Are you writing articles for free e-zine sites yet? If not, you should! Not only can you use these articles to make money via article marketing  promoting affiliate products but you can also build up your site’s off page search engine optimization. This is a great tool for self promotion and it’s free!  All online marketers should be using this form of free advertising.

These articles don’t earn you direct income but can indirectly pay you in a big way.  Not only will the article have the potential of going viral if it gets picked up by other webmasters who will publish on their site and point back to your site as well but people may buy your wares as a result of reading a good, convincing article.

Here are some tips for writing a great free article

-Catchy title! Grab a reader’s attention. The article isn’t likely to sit on the home page for long with a busy, high ranking article directory so grab the reader’s attention when they arrive on the site.

-Write with SEO in mind.  Search for target keywords and include them in your title and your bio box.  Anchor the keyword in the bio box and point it back to your site.  The landing page and a deep link can be great for your SEO and the article will likely rank in search engines as well.

-Follow the rules of the site to get your articles approved quickly.  Note the terms of service and editorial guidelines so you can get the article approved without much of a lag and without rework required.

-Don’t forget a call to action! Even though these articles are written mainly for search engines you can attract buyers with them so do use your bio box as a chance to grab human readers as well as search engine robots, too.