| st heard of article marketing several years ago from a | | | | say what's on your mind. To many people's writing |
| friend of mine, and when I did, I was skeptical of its | | | | bores me to tears with repetition and lack of |
| value. It seemed as if you would have to create so | | | | personality. The foundational concept is simply to be |
| many articles to really benefit from article submissions | | | | yourself. Both search engines and article directories |
| that it would be beyond the scope of a normal person | | | | love original content and will reward you for it. |
| to get any real results. | | | | 3. Make your opt in box specifically targeted towards |
| Eventually, I stumbled into some information that | | | | the audience that you're marketing to. In other words, |
| changed my mind, and I decided to give article | | | | don't have an article about pony training and then try to |
| marketing a try. What happened was nothing short of | | | | sell a business opportunity to your readers. This not |
| phenomenal. I created more than a thousand leads in 2 | | | | only annoys article directories, it simply doesn't work |
| months for my online business and I generated more | | | | very well. I know that's a dramatic example, but you |
| than twenty five thousand visitors to my site. The | | | | get the point. |
| reason I was able to produce such quick and lasting | | | | 4. Promote your content in as many legitimate |
| results was because of and understanding of 3 | | | | channels as you can. This is actually the secret that |
| principles of online traffic creation that were being | | | | allowed me to create massive traffic and visitors to |
| missed by people who were trying to win with articles | | | | my site in such a short time. I promote every article I |
| but were failing for one reason or another. Here are | | | | create with videos, article syndication, social |
| the foundational principles of winning with article | | | | bookmarking, and I broadcast it on my twitter and |
| marketing: | | | | facebook accounts. The social networks, video sharing |
| 1. When you're writing your articles, target one specific | | | | sites, social bookmarkers, and article syndication gives |
| keyword phrase only. Too many people write articles | | | | me immediate traffic before my rankings kick in, and it |
| and they try to get people in all sorts of niches reading | | | | makes everything I do dramatically more effective. I |
| the same article. The fact is that you should | | | | suggest you try it. |
| concentrate the entire text of one article towards one | | | | There you go my friends! Work your content through |
| keyword phrase, and write a new article for each | | | | a promotion formula and keep the other principles in |
| specific search you target. This will produce | | | | mind for dramatic, lasting, and dynamic results. This is |
| dramatically better rankings in the search engines and | | | | the EXACT same process and thought pattern that |
| more long term rankings on your sites. The | | | | I've used to catapult both of my business websites to |
| foundational concept here is to FOCUS your content. | | | | the top of Google for every single niche that I've ever |
| 2. Write with your personality, and don't be afraid to | | | | written articles about, and it will work for you as well. |