How to Profit From Internet Article Marketing
Posted on Jun 12, 2008 under Business |Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia defines ‘article marketing’ as “a type of advertising through which a business writes short articles related to its respective industry.”
I’m here to tell you that internet article marketing works! Why do you think so many article directories are popping up all over the internet the past couple of years? Internet article marketing is a great method to get tons of traffic to your website without breaking the bank by spending your hard earned money on advertising services like Google Adwords(tm), Yahoo Search Marketing(tm), or Microsoft adCenter(tm).
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.
With article marketing, it’s very easy to become known as a subject matter expert in your chosen niche.
Internet article marketing builds many incoming back-links to your website which will benefit you with lots more targeted visitors in the long run.
How Does Internet Article Marketing Work?
As you are aware, the WWW is made of many websites. All of these sites contain “content”. People are usually searching for content around a specific subject. This information is found usually by the use of a search engine. Search engines go out and crawl the internet, visiting each page. The search engines then digest this content and index it by using the descriptions and content found on each page.
By carefully indexing and cataloging the information that they found when crawling the web, the search engines give you the best information they have which is related to the subject that you were searching for. The content that the search engines find has to be accurate, fresh, and closely relate to whatever term was searched for. Articles, if well written, are considered an invaluable source of information from which to draw.
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.
Some article directories only accept articles written on certain niches such as computer technology, or internet marketing or even particular health issues. All that you have to do is read their submission rules and see what is allowed and what is prohibited. At most large article sites you can submit your article on just about any subject as long as it doesn’t promote hate, put down someone’s religion, or sexual orientation, or advocate violence. Other than that, the world is wide open on what you can write about.
What Do I get in Return For Giving My Articles To An Article Directory?
After the last paragraph in the article, there is a place where the author can place their author’s resource box. This resource box usually contains a couple of sentences about the author and another sentence or two with a link embedded pointing the visitor to the blog or website of the author.
You’ll gain many benefits from submitting your article to article directories. You will get lots of free exposure and free marketing from it.
Research Is Crucial
Like any facet of marketing, internet article marketing is no different. You just have to research the subjects of your articles. You can do this research by simply looking at and visiting and reading forums which center around your subject. Pay attention to what people are “talking about”. Now that you have chosen your topic, or probably several of them to write about, it shouldn’t be too hard to be able to write an article which is 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? Wait A Month?
Well, there is one new method of writing and submitting your article(s) to your own blog as well as about 700+ different article directories whereby each article directory will get a unique version of your article virtually eliminating any worries of duplicate content. It’s called Unique Article Wizard and it’s so secret right now that I can’t even tell you about it here because I signed a confidentiality agreement. If you’d like more information about it, please check below in my resource box to learn more.