3 Ways To Enhance Article Marketing For Traffic
3 Ways To Enhance Article Marketing For Traffic
In my last post I talked about article marketing in general. In this post I want to address 3 things or ways to insure that your article marketing will truly benefit your efforts to make money online and drive traffic to your affiliate internet business online.
1. Use Keywords.
This is an area about which thousand, maybe millions, of words have been written. And because it is so important to article marketing, you will continue to see more and more words written about using keywords. Here are mine. Find keywords that match your subject and include them in your article.
What is a keyword? It is a word or phrase that the search engines notice. More specifically, it is something that someone is searching for on a regular bases and in some relatively large quantity. That means that a lot of people are interested enough in the subject that they will type that word into the search box on some search engine, like Google.
Make sure your keywords are specific and scatter them throughout your article. There is much discussion about keyword density, but I recommend that for your article marketing efforts that you look toward a density of something like 2-5% per article.
2. Write About Something Of Interest To Your Readers.
If you don’t write something that someone actually thinks is worth reading, you will not get any traffic. That means that no one will click through to your website/blog. If you have spent very much time on the web, you undoubtedly know that much that has already been published is not worth your effort.
Don’t write all over the world. Write about something specific to your website/blog topic. Remember, the purpose of your article marketing is to get people to click through to your website. If they do, they may leave as soon as they get there if your article is off topic.
So, don’t write about dogs and send them to a site about gardening – unless your dog article is about how to keep them out of your garden. Stay on topic.
3. Avoid Article Directory Black Listing.
Since you are writing your articles to get traffic to your site you will be submitting them to article directories for publishing. One of the things that you want to make sure never happens is that article directories start banning your articles – black listing you.
This can happen if they feel that you are stuffing your articles with so many keywords that the article doesn’t read or flow well. It just sounds like a bunch of words that keeps repeating the keyword and does not provide any real content or value for the readers.
Don’t waste your time or effort. It takes the same amount of time to write good content around a few repeats of your keyword as it does to write garbage around a lot of repeats of your keyword. Repeating your keyword beyond the acceptable level of the article directories will likely get you banned, especially if doing so makes your article just a bunch of worthless words.
By the way a very useful and powerful tool to use in your article submitting is Article Marketer.
Following these three tips will increase the potential that your article marketing will lead someone to click through to your affiliate internet business online and also insure that your efforts help you to make money online – which is probably your main goal.
To Your Online Success,
Lonnie Minton
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