Article Marketing For Beginners

Writing effective articles can bring your home based business traffic for months and even years to come. For beginners, the article marketing process itself can be somewhat intimidating. Here's a brief step by step guide for beginners on how to start the article marketing process.

Article Marketing For Beginners Step 1

Choose your keywords and subject. Find some that will land you some visitors from the search engines. Incorporate those keywords in your title and throughout the article. 3-5% keyword density is a good rule of thumb.

Don't worry about being too picky with the keywords. Keep in mind you will be writing plenty of articles for some time to come. You'll use just about all the keywords there are, then rewrite some articles using the same key words.

Article Marketing For Beginners Step 2

Write an article between 400-700 words long. Any longer will tire the reader. Any shorter and it will not provide enough insight or information.

If you know the subject well enough you probably won't need to search for any information to start writing. If not you can find plenty of articles all over the web just by going to an article directory and typing your selected key words or by searching for your key words on any search engine.

Once you find an article all you have to do is put it into your own words. Completely change the title, include an intro, three or four main body paragraphs, a conclusion, and a resource box.

Article Marketing For Beginners Step 3

Add the article to your blog or create a new page for it. Bold and italic some of the keywords in the article and add any hyper links if applicable. If you add the article to your blog, you need to social bookmark the post right away.

Article Marketing For Beginners Step 4

Wait a few days and then start submitting the article to the directories. Also, you will get better results if you take your original article and tweak it up a little bit. Keeping your key words intact, change the title, intro, and about 10 or so sentences throughout the main body. Your looking for three versions of the same article to submit to the directories. This will ensure that the search engines index all of your articles.

That's basically all there is to it. Rinse and repeat from step 1 about twice a week or eight times a month. It may seem like a tough task at first, but once you start and get that first article out of the way it becomes much easier.

Matt Helphrey

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