How To Become An Article Marketing Expert
If you are considering getting involved with Article Marketing, you are very wise. The money we generate each month off Article Writing alone in less than 2 years is a pleasant part time income and in addition to that it more than pays off all of our monthly recurring Internet Bills as well as all the tools we use and Educational Courses that will help take our business to the next level. So it keeps us solid in the Internet Marketing Game while we plan to poise for explosion.
As of now we are one of the top 20 Article Marketers at Ezine Articles. Our articles in this directory alone have received almost 300,000 page views to date and we worked hard and are very proud of this. We’re also one of the top authors in a few other Article Directories, so if you read this and actually apply these Article Marketing concepts, you should steadily see an incremental increase in your Website Traffic and sales your business generates no matter what niche you are in like we have. If you haven’t done this yet, go to Google and signup for a free Google Analytics account. Also get a free Google Page Rank Checker and install it in your browser.
The great thing about straight Article Marketing, which many refer to as “Bum Marketing”, is that you are borrowing Page Rank from very high ranking Article Directories. The first thing you need to know is the concept of a Double Bio. What this means is you will create two links at the bottom of your sig file. One will point to the home page and the other will point to the page you are trying to rank for. This will give you strong PR Juice to your home page but more evenly distribute the PR Juice the Article Directories give you to other parts of your website which has great long-term effects. And if you score a doubly whammy and rank on the Keyword you are linking to in your Anchor Text, then more power to you.
The main article directories are Ezine Articles, Buzzle, Go Articles, Article Dashboard, Idea Marketers, Hubpages, Squidoo and Aff Sphere. What I recommend is writing just one article per day every day and submitting it to each of these directories with your Double Bio. If you do this within one year you’ll have a Website or Blog with 365 posts. This will make your Website very strong with google and each page or post will have backlinks. We did this with our website MLM Review Kings and now it gets over 800 visitors each day on most days. That’s $300 per day of free advertising we get.
Our recommendation is to install a WordPress Blog and use Carl Ocab’s Ultimate Blogging Theme. This way you can install Adsense, and even charge advertisers for placing 125×125 ads on a monthly basis once you build up the traffic for your articles. So writing one article per day yourself for any niche you are in is recommended, and within 1-2 years you can become an authority hub within your niche, especially with a Blog. Blogs are becoming much more popular and if you stick with a website and a squeeze page only you are handicapping your efforts severely, and in time it will show.
Writing one article per day and submitting it is a task that shouldn’t take you more than 1-2 hours each day, so it leaves time for all your other promotional efforts. Also it wouldn’t hurt to go to PR Web and submit at least one Press Release per year which is only $200 if you do it yourself, and will also give your website lots of backlinks. As far as the articles, you can hire a Ghost Writer to write them for about $5.00 each, although you might end up doing some minor editing. We use Need An Article for ours.
Getting lots of backlinks is the key which is why you want to submit your articles to the Top Article Directories. The cool thing about this technique is it’s totally free. I can if you can get an Internet Connection, you can be borderline homeless and build up to a nice income over time doing this. Also have fun monitoring Google Analytics to see what pages are pulling. Once you identify these, you might consider writing more articles and pointing them to the pages that are already getting traffic to lock in the Search Engine Rankings for that page. I personally write 3-5 articles per day when I’m not doing other critical tasks not for the pay but I realized now that I love writing and am good at it. I call it my labor of love.
