Article Marketing Is Hard Work Unless You Outsource It
I am still a big believer in article marketing
. However, after doing it for several years I have come to feel it is not for everyone. When you get right down to it writing and submitting articles is a lot of work!
Do you really want to sit in front of your computer and crank out articles everyday? I personally don't mind it because it comes natural to me.
For the average person it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy to be effective in article marketing. Writing and submitting 5 to 10 articles a day is not something everyone can do.
So why do people continue to mess with article marketing? I guess the bottom line is article marketing still works.
It's a great way to get backlinks. It's an excellent way to generate traffic to a website.
Article marketing is a good way to help brand yourself as an expert on something. Ultimately you make more money when you do article marketing so that's why people struggle through it.
Having said all that there is something to be said for sourcing article marketing. Finding an article writing service to write for you at an affordable price is not hard to do even here in the United States.
It also easy to find people who are willing to submit articles for you. One strategy is to have the articles written in the United States and then outsource the submission portion of it to a worker overseas.
If you are going to do it yourself you should develop a strategy for writing articles faster. Creating a template that you can work from is very helpful.
Writing numbered list articles is smart. When you do this you can develop a certain number of items that you want to expand upon.
I like the numbered list approach because I can add or subtract content as needed to meet the minimum word requirement for what I'm trying to do.
It's also a good idea to manually submit the articles today. You have a better chance of them being accepted if you do it this way. The exception to that might be the use of a submission service such as Submit Your Article and their patented Article Leverage Program.
In summary article marketing is going to continue to be hard work. If you become good at doing it then it make ssense to continue on yourself. If you struggle with it you're better to outsource as much of it as you possibly can.