Article Marketing – The Secret To Hoards Of Free Traffic
Ever wonder how to get a virtual flood of FREE traffic to your websites? Yeah, me too! Then I discovered article marketing, and have never paid a single cent for website traffic since! Let’s get started…..
What is Article Marketing?
Article Marketing is the art of the writing and distributing articles in an attempt to get people to click on the link to your website, blog, or affiliate page at the end of your article.
How Do You Write Great Profit Producing Articles?
The number one rule for writing profit producing articles is to provide value to the reader! If you don’t do this then nothing else you do matters, and article marketing will produce no results for you. Some of the best value oriented articles that I have seen explain a topic (like this article does), answer a question, or solve a problem for the reader. Regardless of your article format though, you want to make sure that you stand out by providing GREAT information.
The second rule for writing articles is to never sell anything in the body of the article – This really goes with rule number one, but I thought I would make it it’s own rule to really drive home the point. People do not want to be “sold” anything when reading an article. The goal of the article is to inform. You do the selling on your website once they click through at the end of your article. Besides, if you do try to sell something in the body of the article most directories will refuse to publish the article anyway.
In addition to following the two rules of article marketing listed above, the following steps will make your article much more readable and enjoyable for the reader.
Break up your text – Never have a paragraph that is longer than 5 sentences. Especially at the beginning of the article. Most people are lazy and will see long paragraphs as a lot of work. Don’t laugh, I’m serious. If you break up your paragraphs and text it will go along way to getting people to read the article.
Create Number & Bulleted Lists – Always, have at least one numbered or bulleted list in your article on something that is important. Use this article as an example of this. See how I am breaking up my text and giving the main points as bullets? Very good idea whether your writing an article or blog post.
Have Multiple Sub-Headings – This again accomplishes two things. First, it makes the article look more readable. Second, if someone is reading your article to find out one specific piece of information sub-headings will help them find this information quicker. The reader or researcher will appreciate this and then might click through to your website for more information.
Follow the two rules listed on top and format your article properly and you will be ahead of 99% of Internet & Article Marketers out there. Let’s push you over the top though, and give you a obscene advantage. What I am about to share with you is one of my top tricks…….
How To Format Your Authors Resource Box
When writing your “Author’s Resource Box” or “Signature” depending on what the article site you are on calls it, include a byline or signature that seems to be a natural extension of the article itself. Here is what I mean:
Instead of writing an author’s signature like this (99% of people do this):
Chris Gustafson is a successful entrepreneur and Internet marketer. To find out more about him visit his blog here:
[blog link]
Write something like this:
As you can see topic XYZ is not that hard to understand once you have it explained to you in plain English. For more information on topic XYZ, you can click on link below:
[blog/affiliate link]
When you write a signature like the 2nd one your click through rate on your articles will go from 5% to above 20%. Yes, it’s that big of difference!!!!
In fact, If you do have any live active articles right now take a look at your click through rate, and then change your signature to be a natural extension of the article. Check it again in a few days, and you will see how well this works!
Distributing Your Article
Once you have a awesome piece of content (your article), and have written a author’s resource box that is optimized for maximum click-through, the next thing you want to do is distribute your article to as many directories as possible. After all, you don’t want to spend 2-3 hours writing a awesome article and only submit it to ONE directory…..right?
The answer of course is NO!
To get the most out of every awesome article you write, you need to distribute it to as many article directories as possible. There are two ways to go about this:
Manually submit your article to all the top article directories
Pay an article submission service to do this for you
Option #1 is time consuming and get’s old real fast. Option #2 will cost you some money but is 100% worth it if you are in this for the long haul, and just as a FYI….Article Marketing IS a long term strategy. So don’t be penny wise and pound foolish with your time, spend the money and get a reputable article distribution service to do the leg work for you.
Which Article Distribution Service Should I Use?
Since I have been doing Article Marketing for a while, I have had a opportunity to try a number of the distribution services out there. The best one that I have found…by FAR is…. the ” Submit Your Article ” service.
The Submit Your Article Service is good for a number of reasons, here are three of the BIG ones:
1.) All content is reviewed by a human proofreader to ensure your content is grammatically correct
2.) Submit Your Article distributes to ALL the high page rank most important article directories
3.) Their unique “Article Leverage” technology enables you to get the most out of every single article!
There you have it, the definitive “how to” guide for maximizing your results with Article Marketing and getting hoards of free traffic to your website. Follow these steps, distribute your articles through the submit your article service, and it is IMPOSSIBLE to fail.
By: Chris Gustafson
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