Article marketing is a great way to do many things for your online business. It is like killing three birds with one stone because it can bring you people and it can help you with search engine traffic as well as help you encourage others to spread your message in a viral way.
Article directories like E-zine Articles will let you join for free and write an interesting article for submission to their site. This article has a resource box that will let you link the article back to your site. This helps humans and search engines.
Human Visitors:
You can generate website traffic. People will read your well-written article that’s written with a slant to encourage them to visit your site. They could buy what you’re selling after visiting you.
Search Engines:
Search engines will see the sprinkling of relevant keywords in the article that point to your site and this will help you with your search engine optimization. The keywords you optimize for should be anchored text with html in your resource box and point to your site.
Guest Posting:
When you submit to these types of article websites you’re giving others free use of your article with the rule that they need to keep your article original and include your links. By writing an interesting article, you’ll get increased exposure because others will publish your article on their site.
There are many article submission sites available to choose from. Some have varying rules about links and content so read the terms of service and consider posting a few articles a week as part of your self promotion and SEO efforts.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2009
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it is not an easy task to do. you need a lot of time to write and submit your articles to article directory. it is best to try other method to promote/drive traffics to your website
Thanks for the feedback, Syed. In my opinion, there are so many areas and tools you can use to promote your site. Article marketing can be a bit time consuming but can definitely give you some great results.
Cheers,
Dana