Things are going somewhat smoothly this week even though I have a cold that is definitely making me more tired than I normally am. We push on anyways because the work still needs to be done.
This week I am focusing mainly on finding a new niche and I have come across several that I am in the process of testing using the method I provided from the last Follow My Footsteps post. Once I have narrowed it down to two I will move on to document exactly what my next steps will be. I am being very cautious and picky about what niche to select realizing how important this step is. I am making sure I don’t just commit myself to an overall large niche but one that branches off a larger niche.
Today I want to talk about article marketing and how writing effective articles has been a crucial element in receiving traffic to my website. And article marketing works two fold. First, the articles themselves deliver targeted traffic from the article directories. Second, the back links you leave in the authors resource box add up and these back links will get you ranked higher in the search engines for your keywords.
That’s why selecting your keywords carefully when you write your articles is a crucial element of success for gaining organic free traffic to your website. Before you write an article, figure out what keywords you want to use, then incorporate those keywords in your article title and throughout the survey.
One thing to keep in mind though, and this is very important, your article has to be legible and a smooth read. Do not spam your keywords in your article so it doesn’t make sense. Doing so will actually hurt your chances of getting ranked rather than help. A good written article with the right amount of strategically placed keywords is the most effective way to market your articles. It will keep the reader interested and the search engines will not penalize your material.
To get the optimal results, you’ll want to write 3 or more different versions of the same article. This ensures that the search engines wont penalize you for submitting the spam. If the search bots see that the same article with your back link is in a number of different spots, they will not count all of the back links. The search bots love unique fresh content, so if you change some things up they will see the articles as completely different then one another and you will get more back links listed for that article.
I hope this makes sense. Too many of one thing is not good, variety is the spice of life on the internet as well. Take the time to rewrite each and every article and you will see a big difference in the amount of back links you get.
This process does not have to be hard either. When your article is ready for distribution you have a couple of different options and I have used both. You can manually submit your article versions to a list one by one. This way will take you a good amount of time, usually a full day to do if you are submitting to the places you should be. Submitting manually obviously wont cost you any money, but lets face it, time is money.
In my opinion a cheap distribution service is well worth the money. Not only will it automatically submit your articles to hundreds of different directories at the click of a few buttons, but the one I use allows you to use software to make different versions of your article as well. The service is through SubmitYourArticle and I would highly recommend it to anyone submitting articles. I can’t imagine I would have anywhere near the number of back links I have now if it were not for their services.
In my next post I will talk about and give you examples on how to increase the number of back links to your website. Article marketing is my #1 method but there are easier ways that I’ll be happy to share.
Stay tuned…
Matt Helphrey
