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Thousands of people make money with article marketing online and it's one of the best ways to start your career as online marketer because it's free and more importantly effective. But how are they doing it and how do you get started?
Here's a quick overview of how to make money with article marketing and some tips on making it work for you.
The Big Picture
At a high level here's how you make money with article marketing - you write an article about a topic that you like or that you are interested in, you submit the article to a free website, and when the article gets listed you get to leverage the traffic ranking offered by that article website.
The fact that you get to leverage the search engine ranking of a popular article submission website is a big advantage of article marketing! If you tried to drive traffic to your site by simply optimizing it for search engines it would take you months to accomplish that because new websites are not very "popular" to search engines. The surest way to make money with article marketing is to submit good quality articles to highly ranked websites.
Keywords are the Key!
The key to make money online with article marketing is to find good keywords for your articles that are relevant to your website or product that you are promoting AND that have low competition.
Keywords are certain words or phrases in your articles that are relevant to your website or product that you want to promote and that people search for online. An example "Dog Training".
The key to make money online with article marketing is to use a good keyword that does not have a million other sites or articles using that term.
One quick way to determine if a key word is going help you make money online with article marketing is to put the keyword phrase in Google with quotes around it ("Dog Training") to see how many sites use that same term. You should shoot for keywords or phrases that generate less than 5,000 hits.
While finding a low-competition keyword may sound difficult there are really good tools to make it easier to find these keywords and here's the one I strongly recommend.
Quick Caution - Once you find a good low competition keyword, you need to make sure you don't overdo it! If your keyword makes up more than 2% of your article it's likely that a search engine may consider your article as
spam and refuse to rank it. That of course is the quickest way to kill your ability to make money with article marketing.
Recap!
You now understand the process of how to make money with article marketing and how to identify good, low competition keywords. You also know the right amount of use for the keywords for your articles so that th
