In this article we will look at six ways you can write better articles so they will reach your target audience.

1. Pick interesting topics to write about! You need to stay on the theme of your website and then target your articles to your audience. You can write about services or products or that might be interesting to them, or help them solve problems by giving them ideas in the content of the article.

2. Remember who your reader is! Targeted articles are written specifically for their niche. The bottom line is you are trying to get a click in your resource box to your website so you need to write specific articles that your reader enjoys enough to get that click.

3. Do not forget about the search engines! Search engine traffic still comes from targeted articles, and you can increase the quality of your visitor by using keyword rich articles to do it.

You should be writing around a primary keyword and then sprinkling variations of it within the rest of the article. Never over use your primary keyword to the point you are accused of spamming.

4. Keep your articles as unique as possible. You do this by hiring someone to write for you or by always writing your own content. Fresh content is more interesting and will always be unique in the eyes of the reader and the search engines.

5. Keep an eye what is going on in the marketplace. Writing articles that are current will increase the targeted traffic that you get from them. Google alerts is one way to get updates on what is going on around targeted keyword phrases within your niche.

6. Try and be personable within the article itself. If you write in a conversational way that the reader feels like youare talking directly to them and you will get better results from your articles. Try and write as though you are just sitting around having a conversation with your best friend.

These are six easy ways you can target your articles to improve your marketing efforts. The bottom line is articles should be written to drive traffic to your website, landing page, or blog. The only way you will do that is by impressing your reader enough to make them want to click on the link in your resource box.