Article Marketing is one of the best and fastest ways to draw traffic back to your website. I’ve used various forms of Article Marketing for several years now and I’ve personally found it to be a simple and lucrative way to develop customers and traffic. There are 3 things to remember about Article Marketing;
1. It helps to establish you as an expert in your field.
2. It doesn’t have to be hugely time consuming.
3. You can get your articles out to your readers pretty quickly
I’m going to share a couple of tips and a couple of FREE tools that can help you get started in Article Marketing.
The first free tool that I want to talk about is Article Submitter (http://abe5.com/41f). Article Submitter is a free program that will help you submit your articles to a number of article directories quickly and easily.
1. I first submit my article to GoArticles.com and then I keep tabs open with both the final article and the HTML version. This is because you’ll still need to cut and paste occasionally while submitting your articles and if you keep the tabs open then it only takes a couple of seconds.
2. Put your link in your Resource Box. It’s more important than your bio. Write it out, i.e. http://spiritualentrepreneur.biz, because many of the article directories programs will automatically hotlink it.
3. Article Submitter will show you which directories will require you to sign in. Take the time to join these and save your login info to Article Submitter. In the long run it saves a LOT of time.
4. Try to write a 1 page article each day, or at least a couple per week. Post these on your blog as well as the Article Directories. After awhile you’ll find that you have enough articles to actually create a BOOK.
Another great free tool is SocialMarker, a free bookmarking tool. Once you’ve submitted your articles to Article Submitter directories then go to SocialMarker (http://www.socialmarker.com) and run through that program as well.
1. Once you’ve set up your free accounts with the social bookmarking sites in SocialMarker it only takes about 15 minutes to submit your new article to about 30 sites.
2. Remember to take the time to write useful articles rather than fluff. A good article will be rewarded and passed on.
3. Once you’ve used SocialMarker a few times you’ll see which sites to ignore, depending on the subject of your post. You can set SocialMarker to skip these sites, which makes the submission process faster.
4. Set up your profiles on the various bookmarking sites. Articles with a photo get more attention.
5. Once you’ve submitted a few articles you may find that some sites treat you better than others. Maybe your articles will be better received or you may build up a community there. When you know this it helps you focus your marketing.
6. Take the time to build your communities. Contact other authors and offer to trade clicks, links and reviews. Find people in a complimentary field and their articles may also be useful for your blog and readers.
Article marketing can be a fast and easy way to build your network, get hits to your website and even create long term passive income, if you take the time to do it right!
© 2008 Robert Morgen. This article may be used anywhere as long as the authors bio and links remain intact and with the article.
Robert Morgen is the author of ‘Kundalini Awakening for Personal Mastery 2nd Edition’ and ‘The Spiritual Entrepreneur‘.
The Spiritual Entrepreneur is now available at Amazon.com!
His website is http://spiritualentrepreneur.biz
