Article marketing is a great way to drive traffic to your website and position yourself as the expert in your field.
If you do affiliate marketing, using articles to promote the products is a great way to achieve success.
Here are a few tips on how to do it the right way. It is a little time consuming but very important to any online business.
Try to be consistent with your articles writing several a month.
Don't write long articles. People don't read them and your goal here is to make them see and click on your bio. That is how they will arrive at your website.
*Use around 550 words
*Use negative titles since they tend to attract more clicks.
*Make lists lie: "The 3 simple ways to..." or "Fundamental Methods In..."
There are hundreds of articles directories to submit your articles. You don't want to do it one by one because it would take too much time. You do want to be in as many directories as possible, not only for the traffic they can provide but for the links you'll get to your website that will help you with your page rank.
Use a submitter like greatarticlesubmitter or articlemarketer or uniquearticlewizard.
Be sure they include the following directories since they are the ones you really want to have your articles posted in:
Ezine articles.
Goarticles
Articlecity
Ideamarketers
Articlesbase
*When writting your bio, use only the first line to talk about you. The other 2 or 3, use to say what you are going to give them.
*Use the word FREE if possible as this is appealing to the eyes of the readers:
Free report, free cd etc.
*Don't forget to include a link with your site or affiliate link. You can either enclose a keyword or keywords by html resource link or just enter the exact link directly.
It is always easier to know which keywords your competitors are using and bidding on. It saves a lot of time and you'll find some gold gem keywords. Also, take note that it is very essential to do keyword research prior to starting your articles.
There are many reliable Keyword Research Tools available on the net. Some of these are even free such as Google Keyword Research Tool.There is also another tool that will give you which keywords your competitors are bidding, their ROI and even show their ads too. Just google search the term keywordspy and go to its website to test the tool.