Article Marketing Tip

[David Jackson]

Article marketing is one of the most effective FREE methods of driving traffic to your website. However, many who attempt article marketing write one or two articles, then give up because they didn't achieve the results that they expected.

They key to article marketing is patience and consistency. Writing one or two articles will only produce negligible results, at best. No, you have to write many articles consistently over time. How many?

Well, for article marketing to have any significant impact, you should try to write at least two articles per week - every week. Commit to that writing schedule for one year, and at the end of that time period, you will have written over 100 articles.

If you do that, eventually, you will see your article marketing efforts begin to pay huge dividends down the road.

David Jackson

[Kayla Fay]

Very true. I'm still getting backlinks from articles initially published years ago. It amazes me.

[David Jackson]

Very true. I'm still getting backlinks from articles initially published years ago. It amazes me.

Yep, I equate it to depositing money in the bank. The more you put in, the more interest you earn. Same thing with article marketing: The more articles you write, the greater the returns - provided of course, they're quality articles, published on quality websites.

But that's a topic for another day!

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

There's always a catch. :)

Yep, such is life! :)

David Jackson

[HarryJackson]

very much right views,articles always returned more work on it more chance o get traffic ..only need is to be the content must be unique and refine that it attracts others..

[tek95969]

David , GREAT to see you back man!
I'm still new to the article writing but have tried submitting to Ezine and it was rejected (claimed it was duplicate content). Granted it was on the same subject but the article was all original and contained many different ideas that hadn't been written about.
So I got fed up after re-writing and resubmitting three or four times and just gave up!
Maybe someone can give me a few tips on what I can do in this case. My writing skills are decent and I always check grammar, spelling etc.

Thanks,
Phil

[David Jackson]

David , GREAT to see you back man!
I'm still new to the article writing but have tried submitting to Ezine and it was rejected (claimed it was duplicate content). Maybe someone can give me a few tips on what I can do in this case. My writing skills are decent and I always check grammar, spelling etc. l

Hi Phil:

Perhaps you haven't heard, but EzineArticles is cleaning house. They've really tightened things up over there. The focus is now on quality, as opposed to quantity. Personally, I haven't had any problems getting my articles accepted.

But I'm hearing a thousands and thousands of articles are being rejected, and thousands and thousands of previously approved articles are being deleted.

Rather than me trying to explain it to you, you'd better read about it yourself:

EzineArticles.com is Cleaning House (http://www.website-articles.net/blog/2009/10/ezinearticles-cleaning-house.html)

David Jackson

[tek95969]

Thanks for the heads up David. I'll take a look.

[wade_watson]

Yes, EZA seems to be cracking down on the shorter, less beefy articles many marketers turn out in mass. As long as we send them something with 400+ words of genuinely useful content, I think you're fine. Mine are still being accepted OK.

I've just been doing some self-examination regarding how I want to go with my IM efforts and it's occurred to me that article marketing seems to suit certain people's personalities and work styles more than others. The best article marketers seem to be those who churn out articles fairly mechanically and rapidly assembly line style. On the other hand, a niche blogger is writing to build a strong following, so spending a day or 2 on a single quality entry might be worth the effort. And then there are the e-book writers, who may spend a week or more creating a single high quality writing project. I think we all have to choose the IM writing style that best suits the way we produce work.

BTW, I've done some intensive research in recent weeks to understand what pulls view traffic to an EZA article and concluded that the title is almost entirely responsible (though no guarantee). You absolutely want a good keyphrase and you want it at the beginning of the title. Article quality, reputation and word-of-mouth seem to mean next to nothing with EZA traffic. Top writers with hundreds of postings have view counts ranging from zilch to huge.

As for what it takes to get a click-thru, that's a different thing. Some believe shorter articles are best for that. I think if your content's good enough to get them to the bottom, it's mostly a matter of having a resource link line that is a natural continuation of the article itself. The more focused, the better.

Wade Watson

[David Jackson]

Thanks for the heads up David. I'll take a look.

No problem, Phil.

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

Did you try e-mailing them and pointing out that it was 100% original and just on the same topic?

That won't make any difference. EZA uses sophisticated software to check for plagiarism and/or duplicate content. So they know what's original and what isn't. Apparently, there's something about Phil's article that is tripping off the alarm.

If the article was indeed 100% original like Phil says, that means EZA has a problem with the article's quality.

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

Quick question - are you guys posting articles at EZA and the same articles also on your own sites? Is that allowed?

Yes, it's allowed.

How do I know? Because I just had an article titled, The Seduction of Internet Marketing Newbies accepted by EZA. Not only did I publish that article on my own website first, it was also published by SiteProNews, and many other sites, before I submitted it to EZA.

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

Awesome. I knew that years ago we could do that, but I figured that things had changed. Thank you, David. :)

No problem, Shel. :)

David Jackson

[jkgourmet]

Yes, it's allowed.

How do I know? Because I just had an article titled, The Seduction of Internet Marketing Newbies accepted by EZA. Not only did I publish that article on my own website first, it was also published by SiteProNews, and many other sites, before I submitted it to EZA.

David Jackson

It was a great article, too. David's too modest to post the link here, so I will:

The Seduction of Internet Marketing Newbies (http://www.sitepronews.com/2009/11/10/the-seduction-of-internet-marketing-newbies/)

(One comment: I didn't think much of Mike Mertz's im4newbies site - the forum was largely a place for using your signature for backlinks and rather spammy. I spent nearly an hour there last night, and really didn't get anything of value out of it. Otherwise, there were some good resources and terrific viewpoints in David's article.)

[David Jackson]

It was a great article, too. David's too modest to post the link here, so I will.

Thanks for the compliment, Jeanette - and for posting the link to my article. :)

The reason I didn't post the link is because it would have been blatant self-promotion - and that's against forum guidelines.

David Jackson

[DianaWalker]

Oh, this is great to know. I didn't know that Ezine Articles are cleaning out. I have quite a few articles there but have not submitted any since March 2009, and have been thinking I will write more, but I hadn't gotten to it. I see all my articles are still there, thank goodness!
Diana

[David Jackson]

Thank you for posting the link. I just read the article and it got me to researching more. My bookmark folder is on fire. Great article, David!!

I bookmarked your forum, too, David. ;)

Thanks, Shel! I look forward to seeing you at my forum. :)

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

Oh, this is great to know. I didn't know that Ezine Articles are cleaning out. I have quite a few articles there but have not submitted any since March 2009, and have been thinking I will write more, but I hadn't gotten to it. I see all my articles are still there, thank goodness!


I suspect the other mega article directories will soon follow suit, and start cleaning out their garbage articles.

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

I need a clarification about article marketing. Let's say you find 5 keywords with decent search volume and low competition in your niche. Do you have to write 40 to 50 articles for each keywords to see results?

Nope! One quality article published on an authority site trumps 50 articles published on non-authority sites.

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

Thanks David!

You're quite welcome, Maya. Anytime.

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

thanx david for nice sharing.

Thank you!

David Jackson

[msliz]

Does anyone have a method for what they do with their articles? For example, upon writing your article what do you do with it first? There are lots of options, posting them to your site, your blog, article directories, Squidoo, submit them to other newsletters, etc. but I'm just wondering if anyone has a method or a submission process that's worked especially well.

[David Jackson]

Does anyone have a method for what they do with their articles? For example, upon writing your article what do you do with it first? There are lots of options, posting them to your site, your blog, article directories, Squidoo, submit them to other newsletters, etc. but I'm just wondering if anyone has a method or a submission process that's worked especially well.

I always post my articles to my own website first, before submitting them elsewhere.

David Jackson

[yuri21]

Hi Phil:

Perhaps you haven't heard, but EzineArticles is cleaning house. They've really tightened things up over there. The focus is now on quality, as opposed to quantity. Personally, I haven't had any problems getting my articles accepted.

But I'm hearing a thousands and thousands of articles are being rejected, and thousands and thousands of previously approved articles are being deleted.

Rather than me trying to explain it to you, you'd better read about it yourself:

EzineArticles.com is Cleaning House (http://www.website-articles.net/blog/2009/10/ezinearticles-cleaning-house.html)

David Jackson


Wow, gave that link a good read. That's good. :) Because for a long time, I'd passed over a ton of "article directories". Why? Because of the quality: grammar mistakes, missing words, logic jump in articles, randomly quoting studies(without even reading up a little on the original study), etc., etc.

[msliz]

Hey Thanks David, that's good to know :-)

[David Jackson]

Hey Thanks David, that's good to know :-)

My pleasure, Liz. You're quite welcome. :)

David Jackson

[David Jackson]

Hey,

You said nice things about article marketing, but does it help to higher the website rank? I am also writing articles from 3 months, though my website has increased little bit, but still then i want more. Please help me.

Read my article, The Greatest Advertising Method Ever. (http://www.sitepronews.com/2009/11/18/the-greatest-advertising-method-ever/) It's a featured article on the SiteProNews website. It contains a lot of useful information, in regards to article marketing.

David Jackson

[webmann]

Yeah article marketing rocks.

I have about 9 article directories I publish to, those with the highest pagerank, but get way to busy to create even a couple a week.

Currently I am trimming back on the blogs I have. Some are just not producing and I don't have time to learn enough about those niches so I am dropping some of them so that I can focus better on the other blogs I have.

I like to write one article for EzineArticles, get it published there first and then modify it about 30% or more to publish on the other article directories I use.

I am hoping that in the next month or two, probably after Christmas I will have dropped enough sites to get myself back on track with publishing because it really does the trick when you work it.

[David Jackson]

Good Headlines are critical.

That fact cannot be over-stated. I take great pride in the headlines I write.

It really does make a difference.

David Jackson

[watzzupsport]

Ezinearticles can be a bit finicky but, I find as I write more, if there is a problem ( which is getting less and Less ) I do the correction and it gets accepted quickly.

As Dave has pointed out you have to be consistent I have now the upgraded status so I think you get a quicker response time.