How 2 Get Started In Article Marketing – A Free Way To Increase Traffic To Your Website
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The key to writing articles first and foremost is to KEEP IT SIMPLE and WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW.
OVERVIEW: The idea is that you write articles and then submit them to lots of different article directories. Those directories promote them and if someone wants to use it on their blog, website or perhaps in an e-book. The people who use the articles get to use them for free as long as they say who wrote them.
There’s an unlimited number of things you can write about. You can write about Real Estate, Home Business, Online Marketing or even Boats. It doesn’t matter what your interests are, but the important thing is what your blurb says about you at the bottom. Here’s an example of mine:
Tracey Dornelles is an online entrepreneur and founder of www.NewLifeHomeBusiness.com.au a marketing company designed to help people create their own home business. If you want to know how you can spend more time with your family and doing the more important things in life go to www.NewLifeHomeBusiness.com.au
I do have a background in radio journalism, but I’m definitely not classified as a “Writer”, but what I did learn is that people don’t want beautifully crafted masterpieces, they want short succinct information. People browsing the web devour information at a fast pace and just want easy to read info.
People can get bored reading lots of information, so mke sure you write in lots of paragraphs.
* You could also write in point form or in steps, as in STEP 1) STEP 2)
* It’s important to note that writing an article is NOT a promo for your business. If you do this then the Article Directories will just reject it anyway, so don’t waste your time. Write some REAL information that people can use. If they think you are interesting and have good info they are more likely to look at who wrote it to find out more about you.
Another thing to remember is not to expect instant direct responses from your articles – your REAL aim here is to help get your organic Google ranking higher. This takes time, but once you have the skills in writing articles you have them forever. You may have to write between 10-20 articles to start seeing results, but if you start writing 1 every couple of days, then after a while you just have to write 1 a week or less.
There are lots of article directories which you submit your articles who will help romote your article. Just do a search for “Article Directories list”
The biggest and most popular article directory seems to be www.ezinearticles.com but there’s hundreds more out there. And depending on what your article is about you could also send it to a niche website. So, say you wrote a website about computers, then you could contact the editor and offer them your article. I have done this with some baby specific articles I wrote.
These are a few more I have used: www.goarticles.com www.articleland.co.uk www.articlealley.com
Now you are armed with the basics of Article Marketing – Get writing! Start off slowly and eventually you get more efficient at writing great content. Good Luck!
