SuperSmartSEO

If you are trying to make money from blogging or some other online venture there are certain things you must do if you are not to fail: you must get visitors and you must rank in the search engines. You can achieve both of these goals by paying for visitors at the search engines via pay per click or you can get visitors for free using article marketing.

The first thing you will need to do is research your article marketing topic. There are many good keyword tools on the market to help you decide which keyword phrases will bring you visitors but also you need to make sure there is minimum competition as well or you won’t get very high in the search results. Your keywords need to be relevant to your site and be getting plenty of search queries but not too many results. Read a more detailed post about keyword tools for a better explanation.

When you have researched your keyword phrases you will need to use it in your articles title, a couple of times in the first paragraph, once or twice in the body and once again in the closing for best results.

Always write for the reader when article marketing. In other words write it for people, not the search engines. We can help our articles climb the search engine rankings but they won’t do us any good if people read the first sentence, decide it’s rubbish and hit the back button. Keep it easy to read and to the point. Use bullets or numbers as they will get your major arguments over quicker.

Once finished, read it several times and make sure it is both grammatically correct and that you have your keyword phrases in the right places. Once you have checked it, check it again, several times. If something doesn’t quite read correctly, write it again and don’t forget, while you may be an expert on the subject, the reader is not.

Your final paragraph in your article is the most important {part-section} and many who do article marketing miss the important point all together. Your article gives the reader info that they have searched for but now you want them to be hungry for yet more information by visiting your website. Point out the benefits of clicking your link and visiting your own site. “Click here for more info” does not work any more. Explain to them exactly why they should and what they can expect to find: a a more detailed article, A valuable resource they can use etc.

Finally be choosy where you submit your articles and if you can rewrite it every time you submit it somewhere new. Submit the first version to ezinearticles.com and wait for them to accept it before submitting it to the other directories. This is because they are the best so get the most traffic but they won’t articles that have already been posted elsewhere.

Article marketing is still the easiest way of promoting a business online without spending ridiculous amounts on PPC. Just one article a day means around close to a hundred articles on perhaps 1000’s of other sites in just three months time all with links pointing to your blog.

For the ultimate bang in article marketing have a look at submitting your articles to Article Marketing Automation. The articles take longer to write but the benefits are ten times better than normal article marketing.