By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2010-07-01 07:12:59 | Word Count: 443
One of the most effective ways of online marketing is ‘Article marketing’. Through this technique you can generate good amount of web traffic. An article stays on internet for years together, it could be on paid basis or even free of cost.
In article marketing, before writing the article content, have relevant information about whom you are writing for so that right topic selection can be made. After the topic has been decided decide on the keywords to be used. We all know keywords play very important role in attracting net traffic to your site. They should be used by your target customers and should be easy to remember. You can include keywords in title, Meta tag, and first paragraph of article as well as at other relevant places in the article body. This would increase the chances of your website ranking higher in search engine results.
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Ideal word count of an article starts from 200 words and goes to the limit that is necessary. Average word count is around 300-500 words per article, therefore make your article of proper length and informative. If you keep your article too lengthy, readers might not find your resource box which is at the end of it.
Write value based articles so that visitors keep coming back to read them. Problem-solving articles, how to’s and product/service review articles fall into this category. An article starts with a small introduction followed by the content body and conclusion. And at the end a resource box is kept, that where you keep information about yourself and give relevant links to contact you.
Once an article is written, you need to submit it to various good article directories. Article submission can be free or paid it depends on the directory being selected. Single article can be submitted to multiple directories through art article submission software. This way article marketing can be done.
If you have your own blog, post your article there, keep a link to it on Facebook so that your friends can view it and you can also tweet the article link on Twitter.
Just writing one or more article does not serve the purpose of article marketing, you have to write them regularly and add to the internet. This would surely serve your purpose of getting more traffic and profits. You can write them on your own or even hire any content writer to do the job for you.
