by Stephen Long

Article marketing is one of the easiest kinds of website promotion. By writing articles that concentrate on characteristics of your website’s theme and submitting them to top article directories, you will begin to see an increase in website traffic. If you don’t have the time, then you can easily and affordably outsource writing projects.

Well constructed articles can bring you free website traffic from a substantial increase in back links. The key to your sucessful article writing is twofold. Firstly, your articles need to be well written, informative and appropriate to your website. Secondly, you need to write and submit articles to high traffic directories on a regular basis. Article marketing doesn’t work as a website promotion strategy if you are simply doing it once in a while. You have to work to a regular writing and submission routine so that the number of quality back links increase over time.

The links back from other online directories are important for website promotion in two different ways. They are a link from the article directly to your web site that very interested readers of your article can follow and therfore, they are a means for highly focussed traffic to reach your site. They also provide as a important SEO (search engine optimization) service because the search engine algorithms use the number of relevant, one way back links to your website as an important aspect in assigning your ranking on search results pages.

Article marketing works as a website promotion technique because other websites and ezines can locate your articles in article directories and publish your articles with a link to your website in the resource bio. Most websites do not allow you to include embedded links in your article but do allow you to place links and marketing style information in your resource box that appears beneath the article.

You can attract free website traffic with your resource bio by featuring your expertise and things you are particularly marketing with a link to relevant pages. Individuals who wish to utilize your article on their site or in their ezine must agree to keep your resource information intact.

You can choose to write an informative article about some parts of your business that a reader may be interested in, or you can write a product review that is designed to encourage your reader to take the next step and buy the product. Many Internet marketers will write articles to direct people to their website to offer them a free ebook or subscription to a newsletter so that they can build an opt-in email list for ongoing marketing purposes. Article marketing is one of the best ways to pre-sell a product because it allows you to gain enough credibility with your reader that they are more apt to click on your resource box link to find out more.

Article marketing is a highly effective tactic to attract free targeted traffic to your website. You may have a great product and a excellent sales-pitch, but without targeted website traffic your online business will be going nowhere. However, if you are committed to writing at least one article a day and submit those articles to high traffic article directories as well as directories that have high search engine ranks, you will soon find that you will have incredible website visitors that are knocking on your online door.

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When you submit an article to an article directory you will receive backlinks and traffic. The article directory owner is happy for you to do this as he know that he will receive a an income from the advertising revenue generated by your article. In some cases a popular article that ranks well can earn the site owner several dollars per day. However you can now directly benefit from this income following the Launch of The Article Sense Network.

As an article publisher it is now possible for you to share in the advertising revenue. The revenue share model has been around for a couple of years now and is within Google’s terms and conditions. So not only can you now benefit from the back links and traffic but you can also earn an income from Adsense at the same time.

Before we look at how the Article Sense network operates it is worthwhile noting that you will also receive 10% of the income from any referrals you make. Over time this can build up into a healthy income.

Sites in The Article Sense Network are different from any another article directory you have ever seen. Firstly there are 2 types of members of the network site owners and article publishers. The ability to earn income from your articles is unique enough but as we’ll see below there is so much more that makes these sites stand out from the crowd.

As an article publisher you will join one of the sites in the network. When you publish your article it will appear on that site. It will also have the first 500 characters displayed on 33% of the sites in the network along with your resource box and links and your Adsense code.

If you submit 1 article to the network and there are 100 sites in the network your links will be showing on 33 sites. Many of the earliest sites are between PR4 and PR6 so the benefit is immense. Within 12 hours of the launch there were around 70 sites in the network. Oh and in case i didn’t mention it all this Is FREE to publishers.

There is still more, you can even embed videos into your articles. This is a great way of selling products and keeping people on the page longer which will have a positive effect on your Adsense income. Just upload your videos to YouTube or grab one already online and embed them into your article.

The final part of the jigsaw is the site owners. Site owners receive 40% of the income generated by the articles on their site. This includes income from the published snippets. Each snippet also includes a link back to the originating site. over time this can result in a large number of links from the rapidly growing network

I am sure you’ll agree that this is probably one of the biggest things to happen to article marketing in a long time. For more information please click on one of the links in this article

The Article Sense

In a moment I’ll tell you where you can free unique content for your blog but you may be asking what has this go to do with article marketing..simple really it could be your articles that are getting posted to thousands of blogs every day!.

Let me explain… I a previous post I told you how I had originally set up this site to test an article marketing tool Unique Article Wizard. When I tested it it worked well but the articles were just distributed to Article Dashboard sites. However The developer of the software has added a plugin that will allow people to add the articles not only to their wordpress blogs but also to many more types of article directories. Soon to be added are plugins for Blogger and Joomla.

Think of the significance of this for a moment. Firstly as a publisher you will have your Unique articles sent out to hundreds or thousands of new sites..the potential of this is enormous.

As a blog owner you no longer have to spend hours looking for and creating content for you blogs Unique articles will be added automatically growing your blog with keyword targeted articles and remember that there articles have been checked by a human editor before being sent out so you know the quality will be good.

You can download the plugins here:

http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/contact.html#downloads

and the FAQ is here:

http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/plugin_help.html

The question that most people new to article marketing is Does Article Marketing Work? The answer has to be an unequivocal YES…but with some qualifying statements.

Firstly if you have found this site from a link it is most likely that it was from an article. The site was set up to test article marketing and what better topic to use that Article marketing! Rather than repeat the whole experiment here you can go to The Income Academy and have a look at the Blog entries there.

You’ll see from the videos and comments that I only used 1 article to get some tremendous results. The key to the success of the experiment was using Unique Article Wizard But a Tool isn’t the only thing you’ll need to make article marketing work for you. You’ll need to refine the way you write articles.

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It’s no great secret that the way to gain ranking positions in the search engines is by getting back links. Up to recently this used to consist of contacting other webmasters and asking them to link to your site in return for linking to theirs. Unfortunately this form of reciprocal linking is no longer as useful as it once was. One way links are now the key. There is no better way to get lots of one way links than by creating and distributing articles.

Content is the life blood of the Internet every webmaster needs it and every website needs fresh content to keep Google and the other Search engines coming back regularly. By writing articles you can provide this content and at the same time get yourself permanent back links to your website. This article will attempt to answer some common questions asked by first time article writers.
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Depending on who you talk to Article Marketing is either the best form of promotion or a complete waste of time. I most certainly don’t think that it is a waste of time but whether it is the ultimate marketing tool well I’ll let you decide for yourself.

There are only 2 things that are important in internet marketing the amount of traffic you get to your site and the amount of money that traffic site generates. At this point I will assume that some of you are shouting at me “what about the quality of the content”.

The quality of the content you provide is directly related to the income generated by the site. Give people poor ciontent and they will quickly leave your site. They may leave via an adsense or other PPC ad and you will maybe earn a few cents..whoopee doo.. lets throw a party, I made a few cents from adsense. If you are that short sighted then you will never suceed in Internet Marketing. You might have made a few cents but you probably left $10-$20 laying on the table for people like me to pick up.

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