lundi 10 février 2014

Find Out What Article Marketing Can Do For Your Business!

By Jacquelyn Tealer


Believe it or not, article marketing really does dominate the landscape for start-up web businesses. Of course, the huge businesses out there do not need to put so much effort into pushing content, but the smaller guys are able to build bigger businesses by pushing content. Read about a few great ways you can improve your campaign.

Because not everyone enjoys reading long articles, you should always shoot for articles no longer than 500 words. Many studies have been conducted on this subject, and the popular consensus is that most readers lose interest in basic web articles after 500 words. Don't forget: The Internet is a doorway to instant information, so it's easy to click off of your content and onto a funny video.

No matter what you're writing about in order to market your site, your article never has to be over 500 words. In fact, you should strive to keep your articles at right around 400 words. Content is about getting the attention of the reader, not losing it in fluff and stories that just won't end. Save that for your Great American Novel.

Consider running your articles in a blog format and not pitching a product in every article. People will read quality articles, but they will tire of constant marketing. If you place your call to action, in every fourth or fifth article, it can drive more conversions than if you are beating the marketing drum in every post.

As your article marketing resources expand, make sure that your articles are extensively cross-referenced to each other. Do not make links between articles just for the sake of linking, but try to take advantage of every reasonable possibility where one article would support another. A well cross-referenced web of article links will boost your readership significantly. Even if you're outsourcing the writing of your site, make sure that you always come across as personal and as original as possible. A good way to go about this, is to write your own page and then send it to a professional for the final touches.

Consider paying others to do your article marketing once you're off to a good start. This makes it possible to market in volume. Services like Amazon Mechanical Turk make it easy to commission thousands of high quality articles and have them done within a matter of days. Just remember to pre-qualify your workers, or else you'll be drowned in spam. Use SEO keywords in your articles. Sometimes people who search for a certain term are more likely to buy what you're selling. Don't overdo it, though. If you stuff your article with keywords, it will read unnaturally to humans and search engine spiders will penalize it as potential spam.

Be very personable when you write for your readers. It isn't always necessary that you use words like "I" or "me". But, you do want to come across to your readers as a real person. You need to take extra care to ensure that your readers understand that you aren't just some company looking to profit. You are, but they need to see you in a softer light.

This information should give you just a taste of the possibilities that you can apply to article marketing. Hopefully you are also realizing that the process is not necessarily a hard one. Once you know more about it, you are ready to make serious progress via article marketing. Keep looking for more tips to improve your results as you gain experience. But, to begin with, focus on mastering one or two of the suggestions that you just read about.




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