How To Market Your Articles
Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Under: Blogging, Writing
One of the most successful and therefore, most popular methods of marketing online is using articles.
Article marketing is a very versatile medium and is actually a very broad definition. Article marketing includes short articles, longer reports, blog posts, bundling of articles into an e-book and of course writing an e-book, but these methods need different versions of marketing.
How successful has your article marketing been? Are you attracting tons of visitors? Are you selling tons of products through your affiliate links at the end of each article? Are you being sought out as an expert on your topic? No, not really? I thought so! This does not mean you are doing anything wrong. It also doesn't mean you are not writing well. You may be trying very hard and submitting your articles to hundreds of other sites, but it is just not working as you had hoped.
You know all those article directories you have been submitting to? How busy are they? I mean how many articles do they have in their article base? How many authors do they have on their lists? I bet they are getting tons and tons of traffic!
Now for those who are not sure what I'm talking about, article directories are websites that specialise in free articles. These articles are usually placed there by marketers who write articles on a particular subject. The reason they place them there is that millions of people search daily for advice and many are re-routed to these article banks. Thus the individual marketer attracts attention, readers and maybe buyers, from another powerful source.
Each article is allowed to include the owner's biography. The biography explains who the author is, what he or she does and carries a link to their website. Affiliate links and sub-domains are not usually allowed, but once the visitors arrive on your site, you can quickly show them your promotions.
Articles directories are a great place to promote your articles so that they will gain maximum exposure and make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as somewhat of an expert on the subject and will probably visit your website.
Even if you cannot write well, or do not have sufficient knowledge on the subject, you can buy PLR articles, or you can always hire a freelancer to write for you. I have often run short of time and suffered from writer's block which threatens my deadlines and had to take the easy way out. You can buy bundles of well written articles within a specific niche. Make sure they include Private Label Rights, which gives you license to edit, change, add and personalize these to make them your own.
Now the good news is that most article directories are affiliated with other similar article banks, so they broadcast your article to all the other directories. This means your article is posted on dozens, maybe even hundreds of specialist article websites. This in turn means that your article can be found by anyone, anywhere. Once these people see your biography, they can click through to your website, where you immediately capture their email details and show them your products for sale.
Remember too, that this creates good quality back-links for you.
There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to place a copy of each of your articles on every article directory you can find, for maximum exposure. It will help immensely to bring more traffic to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profits.
Finding these directories and submitting your articles one by one can become a very boring and laborious task. Filling in your details and remembering all the logins can also be difficult. Imagine having to do this for 30 sites per article? Imagine you produce 10 articles a week and you need to submit each one? What a waste of time!
Fortunately for us, there are some clever people out there, who have produced software to do most of the work for us. Simple Article Submitter simplifies the task of article submission. It automates the process of submission and gives access to more than 250 article directories. If you are serious about article marketing, you need this software! See more by clicking here, or copy this link to your browser: http://www.linkbrander.com/lb/7423
Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering others, particularly fellow South Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For informative articles on making money, setting up a simple business that actually makes money, Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, such as gardening and fitness, visit Derek and Sally at their blog, part of http://dersalsites.com/
Article marketing is a very versatile medium and is actually a very broad definition. Article marketing includes short articles, longer reports, blog posts, bundling of articles into an e-book and of course writing an e-book, but these methods need different versions of marketing.
How successful has your article marketing been? Are you attracting tons of visitors? Are you selling tons of products through your affiliate links at the end of each article? Are you being sought out as an expert on your topic? No, not really? I thought so! This does not mean you are doing anything wrong. It also doesn't mean you are not writing well. You may be trying very hard and submitting your articles to hundreds of other sites, but it is just not working as you had hoped.
You know all those article directories you have been submitting to? How busy are they? I mean how many articles do they have in their article base? How many authors do they have on their lists? I bet they are getting tons and tons of traffic!
Now for those who are not sure what I'm talking about, article directories are websites that specialise in free articles. These articles are usually placed there by marketers who write articles on a particular subject. The reason they place them there is that millions of people search daily for advice and many are re-routed to these article banks. Thus the individual marketer attracts attention, readers and maybe buyers, from another powerful source.
Each article is allowed to include the owner's biography. The biography explains who the author is, what he or she does and carries a link to their website. Affiliate links and sub-domains are not usually allowed, but once the visitors arrive on your site, you can quickly show them your promotions.
Articles directories are a great place to promote your articles so that they will gain maximum exposure and make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as somewhat of an expert on the subject and will probably visit your website.
Even if you cannot write well, or do not have sufficient knowledge on the subject, you can buy PLR articles, or you can always hire a freelancer to write for you. I have often run short of time and suffered from writer's block which threatens my deadlines and had to take the easy way out. You can buy bundles of well written articles within a specific niche. Make sure they include Private Label Rights, which gives you license to edit, change, add and personalize these to make them your own.
Now the good news is that most article directories are affiliated with other similar article banks, so they broadcast your article to all the other directories. This means your article is posted on dozens, maybe even hundreds of specialist article websites. This in turn means that your article can be found by anyone, anywhere. Once these people see your biography, they can click through to your website, where you immediately capture their email details and show them your products for sale.
Remember too, that this creates good quality back-links for you.
There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to place a copy of each of your articles on every article directory you can find, for maximum exposure. It will help immensely to bring more traffic to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profits.
Finding these directories and submitting your articles one by one can become a very boring and laborious task. Filling in your details and remembering all the logins can also be difficult. Imagine having to do this for 30 sites per article? Imagine you produce 10 articles a week and you need to submit each one? What a waste of time!
Fortunately for us, there are some clever people out there, who have produced software to do most of the work for us. Simple Article Submitter simplifies the task of article submission. It automates the process of submission and gives access to more than 250 article directories. If you are serious about article marketing, you need this software! See more by clicking here, or copy this link to your browser: http://www.linkbrander.com/lb/7423
Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering others, particularly fellow South Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For informative articles on making money, setting up a simple business that actually makes money, Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, such as gardening and fitness, visit Derek and Sally at their blog, part of http://dersalsites.com/
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