Here's How Writing Articles Can Vastly Improve Your Online
Business
Today it's getting harder and harder to get relevant traffic to
your web sites and to convince those visitors to buy from or
through you. Depending on your niche the SEO tactics can fail
because so many people are doing the same and it is getting more
and more popular to "instantly" build search engine friendly
pages and "steal" traffic from legitimate bisinesses.
Here's where article marketing comes into play. Very few people
will go about to write articles and even if they do, if they
aren't experts on the subject, their articles will get little to
no response.
That's how you can distinguish yourself from the others in your
niche and in a very short time start dominating your market.
First, you must write some articles. Take about two hours per
article to write really good content articles. About 1500 words
will do very well. Then submit them to e-zines and web sites for
publishing. Include your resource box at the end of each article
to get free advertising.
Also submit your articles to print publications that pay for
submissions. You can make extra income getting paid as a
freelance writer. Your articles must be of good quality, but you
don't have to be a professional writer to publish them! Many
people make the mistake of thinking they can't do it. You can
and should. Before you do, decide exactly what you want your end
result from publishing an article to be.
For example: I set a goal to get 1000 visitors to my blog at
http://insidemarketing.blogspot.com and at least 200 new
subscribers to my "straight to the point" marketing newsletter
in five days as a result of this article. You should do the
same. Be specific.
Post your articles in related online communities. This can give
you free advertising in newsgroups, forums and e-mail discussion
lists. Create a blog and post your articles there. Search
engines love blogs and you'll get more free traffic doing it.
Also create an article directory on your web site. People will
visit your web site to get the free information. You can give
people an instant article directory. Tell visitors they can
instantly add a free article directory to their web site by
linking to yours. All those links can add up to a large amount
of traffic to your web site.
After you've written a few such high quality articles, you can
combine them into a free e-book. You can place your business ad
in the e-book. Give it away to visitors and allow them to do the
same to multiply your advertising. Sometimes even allow people
to include your articles in their free e-books.
A good alternative is to combine a few of your articles together
into a free report. Give away the free report as a bonus for
buying your main product or service.
Why not let people access your articles by autorepsonder. Be
sure to Include your full page e-mail ad with the article.
Finally, after some time you could even publish a book with all
your articles and make extra money selling the book from your
web site.