subject: Article Marketing - 5 Proven Methods to Achieve Success With Article Marketing [print this page] If you've only been spending your time on direct website optimization, as in keyword targeting on your pages, you have been missing a large piece of the puzzle. You need to also spend time with offsite optimization, building incoming links to your site. This will lead to more direct traffic and will also lead to higher search enginerankings.
A great way to increase your links is through article marketing. You'll find and attract new prospects while building your reputation and actively increasing your offsite optimization.
Improve your online success with these 5 article marketing strategies:
1. Write more. Writing one article every few weeks and expecting to see amazing results isn't going to get you anywhere. You have to really push to get more and more inbound links. Your goal should be no less than five articles each and everyday. Do this for a month straight and you'll have hundreds of new inbound links to your site, drastically improving your presence, traffic and search engine standing.
2. Don't skimp on quality. It's tempting to quickly jot down an article and submit it through with no regard to quality. But this won't attract any visitors or convert any prospects. Your articles have to maintain a high level of quality so people are actually drawn to click on your resource box and take a look at your products or services.
3. Always be completely unique and original. Your articles have to be 100% original and unique, 100% of the time. If you go around and copy pieces of articles from other people you won't gain any benefits. People will begin to not trust you, and nobody will follow your links. Article sites may even stop accepting your submissions or ban you altogether. Your articles must provide your readers with some kind of information they can use to solve a problem or improve their lives.
4. Don't write press releases. Blatant advertisements or press releases about your product, service or website will not succeed. People don't care about this, so they will skip right past your article. And that's if your sales copy even gets approved for a directory. You want to make a soft pitch to your readers, after you engage them with interesting and unique content. Leave the self promotion to the resource box alone.
5. Target your market effectively. Don't write about what interests or what you think would interest other people. Write about what you are sure that your target market is interested in. All people have different agendas, desires, problems and needs. Find out about your specific intended audience and choose topics they care about. The more effectively you target your market, the better the results will be
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