subject: How to Draw Highly Targeted Visitors with Article Marketing [print this page] There are many ebooks about internet marketing, which you may have read, and you may have been suckered into a number of traffic schemes in your quest to grow your business. You may have spent more money than you would have liked in an attempt to drive more traffic to your site or boost its search engine rankings. Unfortunately, you may not have seen the results that your efforts deserved, and you are not alone. Here is a question for you to think about: how much do you know about writing and submitting articles to directories, which is one of the most powerful business tools to help you find your targeted audience and drive them to your site? Article marketing does not have to be difficult, but you must keep the following points in mind:
1. You need to have a keyword-rich headline that catches the eyes of your targeted readers. There are a lot of articles out there with generic titles, so you should do a little research in your information field and come up with something that really stands out!
2. Make sure that the content of your article informs your reader about your site, but do not use it as a space to offer your product or service. For one, people do not appreciate feeling like they are being sold something instead of being provided with the information that they need. It creates a sense of mixed motives. Also, many directories will not even accept articles that lean too heavily on a sales pitch.
3. The content of your article must be of quality and use for your audience. It is best for you to focus on one topic to allow for as much information to be provided as possible. You audience will find your article because it may provide the answer to their specific question.
4. Make sure that you have an appropriate density of keywords in the body of your article. Some article marketers recommend using anywhere from ten and fifteen percent.
5. Before you submit anything, make sure you proofread. Your article may be declined by some directories if it is full of errors, which can be very distracting to the reader. Spell-check is a good program to begin with, but make sure to read your content carefully because mistakes can still remain. When in doubt, ask someone else to take a look at what you have written.
6. Do not submit your articles to only one directory, rather try to submit to as many as possible. There are multiple ways to go about this, so submission does not have to be as hard as it may sound. You may benefit by using submission services that are found online. There are also software programs that are available for purchase and/or download. Keep in mind that these are not required for your submission process, which you can do on your own, as well.
Once your articles have been submitted, all you have to do is wait for visitors to link-back to your site; however, you should not wait too long because this process is easy to replicate. Instead, you should write another article and repeat the process
How to Draw Highly Targeted Visitors with Article Marketing
