Can article marketing actually help my business or is it a complete waste of my valuable time? This was the very question I asked myself only a few months back.
The reason why did me doubt about this strategy is because I found people say that article marketing is dead. Well, after four month of experience I can attest that article marketing is live because I’m using it successfully. People that say that article marketing is dead are person that have failed and want only attract their attention.
What Is Article Marketing?
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Article marketing is a powerful method that let you generate more traffic to your blog or website, subscribers and even sales.
It’s very simple to put it into practice. All you have to do is to writing a short 400-1000 word articles and submitting them to article directory such as Ezineraticle and Go Article, or sites like Squidoo or Hubpages.
While Hubpages is one of the top 1000 sites in the world, Squidoo and EzineArticles receive respectively 500K+ unique visitors per day and over one million unique visitors per day, which means lots of exposure for your blog, then your articles.
My Approach To Article Marketing
I like article marketing a lot, because once I post articles and submitted them into article directory, I receive free traffic too. Usually, I use article marketing to bring traffic to my affiliate niche sites. To find the right keywords I only use either Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Wordtracker. This method allowed me to create a monthly stream income enough for me to live on.
Why I Think Article Marketing Worth Your Time?
For instance, if you have a review on website or blog about Bluehost and you know that you make one sale for each 50 visitors you get. That means that more visitors you get into your article the more chance you have to making one daily sale.
The following are the 4 step necessary, that will take you to build traffic and make more money with article marketing.
Note: I didn’t begin doing this until just a few month ago. Better late than never.
1. Start writing - First off, I start writing an article around(400-1000 words). I’ve created a lot of article and submitted them into article directory such as Ezinearticle and Go articles, and site like Hubpage and Squidoo. Sure, this isn’t an overnight process. It take you time to get some result, but worth it. Also, if you write a lot you will learn to be very fast in this way.
2. Submit – I’ve tried submit my article to different article directory such as Ezinearticle and Go Article and site like Hubpage and Squidoo, but the most traffic I got is through Ezinearticle and Hubpages. So, I reccomend these two sites.
3. Traffic – Google loves both Ezinearticle and Hubpage. Once your article are submitted and approved, you will start lead free traffic to your website, blog, landing page, and so on. Of course, isn’t a huge amount of traffic, but if you write frequently, for instance each week, you can drive more traffic.
4. Convert – This is the most important part for your business online. No matter if you need to convert your traffic to selling affiliate products, your own product, increase subscribers or even buying a course online, you need to create a strong landing page. Also, you need to figure if your visitors like and don’t like. You can find example of landing pages here.
I hope you found this article helpful and maybe a bit of inspiration for your next marketing campaign.
