Author : Corinne BridgewaterArticle marketing is one the best ways to get your website known However, if you do not have a good author resource box with links that work, then you can pretty much find that article marketing will not work for you

Let us look at how article marketing works You write an article, and decide on an article directory that you want to submit it to On the very bottom of the submit page will be a place that you can type in something to the author resource box This box is where you can put a link to your website and if a reader likes your article they just might click on your website to see what else you have to offer

There are other things too that can happen, but we are going to talk about the link in your author resource box, this will be one of the keys to your success

If you have not made the mistake of putting a link in your author resource box wrong then you cannot imagine the frustration I have done it more than I care to admit Just one little letter typed wrong and that link is broken

So let us talk about 6 simple tips to guarantee your author resource box links work

First is to make sure that you begin your website link with the proper full address of your site That means do not leave off the http:// It is so easy to simply type in the www part and forget the other part, but in order for it to work it has to be the complete address

Second goes along with the first Make sure that you put in the complete address, correctly If you are unsure the easiest way is to pull up your website and copy and paste the address into your author resource box That way you know without a doubt it is a good link

Third is to not add any html code to it This means no italics or bold or color Somehow a lot of times that html will mess up the formatting This will cause the link not to work and we assuredly do not want that!

The fourth tip is to put your website link onto a new line Not sure why it happens but I do know that it does It somehow makes the link not work, perhaps by cutting it short or something Again I am not sure why but I know you do not want the chance of a broken link, so put it on its own line and be safe

The fifth tip is a simple one: Do not put a period, comma or exclamation mark on the end of your website address

The final tip that you should do is to test your links Physically hit on each address that you have used and make sure that your site opens up

Now you know the 6 simple tips to guarantee your author resource box links work It cannot be stressed enough the importance of making sure that they work It only takes a few minutes to check and it can save you a world of frustration

(PS)I have a small confession, in this very article I hit preview and found that my link was broken I had once again left out one letter! Lucky for me I fixed it I invite you to get your free Report
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Author : Art VelezExtra Income Seeker - Are you looking for a low cost solution to get started with an online business? Learn about the six keys to success with article marketing, which is one of the best ways to start making money online even if you don’t have a product of your own or you don’t even want to bother setting up a website

How Affiliate Sales Work

Affiliate sales can be a very rewarding enterprise if you understand how the whole process from start to finish works Affiliate sales allows you or anyone with Internet access to start your own business right from your home

First you form an agreement with the company offering the product(s) you wish to promote Once you settle on a company and product your focus must shift to sending potential customers to your affiliate offer

You earn a percentage of each affiliate sale made through your site Each company sets the percentage you can earn for each of their products sold through affiliate sales As with so many people when they are just starting out, you probably prefer to spend the least amount of money in advertising

Article marketing is one of the most effective techniques available on the Internet to promote your affiliate products Article marketing is a very low cost to no cost alternative

What Is Article Marketing

Article marketing allows you to reach you target audience by publishing articles through article directories The articles you submit must be related to the product or service you are offering; more importantly they should be helpful You should not submit articles that are directly promoting your product but do provide useful insight that is relevant to the product you are want to sell

Six Keys To Success With Article Marketing

1 Tailor your article message to your target audience In order to accomplish this you must remember to think like a marketer and ask the right questions while conducting thorough research about your target audience

2 Your article should be believable, you must earn the trust of your target audience In order to their trust you must be consistent, persistent, be real, helpful, and accessible

3 Your target audience must be actively seeking to resolve a problem you have the resolution to Lead the way to a resolution and you will have gone a long to earning their trust

4 Your resource box must compel the reader to visit your website Let your landing page do the preselling and the affiliate sales page do the selling for you

5 Write more articles, you increase your chances to make more affiliate sales if you publish a large number of articles over a period of time If you publish approximately 8 articles monthly consistently over a period of a year you will have gone a long way towards establishing yourself and earning a great living online

6 Be patient If you are able to wait for a period of a year or more you will see that this strategy will work beautifully Although you could start to make affiliate sales immediately For access to money making techniques taught no where else, Visit us and watch the videos before it’s too late. Extra Income Seeker

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Author : Brad McGovernNo, that’s not typo in the title Do your articles have an odor about them? You had better hope they do if you plan to be successful with your article marketing campaigns Let me explain

Fundamentals of Organic Search

People surf the Internet for one of two reasons: to be entertained or find information In our high-speed give-it-to-me-now culture, people want immediate gratification They won’t tarry on a web page that gives them less

A good rule of thumb is that you have about five seconds to catch their attention or they are off somewhere else That’s not much time Your job as an author is to make every second count This is why it is imperative to know and understand your target audience

Know what your target audience is looking for and how they search for it It’s often not what or how you might think This culprit kills many search engine optimization programs Articles, pages and even whole sites are perfectly optimized for the wrong search terms You may climb to the top of SERP’s only to find your seo ladder is leaned against the wrong wall

Learn to think and speak like your target group It is them, after all, searching for you and not the other way around You already know where your information is located and how you would find it It’s often not the same way your potential customers will find it, though

There are simple, free tools to help you discover how your target group will search Google provides a good handful of them to get you started

Google’s Keyword Research Tool is irreplaceable for broad keyword research Primarily designed to build paid search campaigns, it still provides a current basis of deeper keyword research for content

Google’s Insight for Search tool fine tunes your keyword list with terms that searchers are actually using relevant to your topic You may define time periods, geographical distribution, categories and properties to refine your list

Tools like these allow you to target your audience with laser accuracy Master their application and you will be far down the road ahead of most competitors These tools help you create a unique odor that your target group will follow to your site

The Information Scent

Now that you have your potential customers on your trail, it’s time to let them chase you to your article If you have done your research effectively, they’ll pick up the information scent no matter where they join the hunt and follow like tracking hounds But you’re not nearly through yet

When visitors arrive at your article, they are looking to pick up the information scent that brought them there You have about five seconds for them to strike it again or they will be gone hunting elsewhere Your goal is to get them to the link at the end of the article

There are certain things you can do to help them out with this:

* Use the main keyword you are targeting in the title of the piece and in the summary as well
* If possible, use the main keyword in the first sentence of the first, middle and last paragraphs of the article It’s even better still if you can get the keyword at or near the start of the sentences
* Use keyword rich subtitles and lists when possible
* Sprinkle secondary keywords throughout the piece in prominent places
* Use a keyword density of between 1 0-2 0 percent This avoids being slapped by the search engines for keyword stuffing
* Use numerals instead of text for numbers less than 10

Some of these recommendations fly in the face of traditional editorial practices, but editors aren’t selling your product; you are People read online different than offline They scan in an “F” pattern looking for the information scent If they find it, then they go back and read the piece If not, they move on to a new place

Help your target group find your piece with well researched keywords Prominently display the information scent throughout the article Use good grammar, spellchecker and keyword density You will achieve much more success with your article writing than your non-compliant competition Remember, second place in this game is just the polite way of saying “First Loser “Brad McGovern is the Marketing Manager at
Article Marketer, and offers advice and news of note to article marketers. Learn more about writing good content here!

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Author : Corinne BridgewaterThe next step in your article domination progress is to learn the keys to writing articles that others want to read First off, look for a good source for your researching your article Of course it makes it a lot easier to write an article if you know what you are talking about

We did the keyword research and we found the keywords that would work for the niche that we want to get into Let us use Screaming Eagle Harley Davidson Like I said if you have a like or passion for the niche you choose it is much easier to naturally write about it If not it can still be done

Go to the Google search engine and type in your keyword, screaming eagle Harley Davidson, with or without quotes is fine for this Look at the top five to ten sites Pick out strings of information that you can use Remember this information can be from any source;magazines, books, newsletters and newspapers to name a few

Open a notepad and copy and paste the info you would like to write into your article there, that way you can save it easier and go back often to look at it Depending on your topic this process can be hard or easy It is also difficult sometimes not to want to sit and read all about the subject, but do not take the time to do this right now as you need to get busy writing

Let us move on to the actual writing of the article You will be given the four keys to writing articles Just take it step by step and you do not have to be a great writer to pull off an amazing article Your task is to get good information out there, and perhaps your style of writing will speak to people in a way that the same information delivered differently would not

Your article needs to be about 400 to 600 words and you should break up the article with little bullets of information It makes it more readable and less boring for the reader Now write as you would talk to the person you are trying to teach or sell something to

There is a basic structure that all your articles should comply with:

Four Keys to writing articles:

1 Title
2 Opening paragraph
3 Middle
4 Closing paragraph

Title

Needs to have impact and offer a benefit or suggest a solution to a problem Your keywords always go into the title Top 10 Reasons to Have a Screaming Eagle Harley Davidson The title is used to capture the attention of the reader and for us to do some SEO(search engine optimization)

Opening paragraph

Again somewhere in this first paragraph you need to put your keyword Make it a natural progression and do not just stick it somewhere it does not belong This introduction needs to draw your reader in,capture them with some delightful hook if possible You can try different strategies such as: a shocking statement, a quote, a question that the reader just has to have the answer to, a short story or even just a statement

Middle

In this part you can add if it goes in naturally, your keywords The bulk of this part is to add interesting information, facts and ideas What ever you do,do NOT end your article here; give the reader reason to read on

Closing paragraph or conclusion

You can summarize the benefits of what you showed the reader and then let the information flow into the resource box which I where they will be able to click onto your website, which is the goal

This article showed you the four keys to writing articles, in the next article I will be talking about the absolute importance of the resource box and how to write a good one Remember that your article is not about you, but about giving your reader information he is seeking I invite you to get your free Report
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Author : Doug ChampignyArticle marketing is one of the most effective ways to market a product Affiliate marketing with the use of articles is no exception to this rule In fact, article marketing allows you to differentiate yourself from other affiliates who sell the same product or service

Because article marketing is so effective, many affiliate program owners/managers provide their affiliates with articles to submit to the various article directories on a regular basis The affiliates, of course, replace the links that accompany the articles with their own affiliate links for submission

Two caveats when using articles supplied by affiliate marketing managers - first, remember that most directories prefer you to have any links in your Author’s Resource Box only, not embedded within the article itself

Secondly, the articles as supplied are going to a number of affiliates unless you’re already a big enough name online that the affiliate manager is willing to have separate articles written just for your use So while few affiliates will actually take the time to use the articles effectively, either the merchant themselves or another affiliate has probably already submitted those articles to the directories, rendering them useless as they are for your affiliate marketing purposes

It takes much less time to rewrite an article than it does to research and write one from scratch, so don’t ignore the articles they offer - but DO take the time to rewrite each one before submitting it, hopefully adding some additional information or another tip as you do That little addition not only makes your article a little more unique, but it also makes the finished piece more valuable to the readers - and that’s exactly what you want when competing for attention at the article directories

Article marketing accomplishes many different things First, it can be used to establish yourself as an expert in the field that your topic relates to Next, it can be used to drive traffic to your website, and third, it can be used to actually promote the affiliate marketing product in question

However, one must be very careful when using articles to promote a product The article must not be a sales letter disguised as an article This won’t work Instead, write the article about the topic at hand, such as a problem that the product will help, or a desire that the product will fulfill, and then recommend the affiliate marketing product at the end of the article

Another way to promote affiliate products within an article is to make the article a review type article, where you compare three or four different products or services Of course, you will provide affiliate links for all of the products that you review, but you should be honest about how well each product or service addresses the problem or desire

If you do not write, and the affiliate program does not provide articles for your use, you should consider hiring a ghost writer Ghost writers are relatively inexpensive, and can turn out quality articles on a regular basis, which will include your affiliate links

Finally, you should write or have articles written for you consistently Ideally, you should have one article per week to submit to the article directories, and these articles should also be sent to related e-zines that accept submissions as well

Serious affiliate marketing plans always include article marketing, especially since you can start article marketing even before you have a website or blog of your own - in fact many part-time affiliate marketers use ONLY article marketing for their promotions - but for serious affiliate marketers, be sure to use article marketing as just one technique in your professional affiliate marketing plan of attack!Doug Champigny is the author of Understanding Article Marketing, and has prepared a new written and audio report, Article Marketing - A Quick and Easy Overview, that you can download for free from his article marketing website.

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Author : Chris EllingtonLike the great seafaring fishers of old, it’s wise to trawl wide and deep to build your affiliate business You want to reach your target market to build your sales and even your downline You also want to work your business continually to sustain consistent growth

How does all of this apply to article marketing? It applies in the sense that you need a good article distribution service to market the articles you write This service must operate as the classic ocean trawlers of old did, and still do today

That means an article submission service that provides continuous and never-ending distribution that goes wide and deep It also means a service that deals with thousands of quality publishers Put together these two essentials will get your content to that niche market crucial to your success

Let’s compare two kinds of article submission services that exist today It’s important to know the differences; choosing one over the other means a successful or unsuccessful article promotion campaign There are certain characteristics that you, as an author, should look for in a service

Distribution services exist whereby you pay a one-time fee for unlimited article distribution They do not cap how many articles you can submit to them Alternatively, services exist that only allow a set number of submissions for a set fee After you reach your limit, you must pay again Once again, they cap the number of submissions you can make

It’s obvious which service you should choose Unlimited distribution means unlimited potential for growing your online business

Some article distribution services have a relatively small stable of publishers they deal with In addition, they are often major general category or general interest publishers They do not always have an extensive portfolio of true specialty niche publishers

The better services deal with thousands of publishers across all categories and sub-categories Within these myriad of categories and sub-categories are unique specialty publishers focused on a highly targeted audience This is the service you want working for you They will get those articles you created to this select audience interested in your writing

Why is this important? It’s important because you must operate efficiently as an affiliate marketer You do not want to spend time and energy in article writing and not see results Your articles sent out indiscriminately to publishers not related to your niche are a waste of time Most of these readers have no interest in your topic

You want your articles in publications, online and offline, that publish for your exact niche group This audience is waiting for your articles They want the information you have diligently prepared for them Therefore, choose an article distribution service that deals with a plethora of niche publishers

That is the wide and deep aspect of article marketing from a good article submission service In tandem is the aforementioned continuous and never-ending distribution You should have your article content circulating in cyberspace, to niche publishers, all the time It’s the efficient, most cost effective way to go when it comes to marketing your affiliate business

In today’s competitive business world, being efficient is a necessity The better article distribution services allow you to operate this way They perform the wide and deep, and continuous and never ending for you

Think of the time investment it would require for you to manually submit your work to thousands of specialty publishers You would have little time for other marketing endeavors needed to build a business Look for an article distribution service that takes their trawling duties seriously Let them do the fishing that garners you that audience who craves your informative content

In affiliate marketing, you have to learn to focus on areas that are your strength You then seek the advice and help of others who are the experts in other fields You, as a writer, work with words You create those timely, relevant, and information-packed articles that your niche has a need for constantly Devote your time to that discipline and let a premier article-submission service handle the distribution

Cast your net wide and deep when looking for a good article distribution service The good ones are out there if you look for them Haul them in and check them out Then choose the one that goes wide and deep when it comes to getting your articles out to the Web Make sure they offer that continuous and never-ending distribution that will help you reel in affiliate marketing profits Chris Ellington is CEO of IPNM, the parent company of Article Marketer: first choice for article distribution by article marketers around the world.

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