When trying to generate traffic to your website, article marketing is a great method to use to get targeted traffic to visit your site. Article marketing is all about readers finding your place of business on the Internet. Many Internet marketers will use article marketing as their main key ingredient for promotional purposes because it is very cost effective and efficient. Are you ready to make a lot of money? Well, so are a few other Internet marketers. With article marketing, you can make some serious money but like anything else, this will take some work and patience. There are a few things that need to be in place and considered before taking your plunge into article writing. 1. Find a product or service you feel is worth promoting. There are several thousand products you can affiliate yourself with. Choose something you like, a product you can get excited about marketing. 2. Create a squeeze page, a promotional web-page for your product. Sometimes a company will give you a pre-made squeeze page for you to use. If possible, make your own that is unique. You don't really want your page to look generic like all the other squeeze pages if you don't have to. If you can't do this, then it is alright to work with what you have. 3. Your articles should be around 500 words per article or more. Keep your articles informative about your product or service you are marketing. If you don't know much about the product, then you will need to take some time and research it to death. Ideally, you should know almost everything about any product you will be promoting because when you write your articles, you will be that expert providing your reading audience with the information they needed. 4. Every article you write needs to have unique content. You cannot submit the same article to many different article directories. There are a few reasons for this. The main reason is that search engines will not pick up your article if it has been submitted to more than one article directory. 5. Try to average at least 20 unique articles a week. Google is in love with a few of these article directories. Ezine Articles is one of them. Google indexes these site often. Sometimes you can submit an article in the morning and find it on Google that afternoon. By submitting unique content to article directories several times a week, you are increasing your article marketing odds to get more readers that will turn into more targeted traffic for you. 6. Time is money! Write your articles quickly, then edit later. After awhile, you will acquire more speed and be knocking them out. It takes a little time to work up to this, but this will happen soon enough. 7. Be patient and stay at it. Article marketing does not explode over night. There is a waiting period of a few weeks or more to really begin seeing good results coming into your squeeze
For those of us with web pages and blogs, we know how important writing articles can be to acquiring traffic. Traffic equals money and writing effective articles can bring you a good amount of traffic. Unfortunately not a lot of us know how to write an effective article and where to submit it once we do. For new website owners, this article may provide the most important information you'll ever read!
The first thing you need to do is take action. What I mean by that is you have to decide if you are going to write it or if you are going to hire someone else to write it for you. There are many people who charge under five dollars to 'ghost write' them for you. I really suggest you take the liberty and do it yourself. It will save you a lot of money and you'll only get better with your writing skills. Who knows, maybe someday you'll get good enough to write for others.
Okay, so you've decided to give it a go and you're wondering how to start. Well, how about a catchy title. Titles should catch your readers attention. Do this by creating curiosity, asking a question, shocking your reader, or make a promise. Start with 'How to' or '5 Steps to' or 'The Real Secret to'. You catch my drift?
Your article must provide your reader with quality content. You don't want to just slop something together and have your reader quit half way through. Be organized and make yourself an outline with your intro, four to five main body points, and a conclusion.
In your intro, let your reader know what you are trying to solve with your writing. Provide a problem and then a solution to that problem in a preview format. Make them want to read on.
Your body is where you want to expand on the four or five points you outlined. Keep it semi-brief with each point consisting of four or five sentences. Remember, you're writing an article, not a book.
The conclusion in an effective article should also consist of about four or five sentences. Let it sum up what you just went over in the article. Touch on a couple of points that the article didn't cover. Give advice on how they can get more info.
Once you have written an effective article you have to know who to submit it to. There are two methods to doing this. Manually and automatic.
Submitting your article manually can cause somewhat of a headache, but will cost you nothing. There are thousands of article directories and ezines you can find all over the internet. If you are writing two articles a week(optimal), submitting to just a few may occupy a lot of your time.
I suggest finding an article submission service that allows you to submit your articles to hundreds or thousands of directories and ezines with just a click of a button. There are software programs and online services that allow you to do just that. The prices for these services are relatively cheap considering the amount of time they will save you.
Now you know how to write an effective article by piquing your readers interest, providing fresh real quality content with a short but informative body, and a conclusion that leaves your readers wanting more. You also know your choices when you are ready to submit your articles. I should also point out that an effective article should include keywords that can be picked up by search engines. Aim for a one to three percent density of keywords throughout your article. And if you really want tons of free traffic for life, use a service that allows you to leverage your articles. Now get to writing!
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