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Article #33: Article Writing. A Time Tested, Proven Way To Promote Your Website.

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When someone decides to get involved with been viewed around 20 times by now, I had
internet marketing, work from home around 200 results for that search term.
programs, affiliate marketing, etc, they A week later, it was around 1000 search
are bombarded with choices. If I had a engine results. A few months later
nickel for every get-rich-quick program resulted in a staggering 108,000 results.
that I have come upon, well, I would have Even though only a few people had
a lot of nickels, to say the least. originally downloaded my article, it had
Eventually, they decide on a program, a spread throughout the internet like a
good one we hope, and then start to take virus, and keeps increasing day by day.
the initial steps required to promote it. What I didn't realize was that by
In this area, we have plenty of choices submitting my article, it would get
also; most of them are bad ones. picked up by publishers of websites that
You have the free search engines, the were under construction and they needed
holy grail of marketing to say the least. some fresh content. It was also
Followed up by PPC search engine distributed through syndicated feeds and
marketing, such as the Google Adwords picked up there. My article was on other
program, then e-mail marketing through people's websites, ezines, classified
your own auto-responder, ezine marketing, ads, and internet blogs in staggering
classified ad sites, both online and off numbers and all I did was submit to a
line, FFA pages, traffic exchanges, handful of article directories.
banner advertising, opt-in and double I was very impressed with the results, so
opt-in email advertising, viral I purchased some article submission
marketing, and writing articles. software so I could get even more
All of these methods have been tried by increased exposure.
me and a number of them were a total The end result was that particular
waste of time, energy, and money. Of the website shot up in the page rankings like
methods I have listed, the ones I feel a bullet. After just a few weeks, it was
are the best, and I list these in no on page 1 and 2 for dozens of my
particular order, are the free search keywords. I had hit a home run and I was
engines, e-mail advertising through your very pleased. This method of advertising
own list that your auto-responder helped had been staring me in the face for 2
you build, writing articles and years, and I was just now getting around
submitting them to the article to it. Shame on me!
directories, and finally, the PPC Not every one of my articles achieves
programs. Of all these methods, and they these kinds of results as that particular
all work, I strongly feel that article article was extraordinary. However, all
promotion gives you the best results for of my articles have done well and have
the time, effort, and money invested. done what they were supposed to do, that
Making a profit through promoting your is, establish myself as an "expert" on
website through article promotion will be the subject matter that I was writing
the focus of this article. about, produce valuable back links to my
I had heard of writing articles for websites from the various places they got
promotional purposes for quite awhile distributed to, thus increasing my link
after I started my internet business, but popularity. That is probably the most
I never put much thought into it. I just important factor other than content, that
didn't see how writing an article would the search engine robots use to index and
help me out. Boy, was I ever wrong! After rank your website when they spider it.
having some modest success with email This is a time tested, proven formula for
marketing through groups like Yahoo internet success, and it works for me
Groups, I figured that if I could just time after time, never failing me. In
keep increasing my advertising database, fact, I had one website that shot up to
that I would achieve the goals I had set number 1 after only 6 days of me
for myself. I worked very hard at it uploading it to my server and submitting
every day, and then one day it just dried an article about it. In fact, the more
up. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, you write about a subject, the more
so I took a step back, and started to do valuable your website becomes to the
some serious research into what makes the search engines.
free search engines work. I read When you write articles and start
everything about search engine submitting them, never mention your
optimization that I could get my hands on website in the body of the article. The
and knew I was getting close to the only place that the article directories
secrets of free traffic. allow you to promote yourself and your
Then one day, I came across an article on website is in the author's resource box.
article directories and how submitting Be sure to write your URL using HTML tags
your articles to them could help you out. so that it becomes a live, clickable
I had read similar articles before on link.
this subject, but this article really Another thing that is very important to
stood out and filled in the missing gaps mention, is to be sure that the website
for me. that you are promoting is yours, and is
So, I decided to try it out. I started to not an affiliate website. The reason for
write. After a couple of days of proofing that is simple; affiliate websites are
and editing, I had what I thought was a mirrored websites, in other words
very well thought out article on acne, duplicates of the original, the only
and I had the research to back me up. thing being different is the affiliate
Next, I did an internet search on article URL. The search engines will not index
directories and found a few to submit these websites, so why write an article
them to. It wasn't long before I had a about them. However, if affiliate
reply back from them stating that they marketing is what you are involved with,
had accepted my article. WOW! I was now a then the best way around this problem is
free lance writer, I joked to myself. So to create your very own landing page with
I waited. Every day I would log into the a re-direct to the affiliate product of
member's area of each site to see how your choice. One popular tactic is to
well my article was performing. I was make an affiliate product review site,
very disappointed with the results. My comparing your product with several
article had received only around 10 others, so as to be informative in nature
views. After a week, it was around 15. I and beneficial to the consumer. The
just didn't see how this was going to search engines love this idea also.
help, so I asked a friend of mine for Whatever you do in your marketing
some advice. What he told me really efforts, be sure that you include writing
opened up my eyes. articles and submitting them for review
He basically said that my results were to as many directories as you can. Make
typical, and that I was actually doing it your first priority. The more articles
quite well. How, I asked, can so few you submit, the better your ranking will
exposures to my article result in be. The more back-links that you can
increased traffic? What he told me create, the higher your website will
changed my attitude completely. rank, it's just that simple. For long
Basically, he told me to do an internet term lasting success, you can't beat
search on my article with the title in article writing. Ignore it at your own
quotation marks as the search term. I was peril.
shocked. Even though my article had only






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