Article Marketing 101

By Justin Harrison

Marketing an article involves developing the article and publishing it with the aim of getting higher credibility of your business, by becoming an expert in your field and taking it higher up the search engine results.

Of course as with any type of advertising campaign if you choose this approach it is essential that you have a well-developed marketing strategy firmly in place in order for you to be successful. You will need to take into account the objectives in your plans for using articles to market your business, decide who will actually be writing the articles, and develop an efficient resource box for you to go over all of your information and decide where you want to place the articles once they have actually been written.

Article marketing generally has a single main objective: to bring in traffic to a designated website. You should write a variety of high quality articles to achieve this goal. Your traffic will not improve from a few, one or two, simple articles. Instead, you will need to put in a lot of effort in writing, or commissioning, a constant series of articles.

Provided you have the time and inclination, training to write articles can add an important skill. Contrary to popular belief, one can become skilled at writing articles through training unlike the need to have real talent needed to write a best-seller. It is critical to select a subject that you understand and that is related to your business.

The articles you write need to be compelling, full of information, and present your company as an expert in your industry. You shouldn't advertise products because this discourages readers, but you should provide helpful information on topics related to your product.

Freelance writers are able to write your articles if you don't feel comfortable writing them. Make sure you check out their reputation and verify they provide high quality work that is not plagiarized.

In your marketing strategy development, the final step is to decide where your articles should be published. You can target your ideal demographic by using blogs, websites and social networks which are related to your product or service.

Marketing articles can be an excellent method because a good article could be copied many times on the Internet and each time it is copied the number of links to your site increases. - 33377

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