Tuesday 27 October 2009

Using Article Marketing Effectively

By Winson Yeung

Article marketing is advertising by writing short articles on specific areas that you wish to promote in your industry. Some content based articles are even released free to help attract clients and build credibility. Article marketing became popular with the advent of mass printing making article production affordable and easy to produce.

The internet has made article marketing explode and there are numerous article directories where you can post your articles. Your short articles can be accessed by anyone around the world and will be included in internet searches as well as website searches. You can even create links from product and service pages to your articles.

Article marketing does not take much time and if you find yourself too busy there is a large freelance workforce that specializes in article market writing. Article marketing can help you establish credentials as an expert, improve your search engine ranking, create more lead generations and increase traffic to your website.

Articles for marketing all follow a basic outline of title, body, resource box and brief summary. Specific article databases may have certain guidelines and formats that you need to follow. It is worth while to check this out before you join a site. The title is the most important part of your article and needs to grab the reader's attention so that they actually read your article. The best types of article are focused, easy to understand and most important helpful to the reader.

You should put your most important information at the beginning of your article. This way you will have gotten your point across even if the reader doesn't finish the article. Paragraphs and sentences should be short and if necessary and appropriate subheadings can be uses. Also make sure you use correct grammar and please make sure you use spell check.

The consumer can find additional information or contact information that will lead then to additional information in the resource box. The resource box will contain your contact information as well as a few tid-bits about your product, service or company.

Once your article is written you need to produce a short summary that may appear with the title of your article. The summary needs to hook the reader or point out what you article will offer. Think of this as an abstract if you are scientifically minded. The summary should be between two and five sentences long. You should make sure to spell check your article as there is nothing more off putting than a badly written article full of spelling and grammar mistakes.

Once you have written your article you need to submit it to the appropriate directory. There are hundreds of article directories. Some of the more popular article directories are EzineArticles, GoArticles, and IdeaMarketers. There are also article directories for specific niches but finding them may take a bit of searching. You don't need a lot of marketing or computer knowledge to be a successful article marketer. By spending a little bit of time each day writing and posting articles you can successfully provide information and promote your services.

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