I am sure that you have tried to write good quality articles in the hope that some day search engines will have rank your website higher and thus make you more money. Everywhere you go you are told that it is only when you write high quality articles that you will be able to succeed in your online business.
You spend the whole day writing what you think is an excellent article on your niche but it still brings you nothing. The annoying thing is that when you do find the website that is ranking higher than yours, it has nothing better to offer than yours and sometimes, it is even copied from your site.
For a long time, that was my problem. It was only when I started thinking of my online business as I would my brick store front that I realised that I needed something else. It is not enough to start the best burger joint in the neighborhood. You need to inform everyone that you have the best burgers in the world.
In the same way, you need to tell the whole world that you have a great website that can improve the lives of everyone that visits it. I looked at Amazon and realised that they advertise everywhere I go. In the hope that you are going to make money as an Amazon affiliate, you are busy advertising their website when you use all those widgets they come up with.
It was obvious that I had to go online and market my website. There was no shortage of ways that I could market my website. Some of the ways to easily start marketing your website are:
- Blog commenting – Comment on other people’s blogs,
- Forum posting – Join a forum in your niche and leave your signature with your posts
- Buy Ads – from Google Adwords to even banner advertising in other websites
- Social marketing and Book-marking – Invite your friends in all these social networking sites to visit your site
- Article Marketing – Use other websites as a source of traffic and link juice.
- Cheat Google – the so called blackhat techniques that honestly do not work in the long run
Since I could not cheat Google (I can’t even cheat myself), and I did not have enough money to start buying ads from other websites, I decided to do my own 2.0 version of Article marketing and Social Book-marking. It was a very simple article method and it actually worked wonders for me. You can try it too.
Article Marketing Tips to Increase your Traffic Now
I have used this free article marketing trick and it has done wonders to my main business site. In a matter of 6 weeks, my previously unknown site is ranking very well. I won’t promise it will work for you but try it.
The idea is to use article marketing to increase your web site traffic.
- Write an article based on your keyword research and your business in your own website or blog
- Socially bookmark this article to as many social networks as possible. I use onlywire to do this automatically.
- Write an article on Associated Content based on the same keywords. Link this article to your main website.
- Write an article on Hubpages based on the same keywords. Link this article to your article above too. Remember to add your RSS feed to your hub.
- Write an article to be used on Ezine Articles based on the same keywords. Use the signature link to link to the article on the main site. Use the second that is available to you to link to your hubpages.
- Write an article on squidoo also based on the same keywords and link to your Associated Content page and your article on your own website.
- Important: Socially bookmark all the pages above using Onlywire.
You can of course use any other article directories you wish. However, I prefer using hubpages and associated content since over time, those little pennies will add to my income. Just call it, my own retirement fund.
There is a debate going on whether squidoo lenses are as important as they used to be. For me, they work but you can always choose another Web 2.0 service to use.
As for Onlywire book-marking, to get the best results, sign up a few accounts in order to not look like a spammer especially if you have numerous websites. You will then come to understand why you need to outsource your social book-marking needs.
Why and How to Promote Your RSS Feeds
When we discussed the use of RSS feeds in the ultimate rss user guide, I had not thought about it as a marketing tool. I was only thinking of RSS subscribers. If you want to take your article marketing to the next level, you should now promote your RSS feeds.
You will be surprised how much traffic you can get just by promoting your RSS feed. Make sure you have added your main site RSS feeds. If you have categories, you should also submit your categories RSS feeds.
Next submit your articles RSS feeds to all these directories. Some of these sites will allow you to promote the RSS feed of your profile. Take advantage of it.
You will get probably the best list of RSS feeds on the 55 active RSS directories list.
Why You Should Outsource Your Article Marketing
I would be very happy if you could do this for only one of your articles. I have seen exceptional results with this method. There is one problem however, if you do it three times, you are likely to give up.
Who said that internet marketing was easy?
This is the main reason why I now outsource this and other parts of my internet marketing campaigns. I have been tempted to use automated software to do some of these online marketing tasks but I have seen that the best results are done when this is done manually.
In a word, article marketing is difficult because of lack of TIME.
Sources of Outsourcing your Article Marketing
I have to say that finding anyone you can trust with your article marketing needs is not going to be easy. As they say, you will kiss some…..
However I have been lucky recently. I started of getting someone from Elance and it did not end well. Then I moved to digital point forum. I have to say that if you want to be frustrated, then use the digital point forum for your article marketing needs. I could not get anyone who was reliable to do anything.
I then used the Outsourcing Company and I can say that I have not been disappointed. Instead of me going through the hassle of getting my own workers, I let them deal with that. All I did then was to write my articles and leave the marketing to them.
My best source so far however has been a Kenyan article outsourcing company called Emasaa. I was lucky to find them at Elance just by chance. They were not only on time; they knew exactly what I needed without the usual problems I would get at digital point forums. Maybe you can look for them at Elance.
So far using these two companies has been excellent. The results have just overwhelmed me. If I was doing this on my own, I am sure I would have quit article marketing a long time ago.
Good luck to you and do tell how outsourcing your article marketing has gone for you. If you have other article outsourcing companies you wish to inform us about, please do tell.
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