3 Article Marketing Tips: Article Marketing Strategies for Beginners
The following article marketing tips listed below aren’t considered rocket science for advanced article marketers, but they are a solid foundation for beginners. One of the quickest and easiest ways to drive traffic to the websites that you’re building for a particular niche or affiliate program, is to write and distribute articles. It has been the secret to success for many online marketers.My goal in this blog post, is simply to cover some foundational basics. If you are new to article marketing, then these are the bare minimum steps you’ll want to take. I’ll be covering more advanced techniques and article marketing strategies in future articles. So let’s get on with it, shall we?
Tip #1: Write a Top Quality, Original Article for Your Website or Blog.
Start by writing an original 400-500 word article for your website that is optimized for your primary keyword. Don’t worry if you are not a skilled writer, because you can outsource to companies like stumbleupon. If you outsource it, expect to pay at least $3-$5 and possibly as much as $10. There are various companies and individuals who are just waiting to write you a quality article. Make sure to do your research on any company or individual before agreeing to pay for their services. Since this article will be the lauch of more articles to follow, and your websites reputation will be on the line, make sure it is a well-written, rich in content article. Remember cheaper isn’t always better! There is no excuse for CRAP!
After you have published the article on your website or blog, you’ll then want to ping your websites’ RSS feed. Before you ping the feed, make sure you have submitted the feed to all the major RSS directories. If you have WordPress Blog, this will be done for you automatically. This is one of the main reasons that wordpress is such a popular platform that many people utilize.
Tip #2: Rewrite or Spin the Original Article & Submit to an article directory like EzineArticles.com.
Once you’ve completed the original article for our website or blog, you’ll want to rewrite it again. You can either do it yourself, or hire a company or individual to do it for you. You’ll pay around $3-$5 for a good rewrite. It has to be a totally unique from the original. This rewritten article should also be a high quality, well-written article that is optimized for your primary keyword! You’ll also want to write a compelling author’s resource box with two backlinks to your site. One of the backlinks should point to your main domain and one should point to the original article. You can also use article submission and rewriter software like spin rewriter or article submission robot to both spin and submit the aritcle for you. I will warn you that these are good programs, but to always check the content before posting. Make sure the articles make sense and have ready friendly content. It’s important to note that when posting to Enzinearticles.com you need to be aware of the their strict requirements.
You’ll then submit the rewrite to EzineArticles.com. Once you have at least one article published on EzineArticles, you’ll have your own author’s RSS feed. Like your website’s RSS feed, you’ll want to submit this feed to all the major RSS directories. Then each time your articles are approved on EzineArticles, you’ll ping your author’s feed.
Tip #3: Submit Your EzineArticles Article to Other Major Article Directories
AFTER EzineArticles approves your article, you can then submit that same article to the other major article directories. Here’s a link to the top the 50 major article directories by pagerank. Please note that some of these directories are using the no follow tag which means you won’t get any backlink love. You should still submit to them, however, because you can get decent direct traffic due to these directories pagerank.
Once again, my desire in this post was simply to give some basic tips to help begginers get started. If you are new to article marketing, then these tips will give you a solid foundation to build on. The more unique content you have on the web, the more targeted traffic you will generate. The more leads your articles generate, the more money you will be able to earn onilne. Always make sure to do your due diligence when it comes to keyword research for your particular niche. Using tools like google keyword tool are vital to picking the right keywords for your article. Trust me when I say that the more unique content you have online, the more the search engines will love you.
