piątek, 3 czerwca 2011

Article Marketing - How to get Better Results

By Henry Mausser


Article marketing has always been an effective way to generate targeted traffic to your website. The following will help you get the most out of your article marketing efforts.

Pay Attention to SEO Copywriting: Articles that are meant to be used for online marketing reasons will be quite different to the ones you create on a regular basis. Getting people to visit your blog or site is the ultimate objective of your article marketing campaign. Your articles need to be compelling to your audience as well as to the search engines. It is usually referred to as SEO copywriting, meaning essentially that you create content suitable for the search engines to index and rank as well as offering compelling information to readers. While you need to insert your targeted keywords into your article, it is imperative that it makes sense to people who read it. Including your keywords in the articles will mean that you can rank well in the SERPs and that will help you drive traffic to your articles. For example, if you were promoting the Leadbetter Academy, you might use the keywords golf lessons

To get more people to read your article and make things easier for them, use different steps. If your article is laid out in simple steps, people will find it easier to read your content and act on it. Longer articles online tend to be split up into subpoints or steps, which is why people like reading them. This style of writing will keep your audience interested until they have read your entire article. It also needs to be relevant to what your website is about. For example, if you were promoting the Leadbetter Academy, you might use the keywords golf lessons

Strike a Balance: Whether you're writing the title of your article or the content, you have to have a balance as far as the length of the article is concerned. You can easily make the mistake of writing articles that are so long they are boring when you get into the flow. The articles that you create for the Internet should be short and to the point. Your articles shouldn't contain too much filler or fluff because they need to offer interesting information. People don't like spending too much time reading long articles online, unlike in the offline world. Putting more data into an article doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better article. The goal of these articles is to get people to come to your site, so it could actually backfire on you. If you give everything away in the article itself, there won't be any strong reason for the readers to visit your site.

Engage Your Readers: The content in your articles should be engaging, there's no doubt about that. But the question is, how do you really make it engaging? Provide your readers with answers to their most pressing questions. This will involve some research on your part because you need to find out exactly what they want to know so you can then answer their questions as best you can. For example, let's say you're in the "dog training" niche, and one of the common questions is "What are the best dog tricks to teach my dog?" - there you have it, an engaging topic that you can easily write about. You can find popular questions on Yahoo! Answers and other forums and discussion boards.

You need to change your approach if you have failed with article marketing in the past. Apply the tips that we discussed here and work on improving your article marketing skills right away.




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