3 Steps to Easy Article Marketing For Beginners
- By Debbie McNeely
- Published 10/22/2011
- Marketing
- Unrated
Do you find yourself struggling with how to earn your first few hundred dollars as a beginning marketer? Struggle no longer. Article marketing is a great way to make your first money. It’s easy and it’s fast to get started. After trying other methods, I've come back to this proven way to generate business.
Read on for 3 Easy Steps For Beginners.
Who Should Use Article Marketing?
Article marketing is great for beginning marketers who’ve never gotten more than 5,000 visitors to their website. It’s a simple and fast way to get traffic to a website without having to invest money before you’ve made money.
What Can You Expect?
For every article you submit, you can expect 50 to 500 visitors over the course of a couple months if you only submit to article directories. If you make one sale out of every 100 visitors, your sale is worth $40, you get 200 visitors per article and each article plus submission takes you an hour, then you’re getting paid $80 an hour.
Granted, you won’t get the entire $80 right away, it’ll take some time.Article traffic tends to trickle in rather than come all at once.
If you go beyond submitting to just article directories, you could get a lot more traffic than that.
How To Start Article Marketing in 3 Easy Steps:
Step #1 Keyword Research
Google Keyword Tool is a free resource you can use for the research. Find a list of keywords with at least 1,000 to 10,000 searches. Then go to Google and type your keywords in quotes. Here is an example: “How to tile my roof”. Ideally there should be less than 10,000 competing results.
Repeat the above until you have a list of 10 keywords. Remember you’re looking for keywords with moderate search volume (1,000 to 10,000 searches) and not too much competition (less than 10,000 competing results).
Put this keyword in your title tag and use it sporadically throughout your article. You’re aiming to be in the top 5 rankings for the specific keyword you’re targeting.
Step #2 Submit And Distribute Your Articles
Submit your articles to article directories like EzineArticles. This will get you a small amount of traffic. There are many directories that will accept your articles. Submit to at least 10 of them. This will increase your traffic volume.
Step #3 Write Original Content For Higher Traffic Websites
If you want to build massive traffic send your articles to other websites in your industry or offer to write original content for higher traffic websites.
Instead of just putting together an article and sending it to a directory, the big traffic is made when you get your articles picked up by many websites in your industry. You get relevant one-way links and targeted traffic.
In Summary:
The important thing to learn is this: Article marketing is the perfect place for a beginner to start. It’s all about marketing information. You just need a little help with the basics to get off and running. Start today by following the 3 steps above.
Read on for 3 Easy Steps For Beginners.
Who Should Use Article Marketing?
Article marketing is great for beginning marketers who’ve never gotten more than 5,000 visitors to their website. It’s a simple and fast way to get traffic to a website without having to invest money before you’ve made money.
What Can You Expect?
For every article you submit, you can expect 50 to 500 visitors over the course of a couple months if you only submit to article directories. If you make one sale out of every 100 visitors, your sale is worth $40, you get 200 visitors per article and each article plus submission takes you an hour, then you’re getting paid $80 an hour.
Granted, you won’t get the entire $80 right away, it’ll take some time.Article traffic tends to trickle in rather than come all at once.
If you go beyond submitting to just article directories, you could get a lot more traffic than that.
How To Start Article Marketing in 3 Easy Steps:
Step #1 Keyword Research
Google Keyword Tool is a free resource you can use for the research. Find a list of keywords with at least 1,000 to 10,000 searches. Then go to Google and type your keywords in quotes. Here is an example: “How to tile my roof”. Ideally there should be less than 10,000 competing results.
Repeat the above until you have a list of 10 keywords. Remember you’re looking for keywords with moderate search volume (1,000 to 10,000 searches) and not too much competition (less than 10,000 competing results).
Put this keyword in your title tag and use it sporadically throughout your article. You’re aiming to be in the top 5 rankings for the specific keyword you’re targeting.
Step #2 Submit And Distribute Your Articles
Submit your articles to article directories like EzineArticles. This will get you a small amount of traffic. There are many directories that will accept your articles. Submit to at least 10 of them. This will increase your traffic volume.
Step #3 Write Original Content For Higher Traffic Websites
If you want to build massive traffic send your articles to other websites in your industry or offer to write original content for higher traffic websites.
Instead of just putting together an article and sending it to a directory, the big traffic is made when you get your articles picked up by many websites in your industry. You get relevant one-way links and targeted traffic.
In Summary:
The important thing to learn is this: Article marketing is the perfect place for a beginner to start. It’s all about marketing information. You just need a little help with the basics to get off and running. Start today by following the 3 steps above.
Debbie McNeely
Debbie McNeely is the author of other articles on the subject of information marketing. Her weekly newsletter is jam-packed with tools and resources for beginners to increase profits. Get your free copy at Info Marketing Blast
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