What is Article Marketing? Article Marketing is the process of writing a 400-1000 word article that is keyword rich and yet not too spam my. The power of article marketing is in the “About the Author” section. In this section you may include up to 2 links to your website, minister, bog, etc. These links may have a keyword rich anchor and are do Follow (most of the time). Each domain that you are promoting should have about 40+ articles (if you’re trying to get the highest seep possible. 40 articles is a lot of writing no matter how yaw swing it, but I’ve found that reviewing a product is probably the easiest way to go. Traffic from Article Marketing Imagine that you write an article and it gets submitted to 500 article directories (some with high PR and link juice). Those 500 sites now link to you with a very relevant keyword anchor. This brings you valuable free traffic in two ways: The more backlines you have, the higher your site will position on the search engines (seeps). A quality article brings you “the author” visits to your bog from the links included in the about the author section you can visit www.internet-copycatting.com  
Submitting Articles the Easy Way If you’re serious about Article Marketing you’ll want to have your articles submitted automatically to article directories for you (time is money). I’ve used three services for this. The first (and best) would be Article Marketer. Article Marketer is a subscription based service (it costs $50.00 / Quarter or $160 per year) for unlimited article submissions to 5000 + article directories. Article Marketer reviews your article in 1-2 days (other services can take up to 15 days) and informs you of any potential issues with your article before distribution begins. Article Marketer will not distribute your article until it meets certain criteria. Article Marketer provides you with distribution and exposure reports as well, which are really nice because you want to see what you’re paying for frankly. The second one is called snare. ISnare.com will register you at about 500 directories and automatically submit your article to them automatically for 2 dollars per article or visit www.yourarticlecash.com 
Snare takes about 5 days to review your article and is not as thorough as Article Marketer. As long as your article has 400 words they’ll push it out. That may sound good, but it isn’t. Article Directories are fraught with many rules and it’s really important that your article be universally acceptable for maximum exposure. Finally, the third Article Submission tool is Digammas Article Submitter. This is a free article submission tool that submits your article to hundreds of low pr/ranking article directories. Digammas Article Submitter is a semi-automatic process and requires several manual steps, but it is a free solution. Is Article Marketing Worth it? You bet it is! Nothing is better than getting 1 way backlines to your site with relevant link anchors. These one way text links can rocket your site towards the top of the SERPS, especially if your topic or niche is under one million results.

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If you follow the seo forums, you’ll notice that an old search engine marketing strategy is now suddenly everyone’s “seo strategy” of choice. Yes, I’m talking about article marketing. In the SEO Elite newsletter I’ve often mentioned the benefits of article marketing, but with Google’s recent updates to its ranking algorithms, the topic merits a fresh look. With everyone even remotely interested in achieving decent search engine rankings turning to article marketing, it is critical for your website’s success that you fully understand what traditional article marketing is about and how you can benefit from it. Note that as search engines become smarter with reciprocal links, article marketing – especially the sort of marketing that guarantees good results – will require some expert knowledge. In the rest of this lesson, I’ll show you:
* How traditional article marketing works
* Why it will not work in the long run and
* The right way to do article marketing
In addition, I have a surprise for you at the end of this issue (but wait, read the lesson first, what you’ll learn here is priceless).

Traditional Article Marketing
Traditional article marketing works something like this: You write (or pay someone to write it) a 600-word article, take out a list of 100-200 article directories, and submit your article to all of them (or you could hire someone to do that as well). In a week or so, your article is accepted and published by the article directories, not to mention thousands of websites who pick up articles from these directories. Then, after a week or two of submitting the article, search engines pick it up and suddenly see hundreds, if not thousands, of new links to your site. Even if these are low-quality links in some cases (there are very few highly reputed article directories, and most of them are not themed), your rankings benefits thanks to the sheer number of links you’ve built. Over a period of time, after several article submissions, you notice an improvement in your search engine rankings at the next algorithm update. Yes, those links have made all the difference, and now your site is starting to get higher search engine placement.

The Problem with Article Marketing
By the looks of it, article marketing has everything search engines ask for – quality content, contextual links and even one-way links (as opposed to reciprocal links, which are less valuable). However, to draw a parallel, just blindly submitting articles to hundreds of directories is like shooting in the dark – you’re essentially banking on getting tons of non-themed links in the hope that they will be enough to improve your rankings (you may get lucky now and then and have some big website in your niche pick up your article and run it). Important: The reason I say that many of these article links are non-themed is because the search engines not only look at the page your link is located on, BUT also look at the “website” your link is located on. All of these article directories are probably not related to your website in theme.

If you are serious about your rankings, you’ll have to get your hands dirty and chase down the right links yourself (only at the beginning of course – as your site’s popularity increases, your articles will generate their own links and you will get requests from other websites requesting your permission to reprint your articles). The case for adopting a personal approach to article marketing becomes air-tight if you consider the following:
* Search engines are clamping down harder on duplicate content , using the “date of discovery” (when the SE spider first finds the content) and other factors to find out which article is original and which are “copies”.
* Search engines are getting better at evaluating “ themed ” links – links from industry-related websites, with a greater emphasis on niche sites dealing with one or two themes rather than general purpose sites dealing with a large set of themes (like article directories).
* Search engines already consider anchor text as vulnerable to spam, so if hundreds of links pointing to your site suddenly pop up (with the EXACT same anchor text), this would be a “red-flag” event.

In other words, while article submissions are excellent tools for gaining traffic and rankings, search engines are catching up to the fact that spammers may use “blind” submissions in order to artificially boost their link popularity, and are looking to implement filters that can catch spammers. This will not happen immediately and maybe not even in the next year, but as the search engine wars (between Google, Yahoo and the rest) heat up, search engines will get stricter in terms of what they allow to rank highly in their search results. Note that when I say search engines, I’m really talking about Google (which current serves 40-50 percent of all search engine traffic). However, as article spam increases, the other search engines are bound to implement changes that will catch it as well.

The Right Way
If you want maximum results for your article marketing, you would be best served by adopting the following tactics:
* Target the top article directories and go for a few quality links instead of hundreds of low-quality links. In other words, hit the top article directories (I’ve listed a few later on in this lesson) and devote the rest of your time on the next couple of steps.
* Find themed article directories / content sites that are related to the niche that your article addresses. For example, if you write about CSS, you would be looking for directories and websites that accept content on website development and more directly, website programming.
* Use articles as link building tools – find high-ranking sites related to yours and instead of simply asking for links, pitch your article to them as an offer to their readers. If your article is engaging, fresh and unique, most websites will gladly publish it on their websites (or at least give you a reference link), leading to increased traffic as well as link popularity.

There are a few more things that you can do to make sure you came out ahead of the search engines’ spam filters:

- Avoiding Duplicate Content Penalties: Ideally, you shouldn’t publish articles that you submit on your own website – this “may” help you avoid the duplicate content penalty a bit. On the other hand, this does not address the concern that carbon copies of your article will suddenly pop up in hundreds of places on the Internet. To deal with this, you can use one or more of the following techniques:
* Post the article on your website, and wait for it to be indexed by the major search engines before you submit it to the article directories.
* Post the full article on your website and submit “ half ” of it to the article directories (works best if you have a 1000 words+ article).
* Have your writer create a second, different version of the article. Then, you can submit that version to the directories while keeping the original on your site.

- Deep Linking: Instead of just putting links to your main site page, link to a few inner pages of your site from within the article text. Of course, the inner pages must be relevant to the article topic. This will help spread the link popularity you receive throughout the site. Deep links are one of the ways search engines use to evaluate the value of links.

- Themed Links: Use different articles for different purposes. For example, you could have one article promoting your main website, another promoting your new book (and linking to the order page), and yet another article linking to your newsletter signup page. The key is to remember that articles also mean traffic, and along with deep links, getting traffic to the key money-making areas of your site is very important.

- Find Quality Article Sites: There are very few article directories (like Ezine Articles ) that have a stellar reputation within the search engines. Directories like Go Articles and ISnare are popular precisely because they themselves have managed to rank highly within the search engines. The top ranked directories will not only get you the most link wealth but also the most traffic. However, don’t be satisfied with just hitting the general purpose article sites – make sure that you find sites within your niche that accept articles exclusively to the topic – if you can get links from within your own topical link neighbourhood, they will be worth much more than the links you get from the big article directories. And now, for the surprise I mentioned earlier. Very soon, I’ll be launching a new service that will allow you to crank out QUALITY Adsense style websites in only a few minutes. There are 2 major hindrances for Adsense website publishers. They are:
1. Lack of unique, quality content.
2. Lack of links to get the pages indexed quickly.

- Lack of unique, quality content: What most adsense publishers do is visit article directories such as those mentioned above. They then grab 20-30 articles related to their website topic. They add the articles to their site and hope to see the search engine traffic pour in. Does it? 99.9% of the time is doesn’t. The reason is because you’re serving up duplicate content that the Search Engines already know about. So, how can you get around this? Easy… Create your own unique content based on the keywords you’re targeting. Up until now, this could be an extremely time intensive process. Can you imagine writing 30, 550+ word articles? Sheesh, I don’t even want to think about that. You can figure it would take you about 60 minutes to write 1 “quality” article. If you were to write 30 articles, that’s 30 hours of work! Almost an entire week’s work… Makes me sick just thinking about that

Anyway, if you’re anything like me and many other internet marketers, we know the key to massive success is paying others to do thing you don’t want to do yourself, in order to free up your time (which is the most important asset you have) to promote your website. This is where my new service comes in. We will write ALL of the articles for you, for an insanely cheap amount per article. Because my staff is so large, we’re able to do this so cheaply, which benefits everyone Plus, everything is organized into your very own administration panel where you simply enter whatever topics you want us to write about. Click “submit” and BAM, we’re immediately writing your article and will have it to you within 24 hours. The sky’s really the limit. Alright, I won’t give you a URL for the site just yet, but look for an email in the coming weeks. You’re going to love what you see.

- Lack of links to get the pages indexed quickly: This is another very common problem, but can be solved extremely easily. In order to get your pages indexed, you simply need links. The more links pointing to your website, the faster you will get indexed, period. How can you get easy, fast links to your site? Go to LinkMetro.com and either sign up for a free account and manually exchange links with over 20,000 other websites listed in very tightly themed categories OR upgrade to an Advanced membership where you can get links even quicker and easier. Whatever you decide. Go to LinkMetro.com and start getting links and I can guarantee that your pages will get indexed MUCH quicker than had you not done so.

Well, that wraps up this lesson on the importance of article marketing. I hope that this lesson has taught you some new strategies for using articles as effective marketing tools for your online business and I will speak with you soon!

There has never been anything like the internet in terms of what it offers and the opportunities you can gain from it. Welcome to the expanding age of e-commerce. The market continues to expand and shows no signs of slowing down either. It is estimated that in excess of five billion dollars changes hands each year via the net. There are so many ways that you too can have a slice of the cake, but nothing is guaranteed so beware.You need a good promotion strategy and one way of doing this for next to no money is article marketing.

What is article marketing? As the name implies, it is a form of informational marketing that uses short articles to promote a product or service. While simple in concept, article marketing can be enormously helpful in promoting a commercial venture. Here are seven of the most common advantages of article marketing:

1. Article marketing is relatively inexpensive. The costs of hiring a writer are far less than it would cost to place a banner advertisement on a website. A professional writer can easily produce a short (500 word) article for under $20. Additionally, the writer can be far more compelling than a stoic banner ad could ever be.

2. Article marketing can help provide credibility towards a product or service. If you read an article on the subject of weight loss that was unique, informative, and thought provoking, would you be more or less inclined to purchase a product promoted in the body of the article. Of course, you would be more likely to purchase. This is because the expertise presented in the article lent a great deal of credibility to the product.

3. You have no control over the number of people who will see your article marketing efforts. It can simply mushroom and go viral. To get your new article to the internet and be seen is quite simple and again free in most cases. You simply register with an article directory and submit your article for distribution. Actually, there are hundreds of article directories on the internet and submitting multiple articles to these various directories opens the doors to untold scores of readers.

4. The articles are forever. Some article directories will inevitably close from time to time, but your articles will still live on. You see, the directory simply “gives birth” to the article and gets it out into the public domain. That means your published articles will remain indexed in the search engines. So, the article you wrote years ago can still draw in potential customers today.

5. Articles can also be used in email marketing campaigns as well. Yes, it is true that most articles are submitted to article directories, but the flexibility of article marketing is quite vast. Often, articles can be used quite effectively in email campaigns. Most people despise spam emails due to their curt nature. Emails that utilize article marketing are more welcome because of their information and entertainment value.

6. Article marketing can also aid in search engine optimization. Adding links to the body of an article that is published on the web will yield “votes” for the website the links point towards. This will increase the site’s ranking in the search engines.

7. Article marketing can easily cross over with website content. If a website lacks relevant content then the search engines will ignore it. Also, a “barren” website does very little for stimulating visitor interest in a product. Adding quality, promotional articles to a website can perform the “double duty” of marketing the site and adding keyword rich content. Consider this two-for-one approach another way article marketing is cost effective.

Naturally, there are more than seven benefits to article marketing but these are a good selection. Anyone who is operating a commercial venture on the internet should make article marketing a prime component of their advertising strategy. The reason for this is that it is among the most effective promotional strategies ever devised.

Even if you are an experienced article marketer I really doubt that you are applying this great article marketing strategy in your daily article promotion campaigns. So read on to find out my top secret of getting fast profit from each and every article I write and publish online.

So Here Is My Revealed Big Secret For Getting Fast Profit from Articles:

The trick is very simple: Quantity! If you want to beat your competitors on certain niche with only article marketing then you have to write and publish at least 10 articles a day, 7 days a week. No I seldom hire writers when I’m too busy with my other projects. In general, I always write all content on my own. Why? – Because I save money and time at a time. I hate when I have to edit or rewrite the writers’ work to get what I need exactly.

My Great Article Marketing Strategy that Can Earn You Hundreds Dollars A Day:

I try to write 10-20 articles a day on average. How can I do that? I’m using special software called Instant Article Wizard which minimizes the time I spend for research and as a result, I’m able to produce a quality 260-300 word article even on a topic I know nothing within only 5-7 minutes.

My second little secret is that I always follow certain article format to save my time: introduction, body and conclusion. Just pay attention to the article you are reading now and you will understand what I mean.

Conclusion:

Make a weekly article marketing plan and start applying my great article marketing strategy on a daily basis. Only in this case, you can earn fast profit from your articles.