Article Marketing 101

Most new online marketers jump on the bandwagon video marketing because the potential to generate huge amount of traffic and profit. A gold mine of marketing is often forgotten is article marketing. Just like the videos, your articles can be on-line resources that work for you for months or years to come. So how do I do article marketing?

1. Deciding what to write
There are several ways to generate article ideas. You can do keyword search on your area of ​​interest and find keywords that are less competitive and write an article on it. You can also go to forums to find out what other people are asking. If you are committed to continuing education by either listening to audio or reading on a daily basis, you can simply write what you learn every day.

2. Content of articles
80-90% of the articles should be about providing a good relationship with your readers. Do not have a pitch for sale all over the place. What you want to do is to include a call soon to condemn the action at the end of your articles to direct readers to your website or blog.

3. Where to send your articles?
There are many article directories you can post. Choose 1 or 2 of these directories. You also want to post to your blog, and make a squidoo page out of it. Since you wrote the article, why not have the best and distribute it to other sites?

4. How many articles do I need to write?
You must make at least 10 articles per week. If you are not doing that, you better do something else. It may be time to write your articles first, but as you gain more experience, should take a maximum of 20-30 minutes per article. Why do not you set a goal of 2 articles per day 5 days a week? Having a full time job should not be an obstacle, you can easily write an article during your lunch break. You only need to spend another 30 minutes in the evening.

I hope you find this article helpful. Articles market is a very effective way to market your business or products if you do it right and be consistent. For more information on free marketing methods, you can go to my blog at KetSangTai.com and subscribe to my training website traffic bootcamp ....