Article Marketing - Unique Content Is King
Unless you’re completely brand new to doing business on the internet, you’ll have heard about article marketing. Article marketing is how a regular person like you or me can gain a foothold into niche markets and target interested and motivated visitors and turn them into interested and motivated buyers.
Without a doubt article marketing is the most powerful way in which one can promote a website. Done properly article marketing is the effective way for getting targeted traffic to your site as well as helping to build backlinks. A short but informative article in order to promote a site may seem to take a lot of effort, but the returns you get are quite phenomenal. So just how does article marketing work for an online business?
Initially, it is going to cost you little or nothing, you if you want write your own articles and then submit them to different article directories and other websites. When submitted these sites in turn will then publish them on theirs for you. The benefit is that your site’s search engine rankings will begin to rise because of the backlinks which you have gained because other sites are now using what you have written.
Article marketing is extremely viral. As you will find it only takes one well written article using the appropriate targeting keywords will allow you to generate numerous links back to your site or to some other designated landing page.
Another benefit that article marketing provides you with is that it allows you as a new website owner or author to build a reputation for being an authority in the niche you have selected. When someone comes across one of yours through an article directly and finds them self keen to click on your link and visit your site, then this offers you the opportunity to now develop a relationship with them. Now it is up to you to start cultivating that relationship further by offering them more content that they find relevant and address any questions, wants or needs that they may have.
At various times, you’ll hear that article marketing is no longer effective or that submitting an article to hundreds of article directories does nothing more than create duplicate content and puts a site at risk of being de-indexed by the top search engines.
However let us put aside the arguments in relation to duplicate just for now. Article marketing is still every bit as effective as other traffic or promotional tools being touted today. Different strategies for promoting business are coming and going all the time, however with article marketing it strength lies in the fact that the World Wide Web relies on it. There is a constant need for fresh and relevant content to be available for people to read and use.
Millions of people come online everyday to search for information, products, answers to questions, interaction with online communities or any other number of reasons. By providing this content through means of article marketing, you are establishing your own stake in this enormous arena. Provide enough decent content and you’ll be rewarded with a stream of traffic to your site. Put forth good content and the right offer in front of your site’s visitors and you’re likely to capture the sale.
Article marketing cost you little or nothing as a way for you to promote a product or a website that you have and anyone is able to do it. It is the ideal way of getting targeted traffic to you as long as you are willing to work at it over a period of time and consistently.
Writing informative articles that use well researched keywords no matter what niche you are involved in cannot only get your more exposure, but increase your rankings in search engines. However, submitting the same article to numerous article directories or specialist websites will dilute just how effective your article marketing efforts are.
In order to succeed with your article marketing you need to submit only unique versions of the articles you produce to a various websites and directories. Although this may seem somewhat daunting the results are amazing and it will be worth all the effort in the end. The risks of duplicate content are gone along with the risks of your site or product slipping in the search engine rankings. But whilst what constitutes being duplicate content is still one of the hot subjects of debate online, many of the more experienced webmasters are happy if each article they produce is different by not more than 30%.
Of course, the greater the difference between versions, the better, but keep in mind that the top search engines spiders review a webpage in its entirety and take other elements of the page into consideration. Even a seemingly small 30% change can be quite sufficient to avoid being “sandboxed”.
The smartest way when it comes to article marketing is to ensure that you submit unique versions of your articles. Not only will you gain more targeted traffic, but the increase in the rankings tends to last for much longer because of the backlinks you have built through the marketing of unique articles.
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