Internet based businesses/websites need articles plain and simple, every person who has a site knows this. Articles give the thirst for information and knowledge of a topic they are interested in and article marketing provides many benefits for the business or site owner.
Benefits of Article Marketing:
- List Building: Build your list or
-Sales: make sales from yours products or affiliate products.
-SE Rank: you can get your website ranked high in the search engines results for keywords and keyword phrases relevant to your website.
- Trust: Articles also give the readers a increased since of confidence and trust levels of customers to your site and company.
- Viral Traffic: When the readers like the articles, they would tell more of their friends, family and peers and recommend your site to them maybe via email or even a link on the My Space profile, providing for a larger volume of traffic.
So now we have established that articles are very important to website marketing.
Research your topic first.
Do keyword research and look at competing sites before you start writing your articles. Use keyword tools like https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
and http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ to see how much competition you have and how much traffic a keyword gets.
How long should your article be?
I usually go with the minimum 250 - 450 words the goal I go for is to get people to visit my site and then purchase a product or join my list.
Choose long tail keywords with less than 500,000 search engine result competition. Try find the buyer keywords. As soon as you have at least 5 good keywords you should write at least 5 articles per keyword don't hold back go for it.
Now you should be done, submit your article/s to the article directories and wait for the traffic.
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