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USING ARTICLES TO PROMOTE YOUR INTERNET AND AFFILIATE MARKETING WEBSITES
For internet and affiliate marketing aficionados a very efficient method to advertise your services or the products you are selling for your particular niche is by using the highly beneficial method of article marketing.
Simply put article marketing is a type of advertising in which internet and affiliate marketing professionals and businesses write short articles related to their niche market.
If you have a love and passion for writing then you may opt to write these articles yourself however if like me you struggle with finding time to produce your articles you need not fear as there are loads of individuals and business who would be more than happy for you to outsource your articles to them.
Off course you should be writing some articles yourself so that your readers get a feel for you and your personality.
As outsourcing agents go I personally use www.elance.com to search out good quality writers, my reasons primarily being that similar to eBay you have the ability to see how other people have rated their work. Always do your due diligence when outsourcing and do not be afraid to ask questions and get examples of their previous work.
Whether you are into internet or affiliate marketing or both for that matter, the articles that you produce should be of great benefit to your readers, and you should focus on adding massive value, your readers will love you for it and so will the search engines.
What is A KEYWORD?
A keyword is a significant word or phrase, which has relevance to your web page or the document you have written.
The science of it all is that as an internet or affiliate marketer you are hoping that when people type your particular keyword or keyword phrase into the search engine that it will be your site that shows up on the first page of the search engines.
The more keyword rich articles you have out there the more the search engines will love you and the more the search engines love you the more they will show their appreciation by pushing your site closer to the first page or even better to the number one spot.
Keyword searching is the most common form of search on the internet, which is why lots of internet and affiliate marketers, myself included have it in our amoury, my advice to you is too make full use of it.
Where Do I Submit My Articles
Your article is not going to be of any use to anyone if nobody can find it, so it is going to be of paramount importance that you submit your articles to good quality articles directoriesone of the biggest and best article directories is http://ezinearticles.com/
The beauty of article directories is that you are allowed to include a link back to your website or squeeze page in the resource section of the directory which is usually at the bottom of the page.
The added benefits of this are:
1. You get a powerful link back to your websites
2. Article directories often have a high page ranking with the search engines
3. If your articles are good enough other internet and affiliate marketers will post your articles to their sites with your links intact.
Email Marketing Tip
Another internet and affiliate marketing technique that I use is to send my freshly created articles directly to my email list using my auto-responder; it's a simple copy and paste technique and your subscribers benefit by getting fresh new information without having to search for it.
Advertising
Publishing your articles means they have to contain mostly useful information and just a little bit of advertising. If they don't follow this rule, you might end up with an un-publishable article.
As mentioned earlier the promotion area of the article is usually at the end of the article, known as the "resource box". I would suggest that having an informative article with the links to "further information" in the resource box is a much clearer and better structured approach.
Articles are meant to inform the reader of a particular subject, and not merely persuade the reader to visit your site with every paragraph written.
