subject: How To Write An Article For Article Marketing [print this page] The problem is not so much how to write an article for article marketing, but how to submit articles using the best article submission service. Anybody can learn how to write articles with the best teacher, but they are worthless if you don't know what to do with them. Sure, most will tell you to submit them to Ezine Articles, and yes, you should do that, but no, that is not going to bring you the results they claim you will get. You need more.
The following are just some random thoughts on the subject as they come to mind, but thoughts that are worthy of consideration since they come from somebody with many years experience in writing articles for article marketing and also just for fun.
People frequently read articles written by those that know next to nothing about the topic on which they are writing. They are simply iterating what they have read elsewhere on the internet - possibly articles like these, and then put them into different words, and perhaps not, but what are their qualifications for what they are telling you?
Anybody claiming that submitting your article to just one directory is talking from ignorance. I submit each article I write to over 400 article directories and ezines and I get results. I submit manually to about a dozen or more and automatically to the rest. Nobody can submit to hundreds of directories without using software. However, that is irrelevant for now, because unless you know what you are doing, submitting to too many can have negative results.
I would say that you should submit your articles to about 10 - 20 directories manually, and if you can spin them some way so that each directory does not get exactly the same version, then all the better: but not by using synonym spinners unless you have a good command of English. Even using an online thesaurus will rarely provide two words that have the exact same meaning in every context.
Remember that it's not just the Google LSI algorithm you have to consider, but also human readers. If the article appears badly written, then they will believe (possibly correctly) that you know little about the topic and are only writing to promote an affiliate product for money. The most successful affiliate marketers are those that create expert sites with a number of pages proving (suggesting) that they are an expert in their niche.
They might not be - they may just be selling an affiliate product, but they also show themselves to be an expert with their expert informative web pages. Mostly written by ghost writers, but that doesn't matter. It's better than an article directing readers to a sales page!
Their success comes from patience: the patience to build a proper website for each product they promote, and then to get a good listing on Google bringing automatic traffic before they think of finding another product to promote. They may take a month to develop the website and its content, and another two or three to develop the traffic. In between they will be researching their next products and buying up the domain names they will need for it, but mainly they are promoting one product until it is selling on autopilot.
You main objective in writing articles is to initially attract the attention of a 'passer-by', get them to start reading and then keep them reading until they reach your resource. Then they must click on your link that should lead to your website: a pre-sales page if you insist, but best to be a page that offers more information on the topic OR a free gift they get for giving you their contact details.
Then you can keep in contact with them. That is very important: you must be able to keep in touch with your website visitors or they will be gone forever when they click away from your website. That's what they call the 'list'. The same 'list' that the money is claimed to be. And they are bye and large correct in that supposition.
There is a lot more you have to learn about article marketing, writing articles and article marketing research, but consider what you have read above and try to apply the principles to your own campaigns.
Final thoughts: It is not always the article that counts, but its quality, and sometimes not even that but the message you get across: that you know what you are talking about and that the reader feels they will find something more useful on your website. But more than that - also that when they get there they are not disappointed. Provide what you promise, get their email address, and you have the beginnings of a good online business.
