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Learn Article Marketing for Your Business

By Kerry Finch

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Published: 19Apr2010
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Most Internet users are turned off by direct sales pitches, just as many buyers avoid sales talk in stores. Marketing on the Internet is much more sophisticated - with article marketing being the most effective approach.

Article marketing is a technique where you publish articles containing useful information for your target market to gain their trust and confidence before offering them your product or someone else's product (if you're an affiliate). This subtle sales pitch works because people crave information and in selling, the power of persuasion is stronger than coercion.

To make article marketing work for your business, you need to get some original and good quality articles related to what you are selling. The trick is to get several of these out on the web and link them to your landing page where you can then make your sales pitch.

With article marketing, more is better as it increases your chances of ranking well in search engines and attracting huge traffic to your site. This is why content writing should always be part of ongoing business strategies.

How is it done?

At first glance, article writing may appear to be fairly easy, but because search engines only love fresh and unique content, it is a continuing challenge for web masters and internet marketers to churn out new content.

Article writing

If you love writing, you can create your own articles and post them on your website for others to read and to article publishing sites. However, you may not have the time to research and update your site's content or are simply are not inclined to write - in such cases your solution is outsourcing the task.

Article distribution

Next, you need to broadcast your articles by submitting these to article distribution sites. There are many distribution services, some of which are free but often tedious and time-consuming to use.

The ideal is to use a distribution service that has an easy submission tool and an application for re-writing sentences (rather than substituting words with synonyms) to come up with several unique versions of one good article.

This not only simplifies the process but it also saves you time and money.

Get a mentor or coach

Anyone can write articles for Internet use but repackaging those articles for massive distribution requires some technique or system that an SEO content coach can teach.

There are many writers as well as SEO specialists who can teach you how to write your own articles and how to optimize your site, but not both. What you should look for is someone who is experienced in both fields and who can walk you through an article marketing system that you can easily implement on your own and across various sales campaigns.

Do not let the opportunity to learn about SEO content creation pass you by - if traffic and sales are what you want. Learn more from Kerry Finch, your SEO Content Coach

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