Use Article Marketing To Increase Your Internet Marketing Success

Have you noticed that your Internet Marketing business is not getting noticed? That is one of the biggest challenges that most online business face. Everyone wants to increase their list of potential customers.

In the offline world, businesses put up signs to attract potential customers. In the online world Article Marketing can be a very effective sign to you internet business. Including article marketing as a part of your marketing plan can direct traffic and many potential customers to your online presence.

Article marketing has been around for a long time and there are huge directories for articles on the internet. All content that is on your blog or anyone else’s comes from someone that has written the information.

Is this article we are going to discuss article marketing from two different standpoints.

1.  Producing content for the purpose of posting on your blog

If you publish the article as content on your blog, it provides content for the search engines to rank your blog. Also, it provides fresh content for your blog readers to read. That keeps visitors coming back for more information from you. And any visitor is a potential customer.

2. Producing and distributing content to article directories

If you distribute your article to the article directories and include your resource or bio box at the end of your article, you position your content as a method to drive traffic to your blog. This happens when other marketer’s select your article from the article directory and post it on their blog or website. You now have a link back to your site and if anyone clicks on that link you get traffic.

Most internet marketers consider the second method to be article marketing. Actually both methods are ways to market your content.

It’s just that in the second method, you are marketing your article in the hope that someone will obtain it and use it in such a way that your business will obtain traffic as a result of the use they make with your article.

That is one reason that you want to insure that your articles are well written. That will help you achieve a higher traffic rate when marketing your articles.

Just as importantly, well written article will increase the potential that article directories will accept your articles into their listings.

Your whole intent with article marketing is to get your internet marketing presence noticed by others and to keep it noticed. The more people you can get to notice your web presence the more traffic you will have; and a web presence without traffic just as well not be present at all.

A third positive aspect of article marketing is that it will help to increase your credibility in the internet marketing world. This will help in your efforts to get traffic to your site also. As more people come to recognize you as knowledgeable, they will visit your blog to see what content you are producing for your internet marketing business.

They will want to know if what you are doing will help them in their efforts, and your online business will grow. Article marketing is one internet marketing tool that should not be ignored in your traffic producing efforts.

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5 Places To Find Content For Your Internet Marketing Efforts

There are several sources of content for those that are involved in internet marketing. Using some selected source of data, the information can be turned into quality content for your internet marketing efforts. This is far from an exhaustive list but it is likely the primary list of sources for most marketers that are trying to make money online.

Here then is a list of 5 sources for content:

1. Article Directories.

If you are just starting out this is likely one of the areas that you will use quite a bit. Many internet marketers will write articles and post them to one or several article directories. These directories will then make those articles available for people to use in their newsletters, on their blogs, in their ebooks, and others applications. This is referred to as article marketing, especially when you start submitting your own articles.

The restriction is that when you use someone else’s article, you must carry the author’s credit information along in any application that you make of the articles. This credit information is known as the resource/bio box.

2. Web searches.

An inspiring internet marketer can come up with an idea and search the internet for information on that idea. It is likely that you cannot come up with an idea for which there is not something already available on the internet.

What you do with this source is to collect a few snippets of information apply your own experience, knowledge, background, etc. into the information so that you develop content that is uniquely yours. This is like doing research on a subject and then turning that research into your own concept of that particular information.

3. Outsourcing.

To me this is the rich man’s way to get content. Many internet markets will hire what is called a ghostwriter to develop content for them. They buy the content and then they own the copyright to it. They can use it any way that they like because it is theirs.

As you have resources to do so this is a great way to obtain content because it frees up your time to so that you can work on the other aspects of your online business.

4. Private Label Rights (PLR)

It is becoming ever more popular to use Private Label Rights Content in the internet marketing world. In their efforts to provide quality content internet marketers are turning to PLR as a source for information. This has been happening for a while now.

This is a lot like outsourcing in that you are purchasing the efforts of someone else. The main difference, as I see it, is that the PLR is already available. Someone has decided to write about a subject and make the content available to people as PLR. This type of content may be free or require payment. Just make sure you follow the rights that you have to the PLR.

If you want to use private label rights to produce you quality content, you will need to rewrite it so that the final product is your own concept of the subject. Just like the research above, it’s not yours until you put forth the effort to make it so.

5. You.

Finally, there is you for the source. As you gain more and more experience you will be able to come up with your own content. When you are working in the internet marketing field, any niche, your own experience and abilities will start to produce your unique approach, methods, ideas, etc. These will just naturally lend themselves to content that is uniquely yours. This will be your best content.

Regardless of the source that you turn to in your search for content, make it yours. Then, you as an internet marketer will have content that brands you and not someone else. Unique content will also play better with the search engines.

By the way, this content came to me out of my experience and knowledge. I started writing about a totally different subject and this content just flowed to me and replaced my original idea. It will happen to you also. Now I need to go back to the original idea and develop it.

Use these sources, or others that you find, in your internet marketing efforts and you will find that your affiliate internet business online will benefit and likely become more profitably. Your relationship with your ezine subscribes will improve, your posts on your blog will draw more attention, likely your sales will increase, and other benefits will come to your internet marketing efforts to make money online.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Article Marketer Article Submission Service Review

Article Marketer is an article submission program or script. After you have written an article you fill out a form on the Article Marketer web site and then your article will be submitted to several article publishers and article directories.

Now that sounds simple enough, but let’s look at this concept in a little more detail. It takes time to write your article and if you manually submit your article to just a few, say 20 article directories that will take more time.

You could manually submit your article to several ezine publishers and that will require more of your time. Enter Article Marketer.

You login and fill out the article submission form and they will submit your article to their entire distribution service. as of this writing your article will get submitted to 5,291 article directories and 67,252 publishers. This is for the paid version which is what I recommend. There is a free version also, but it is limited in the number of directories and publishers your article will be submitted to.

The point to note here is that manually submitting your articles to hundreds of directories and content sites will require a lot of your time – time that you could be using to write more articles and get more exposure more rapidly.

When you fill out the article submission form, the system will perform a quick review checking for many format errors and things that do not meet the standards of many of the article directories to which your article will be submitted.

One of these is HTML code. Many of the directories will not accept articles with HTML code in them, so the computer check will catch these and ask you to fix them before you submit your article.

Then your article is put into the submission queue when it will be reviewed by a human editor. An editor will review your article to make sure you have complied with the terms and that your article meets the general standards of the article directories that Article Marketer submits to. This process will generally happen in 24 hours or so.

Then the submission script will take over and start submitter your article. This will continue for a few weeks as the scrip submits to all of the directories that accept articles in the category that you selected.

Some features that I like about Article Marketer:

1. The process is not hard and it is straight forward.

You just fill out the form on the submission page and click submit. It doesn’t take long and if you have the article ready all you need to do is copy and paste. Just enter your title, a brief description, the body of your article, your bio, select a category, enter your keywords, distribution date, agree to the terms, and click next.

Then you will get a chance to review your submission. If it needs some fixing, you can go back and work on it again. If it is ok, just submit it for distribution. Your done and very easily you have submitted your article to thousands of distributors.

2. I think that you can see that the process is quite automated.

All you have to do is fill out the submission form and your articles start going out as soon as they are reviewed.

If you noticed above, I mentioned entering a distribution date. This is another part of the automation process. You can control when your article are scheduled to go out. So you could write a whole bunch of articles and submit them over time – even a year from the time you fill out the submission form.

3. An obviously large distribution list.

I mentioned the size above. Article Marketer has one of the largest, if not the largest, distribution networks in the industry.

4. You can actually check the distribution of your articles.

You can review a distribution report right from your login area. You can also view an Exposure report. This will show you where your article has been published. Using Google as an example, you will see a page like a Google search results for the title of your article.

5. It works in any browser and on any computer.

There are many other advantages to the Article Marketer submission program. But these are a few that I like. In addition, once the human review has been performed, you can be fairly confident that your article will meet the publication standards of most of the article directories.

I highly recommend Article Marketer to you if you want to submit your articles and get more traffic. I am confident that article marketing works and that Article Marketer is the best submission tool on the market at this time.

I am convinced that this tool is a great assist for my affiliate internet business online and that it will be for yours also. The time savings are significant for anyone trying to make money online.

Add Article Marketer to your article marketing arsenal today. It will be worth the investment.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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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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Using Article Marketing To Attract Traffic

You can use article marketing to get traffic to your affiliate internet business online. Maybe your effort to make money online is with niche marketing – same thing use your article marketing to drive traffic to your niche websites or blogs.

It has been demonstrated by many internet marketers that article marketing is a great way to get traffic to your web presence. You just use your resource or bio box to target your potential niche customers.

Article marketing is not a difficult process and it will generate traffic to your site. One thing that you have to keep in mind is that traffic from this endeavor is not instantaneous. You have to get your articles out there and then people have to spread your articles all over the internet. Once that is done you will start to see traffic. So the key is to keep submitting articles on a regular basis.

Now I can hear you saying, “But, I can’t write.” Well, you probably can if you will try and just keep after it. But an alternative is to work with a ghostwriter to get your content written.

When writing your content for article marketing make sure that it is related to the topic of your website/blog. Then you place a link in your resource box to direct traffic to your site.
When someone sees your article on the internet and they like your content, they might click on your link and you have traffic.

How will they come across your article? Maybe from one of the search engines. Maybe a website that they visit frequently will pick up your article and when they visit they get to see your article.

Maybe the author of one of the newsletters that they subscribe to will publish your article in his newsletter. Then all of his subscribes will have the opportunity to see your article and click on your link.

So, I hope that you can see that content is important to your article marketing efforts. As your articles get spread around the internet, more and more people will see them. As the people that see your articles get enthuse about what you are saying, many will likely decide that it is worth their effort to click through to your site. It is for sure that only those that consider your content worthwhile will continue to read what you have to say.

Those that like your content and click through will be what is called “targeted” traffic – they are already interested. Your chances for the desired response will be increased by their actions.

Article marketing can be a very successful tool and should be in your arsenal of methods to increase the traffic to your affiliate internet business online. Using this method of traffic generation will also help in your internet marketing efforts to make money online.

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Building Your List with Article Marketing

Build A Profit-Pulling Sustainable Business With The Power of List Building

The power of writing and submitting articles is amazing. This is one of the best techniques for building your list and you can start now. It really can be as simply as doing nothing more than that.

The simplicity of it is that all you have to do is write and submit your articles on your selected topic or niche – your area of expertise or business application.

Once you write an article you post it to the major or popular article directories. Then your basic work is done and you start working on more articles. By the way, have you notice that work is being talked about here. Without action you will not build a list and you will not have a profit-pulling business or likely any business at all.

While you are off working on more article much is taking place in other places on the internet. The articles directories are working on approving your article and publishing it in their directory.

Once it is published ezine publishers and owners of website and blogs will visit the article directories. These are people that have a need for information to put on their sites. They need content and will be looking for the information you posted to the article directories.

When they find your article and if they like it, they will publish it on their site or in their newsletter. Now their reader’s will see your article and if they like it they will click on your links that you included in the bio box of the article.

Using the leverage of article marketing you have just received traffic. This viral technique of internet marketing has rewarded your with traffic, now if your website, blob, or squeeze page is powerful enough to convert, you get a subscriber. You have just seen the power of article writing.

You have started the process of branding yourself and establishing yourself as an expert in your internet business area. Now as you can tell, this process may be slow. But it works. So, if you want to be successful and make money online, you really should add article writing to your repertoire of internet marketing tools.

I alluded to this above by mentioned your squeeze page, if your objective is to build your list then the URL that you put in your bio or resource box should lead to an opt-in box for your mailing list. This is your list of subscribers – people who will be your future customers.

Article marketing allows you to leverage the power of viral marketing without cost on your part. Well that is not true. It will cost you time and effort. However, the return can be measured in terms of building your list, your affiliate internet business online, and your potential for making money online.

To Your Online Success

Lonnie Minton

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5 Reasons To Write And Submit Articles

Everyone is doing it. This is not a reason for you to do it, but if you are in an affiliate internet business to make money online, then you should be interested in the following reasons to write and submit articles.

1. Because article submission is a method of marketing.

As internet marketers we need to take advantage of any and all methods that we can in order to make others aware of what we are marketing. This is especially true when the marketing method has proven to be effective. If you will pursue it you will also find that article marketing is a very good way to market yourself and your products.

2. It helps to establish you as an authority.

This is really an essential part of your affiliate internet business online. Establishing yourself as an authority in your area of marketing, your niche, will enhance your efforts to make money online.

When others perceive you as an expert, they will be more likely to go through your info and also more likely to purchase from your recommendations.

3. It helps to provide links to your website or blog.

In each article that you write and submit you provide links back to some part of your web presence – your squeeze page, your blog, etc.

You do this within your bio or resource box. You can also use this bio box to write a short introduction about yourself. You should always include your name and a bit about your online efforts.

You are branding yourself and your business and adding credence to you as an authority. All of this, as well as your content, will serve to establish your creditability as an internet marketer.

4. It can help to drive targeted traffic to your website.

What is targeted traffic? It is traffic that has already been exposed in a favorable way toward you and what you are doing on the internet. When someone sees your article, reads it, and then clicks on the links in your resource box, they are already interested. They have become qualified traffic, wanting to know more about what you are offering.

They may also be interested enough to subscribe to your newsletter or to purchase the product that you are offering – opening a sales funnel for your present and future potential to make money online.

5. It can help you to get links all over the internet – increasing your web conversions.

Now this can be perceived as a part of number 3 but it goes much deeper than that. If you submit lots of articles then you will have the potential for your articles to end up in many places on the web. As your articles start to propagate across the internet, then more and more people will see your links – your visibility on the web will increase.

As that happens there will be more and more opportunities for people to click through to your website. Every time there is a click through you have the opportunity to make the conversions that you want.

Visibility means more traffic and more traffic means more conversions and ultimately more conversions means that you are achieving your goals.

Each of these reasons will add to your opportunities to make money online and see success for you affiliate internet business. So the challenge is to get started today. Write and submit articles on a consistent and an increasing basis – in the long haul you will see results.

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