June 12, 2008
How to Profit From Internet Article Marketing
Internet article marketing is a type of advertising which businesses use to advertise by writing short articles which are related to their industry.
Internet article marketing works very well. Did you ever think about why there have been a lot of article directories appearing everywhere on the internet for the past year? Internet article marketing is a wonderful way to get lots of interested traffic to your blog or website. By using articles to market your site, you’ll save lots of money by not having to spend money on advertising services.
If you’ve chosen a competitive niche, your advertising dollars can begin to mount very quickly. Your accountant may tell you that you have a negative return on your investment. You can easily avoid this with internet article marketing.
By using article marketing, you can become a known expert in your particular niche(s).
Article marketing builds lots of incoming back-links for your website from all over the internet.
How Do I Go About Using Internet Article Marketing?
You know, the web is made of lots of websites. These sites contain tons of content. People usually search for this content with a particular subject in mind. This information is found easily by a search engine. What a search engine does is go out and follow from link to link on the internet. The search engine collect this information and digests it and catalog and index it using the information and the keywords found on each page.
The search engines are able to give you the best information possible by carefully indexing and cataloging what they find by using the information that they discovered when they were crawling the internet. The information that they provide to you has to closely relate to the search term that you used as well as be accurate. When written well, articles are considered a very good source of information.
In order for visitors to keep returning to their websites, webmasters must provide their visitors with timely, interesting, and accurate information. This is very important for someone who maintains a blog on a daily basis. For the blogger to climb to and maintain high in the search results, he must make posts to his blog every day.
As you may know, posting to your site everyday can take up alot of your valuable time. The webmaster can supplement his content with high quality articles which were written by other people as long as the author’s resource box is left intact with the links. The person running the site finds these articles on article directories.
Tell Me What An Article Directory Is
Article directories are websites that have alot of articles stored in one large database. The articles are arranged by their different topics. Authors are encouraged to submit their articles there. Bloggers and other webmasters (a.k.a. Publishers) can find free articles to post on their own website so long as credit to the original author is kept intact. Article directories have volumes and volumes of information on just about any subject that you might be able to think of, probably some that you haven’t even thought of.
There are specialized article directories which only accept articles that are written about certain niches such as internet marketing, women’s health issues, or even computer technology. The only thing that you need to do is read their submission rules and find out what is allowed and what isn’t. Most of the large article sites allow you to submit your article on most any subject as long as it doesn’t promote violence or hate speech and other things like that. It’s always up to the website owner what he or she permits. They have the final word.
What Do I Get Back For Giving the Articles that I’ve Written to an Article Directory?
At the end of each article there is a place where the author can place his or her ‘resource box’. This resource box contains a short blurb of one or two sentences about the author as well as a sentence or two with a link embedded pointing them to the blog, or website of the author for more information regarding the subject that the article was written about.
Submitting your articles to an article directory has many benefits. You not only get free marketing from it, but you get lots of exposure. You can turn yourself into an expert. It creates a win-win situation for both you and the publishers that get to use your articles.
Research Is Crucial
Like any leg of internet marketing, internet article marketing is not any different. You’ll do some research on the topic area of the articles that you intend to write. This research is very easy to do. Visiting forums and visiting websites which center around your chosen subject will provide you with alot of information from which to write an article of between 250-750 words.
Ok, Now That I’ve Written My Article, What Next?
First, make sure to post your article on your own blog, or website. Wait for a couple of weeks to a month until after your article is indexed by the search engines. You can tell if your article has been indexed by the search engines by searching for the title in in “quotes”. Once you find it, it’s ok to submit it to the article directories. You would want to do it this way becuase you’ll want to avoid any possible duplicate content penalties as much as possible.
Are You Serious About Waiting A Month?
There is a new way right now of writing and submitting your articles to your own website or article directory, as well as about 700+ as of this writing. Each article directory is submitted a unique, well written version of your article. This provides well written , non-duplicate versions of your article eliminating worries of duplicate content. This is called the Unique Article Wizard, and right now it’s so confidential that I can’t tell you about it here. I had to sign an agreement with the creator promising that I would not discuss the methods in detail. Check my resource box for more information.
Filed under Business and Marketing by James Comer