Article Marketing; One Step to Triple Your Results
Almost all website owners who want to promote their sites use article marketing. That should come as no surprise.
Online businesses require just two things to ensure success. The first is content…good content. An adequate number of website visitors is the second…and the more the better. There are any number of ways to advertise and promote a website, including “plugging” it on social media sites. But, all traffic is not equal, and organic search traffic is the best of all.
To begin with, although it takes time and energy to build and optimize a site which ranks well in the search engines, the traffic your site receives from the search engines is free. If you advertise, it may cost you $5 or more to generate a visitor to your site. And, research has clearly revealed that visitors who reach you because they found your site in a Google or Yahoo search are far more likely to be buyers than those who come to you as a result of advertising. Four times as likely, in some studies.
It makes perfect sense. The person who visits your site after clicking on a banner or receiving an email blast may have some curiousity about what is on your site. The person who actually used a search engine to seek out pages like yours is a far more likely customer…at least 3 times as likely to become a buyer.
That’s why successful site owners do their best to maximize their search engine rankings, a process that should always include link building. And, article marketing is among the quickest, most effective ways to obtain links. It is not unusual to earn hundreds and even thousands of links by writing just one article.
Generally, website owners write about the subjects of their websites…the subjects they know best and the areas in which they are seeking potential customers.
The mistake they make all too often is that they do not write about anything else.
By writing on a limited range of topics, they limit the article directories and websites which will be interested in using their articles. And, by doing that, they limit the number of links their writing efforts will get them. As an example, I have several education sites, so my articles are most often about college admission, scholarships, online education, and similar topics. I’ve gotten thousands of links with these articles, but there are lots of article directories and websites that have no interest in those subjects. Thus, by writing an occasional article (like this one) on another topic, I can can a whole new audience, and a much greater number of links.
In fact, articles I have written on affiliate marketing, wagering, and great hamburger recipes have produced far more links than some of my education articles. The lesson? Don’t limit yourself to a narrow range of articles. Instead, write at least 2-3 articles a month on mass appeal subjects…the extra exposure and extra links you’ll get are well worth the effort.
