Article Marketing - The Small Business' Best Friend

Article marketing has been a staple of most of the
biggest names in internet marketing. It's an incredibly
easy and inexpensive method to create FREE, targeted
traffic!

Read the article below for more info.

Article Marketing - The Small Business' Best Friend
By Michael J. Harris

Article marketing is an excellent marketing strategy
that works like crazy and is virtually cost free. The
current massive growth of article marketing to drive
traffic to websites, establish credibility and to create
backlinks for search engine optimization purposes
further illustrates the effectiveness of this tactic.
This is one of the best ways to drive web traffic to
any new or existing site.

Most importantly, article marketing can build a large
stream of viral traffic to your sites as more and more
publishers publish your articles on their sites. This
proliferation across the web gets your name and site
in front of possibly thousands of interested prospects
in many different arenas.

What makes this so powerful is that it drives targeted
traffic to your website. Prospects that are drawn to
your site through a link in your article have pre
qualified themselves. By simply following your link
they are coming to your site already curious as to what
you have to offer and believing that you are
knowledgable in your field.

Each article you publish is excellent advertising for
your website because at the end of your article you
are allowed to place an 'about the author' section, or
byline. By placing a small snippet about yourself as
an expert in your field this advertises you and your
website and builds free traffic to your site and
credibility for you if your articles are of good quality.

A good use of the byline area would be to place a link
to a web page that gives away a free report on the
subject matter of the article in exchange for the
prospects name and email address. This is a great
way to build targeted mailing lists.

Another advantage of writing your own articles and
publishing them is that it can be done for free. This
is a tremendous alternative to paying for Pay Per
Click Advertising.

Also, by writing and submitting more and more
articles you will be more well known and the more
targeted website traffic you will get.

If you write articles that stay on the topic of your
site, the page where your article appears is more
effective as a page that links back because it is more
relevant. This increases the Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) of your site too.

Here's a quick example of the traffic you might expect
from only writing a few articles a month. If your write
three articles and distribute them to 120 distribution
websites and they are picked up by 4 webmasters from
each distribution site and even if each website only
supplies 6 hits to your site per month your article
marketing could convert over 8,400 hits per month.

Are you currently drawing that many visitors to your
sites? And if so, everyone can use more traffic.

Try to write at least one article a week because the
more you write the better you will become. With only
four articles a month you will build a steadily increasing
rush to your site of choice.

Optimize the Text Naturally. You want your article to
pop to the top of a list when someone searches for it.
Always remember that you are writing for human eyes,
not simply to build back links to your site.

Turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity
to increase your income, not just the number of visitors
to your site by doing an honest review of a recently
released product that you may have purchased yourself
along with an affiliate link.

Now you know how article marketing can help promote
your business, it's up to you. By including article marketing
into your multi-faceted marketing and sales plan, you too
can achieve success in marketing your site. The bottom
line of small business web site article marketing is to
increase your sales and build your customer base.

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