles, you will get 5000 page views. With article syndication, you get more back links for higher ranking on search engines and can also brand yourself as an expert in your area of online business.

But what constitute good content? Here are some useful tips:

1. Your content answers a need or solves a problem that your target readers have. Specifically, your article contains keywords that readers search for. For instance, if you are targeting readers with hair loss, then "hair loss" is a keyword phrase that you can use in your article. However, a better keyword phrase is likely "hair loss remedy" as your article content can be on remedy solutions for hair loss, thus addressing the needs of your reader.

2. Your article contains useful resources. Using the same example for hair loss, you can write about where your reader can find the remedy solutions.

3. Your content contains practical tips that your readers can easily apply. A step-by-step guide on preparing a remedy right out from one's kitchen is interesting and unusual.

4. If you are writing a discussion topic, you present alternative views and a healthy discussion on each view.

5. Your content is personalized. You write from your own experiences.

6. You have an opinion on a discussion topic and your ideas are well supported. Support can be in the form of testimonials from experts or references to scientific and proven research. It is okay to write an article based on general information but winning content are those that have supporting reasons for your opinion.

7. Your article is up-to-date with the latest information on trends. No one likes to read outdated ideas. This is especially if you are writing on an area that is fast moving like IT or even fashion.


 

Article Marketing - Learn How To Use It And Boost Your Sales And Serps


Article Marketing - Learn How To Use It And Boost Your Sales And Serps

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428

Summary:
Article marketing is about much more than just writing articles, submitting them, and hoping for traffic - learn about the big picture, why it all works, right here, right now!


Keywords:
article writting, seo, search engine optimisation, affiliate, serps


Article Body:
Understanding the Big Picture

My guess is that by now, you are starting to see the big picture with article marketing. Whether you are attempting to increase your search engine rankings by submitting to multiple directories, or you are looking to increase you direct traffic, article marketing is powerful.

Even if you are not focusing on search engine rankings, generally you should find that as you article market, your websites will become more popular. They will naturally receive more backlinks and traffic, and generally your search engine ranking will go up, even without any special emphasis on it.

One of the powerful things about article marketing, especially if you are building a list, is that subscribers who come to you after reading one of your articles tend to buy more than subscribers who come to you from many other traffic sources. Generally, when someone subscribes to your list after reading one or several of your articles, they already are beginning to trust you, and might buy from you sooner than someone who needs to read several emails from you and perhaps communicate online before they will purchase. Article writing simply provides a unique opportunity for you too attract subscribers to your list who have a prequalified interest and trust in you.

Maintaining Patience as it All Comes Together

When you first get started with article marketing, things will probably move slowly for you. One of the things that happen with article marketing is an exponential effect. When you have only 3 articles written, you are not going to have a flood of traffic. But if you write and submit a few articles a day for several weeks or months, you will begin to experience an incredible effect, and it will all become worthwhile. Remember, you will continue to receive the effects of articles you have written for as long as they are online and published. So when you have 10 articles or 100 articles online, you will have 10 times or 100 times the traffic that you will receive after the first article.

It is easy to become discouraged when you have written just a few articles, and your revenue is not consistent with the time you put into article writing and submission.

In fact, I will go so far as to say, if you are only going to write a few articles and then quit, you might as well not write or submit any articles. Article marketing is extremely powerful, but it is most powerful when there is a cumulative effect, and that cumulative effect takes time and multiple articles and submissions.


 

jueves, 26 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing: Is It Worth It?


Article Marketing: Is It Worth It?

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350

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Having your website rank at the top of the search engines will provide you with a stream of traffic ready to read, buy or interact with your site. Getting this high first page ranking in the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN is extremely difficult and not to mention, time consuming.

Search engines take considerable notice of how many and the quality of incoming links to your site. Traditionally, webmasters have sent out link requests, asking to exchange li...


Keywords:
free articles


Article Body:
Having your website rank at the top of the search engines will provide you with a stream of traffic ready to read, buy or interact with your site. Getting this high first page ranking in the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN is extremely difficult and not to mention, time consuming.

Search engines take considerable notice of how many and the quality of incoming links to your site. Traditionally, webmasters have sent out link requests, asking to exchange links, this however is becoming more and more ineffective as people's email addresses are spammed by automated robots.

Method savvy internet marketers are now using article submissions. Here is how it works. The webmaster writes an article on the topic of their site, including a back link to their site. They then submit this to various article directories. In turn some of these article directories list this article and its back link, and also distribute it to all their members. Some even pass this onto other article sites.

This can manually take a long time however. A lot of copying and pasting of articles has to happen, you have to log in and log out of sites, and the whole thing can be very tedious. Over the past 6 months new products have been released that take some of the tedium out of article submissions. These semi-automatically go to the relevant sites and submit your article, logging in for you and populating the forms with your article. They can be a great time saver.

Finally there are new services that actually go off and submit your articles for free to other large directories. They advertise on your article page on their site. This is a win-win situation. The article writer gets valuable backlinks to their site or their content read by many people, the large article directory gets the extra content and advertising revenue, so everyone is happy.

We highly recommend article writing for marketing your site, it may take a little time but with the services outlined here it need not be so painful as it once was.


 

Article Marketing: How To Write Great Articles


Article Marketing: How To Write Great Articles

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967

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All the hype nowadays in web-based industries is the pioneering concept called article marketing. Article marketing is one type of Internet advertising that has proven to be both instructive and effective, because Internet users are being given useful information on their related searches, through short but helpful articles with an accompanying link to the author's site at the bottom part of the article. Website owners are now given a new way to market their goods and services, where they can post their articles in a number of directories in exchange for potential views and increased website traffic.


Keywords:
article marketing


Article Body:
All the hype nowadays in web-based industries is the pioneering concept called article marketing. Article marketing is one type of Internet advertising that has proven to be both instructive and effective, because Internet users are being given useful information on their related searches, through short but helpful articles with an accompanying link to the author's site at the bottom part of the article. Website owners are now given a new way to market their goods and services, where they can post their articles in a number of directories in exchange for potential views and increased website traffic.

So how do you write such articles? Article writing encompasses initially mass print media like magazines, newspapers, and the like. The articles written in these media are usually long winded and detailed, and very often command longer attention spans from the readers.  Newspapers and magazines pay their writers to write such long articles because their readership depend on how wide range the topics are, and how up to trend the issues are. But the articles employed in Internet article marketing should not be in parallel with the articles written in print. The web is a never-ending source of research material and if the readers do not get what they want instantly by reading the articles published in directories, they could turn to other sources because the choices are endless.  Therefore the articles have to be written in such a way that the attentions of the Internet users are utilized to the fullest degree.

Short articles of about 600-800 words are most ideal. This way, all the important elements of a subject matter is tightly woven into the article, thus creating less risk of boring the readers with unnecessary matters.  Imagine an article that has too much introduction, an incoherent body, and a hanging conclusion- no one would take the effort to have to analyze what is written, because people want straight up facts. They want to read and to understand each sentence, and ideally to be more informed about the given issue, period.

For example, an article that deals with the benefits of water therapy would want to consider including highlights on how the consumption of water could help in eradicating toxins built up by faulty eating. And then this could be explained further by noting specific studies that have dealt with natural remedies alongside the use of conventional commercial medicine. The advantages of utilizing natural therapies would be that there are less possibilities of side effects and a less overworked liver, as this essential body organ is primarily responsible in the flushing out of unwanted toxins from overeating, unnatural diets, and of course modern pills and medicines.

The article has to be persuasive, too. Persuasive, yes, but not in the obvious way of trying to sell something, credible in the sense that straight facts, and not just mere opinions, are being presented. Statistical studies that can be verified are helpful tools in persuasive delivery because there are quite a number of surveys over the Internet that provides clear facts. A persuasive article would also want to consider using quotes from reliable personalities on the subject matter.  This adds credibility to the written article and considerably increases general interest.  Anyone who would read something that was verified by an expert, and can be traced back to historical truths would most likely begin to form certain positive beliefs.

Then there is the issue about the target market. And in this case, since the articles can be read by many, it would be more appropriate to say target audience. Of course, not everyone is interested with the things that are written in the articles. There would be people who would not care less what the topics are about simply because not every topic can elicit a favorable response from everyone. The reason why businesses have to target a market niche is because certain demographics will veer away from what the popular trends are. Age, gender, cultural differences, and the like are just some of the demographics to be considered.  If a certain article topic for example is targeted to people with age over 40, perhaps the use of modern slang and the online chat lexicons should be discouraged. The audiences are the judges on the written articles, and if they are disappointed with what they have read, they would most very likely switch to other websites, or to choose the articles that are in tune with what they are searching for.

Asking questions on the topics too would help very largely. This allows for review on the article that will be published. Will the target audience care to hear this? Will this information drive be helpful? Will these people be propelled to read further and to click on the site located at the resource box? Or will they just end up getting bored on mid-page and abandon the site altogether? These are just some of the crucial questions that need to be dealt with in creating well-written contents in article marketing.

A well-written article too, is one that appears not be blatantly selling anything, but one that disguises merely as simple information drive. People usually have adverse reactions to annoying salesmen knocking on doors in the rush of morning hours, that when they are usually presented anything that merits a sale, the mechanical response would almost always be in the negative. Article marketing seeks to build up a wide readership over an extended period of time by publishing relevant and up-to-date articles, and not to drive would-be clients away because of the obvious want of easy profit. The wide source of information, and the relatively easy access to it have made our audiences more intelligent buyers, and their knowledge compels them to make choices that they can benefit from even in the long term.


 

miércoles, 25 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing: How To Get Tons Of Highly Targeted Visitors To Your Site For Years To Come


Article Marketing: How To Get Tons Of Highly Targeted Visitors To Your Site For Years To Come

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305

Summary:
I have read a lot of ebooks about internet marketing and I have tried many traffic schemes. I have spent a little fortune to get visitors to my site. I have waisted a lot of time trying to optimise my sites…for search engines, but nothing really got the results I was waiting for. Until I discovered a new method to get highly targeted visitors: Writing articles and submitting to article Directories. It is easy to do - but there are some important things you have to consider:
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Keywords:
article marketing, submit article, free content


Article Body:
I have read a lot of ebooks about internet marketing and I have tried many traffic schemes. I have spent a little fortune to get visitors to my site. I have waisted a lot of time trying to optimise my sites…for search engines, but nothing really got the results I was waiting for. Until I discovered a new method to get highly targeted visitors: Writing articles and submitting to article Directories. It is easy to do - but there are some important things you have to consider:

1. Come up with a keyword rich headline that attracts attention. Honestly, I see a lot of articles a day, but I really read the ones with an interesting and exciting headline.

2. Write high quality articles about your site but do not offer your service or product directly because people don't like to get sold.

3. Provide useful and high-quality content. Write about one topic and offer as much useful information as possible. Remember that most of the people looking for information about a topic or to find a solution for a specific problem they have.

4. Add some target keywords into your body of your article.

5. Spell check your article with a software or give a friend for proof reading.

6. Submit your articles to as many article directories as possible. That sounds hard but it is easier than you think. You can use automatic software or you can choose online submission services.

Then wait for the visitors … it's simple and easy. But don't wait too long …you could use your time writing another article and do the same thing again. If you have time to write one article a week and submit your article to the most important article directories you will have a steady flow of highly targeted visitors to your site for years to come.


 

Article Marketing: How Best To Submit Your Articles?


Article Marketing: How Best To Submit Your Articles?

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433

Summary:
You already know the benefits of article marketing as an effective means of generating traffic to your site and getting back links. For continued branding and increasing traffic, it is a good idea to submit articles on a regular basis to article directories.

Having said that, submitting one article alone can be a time consuming affair. After all, there are many article directories and ezine annoucement lists out there. Each article directory has different format requiremen...


Keywords:
article marketing, submit article, submit articles


Article Body:
You already know the benefits of article marketing as an effective means of generating traffic to your site and getting back links. For continued branding and increasing traffic, it is a good idea to submit articles on a regular basis to article directories.

Having said that, submitting one article alone can be a time consuming affair. After all, there are many article directories and ezine annoucement lists out there. Each article directory has different format requirements and some only cater to certain niches. From my experience, you are better off using an article submission software or article directory submission service than manually submitting the articles yourself.

The downside is of course, cost expense. You will have to dole out some cash for the software or for the service of article marketing. But look at it this way: time is also money! By saving time in this highly laborious exercise, you can channel your energies to other ways of marketing your site or other more productive work.

Using an article submission software like article submitter pro, still requires some work on your part. That's why it is the next least costly option. Still, some automation is better than none. But if you can afford it, outsourcing article submission by using a service is a great option to consider.

Article submission service providers are committed to growing their list of article directory sites that they submit to. Usually, their list can run into thousands. Also, they keep their lists up-to-date. You will have to manage the list yourself if you use an article submission software.

Now for article submission services, which do I recommend? For my own sites, I use a combination of services. I do a forecast on the number of articles that I will probably use in the next few months for marketing a particular site. Also, rules and guidelines differ for each article submission service. I then choose the best option based on my budget and my needs.

The other advantage I also see in not just using one service is that each article submission service has a different directory list. You probably get greater exposure if your articles are seen across a multitude of directories.

Article directory submission software or outsourcing article submissions are just two ways to cut down your workload, especially if you are a small online business owner. I therefore, suggest that you choose an optimal budget-time option that will give you the best mileage for successful article marketing.


 

martes, 24 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing: How Best To Submit Your Articles?


Article Marketing: How Best To Submit Your Articles?

Word Count:
433

Summary:
You already know the benefits of article marketing as an effective means of generating traffic to your site and getting back links. For continued branding and increasing traffic, it is a good idea to submit articles on a regular basis to article directories.

Having said that, submitting one article alone can be a time consuming affair. After all, there are many article directories and ezine annoucement lists out there. Each article directory has different format requiremen...


Keywords:
article marketing, submit article, submit articles


Article Body:
You already know the benefits of article marketing as an effective means of generating traffic to your site and getting back links. For continued branding and increasing traffic, it is a good idea to submit articles on a regular basis to article directories.

Having said that, submitting one article alone can be a time consuming affair. After all, there are many article directories and ezine annoucement lists out there. Each article directory has different format requirements and some only cater to certain niches. From my experience, you are better off using an article submission software or article directory submission service than manually submitting the articles yourself.

The downside is of course, cost expense. You will have to dole out some cash for the software or for the service of article marketing. But look at it this way: time is also money! By saving time in this highly laborious exercise, you can channel your energies to other ways of marketing your site or other more productive work.

Using an article submission software like article submitter pro, still requires some work on your part. That's why it is the next least costly option. Still, some automation is better than none. But if you can afford it, outsourcing article submission by using a service is a great option to consider.

Article submission service providers are committed to growing their list of article directory sites that they submit to. Usually, their list can run into thousands. Also, they keep their lists up-to-date. You will have to manage the list yourself if you use an article submission software.

Here are some article submission service providers:

Now for article submission services, which do I recommend? For my own sites, I use a combination of services. I do a forecast on the number of articles that I will probably use in the next few months for marketing a particular site. Also, rules and guidelines differ for each article submission service. I then choose the best option based on my budget and my needs.

The other advantage I also see in not just using one service is that each article submission service has a different directory list. You probably get greater exposure if your articles are seen across a multitude of directories.

Article directory submission software or outsourcing article submissions are just two ways to cut down your workload, especially if you are a small online business owner. I therefore, suggest that you choose an optimal budget-time option that will give you the best mileage for successful article marketing.


 

Article Marketing - How Article Marketing Can Bring You Free Traffic


Article Marketing - How Article Marketing Can Bring You Free Traffic

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465

Summary:
Discover what all the fuss is about and find out how you could be bringing masses of qualified traffic to your website, for free.


Keywords:
article marketing, article writting, seo, search engine optimisation, web traffic, free traffic


Article Body:
For a long time now there has been a lot of buzz in the online world about article marketing, but I am still frequently asked what it is and how it works. Here is a brief explanation. Like any large medium, the internet is hungry for content.

However, unlike other media outlets such as TV, radio and newspapers, which generally only use content from professional writers, on the internet, anyone can publish. Article marketing is a way of taking advantage of that freedom and using the medium as a way to bring visitors to your website or blog. So, how does it work?

You write an article. A typical article for web consumption will be between 250 and 750 words long. It will be carefully focused round a specific area of expertise; the writer's niche. It will use keywords relevant to the writer's intended audience and often it will contain a numbered or bulleted list for clarity and ease of reading.
You publish that article on the web. There are now hundreds of article directories, where any writer can publish almost any article. Most are free to use, but some more specialized ones charge a small fee. One of the biggest free directories is EzineArticles.com which carries the work of nearly 70,000 writers.
The directories are organized into multiple categories and the article writer must decide which category to publish under. You are also encouraged to attach a group of relevant keywords to your article and to include your personal or business details and a link to your site, in your 'resource box', which is a brief paragraph about you or your work which will appear at the bottom of every article. The directories employ a team of staff to approve each article before it becomes available on the web.

So how does this drive traffic? Firstly, the directories, being very content rich, have high rankings in the search engines and often your article may be spotted there and an interested reader might click on your link and come through to your website.

However, the real purpose of the directories is to provide a place for e-zine publishers to find free and relevant content. Every day, editors of a huge range of subject specific e-zines, visit the article directories and download new articles that are relevant to their audience. This saves them writing it themselves. The only stipulation made is that they must publish the article in full, without editing and always include the author's resource box and retain the links intact.

So over a period, a single article can easily, be found in many different places on the web, each time with a valuable back link to your website, which not only leads highly targeted visitors to you but also helps to improve your search rankings.


 

lunes, 23 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing - How Article Marketing Can Bring You Free Traffic


Article Marketing - How Article Marketing Can Bring You Free Traffic

Word Count:
465

Summary:
Discover what all the fuss is about and find out how you could be bringing masses of qualified traffic to your website, for free.


Keywords:
article marketing, article writting, seo, search engine optimisation, web traffic, free traffic


Article Body:
For a long time now there has been a lot of buzz in the online world about article marketing, but I am still frequently asked what it is and how it works. Here is a brief explanation. Like any large medium, the internet is hungry for content.

However, unlike other media outlets such as TV, radio and newspapers, which generally only use content from professional writers, on the internet, anyone can publish. Article marketing is a way of taking advantage of that freedom and using the medium as a way to bring visitors to your website or blog. So, how does it work?

You write an article. A typical article for web consumption will be between 250 and 750 words long. It will be carefully focused round a specific area of expertise; the writer's niche. It will use keywords relevant to the writer's intended audience and often it will contain a numbered or bulleted list for clarity and ease of reading.
You publish that article on the web. There are now hundreds of article directories, where any writer can publish almost any article. Most are free to use, but some more specialized ones charge a small fee. One of the biggest free directories is EzineArticles.com which carries the work of nearly 70,000 writers.
The directories are organized into multiple categories and the article writer must decide which category to publish under. You are also encouraged to attach a group of relevant keywords to your article and to include your personal or business details and a link to your site, in your 'resource box', which is a brief paragraph about you or your work which will appear at the bottom of every article. The directories employ a team of staff to approve each article before it becomes available on the web.

So how does this drive traffic? Firstly, the directories, being very content rich, have high rankings in the search engines and often your article may be spotted there and an interested reader might click on your link and come through to your website.

However, the real purpose of the directories is to provide a place for e-zine publishers to find free and relevant content. Every day, editors of a huge range of subject specific e-zines, visit the article directories and download new articles that are relevant to their audience. This saves them writing it themselves. The only stipulation made is that they must publish the article in full, without editing and always include the author's resource box and retain the links intact.

So over a period, a single article can easily, be found in many different places on the web, each time with a valuable back link to your website, which not only leads highly targeted visitors to you but also helps to improve your search rankings.


 

Article Marketing: Head Start Your Business


Article Marketing: Head Start Your Business

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885

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It is easy to win a race and be on top but the same saying does not go with keeping yourself at the top. Having a head start in the business of Article Marketing would require dedication and skill. Aside from persevering in the market, you must be in the know of what makes other article marketers fail and devise of ways to avoid it.


Keywords:
article marketing, submit articles, writing articles


Article Body:
It is easy to win a race and be on top but the same saying does not go with keeping yourself at the top. Having a head start in the business of Article Marketing would require dedication and skill. Aside from persevering in the market, you must be in the know of what makes other article marketers fail and devise of ways to avoid it.

Failure in article marketing is not new. Many have tried and many were beat. Where did they go wrong? Perhaps, they had the wrong audiences targeted. Maybe they didn't make articles that were good enough. There are a lot of reasons. However, when businesses fail in Article Marketing, several crucial factors can be pinpointed.

The greatest evil in Article Marketing is plagiarism. The issue has long been addressed but hasn't been avoided as well as it should have been. Let it be known that plagiarism is illegal worldwide and several technologies have been created to quickly identify plagiarized work. Subsequently, if your article is found to be plagiarized, search engines would give you a low rank, hence traffic to your site will be minimized. To some extent, your articles and other entries may be deleted and you will not benefit as much from your endeavor, or worse, not benefit at all.

There are surefire ways to avoid plagiarism. If you want to write an article about a certain topic, you start of by researching for common contents. The most favored site for research is of course, through the Internet. Once you have found the articles you want to use, instead of copying and pasting them on your empty document right away, take time to read the article first. Make sure you understand what the articles say, highlight point s you agree with and want to address in your own article. You may also want to bullet or summarize the article you have read. In this way, it is ensured that you won't have a plagiarized product. The next step would be to write in your own words, what you have understood from the research you've done. Do incorporate the important facts you've discovered in the articles that you've read but make sure that they are still written in your own words.

In Article Marketing, originality may just very well lead you to success. This is because search engines that analyze your work and find no discrepancies with regards to plagiarism or duplication then the rank they will give you would be higher. What is the advantage of a higher rank? Not only will it generate traffic, it would also lower the cost of the pay-per-click of your article or website.

Another factor that usually leads to failure in the domain of Article Marketing is the failure to write enough articles of interest. Many of those who start out in Article Marketing usually begin with just a few articles and think that that is it. But it is not it, because a few articles would not accomplish a name or even a reputation for your business. You have to write as many articles as you can. Though tiring, it is very well worth it.

The job of having to write articles may be made easy by writing topics of your own interest. Choose products to advertise whose interests are similar to your own and who you know so much about. The greater the interest and the greater the body of knowledge you hold for one particular topic, and then there will be no limit to what you can write.

Failure of your articles to be exposed would also result to the failure of your business. If you do not expose your articles to as many consumers as possible, your bank account would not change a cent. The lesser consumers you have, the lesser your rank will be and you will be lost among other business in line for Article Marketing. You will have to work hard for your articles to be circulated. This can be done through article directories, link partners, forum sites, newsletters, the approaches are not at all limited, what with the capacity of the Web to reach different audiences. If the means are not limited, then you should not limit yourself as well. Explore what other ways can ensure the distribution of your articles, this just has to be done in order to survive in the business.

Frankly the most important factor of all that lead to most business fading out in the area of Article Marketing is the failure to stay long in the race. Many have succeeded, so why should followers fail? Longevity is one factor that will contribute to the success you will experience in Article Marketing. Let's face the facts, traffic is generated for a period of time and may even go as long as years to wait. Profits would depend on the traffic you generate, as your traffic steadily increases, your profit would also steadily increase.

Like any other business, whether online or outside the World Wide Web, much has to be invested in order for it to succeed. If you are willing to work hard and have faith in what you do, then you have a greater chance of avoiding these pitfalls in Article Marketing.


 

viernes, 20 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing - General Facts


Article Marketing - General Facts

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360

Summary:
Article marketing is the process of writing articles for the main purpose of including anchor links to your website and is one of the easiest and most effective link building strategies in existence.


Keywords:
article marketing


Article Body:
Article marketing is one of the proven traffic producing strategies. Article marketing also is and always has been one of the best ways a business owner can use to promote their website. If done properly Article marketing can be a fast and safe method to attract new customers to your websites. Article marketing allows you to post your content with an anchor text link to your site, on other webmasters sites, gaining your site valuable one way links.

Writing articles yourself isn't necessarily difficult and they can vary in length and quality, depending on the article directories guidelines. You can write articles to share information on a subject or just to help in gaining links to your sites. Articles allow you to appear as a professional to an audience who are interested in the topic, but they also can help build high quality back links from content filled pages on other sites. Articles are separated in categories and sub-categories in order to easily find certain information the readers are looking for.

Writing and submitting articles to directories that have large amounts of traffic can generate increased traffic to your website, usually in a short amount of time. Writing your own articles and publishing them can be free or you can use a service to write and submit for you. The more articles you write and submit, means more website traffic and back links you will get. Other publishers and webmasters will start adding your article to their blogs and websites that can generate even more website traffic for you. The quality of the articles that you use will determine just how effective your marketing efforts will be in generating both links back to your web site and traffic.

Article marketing is the process of writing articles for the main purpose of including "anchor" links to your website. Article marketing is one of the easiest and most effective link building strategies in existence and is one of the most accepted ways to optimize your web site for the search engines. Article marketing can be a very powerful way to build your business and earn money on the World Wide Web.



 

Article Marketing - Correlating Revenue To The Articles You Write


Article Marketing - Correlating Revenue To The Articles You Write

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762

Summary:
If you are involved in writing or using articles to establish your credentials to share skills and knowledge to a broader internet community, it may be time to pause for a while and to consider to what extent this activity of article marketing is bringing in revenue to your online efforts. Just how is that done?


Keywords:
correlating revenue to article marketing, charting revenue against articles, article marketing, article promotion, statistics, testing


Article Body:
If you are involved in writing or using articles to establish your credentials to share skills and knowledge to a broader internet community, it may be time to pause for a while and to consider to what extent this activity of article marketing is bringing in revenue to your online efforts.

While article marketing is a function of many factors that may not lend itself to an exact computation of benefits in monetary terms, we cannot run away from the fact that when it comes to profitabilty of any online business, we have to think in terms of dollars and cents.

This is where statistics play a big part in correlating revenue to the articles we write.

Is it possible, for example, to project revenue to the number of articles we write, as there are factors peculiar only to the particular author that are not common to any other individual?

This is where the use of simple mathematics is helpful in our quest to correlate revenue to the articles we write.

Over a period of time of say 6 months, an author of various articles can actually keep a graph of revenue derived from article writing with the "y" axis as Revenue and the "x" axis of the graph as the number of articles written, each time keeping the number of article depositories to which the article was submitted at a constant figure.

In this particular case, say for example if you are marketing these articles to the article depositories such as ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com, your revenue that goes to the "y" axis is the payout derived from Google Adsense for the month by using solely article marketing alone, and the "x" axis will be the number of articles you have submitted.

Over the period of 6 months, you will have sufficient data on the graph for which you can draw a best fit curve or applying the principles of linear regression to form a straight line that goes through most of these points on the graph where the line is represented by the equation y=mx+c

The function of the regressed straight line will indicate that the revenue derived is a function of "m" which is the gradient or slope of the line, and a constant "c".

The constant "c" is the value where the straight line cuts the "y" axis and this is the particular part which stems from the individual and is a representation of his abilities in writing, his style of writing, his command of the language and factors that only the individual possesses.

By doing a correlation study between the revenue obtained and the number of articles submitted in article marketing, keeping other factors constant as far as possible, it will be possible to gauge the quality of the author's writing. It will also be possible to form a rough basis to project further revenue to the number of articles planned for submission, ignoring other factors such as keyword selection, onsite and offsite search engine optimisation which are not included in the study, and only on the basis of the individual writing "flair" and abilities as measured by the constant "c".

While this is by no means exact and is an approximation, keeping statistics and charts like these serves a useful function in helping the marketer to identify sudden trend changes, especially where performance or revenue suddenly falls from the norm ( or the mean ).

He can then study what has led to this deviation from the mean and why. Charting these details will make any change very apparent which may be missed otherwise.

While it is common for an internet marketer to use software scripts to track his earnings from Google Adsense, for example, most scripts do not lend themselves to this particular graphical analysis as explained. It is when the charting is done by hand, albeit in such a simple way, that the internet marketer is sensitive enough and alert to any sudden changes or is able to consider what factor to change in his article writing to derive more revenue.

He can go deeper to ask this question: " Since the revenue is directly proportional to the slope of the revenue line, what factors will change the slope?".

Knowing these factors, he can vary them and test out his changes.

By correlating revenue to the number of articles written, the internet marketer has a way to project profitability, no matter how rough. He has on his hands a set of statistics that he can use for further research and analysis, or in marketing terms "testing".


 


 

jueves, 19 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing - A Powerful Tool


Article Marketing - A Powerful Tool

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338

Summary:
Article marketing has become a proven strategy for raising your link popularity.  It can also be a cheap way to compete with larger companies in your field.


Keywords:
article marketing


Article Body:
Article marketing has many benefits which may include establishing yourself as an Author, lead generation, more traffic to your web site, improved search engine position and is becoming a necessary tool for doing business on the World Wide Web.  Article marketing has become a proven strategy for raising your link popularity.  It can also be a cheap way to compete with larger companies in your field.

It's best to write on topics that are closely related to your business type, while making sure that the article provides good content for the reader, no one wants to read a sales page.  Every article that you write will need a resource box section that will contain your sales info including an (anchor text) link or two pointing to your Web site.  You could have a terrific product and a wonderful sales strategy, but without the targeted traffic your online business could be going no-where.

You can take advantage of a ton of free article submission sites on the internet, where you can submit your articles for free, some also offer software and services to help in the process.  Once approved, the sites will make your articles available for distribution and publication to ezines, webmasters etc...  Now there is no more need to beg for reciprocal link exchanges, pay for text links, or spend hours posting free ads to link farms that no one will read anyway.  Articles, written yourself, are becoming the fastest and cheapest way to see results from your efforts.

When done properly, article marketing can be a very powerful tool to drive loads of targeted traffic to your web site.  Whether your business is brand  new or you have been in business for a while, you can gain new customers from marketing your own articles.  To be the most effective, article marketing should just be part of a larger, more comprehensive SEO strategy.  Remember, the goal of successful marketing is increased business and most importantly profit and this can be achieved with the help of article marketing.


 

Article Marketing - A Newbies Guide To Article Marketing


Article Marketing - A Newbies Guide To Article Marketing

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648

Summary:
Article Marketing is one of the most important tactics involved in internet marketing. The benefits of article marketing are many and it's not too difficult to make it a part of your internet marketing strategy. Read on to find out about things to take into account when attempting to incorporate article marketing into your overall online strategy.


Keywords:
article marketing, article writting, free traffic, web traffic, seo, ppc


Article Body:
Article marketing is one of the absolute basics of internet marketing. Having articles all over the internet is a marketing method which enables you to invest some time and effort right now and reap the benefits for years to come. This article will explore some of the advantages of article marketing and its subtleties in order to help internet marketers to use it to their best advantage.

Anyone who's been doing internet marketing for a while knows that writing articles is imperative to the success of one's online campaigns. Having articles in various article directories is a great way of providing links back to your site, thus building your site's popularity. When a page has many links back to it it helps to attain good positioning in the search engines. An article directory which has a high page rank is the best place to submit articles to as this helps to boost your page's rank.

Bear in mind that people take articles they enjoy and publish them in their ezines and on their websites, further providing you, the author, with more back links and publicity.

When you have articles of your own posted in article directories you can slowly establish your name as an expert in your niche. People will be more apt to trust your recommendations.

Although it may be tempting to write a bunch of articles in one day and submit them to a few directories, exercise caution with this. Why is that? Because Google is quite sensitive about a sudden surge in traffic to a link. Although we would all love a sudden surge in traffic, it may cause Google to de-index your site in order to look in to the reason for the sudden popularity of your site. It's better to submit articles every couple of days.

In the process of article marketing, don't submit an article that is already on your own website. It may be considered duplicate content and you don't want that! Google would consider the site which is higher ranking to be the originator of the article (the article directory) and your site's page rank may suffer.

Don't submit PLR articles without making changes!! There is so much PLR available today (free and otherwise) and it is very tempting to just grab it and use it. Don't do it. The purpose of these articles is to provide you with a basis for an article. Read it and rewrite it in your own words. Duplicate articles could be rejected by the article directories and the directories may just decide to ban your account.

Try to use good keywords in your article's title and also in the beginning of the first paragraph. Sprinkle your chosen keyword all over the article as well.

Most article directories allow you to use hyperlinks. For sophisticated and efficient article marketing try to use anchor text that relates to the keywords you are targeting. This will help you attain a better position in the SERP's (search engine result pages). If you are targeting the word "gardening tips" make sure to hyperlink to your website from each mention of the term in your article. This will help your gardening site be higher in the search results for the term "gardening tips".

Try to remember that people will be reading your article. Make it readable for them and don't just concentrate on the density of your keywords. If people don't enjoy reading the article, they won't bother reaching the end of it, which is where you will lead them to your site from the ever-important resource box!

In summary, article marketing is a very important, even critical, element of internet marketing. Every internet marketer should be making the effort to become proficient in article marketing and learning how to write decent quality articles in as little time as possible. It will bring in terrific long term results.

Happy writing!


 

miércoles, 18 de mayo de 2011

Article Marketing – How Articles Help Promote Your Home Business Web Site


Article Marketing – How Articles Help Promote Your Home Business Web Site

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411

Summary:
Writing Articles is a great way to promote your home business web site and it's very easy to do. You can write articles that are related to your business and submit them to article directories. All it takes is take time to create the article and submit them. The pay off though can be an increase in website traffic and more sales opportunities.

The article process is as follows: You create the article, proof read and correct the article, and submit the article.

One way a...


Keywords:
Article Marketing


Article Body:
Writing Articles is a great way to promote your home business web site and it's very easy to do. You can write articles that are related to your business and submit them to article directories. All it takes is take time to create the article and submit them. The pay off though can be an increase in website traffic and more sales opportunities.

The article process is as follows: You create the article, proof read and correct the article, and submit the article.

One way articles create traffic to your web site is from the reader. The reader can find your web site address from a link in your article resource box. You have to make sure the article resource box contains a link to your website.

Article marketing is also known to be a method of viral marketing. Meaning popularity of your article has the potential to grow. For example, webmasters from other sites can use your articles to use as content on their web site. In return for allowing the webmaster for using your article, your article will include the resource box you created containing a link back to your site.

As you create more articles and more sites keep using them, the total number of links to your site increases also. Search engines are place value on incoming links to your website. This determines the how relevant your web site is. The more relevant your site becomes the higher it may place in the search engine results.

Articles can also build trust between your business and potential customers. For example, with more people buying online, writing articles gives you an opportunity to present yourself as an expert on the product people are looking for.

I consider an article as a warm lead generator. You see, people are actually looking for the information you are writing about.

Article marketing is a great way of having your site on the search engines. When writing articles, you must understand that the propagation of the article takes time. While no marketing method is guaranteed, in time you may see desirable results from this method of marketing.

There are many advantages to marketing your home business on the internet by writing articles. The best part about article writing is that it doesn't cost anything. It does take time to write the article correctly and submit them to your favorite article directories. When done correctly, the payoff will benefit your home business.


 

Article Directories For Free Promotion


Article Directories For Free Promotion

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850

Summary:
If you are looking for a way to promote your website, then article directories could be just what you need. Article directories allow webmasters to post articles and such directories provide myriad benefits to webmasters.

Let's take a look at the various benefits provided by article directories below:

1. Are you looking to promote your web site but you do not have an advertising budget? This is a common problem for webmasters and article directories provide a fast and...


Keywords:
Article Directory, articlealley, articles


Article Body:
If you are looking for a way to promote your website, then article directories could be just what you need. Article directories allow webmasters to post articles and such directories provide myriad benefits to webmasters.

Let's take a look at the various benefits provided by article directories below:

1. Are you looking to promote your web site but you do not have an advertising budget? This is a common problem for webmasters and article directories provide a fast and easy solution. Once your articles have been accepted in an article directory, you will find that other members use your article in various newsletters, forums, ezines and websites and the use of your article will prompt more traffic to your website. Therefore, after submitting several articles to any one of many article directories, you will find that not only do you increase your web traffic, but you will also quickly build a returning web audience.

2. A great way to boost your sites' popularity is by writing articles and publishing them on article directories. If you are looking to become an expert in your genre, then you can be rest assured that article directories is the fastest route to establish your expertise. After you have written and published several articles in article directories and the articles are reviewed and utilized by other webmasters all over the world, you will come to find that your name will become well known and revered as someone that really knows their business. Thus, you get the benefit of free advertising and the opportunity to build your reputation as an authority within your industry—all for free when using article directories.

3. A single article, once it has been distributed can literally appear on hundreds of websites. The free exposure gained by the utilization of article directories should not be underestimated—just as word of mouth is powerful advertising, so it is with what web visitors read on the Internet. Additionally, if your well-written articles appear repetitively on many websites, web visitors will come to recognize and appreciate your expertise and their recognition of your work will stir their desire to access more of what it is you offer.

4. Using article directories gives webmasters all of the benefits of the old pyramid selling approach without the cost. As webmasters promote your articles, you will find that the promotion continues to grow. For instance, if one webmaster promotes your article and four or five other webmasters see your article and also like it enough to use it on there site, then that one posting can lead to four or five more postings and so on and so forth.

5. So, how does your article promise you website traffic? It is fairly simple; make sure you add a biography and insist on a working hyperlink. By having webmasters add your biography and a working hyperlink along with your article, web visitors can learn a little about you and know exactly where to find more of your work when they are interested. If readers enjoy what they read, a simple click on the agreed hyperlink will instantly lead them to your site and increase your web traffic.

6. Thanks to article directories, webmasters can link up with more popular websites and gain more traffic based on the websites they have become associated with. There are many very popular sites that get literally 100,000's of page views per month. Such views can immediately increase the traffic to your own site and later, create an increase in the direct traffic of your site.

7. Article directories provide easy solutions for webmasters looking for content. Let's face it; webmasters don't always feel creative nor do they always have the spare time they need to create web content. Alternatively, webmasters are always looking for content to match their sites theme and your articles can be chosen from article directories to help webmasters fulfill their need.

8. With the article directories, you will immediately improve link popularity, which also boosts the rankings of your site in search engines. Think about it; the more links on the Internet that point to your website, the higher your website ranking is. Therefore, as your articles get posted all over the World Wide Web, not only do you gain popularity in your field, but your search engine rating with parallel your popularity and subsequently increase.

9. Article directories allow you to post articles that are well written and knowledgeable. Further, the more knowledgeable the article comes across, the more interested a reader becomes in your work. Hence, with a stirred interest, web visitors will desire your expertise and will purposely seek out your latest writings.

10. Finally, after you have grabbed the attention of web viewers by using article directories, you will want to do everything you can to maintain their interests. The easiest and most efficient way to keep a viewer's interest is to continue to write new and refreshing articles on a regular basis and submit them to article directories. This way, you can effectively derive the benefits obtained through the use of article directories on a regular and ongoing basis.


 

martes, 17 de mayo de 2011

Article Directories - Ten Great Reasons To Submit Articles To Them by Keith P. Stieneke


Article Directories - Ten Great Reasons To Submit Articles To Them by Keith P. Stieneke

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567

Summary:
Article marketing is still a great way of getting recognition on the Internet. Indeed my own name is found several times in Google and a great deal of this was due to submitting articles to article directories. I have yet to optimize this method of marketing but will do more so this year.

Here are ten great reasons you should write and submit articles to article directories:


Keywords:
articles,article marketing,article submission


Article Body:
Article marketing is still a great way of getting recognition on the Internet. Indeed my own name is found several times in Google and a great deal of this was due to submitting articles to article directories. I have yet to optimize this method of marketing but will do more so this year.

Here are ten great reasons you should write and submit articles to article directories:

1. Publicity - People will know that you write and may even seek out your expertise on the subject that you write about. This is of course tied into credibility.
2. Credibility - You will be seen as an expert in your field if your articles are mainly about a certain field, make sense, and contain timely and relevant information. As an article writer you may get special treatment by these new article directory owners and get them to create a category just for your expertise.
3. Branding - You will brand yourself and your website so that people looking for information on a certain topic can easily find it on a publicized article directory. If you have several articles you can quickly become a top author at the new article sites.
4. Ezine Exposure - Ezine publishers may be looking for an article in a certain niche and go to these article directories in order to find an article in that niche. If you've given permission for the article to be published then it may be publicized before you're even aware of it being published.
5. Blog Exposure - One of the biggest crazes these days is blogging. Many people are using blogs to express interest in a certain niche. One of my own niche interests is alternative health and I have four blogs each concerned with a different "sub-niche" in this area. Bloggers can either print your article in full in their blog or link to the article in the article-directory.
6. RSS - Many article directories today offer RSS feeds for each of their categories. Someone with a website may need niche content for the particular area that their website is about and run that feed on their website. New article database owners are going to be promoting heavily to get their sites growing so they are going to be taking advantage of this technology.
7. Mainstream Publishing - Editors of mainstream print publications such as magazines and tabloids within a certain field of interest may be impressed by your article and offer you payment to write articles just for their publication.
8. Archiving - Your article is always in the directory and available by category or author search. This makes it easy for publishers and others to find articles that you have written.
9. Website Exposure - When someone chooses to read your article or to print it on their website your URL is published for anyone reading the article to see, and of course, the most important reason which is marketing strategy.
10. Search Engine Marketing Strategy - This is the all-encompassing reason why you should submit articles that you write to article directories. If you do not or for some reason cannot write and submit articles you are a missing out on one great method of building your business. Submitting to article directories can get you and your website mentioned in the search engines. Google and other search engines are always looking for fresh, new content. If you are an affiliate with a certain company this is a great way to build your business.


 

Are You Writing Articles to Boost Your Business & Explode Your Sales?

Title:
Are You Writing Articles to Boost Your Business & Explode Your Sales?

Word Count:
527

Summary:
For many years search engine marketing has been the most popular advertising strategy on the Internet. But, as you know, strong competition makes it extremely difficult to get high rankings in search engines. So, what is the solution to get placements in the top 20 listings in search engines?


Keywords:
Keywords: Marketing,Advertising,Articles,Article Marketing,Article Advertising, Business Articles, Business Article Marketing, Article Marketing through Ezines, Business Article Marketing in Busin


Article Body:
For many years search engine marketing has been the most popular advertising strategy on the Internet. But, as you know, strong competition makes it extremely difficult to get high rankings in search engines. So, what is the solution to get placements in the top 20 listings in search engines?

To get the top ten rankings which receive the lion's share in attracting traffic to websites has almost been impossible for most businesses because of the insane competition. That's why online business owners and marketers are striving hard to find solutions to this problem.

Finally, they have found one affective strategy to get top rankings in search engines. They are now writing informative articles on any subject they know well. Then, they send their articles to hundreds, even thousands of online and offline publications, including newspapers, magazines, newsletters, e-zines, journals, online portals, websites and weblogs.

Utilizing this marketing strategy helps marketers expose their offers to multi-millions of target audience in related categories worldwide, attracting tens of thousands of potential customers to their websites, helping their target audience receive information, learn many things in their favorite categories, or learn the most powerful advertising
methods to grow their businesses fast.

So, articles provide the authors with opportunities to expose their offers to millions of target audience, having many of them visit their websites. You know, more traffic generates more sales. Their readers get information on the subjects they have interest in, getting answers to the questions they have in their minds, learning many methods to boost their businesses.

In fact, both authors and their audience benefit from articles in many ways. This makes articles valuable tools serving millions of people online and offline.

Because great number of people benefit from articles, search engines evaluate articles as valuable tools, too, giving them high credits when evaluating websites. This way, articles play a great role in getting higher search engine rankings.

But, most probably you are a busy person, don't have enough time to send your articles to hundreds of distribution points including magazines, newsletters, e-zines, journals, weblogs, websites. Besides, you don't know how to submit articles to those publications, you have no idea about their rules.

How could you possibly benefit from article marketing when you are unable to send your articles to any publication. To reach herds of people, millions of target audience you have to send your articles to thousands of popular publications, high traffic websites, and you are simply unable to do it!

Don't worry. There are many nice people out there to distribute your articles to hundreds of best places and popular publications for you to reach millions of target audience in a specific category. Most of these wonderful people would even do it without any cost on your part.

These are the links to the websites of free article publisher and distributors:

1. Ezine Articles  
2. .zapcontent
3. ArticleRich
4. iSnaire
5. Marketing for Success 
6. The News   
7. New Free Articles

Your original articles sharing useful information with the readers will enhance your credibility and reliability which are essential values to keep your existing customers in your business, while attracting many more potential customers to your website. Keep writing.


 

lunes, 16 de mayo de 2011

Are You Making These Article Marketing Mistakes?

Title:
Are You Making These Article Marketing Mistakes?

Word Count:
1026

Summary:
For those who are not finding success with articles, or for those considering starting out, here are a few ground rules that will save you a lot of work in the long run.


Keywords:
article, articles, writing articles, article directory, article directories, article marketing, article writing tips, article submission


Article Body:
As an article directory owner and editor I am exposed to a huge number of articles every single day of the week.

I sometimes receive complaints from authors who are angered by the fact that their article has not been published, which leads me to believe that there are still a lot of people out there who do not understand article marketing, nor the role that directories play.

For those who are not finding success with articles, or for those considering starting out, here are a few ground rules that will save you a lot of work in the long run and will likely get your article marketing career off to a much more auspicious start.

Read the article directory's specific terms of service and guidelines. This may seem like a boring, tedious and long winded waste of your valuable time but in the long term it will save you hours of frustration and wasted effort. All directories set their own rules and some are stricter than others. Most directories labor under a huge number of submissions and the work of sifting through them is often the job of one individual. This means that if your opening paragraph or introductory statement is poorly written or contains mistakes, that is as far as the editor will go before hitting the delete key. The luxury of time to edit an author's mistakes or to decline an article as opposed to deleting it, is one that most editors do not have.

Mass submissions are usually viewed as spam. Let's face it, none of us are capable of writing over 200 articles in a day - I would say that even producing more than ten would be a pretty amazing feat of productivity. It should come as no surprise to those submitting large numbers of articles in a 24 hour period to find that they are all deleted. Article directory software usually allows for quick erasure of such submissions, so if you don't want your work to fall victim to mass deletion, don't mass submit. All that is needed is a little common sense. If you are using a submission service, set the option to stagger your submissions over a longer period of time.

Proof read your articles. If you don't know what this means, look it up! If your writing is riddled with spelling errors, poor structure, punctuation horrors and grammatical butchery, don't be surprised if none of them get published. I could write thousands of words on the most common mistakes seen in people's writing. These usually involve spelling and grammar. Spell check your articles, even if you think you're perfect, you will often be surprised at the mistakes you make. If you tend to misspell a word regularly, you will never correct it unless you make yourself aware of it.

If you are of the opinion that these things don't matter (after all, people will know what you mean!) then think again. If you want to write and, more importantly, see your work published and picked up by other website owners and bloggers, you need to demonstrate an ability to write well.

As an example, all the "SEO experts" who talk about search engine optimisation (sic) but don't even understand that being able to spell their claimed occupation correctly would lend a little more credibility to their claims. Just for the record, most words ending in "ize" use a "z" and not an "s". This is a very common mistake, but it would be corrected by the use of a spell checker, as would so many others.

If you want to write with authority, you have to be able to exhibit basic literacy. Yes, this is important and should be borne in mind by those who eulogize about "the Queen's English", thus making themselves look even more foolish than those they chastise. (a good example of a word that does actually end in "ise") Regardless of who is on the throne, it is always "the King's English".

None of us are perfect and this is not a lecture on grammar and spelling, no matter how needed it might be.

If you are tempted to use PLR articles, even if you rewrite them in an attempt to make them unique, remember that you will be competing with all the other shortcut seekers who are doing the same thing. It's another shortcut to the delete key for a lot of directories.

When it comes to the resource box, it is quite amazing how many authors defeat their entire purpose by making a mess of this vital section. If the article directory in question allows one, two or three live Hyperlinks, make good use of them. Think about your anchor text very carefully. In other words don't say......to find out more click here and Hyperlink the words "click here". The resource box is where you need to give readers a compelling reason to visit your site(s) but it is also the one place you can make the most of good keywords as the anchor text in your links.

Use the resource box wisely and take full advantage of everything the directory is offering you by way of promotional tools. Adding your URL without making it a live link is a pointless waste of time if the directory allows you to use Hyperlinks in your resource box. Conversely, adding more than the quota of permitted links will probably result in deletion of your work.

Another thing to watch is linking directly to affiliate programs. Read the directory's policies on this point or again, you may well find yourself on the cutting room floor. Many directories will stipulate that you may only link to affiliate programs indirectly by referring readers to your own site or domain. Some do not allow straight redirect links either.

Relevancy is also an issue here too. In other words, submitting a PLR piece about gardening and linking to your MLM program is not very helpful or wise, just one more recipe for deletion.

I should finish by saying that yes, you can churn out badly written articles to your heart's content, just don't be surprised at the results.


 

Are You Already Marketing On The Internet?

Title:
Are You Already Marketing On The Internet?

Word Count:
585

Summary:
Take a moment to think about how you would really answer this question. If given enough thought just about any business owner who utilizes the Internet for any purpose will likely find that whether or not they intentionally organized an Internet marketing campaign, they may already be marketing their products and services on the Internet. This article will examine some subtle ways business owners may already


Keywords:
internet business plan, small business advertising, business newsletter, business location, business competitors, business website, search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, business marketing tips


Article Body:
Take a moment to think about how you would really answer this question. If given enough thought just about any business owner who utilizes the Internet for any purpose will likely find that whether or not they intentionally organized an Internet marketing campaign, they may already be marketing their products and services on the Internet. This article will examine some subtle ways business owners may already be marketing their business on the Internet.

Do you have a website for your business? Business owners who answer yes to this question are already marketing their products or services online just by virtue of the fact that they have a website online. Having a live website means there is the potential for curious Internet users to access your website. You may not be actively promoting your website but you may still find that your website generates interest in your products despite the lack of promotional endeavors; this is a form of passive marketing.

Do you participate in message boards and include a link to your website in your signature? Again business owners who answer yes to this question are already marketing their website online. Savvy business owners realize the importance of participation in industry related message boards to create an interest in their products and services, establish themselves as knowledgeable about the industry and offer a link to their own website even if it is in the signature line of their posts. However, even business owners who do not realize this may already be inadvertently enjoying the benefits of Internet marketing which result from message board participation just by doing something they enjoy and may be doing as a form of leisure activity.

Do you include keywords which are relevant to your business in the content of your website? Business owners who answer yes to this question are also already marketing on the Internet by optimizing their website for these keywords. These search engine optimization (SEO) affects the websites whether or not they were even aware of the concept of keyword density and how it can help to SEO a website. Business owners will likely use certain words often depending on the type of products and services they offer just because it is natural and logical to do so. This tendency, however, can result in search engines boosting your website rankings for these particular keywords. The concept of SEO is much more involved and complex than simply using keywords frequently but business owners can gain some benefit just by naturally applying relevant keywords to their website.

Do you solicit feedback from your customers online? This is yet another example of how business owners may be accidentally marketing their business on the Internet. Most business owners realize the importance of soliciting feedback from customers for business purposes and business owners who offer products online might solicit feedback in the form of online surveys. Although the business owners may be doing this simply for a business purpose the fact that it is done online makes it fall into the category of Internet marketing.

We have already discussed several ways in which business owners may already be marketing online but what about business owners who want to have an increased online presence? Business owners who may already be marketing online accidentally may wish to launch a full scale Internet marketing campaign. The best way to do this is to hire a consultant with experience in Internet marketing to assist you in creating a campaign which is effective for your target audience.


 


 

sábado, 14 de mayo de 2011

Affiliates, How To Become An Article Marketer


Affiliates, How To Become An Article Marketer

Word Count:
570

Summary:
If you're at all familiar with Article Marketing, then you know that the main thrust behind your articles is the bio box or resource box. This is where you put a link to a significant website that you're trying to promote.

But that can be a real problem when you're attempting to promote a pr


Keywords:
affiliate marketing,affiliate,marketing,affiliate links,managing affiliate links,article marketing,articles,bio boxes,resource boxes,how to become an article marketer


Article Body:
If you're at all familiar with Article Marketing, then you know that the main thrust behind your articles is the bio box or resource box. This is where you put a link to a significant website that you're trying to promote.

But that can be a real problem when you're attempting to promote a product that isn't your own.

Affiliate links can be long and rather ugly, not to mention obvious. So it becomes pretty difficult to get your readers to see you as an expert when your links have all those "=", "?" and long arrays of numbers and codes in it.

To add to the problem, most of the article directories now strip out html coding in both the article body and the bio box and hyperlink your URL instead.

So hiding your long affiliate link behind some coded text is pretty much out of the question too. Which leaves you to post your articles with your affiliate link hyerlinked in your bio box. And as you probably know, it's awfully hard to hide something that's neon blue against a background of black and white.

There are, however,a few things you can do to hide the fact that you're promoting an affiliate product. Some of them have some potential drawbacks, but when you're desperate, anything is better than nothing.

1. URL Shrinkers:

Pros: These are usually free to use and can quickly change any link to a much smaller, cloaked link. You just have to paste your long affiliate link in the box and click one button to get a mini link that will take visitors to the same site.

Cons: Your new URL will have the link shrinker's domain name. If they are a popular service you might find your links timing out when their servers get over worked.

Seasoned marketers usually know what a shrunken URL means (affiliate link).

2. PHP Script Rerouters:

Pros: Allows you to create alternate links directly on your own domain. Good for Article Marketing because they usually have you place the script in a folder named "recommends" or something similar. So your link looks like . . .

"yourdomain.com/recommends/theirproduct"

Cons: You have to manually tweak php files and upload them to your server. Then you have to have a system where you can keep track of all your real affiliate links, what you've renamed them and where they are on your server.

3. Desktop Link Management Programs:

Pros: You fill in a few lines on a form, click a couple buttons and your new links are created and uploaded to your server for you. Your real affiliate links are stored in the system along with the name and location of your rerouted links. Plus you're able to easily modify the whole process.

You can create hundreds of links for one product, which is a big plus for article marketing because if you use an article submission program you can load all your different links into different bio boxes, which solves the html code stripping problem in the directories.

Cons: They don't come free. There's a price to pay for ease, speed and efficiency. Prices vary, but expect to pay at the lowest around $40.

In any event, there are ways to successfully turn an Affiliate Marketer into a high powered Article Marketer. Affiliate links don't have to look like affiliate links anymore, which opens things up for Affiliate Marketers to use this highly effective marketing venue.


 

Affiliate Programs And Becoming Wealthy


Affiliate Programs And Becoming Wealthy

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Summary:
This article outlines the need-to-know basics of Affiliate Programs, and how YOU can benefit from them. For more information, simply click to read more, or follow the links in the resource box.


Keywords:
affiliate,program,affiliate program,income,work,marketing,profit


Article Body:
A lot of the times it pays off to work with other people. In this article we'll talk about how to establish an income with affiliate programs.

Affiliate programs (in addition to being called Referral Programs or Partnership Programs) are fundamentally commission-based sales
strategies. You advocate a web site to your users and receive a
share from any purchases those users produce. You profit
from the commission and the web site benefits by making sales it
would not otherwise have earned. If you have ever gone to a
website and come across links to Amazon, those were affiliate
links.

You could campaign a affiliate program from a web site you have already
set up, or make a web site especially to advertise a product or
service. As long as it takes in more cash than you expend on
establishing them and purchasing traffic, you're happy.

Affiliate advertisements work in two manners: you are able to join them to produce
income, or you are able to operate one to pull in users.

- Linking up to an Affiliate Program

As with any commercialising venture, you need to becareful in the
choice of an associate program. The benefit from a
affiliate program is that it generates additional ways to produce
income from your users. Rather than selling them a product
yourself, you direct them to a partner and acquire a percentage.

On the downside though, your affiliate advertisements will take up the
position of another advert that you might have
placed. You have to be sure that all promoting placements
on your web site are pulling in the greatest income achievable. Whenever
you are not generating the most from your web site, you are flipping
income aside.

The key to success is to select the proper program, correctly
from the "get-go".

At present, numerous commercial sites operate affiliate programs.
That's because they recognise that they only have to give a
commission whenever a sale is actually produced; it is a established formula to
generate income without jeopardy. What that entails for you is
that once it amounts to selecting an affiliate program, you are
going to have a vast range to choose from. What it entirely comes down to though is product and cost.

Although it could be tempting to go for the program that gives
the greatest commissions, the program will not give you a cent
if your users will not go there or will not purchase when they arrive
there. You have to be sure that the service you are
advertising is of actual interest to the sort of users you
purchase, whether you are buying them from SEs or
anyplace else.

Sure enough, you are able to work backwards: You discover a high-paying
affiliate program and make a small-scale web site to direct users to
it, but do you know where to purchase users for a program like
that? You are going to have to research the field of operation, suss out
the most best-selling sites, and negotiate banner campaigns and
link up exchanges.

That's very well if you prefer to invest the time and the effort.
Simply it is very much less complicated to ascertain an affiliate program operating
in a subject area you are acquainted with, and apply that program to
gain additional cash.

For instance, say you had established a dating web site. You could
produce a little bit of income marketing subscriptions, but you could produce
even more by joining Match.com's affiliate program and
selling them your users. Unless you are planning to equal the
web's largest dating web site, you are not going to be fit
to contend directly and beat them, but you are able to join them-and
generate money.

Or instead of selling your users directly to a 'challenger',
you could see for services that complement your own. Visitors
to your dating web site, for instance, could be interested in
purchasing flowers, books on relationships or tickets on singles
cruises. As an alternative from selling only one product-membership
subscriptions-you'd be marketing a complete range of assorted
goods to the same people, and maximising the sources of your
revenue.

Here are a few hints to choosing an affiliate program that is
profitable and correct for you:

* Do not take lower than 25% commission. You'll be able to obtain
affiliate programs with great payment structures and high
percentages of the purchase price in almost every
field.

* Look for across-the-board statistics pages that broadcast the
amount of click-throughs, gross sales and net profit so you are able to
check
how you are getting along. The data should be analyzed
by month.

* Look for programs that offer up a comprehensive assortment of
promotional tools to place on your Web page, including text
hyperlinks, banners and artwork.

* Ascertain how frequently you'll be paid and be sure that
the payment agenda matches your expectations. Numerous
programs pay
each month, others every quarter; which is most beneficial for you?

* Look for cases of marketing techniques that successful
affiliates are applying to have the best final results.

* Make certain that top-ranking support is established. If they can not
answer your inquiries quickly and intelligently, you
do not want to work with them.

Affiliate programs provide a feasible resolution to competing
against bigger competitors and still produce income. As the
saying goes, if you can't beat them, joint them!


 

viernes, 13 de mayo de 2011

AFFILIATE MARKETING- THE EXACT WAY


AFFILIATE MARKETING- THE EXACT WAY

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836

Summary:
For web entrepreneurs, you'll discover how to start an web affiliate marketing campaign in a right way in this editorial. With the right web affiliate marketing campaign & the proactive affiliate marketing entrepreneurs, you can boost skyrocket your sales & profits online.


Keywords:
marketing, web, affiliate, &, affiliate marketing, online, web affiliate, web affiliate marketing, website, funds, business, home, web marketing, banner, based, funds online, ad, you\ll, campaign, per,


Article Body:
For web entrepreneurs, you'll discover how to start an web affiliate marketing campaign in a right way in this editorial. With the right web affiliate marketing campaign & the proactive affiliate marketing entrepreneurs, you can boost skyrocket your sales & profits online.

Some business owners opt to start an web affiliate marketing campaign as part of their overall marketing strategy. In most cases the web affiliate marketing campaign is only a small portion of the overall marketing strategy but there's some business owners who opt to rely exclusively on this type of marketing. The main purpose of doing this is to save funds while still achieving valuable advertising & making extra profits.

However, two times a home based online business becomes more successful they should consider being more proactive & combining web affiliate marketing with other types of web marketing such as placing banner ads & orchestrating an email marketing campaign. This article will take a look at what web affiliate marketing is & will provide insight into why this is popular & how it can be used effectively.


READ THIS: If you are truly serious about how to start highly profitable web affiliate marketing campaign online.

An web affiliate marketing campaign is essentially a situation where other website owners place ads for your business on their websites. These website owners are known as affiliates. it is important to understand how this type of marketing works. In general the affiliates are given code for your banner ad to place on their website & given the freedom to promote their own website as they see fit. In promoting their website they are also attracting attention to your website because of the banner ad directing visitors to your own web-site.

One of the most appealing elements of web affiliate marketing is the affiliate is only compensated when he produces a desired result. This means the home based online business owner is not obligated to pay the affiliate unless the affiliate is successful. Success may be defined as generating traffic to the website, resulting in a sale or even resulting in the web user registering on your website or filling out a survey.

The compensation for affiliates is generally based on cost per click, cost per lead or cost per sale. Cost per click & cost per lead are usually paid in terms of a flat fee which is awarded to the affiliate each time an web user either basically clicks through the banner ad on his website or performs a specific action after clicking through the ad. Cost per sale may result in the affiliate being awarded a flat fee or a percentage of the sale depending on the agreement between the business owner & the affiliate.

The most effective use of web affiliate marketing is to actively seek out affiliate marketers with a proven track record of promoting the home based online businesses which they support. Most online web affiliate programs are open to someone with a website & it is not necessarily damaging to permit those who are not  knowledgeable about marketing to run your banner ad but it is far more worthwhile to seek out affiliates who are  adept & generating website traffic to their own web-site. This is important because the more visitors they receive each month the more likely your website it to receive interest from visitors who click on the affiliates banner ad.

Another aspect of web affiliate marketing which can contribute to success or failure is the design of your banner ads. it is important to remember web affiliate marketing is viewed the same way other types of marketing are viewed & care should be taken to develop banner ads which will be appealing to your target audience. This means everything from the colors of your ad to the size & style of the font should be carefully considered to develop an appealing advertisement.


Learn Affiliate Marketing to discover top inside tips, techniques & secrets of how to earn extra funds online through your online home based business. You'll learn a lot of ways to make extra funds online. Also, you'll save your time & funds for your online home based business!

Finally, I personally believe that web affiliate marketing is one of the best web marketing strategies for web entrepreneurs to boost skyrocket their profits online. You'll make big serious funds online at home. Also, you'll have  proactive affiliate marketing entrepreneurs working & promoting your products or services for you!

Get FREE report now to discover best web marketing strategies, web marketing techniques & secrets of how to make funds at home easy through your online business web marketing computer with multiple marketing strategies (e.g. email promotion web marketing, affiliate marketing business, & blogging). there's plenty of easy ways to make funds online there. You'll learn a lot of easy ways to make funds online at home. Also, you'll save your time & funds for your online home based web marketing business!

 


 

Adsense is for Everyone


Adsense is for Everyone

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604

Summary:
Adsense is a very profitable way of making a living online.  This article will help you find a way to use adsense in your business.


Keywords:
Online Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Optin Lists, Adsense, Adwords, Autoresponder,


Article Body:
When Google's AdSense appeared, there were a lot of people who doubted Google's idea would be marketable and actually generate any profits. Yet as we stand here today it's probably the most well known pay per click venture in the world.

Yes, all those nay sayers ended up eating their own words in the end. And that is because the folks at Google never go and do something without assessing whether or not it will be profitable, or exactly how profitable it is.

But of course, as you might very well know, AdSense isn't just profitable for Google. It's also profitable for the people who advertise via AdWords and very profitable for publishers who use it to make earnings which are sometimes just enormous.

So one must ask himself why this is such a good deal for everybody. And the question in itself is very justified because you hardly ever come across something that's profitable for everyone in the chain. So why would AdSense be any different.

Well, AdSense is where it stands today, giving benefits for everybody in the game because it exploits a gap in the Internet's advertising model.

You see, the Internet is a very interactive environment, and its interactions come from the people who are browsing. They choose whether or not to follow a certain link and the term "navigating" is probably the most precise one at describing this situation.

So AdSense is great because it links together buyers and sellers. Yes, you have to hand it out to Google for a brilliant idea. They know there are people out there that want to buy stuff and people who want to sell them what they're interested in. And Google AdSense helps members of the two categories find each other.

It works for the visitors, because the model is very transparent. You don't see a huge graphic banner which tries to lure you into buying something. You just see a few words. And if you like what you see you can just click it. It works because visitors don't have that feeling of someone trying to lure them into spending money. Ironically, however, they're wrong.

It works for the AdWords advertisers because their ads go everywhere. Not only will they find themselves listed in Google's search which gets gazillions of hits per day, up front without working as much for SEO and waiting so much.

Their ads can reach any website that deals with anything similar to what they're trying to sell. Now you must realize they could never pull of such great advertising by themselves. And that brings us to the thing that makes Google's AdSense a publisher's best friend.

It comes from the fact that the ads are contextual, that they somehow related to the keywords you deal with on your page. Because people or on your site, which deals with a certain topic, you already know they're interested in that topic.

But, hey, wait a minute, Google knows some companies which want to sell your visitors something related to their topic. Google wants your visitors, you want Google's advertisers and the visitors just want to buy stuff. And that is the essence of what makes AdSense a great deal for everybody.

This is by far the most profitable hook-up deal you're ever going to see anywhere on the Internet.

So you have to appreciate Google for realizing a killer deal. You have to appreciate how well thought out, yet simple this scheme really is. Sure, in practice it has a few quirks but those are minor and, up to this point everyone seems to be enjoying Google's AdSense.


 

miércoles, 11 de mayo de 2011

A Review of Article Submitter Pro


A Review of Article Submitter Pro

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575

Summary:
The days of tediously submitting your articles to article directories one by one are over! This article reviews the software application, Article Submitter Pro.


Keywords:
writing, submitting, articles, article directories, submissions, marketing, software, online marketing


Article Body:
The days of tediously submitting your articles to article directories one by one are over!

Imagine this scenario. There you are, in front of your keyboard, proud as punch after putting the finishing touches to your latest article. Feeling good? Great. But, if you are going to submit this article to multiple article directories your work is far from over.

In fact, you're not even close. Unless you're a magician, that is. You'll spend hour upon hour manually copying and pasting to submit your article to all the sites that accept articles. What a drag! What a waste of time that could be better spent on other projects or writing more articles.

If you wish you had some help on occasions like this, you're not alone. The good news is that I think I've found a wizard for you. It's called Article Submitter Pro, and it is an incredibly powerful software application.

With Article Submitter Pro, you choose which web sites you want to submit your article to. Next, Article Submitter Pro determines the requirements for each site, formats your article to satisfy those requirements, and fills in as much of the forms as possible.

I was amazed at just how accurately it does this. I submitted one of my articles to over 100 article databases and the fields were automatically filled out correctly almost every single time. As a result I was able to submit to all these sites in a tiny fraction of the time it would have taken manually.

You can also create multiple bio boxes. Do you want a different bio on each article? No problem.  Or would you like to submit a random bio with each submission? Again, Article Submitter Pro delivers.  And don't worry over whether the bio should be merged with the article or in a field by itself – the software works that out for you, too.

With this software you can also grab an article off your website and fill in all the text fields perfectly, ready for submission, in next to no time.
Now let's look at management ability. One of the problems I have had in the past is remembering which sites I've submitted to and which ones I still need to do. This software keeps a record of all the articles you've ever submitted, and it's virtually impossible to accidentally send the same article to a submission site twice.

There are just a couple of areas that I feel Article Submitter Pro needs some improvement.

Firstly, the web site says you can store your login information for each article submission site, but that feature seems to have been disabled in the current version. And it would be such an advantage to have it do just that.

Secondly, when merging the bio following an article, the software sometimes inserts your bio twice, requiring you to edit out one of them.

In conclusion, this software is superb. At $167, Article Submitter Pro is worth every dollar. The many powerful features far outweigh the few areas for improvement. It promises to help you submit your articles to hundreds of sites quickly, and it surely delivers on that promise.

I've already saved loads of time. But more importantly, I've had tons of traffic pouring in to my web site. And my sales climbed immediately. In fact, Article Submitter Pro paid for itself within just a few days.