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Article Marketing -- Drive Traffic and Become Recognized as an Expert in Your Field

By: Alex Arthur

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Article Marketing is a very effective and inexpensive technique to promote your site, your products and yourself.

You've constructed your web site and got it looking just the way you want it. Now is time when you suddenly realize, your website serves no purpose until people start visiting it. ‘If you build it, they will come’ does not work on the Internet… Not when you are competing against billions of other web sites! You now need to promote your website and get traffic to it.

Thankfully, there is no shortage of methods you can use to get traffic. Writing and posting articles, often called Article Marketing, is a great place to start. Unlike many other traffic generating schemes, Article Marketing has worked since the beginning of the Internet, and will never stop working. Best of all, it can be complete free!

Articles work for you on many levels simultaneously…

- They are a means of providing great content and value to your readers. The more value your readers find in the content of your articles, the more interested they are going to be in you and your website, products, and services.

- The more high-qualtiy articles you write, the more you build your reputation and authority as an expert in your field.

- Each of your article posts will contain a signature file, also known as a resource box, inside which you can post a link back to your website. It can also contain a bit of biographical info about yourself, and/or a quick pitch for your site, product or service. The links in your signature file will drive traffic to your site directly. Then as you keep contributing fresh articles over time, you will be growing the backlinks to your site exponentially.

- Your articles may be picked up from the article directories by publishers looking for great content for their sites. This gets your content, your name, and your links distributed even more widely.

Take any idea within your market or niche and write in appealing, useful, and valuable article about it. Giving your readers compelling, valuable information builds their relationship with you, and makes it more likely that they will click through to your site. Your articles are not mini-sales letters. They do need to provide valuable information. In fact, the article directories will likely refuse your articles if they are promotional or trying to sell anything.

Make sure to grab your readers' attention by making the content appealing and useful. It if isn't, the reader will not read it through, and won't click on your link. This goes for your article’s headline and summary too. These are often your only chances to entice someone to read your article and ultimately see your link.

Having only original content is critically important. Copying and re-posting an article which already exists will create problems for you. It is important to the search engines and article directories that they don't return duplicate content to their users. They will double-check your writing against all the other articles they have indexed. If they discover your content is duplicates other articles, the directories will discardyour submission, and the search engines will not give you credit for the backlinks. Your readers migh also pick up on this which would make you look bad in their eyes. The idea behind article marketing is to build your reputation, not to damage it.

If you aren’t a great writer, or don’t have the time to produce a number of articles, you can always hire a ghost writer to generate articles for you. A simple web search will turn up many people and services which can writre articles for you. You may be able to give them nothing more than a few keywords, and they will research and write everything for you. Additionally, experienced ghost writers often are familiar with search engine optimization (SEO) practices, which they can incorporate into your articles, making them even more effective for you. Just be careful that you really get original writing from them, and that they are giving you exclusive ownership rights to the articles.

You can check to see whether your articles are original by entering them into the Plagiarism Checker at http://www.articlechecker.com/.

You can then post your article to the article directories. There are literally hundreds of these on the Internet, which you can uncover through a web search. The top directories are important to your search engine results page (SERP) rankings. Posting to the hundreds of other directories out there may not have as profound an impact on your traffic or SERP rankings. But having hundreds of backlinks out there which point to your site is better than having just a handful.

You can get hundreds of links from just one article. By writing just one new article per day you can have thousands of backlinks in a couple of weeks.

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Next, discover the secrets to launching and profiting in any business by leveraging the revolutionary e-Marketing tools of the Information Age. The playing field has never been more level! The opportunities, never so plentiful!
Alex Arthur emarketingheadstart.com/go/headstart

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