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Positive Aspects of Article Marketing

Gary Knox — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:36:21 +0000

Using articles in your marketing has several advantages. The greatest advantage is that article marketing is highly effective, and it is free. If you decide to pay someone else to write your articles for you, of course, it won’t be free but will be very low cost.

Writing and submitting articles offers you the chance to build a large number of back links to your site without having to provide outbound links in exchange for these, all in a relatively short amount of time. This helps boost your search engine rankings by increasing your search engine optimization.

If you like to write and can do it fairly well, you can easily express yourself by produceing quality articles in a very short time, all at no cost. These 300 to 500 word articles will help to establish you as an expert within your niche. When you establish yourself as an expert, you are also building trust with those that read your articles, and this in turn, of course, creates more sales.

Articles have a domino effect. Viral marketing means that you do something once and it spreads, providing you with the benefits far into the future. That’s how article marketing works. You write and distribute the article one time, and it serves you with back links, increased traffic, credibility, and trust for years to come.

If you write articles on a weekly basis, you will find that it serves to increase your back links, your traffic, your credibility, your trust, and ultimately your sales for an even longer period.

You can’t go wrong if you are producing quality, informative articles within your niche. While your articles should not be sales letters disguised as articles, you can use articles to pitch products, as long as the information is informative and useful to the reader, even if they do not purchase the product. Often a customer will return at a later time to buy.

Learning About Blogging and Blog Marketing

Gary Knox — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:31:13 +0000

Lots of people have a blog and quite a few are making money from their blogs. In order to understand how these people are achieving this you should ask yourself the following questions.

How are they doing it?
What is so special about a blog that you can make money by posting on it?

First you need to undestand that a blog is a little bit like an online journal. You can make posts on it about anything that you want to, and then publish it for the whole world to read. If you have never blogged before, it is a good idea to do so just for fun in the beginning, so that you can get a feel of what it is about.

Once you have become familiar with the blogging platform, and kind of get the gist of what blogging is about, you will be ready to try and make some money at blogging. However, for a beginner you will want to take it slow, one step at a time. You will need to do things in order so that you will not get overwhelmed by it all.

The first thing that you need to do is find a niche to blog about. This can be anything that you know, want to know, or want to learn about. The more you know, the better. The niche can be anything that you want it to be. It can be as complicated or as simple as you want it to be. Think of something that you know and love, something that you want to learn all about. You will come up with a niche that will be perfect before you know it.

Now that you know what your blog will be all about, you are ready to get down to business. Firstly you want to determine how frequently you will update your blog. Will it be daily? Every other day? Maybe even weekly? Whichever you choose, stick with it and make sure that you scarcely miss an update. Once you get readers to your blog you want them to know that you will update it as often as you say. They need to know how often to check and visit your blog for new information. If you post like you say you will, you will end up with a large reader base that will follow you anywhere.

So now that you have a niche, and have decided how often your blog will be updated, it is time to get down to some marketing. To begin with, you need to get back links. Back links are important and they mean that someone is linking to you. There are a number of ways that you can get these much needed links. You can look around on the internet and find some sites that are relevant to your niche and request a link, or your can post comments on other blogs that are relevant and leave a link behind with your comment. Either way, they both work and they both count as links that you need to your blog.

Are you attempting to sell things from your blog? If so you are going to find that promoting products on your blog is a great marketing technique that you can use as well. People do it everyday and make lots of money from it. Whether it is affiliate links, or your own products and services that you are promoting, you are going to find that blog marketing is one of the best ways to get the word out and let people know that you are in business. Marketing from your blog has never been easier.

With all of the great tools that are out there now for blog marketing, it is really hard to have a blog fail when you employ them. Make certain that you ping your blog every time it is updated, and work on those links as they will make a huge difference.

Optimising Your Blog for Search Engines

Gary Knox — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:50:12 +0000

Bloggers who are interested in attaining lots of traffic to their blog and maintaining a successful blog should pay particular attention to search engine optimisation techniques which can help to improve the search engine rankings of their blogs. All search engines employ some type of ranking algorithm which is used to ascertain the order in which websites are returned when an Internet user searches for information on a particular topic. However, not all search engines use the same algorithm for this purpose. As a consequence of this there is no simple solution to optimising a blog for high rankings on all search engines. There are a few tips though which can be useful with most search engines as mentioned below.

The Importance of Keywords

The use of relevant keywords in blog posts is among the most common and also one of the simplest ways to optimise for search engine rankings. However, not all bloggers agree on the best ways to use relevant keywords. Some bloggers believe keywords must be employed often to create high keyword densities while others believe using keywords at lower densities of 1% – 3% and paying attention to keyword placement is the most worthwhile strategy. Still other bloggers argue that simply using relevant keywords as they come naturally in the flow of the blog posts is sufficient to ensure search engines understand the content of the blog.

Irrespective of the keyword strategy a blogger opts to employ all bloggers can benefit from researching relevant keywords. They might have a blog which pertains to a general subject such as gardening but may not be aware of the search terms commonly used by Internet users when researching this subject. Fortunately there are numerous programs available which generate related keywords for a particular topic which furnishes the blogger with additional keywords they should consider incorporating into the blog.

Generating Favorable Back Links

Back links are also another common factor employed in search engine ranking algorithms. Many search engines consider the number of back links pointing to a website as well as the quality of the websites which provide these back links. This means the search engine rankings of the website which points to your blog could influence the amount of weight the back link contributes to your own rankings. This is because some search engines consider higher ranking websites to be more valuable than other websites which do not rank well and consequently reward websites receiving back links from these high ranking websites quite favourably.

Some search engine algorithms also consider whether or not the back links are reciprocated or not reciprocated. In these cases non reciprocal links are usually considered to be more valuable than reciprocal links. Also, back links which come from link exchanges or link farms are generally not considered to be very influential to search engine rankings.

How Images Can Improve Search Engine Rankings

Bloggers should also be aware that any images used on their blog can be utilised to improve search engine rankings with some search engines. This aspect of search engine optimisation is often neglected because many bloggers believe the pictures are not viewed by search engines. Whilst this is true the search engines do crawl the code of the blog in addition to the content on the blog. This means the search engine will view the information furnished in the image tags. Bloggers can take advantage of this by using the image tags to provide relevant keywords which can bolster search engine rankings. However, care should be taken to ensure the keywords employed in these tags also accurately describe the image because blog visitors will often see the text included in these tags when they scroll over a picture on the blog.

Improving the Search Engine Rankings of Your Blog (Pt 2)

Gary Knox — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:55:49 +0000

In the second part of the article on improving the search engine rankings of your blog let us deal with how you can achieve this.

Among the most common ways to optimise a blog or website for search engines is through the use of relevant keywords. Specifically the practice of employing specific keyword densities to the content of the blog. Blog owners and others who attempt to optimise their websites do not always agree on the optimal density for keywords but several believe a percentage of approximately 2%-3% is appropriate.

Another method for optimising a blog is to place relevant keywords into the code of the website. This includes the title tags and META tags. This is important because search engines often consider the prominence of keywords when evaluating a website. This refers to the location in which the keywords first appear. Placing keywords early in the content of the website is helpful but it is important to note the search engines view the code first so keywords appearing before the body of the blog will be crawled first by the search engines.

Blog owners can also help to increase their search engine rankings by generating back links to their blog. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways. One method of doing this is to find other websites willing to place a link to your blog on their website. This is beneficial because many search engines factor the number of links to a website into their ranking algorithm because these links are considered to be one website vouching for the validity of another website. Some website owners may be willing to do this in return for a link to their website on your blog. This is known as reciprocal linking and some search engines may not value this link as highly as a link which is not reciprocated. There are also some link exchange programs but these links may not be beneficial because many search engines consider the rank of the website linking to your blog. Therefore, if the website linking to your blog does not rank well, the back link will not improve search engine rankings significantly.

3 Things You Must Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

Gary Knox — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:59:45 +0000

With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.

There are already several tools that you can employ to make the process of distributing your articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, it is only half of the story.

Let us have a look at the common mistakes that some people make before submitting their contents to article directories:

1. Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the reason to write them.

In article writing, there are three key benefits as to why you are promoting them; branding, lead generation and promotion, which are all part of your optimisation efforts. But there is solely one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If the article is not centered on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to accomplish the three promotion benefits because no one will be interested in reading them.

You need to figure out first how to get people to read what is in your article, then make them click on your resource box. You are able to accomplish this by producing better content.

2. Failing to maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.

You may already know that your articles can help you generate additional links back to your site. But do you recognise that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from those same articles?

Mention keywords at strategic places. Just make certain not to overdo them. The use of anchor texts is also an effective method. Remember that it is not only about the links back to your site. Part of doing well in your article marketing is getting discovered by publishers with a large audience and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results also are great benefits.

But these things do not put money in your pocket. There are other factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity that can boost your earnings. Not just increase the number of visitors to your site. Start out with a plan and see to it that your article will serve the function that you intended it to have.

3. Publishing content that does not help your readers.

Perhaps in the process of writing your articles, you are thinking that all you want is links back to your site and any visitors it can generate are fine.

Guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Often, they have some specific guidelines and specifications on the articles that they are accepting.

You can double the number of sites you are able to submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with other people. Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you will have to obey the standard guidelines, spell check your articles, research a good topic and even, where necessary, hire a writer to produce good content on your behalf. Remember all it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight.

Ultimately, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting a little exposure from increased back links. Or enjoy massive exposure by taking a little extra time producing quality content for your articles. It is your choice.