Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Article Marketing

By Justin Harrison

Marketing articles involves creating and publishing articles on the Internet with the goal of exposing your company as reputable, knowledgeable, and to improve your listing in search engines.

Similar to other advertising efforts, if this is the route you take you must have an excellent marketing strategy. You must determine what you want the articles to accomplish, who will handle creating the documents, determine how to send out the information and where to display the articles after they are created.

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.

If you are able to devote the time necessary, you will find that writing an article is an excellent skill to possess. Article writing is a skill you can learn and doesn't require you to be highly talented. Your best bet is to select topics you are familiar with and that tie in with your company.

By writing an engaging, intelligent and brief article you can prove yourself to be a top member of your profession. Skip the obvious advertising of your product, as it can be a real deterrent to readers, and instead just present pertinent facts on a related topic.

Either should be able to write the articles yourself or you need to hire a freelance writer to do the job. But before giving him any details make sure that he is proficient in article writing and will give you his original work.

The last stage of marketing strategy is to find a place to publish your articles. Blogs, popular websites or social networks work the best as it provides a pre-developed market of interested readers.

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.

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