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A Basic Guide To Article Marketing - A Free Method For Attracting Business To Your Website
The Most Important thing to remember when Writing Articles for Online content is just to KEEP IT SIMPLE! ..... And of course only write about WHAT YOU KNOW!
OVERVIEW: So, the basic idea is you write as many articles as you want and then send and submit them to "Article Directories". People who want content for their sites all over the world will go to these sites to find free articles for them to use. They are allowed to use them only on the proviso that they put in your name and information at the bottom.
You can write about anything. It may be about Home Business, Sport, Cooking ... whatever! I write articles about Internet Marketing, Home Business and also Mums and Babies because these are my interests. At the bottom of each articles I write my information and it looks something like this:
Tracey Dornelles is an online entrepreneur and founder of www.NewLifeHomeBusiness.com.au a marketing company designed to help people create their own home business. If you want to know how you can spend more time with your family and doing the more important things in life go to www.NewLifeHomeBusiness.com.au
My background is in radio and even though I did have to write a bit in my job, I have never considered myself a writer and I don't think I had even written an article before. What I'm saying is that you really don't need any experience because people browsing the internet just want short snippets of good information they can read in a short space of time.
Write in lots of paragraphs - so people's eyes don't get tired and bored ....
* You could also write in point form or in steps, as in STEP 1) STEP 2)
* It's important to note that writing an article is NOT a promo for your business. If you do this then the Article Directories will just reject it anyway, so don't waste your time. Write some REAL information that people can use. If they think you are interesting and have good info they are more likely to look at who wrote it to find out more about you.
Now remember ARticle Marketing is not something you are going t get direct responses from, so don't expect to write 1 and then complain no one came to your website. Article Marketing is about building a brand and name for yourself. Think of some experts in your field - they maybe writing articles about computers or internet marketing and you found out about them because you like the advice they were giving. It could take you 10-20 articles to see any increased traffic, but if you stick at it writing 1 every day at the start and then 1 a week you will eventually build a brand.
Do a search for "Article Directories list" and lots of different websites you can submit your articles to will come up.
The biggest and most popular article directory seems to be www.ezinearticles.com but there's hundreds more out there. And depending on what your article is about you could also send it to a niche website. So, say you wrote a website about computers, then you could contact the editor and offer them your article. I have done this with some baby specific articles I wrote.
Here's a couple more article directories: www.goarticles.com www.articleland.co.uk www.articlealley.com
Now you know the basics - Get Writing! The only way you're going to get any better at this is just to practice. Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
About the Author Tracey Dornelles is an online business coach and founder of New Life Home Business a company designed to help people create their own successful home business in the personal development industry. If you want to spend more time doing the things you love then consider following your lifepath and start creating a better life.
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