article marketing

A Few Article Marketing Tips

As I have mentioned before, article marketing is a great way to increase your traffic, establish yourself as an expert in your field and gain publicity. Writing and distributing articles online really can do all of that for you. I do a lot of article marketing under about 15 different pseudonyms in 50 different niches. [...]

Getting Free Search Engine Traffic From Article Marketing – The Construction Phase

Now it is time to write the articles, we discussed earlier how to write a good article so now let’s talk about an important SEO concept, keyword density. This is a measure of how many times your keyword appears in the text per 100 words. This is another fiercely debated issue and everyone has their [...]

Article Marketing and When to Outsource Tasks

Writing and distributing articles is a great way to get traffic and backlinks, but at what point do you start to outsource it? Well first off you have to be making enough money from it to afford outsourcing, a good quality 400 word article will set you back $8 or so on Elance.com, but second [...]

Web 2.0 as Part of Your Article Marketing Strategy

Web 2.0 sites to me mean sites that use mostly user generated content, so Facebook, Squidoo, Weebly, even Wikipedia is a web 2.0 site. Some you can’t use to market, like Wikipedia and Facebook, others you can like Squidoo, Weebly, Hubpages and ClearBlogs. You have to be wary of the rules of these sites (but [...]

Should I Spin My Articles When Doing Article Marketing?

Spinning articles is the process of using one ‘seed’ article to produce hundreds of variations by replacing certain words or sentences with options you have given the software. This has been given a bad name because most spinners encourage you to replace just certain words, so you might have the sentence: “Dog training can be [...]

Writing the Resource Box When Doing Article Marketing

Some people find the perfect keywords, they craft exquisite articles, then they dump a resource box on it and try to get it to rank… hang on, we’re not writing these articles for fun you know! The whole purpose of writing these articles is to get people through to your site, and you can’t do [...]

Getting Free Search Engine Traffic From Article Marketing – Building Backlinks Phase

This is the time to build some backlinks to your article, you don’t always need to in order to rank on the first page, but I really do advise you to build at least some to every article. Some of the ones you have identified as being for a more competitive keyword then you might [...]

Getting Free Search Engine Traffic From Article Marketing – The Research Phase

You know all about leeching now, and you understand the importance of the title in getting an article to rank in the search engines, but now let’s look at the 3 step process to getting your articles ranked: 1. Research 2. Construction 3. Backlinks Research The first thing you need to do is research the [...]

Two Types of Articles You Can Use in Article Marketing

We discussed this briefly already, but basically there are two ways to get traffic from the article directories, and each requires a different type of article. For consistent long term traffic then getting your article ranked in the search engines is a great strategy. Every time people type the search phrase into Google your article [...]

Where to Submit Articles for Article Marketing

This is always a tricky subject, people have different luck with different article directories and everyone has their favorites. EzineArticles.com always comes up as a firm favorite, but I also know others who swear GoArticles.com ranks better in the search engines for them. Buzzle.com is powerful but they require totally unique content so you shouldn’t [...]