When I talk with website owners who are starting to market their websites with article submissions and ask them what they hope to achieve, most of the time they will reference one or more of these benefits: A higher search engine ranking for your keywords More traffic to your website via the articles themselves (in [...]

The number one key to success when you’re undertaking an Article Marketing campaign is CONSISTENCY. So many times people start off with the best intentions and have high aspirations for their website’s success, but after a brief effort they lose focus and give up. Article marketing is a great way to build links and increase [...]

If you’ve just started marketing your website and you’re trying to figure out what’s the deal with all this keyword stuff, I’ve got good news for you: Using keywords in your articles submissions is not nearly as complicated as you may think. Actually, it’s quite easy once your realize that the main purpose of your [...]

Article submissions and online press releases are two great ways to drive traffic to your website. You can use them both if you like, and you can even do double duty with your marketing content by morphing your press release into a free reprint article. Why can’t you just submit a press release as an [...]

When you’re doing article submissions, you’ll notice a field on the submission page that asks for an article summary (aka, short description). As an author, you may not realize all the places where your article summary is used, but the article summary is a prime opportunity for luring readers to your article. How is the [...]

Many times website owners who are new to link building simply don’t know what to expect when it comes to the timeframe for registering backlinks. Here’s a common question I get: “I’ve just started marketing my brand new website, and I know I have backlinks coming into my site, yet when I do a check [...]

What makes the difference between an under-performing article and one with a drastically higher number of views? Many times it’s something as simple as an awesome title that pushes an article over the edge from so-so to spectacular! Here’s why your title is crucial: Most of the time readers will discover your article through: a) [...]

The most common reason why articles are declined by publishers is that the article is considered “promotional” or self-serving. What is a promotional article and how can you submit articles that have the greatest chance of being accepted by publishers? It helps to know that the purpose of the articles used in Article Marketing is [...]

Article marketing has beginner, intermediate and advanced stages to it, so no matter what skill level you’re at, you can still submit articles to drive traffic to your website. You may have started out simply writing articles on the topic of your website–that is a great start, and you can see excellent results by consistently [...]

You’ve probably noticed that most major article directories provide statistics for how each of your articles performs on their directory, but you might not have known exactly how to use that information to benefit your article marketing campaign. That information is provided for a reason–you should be able to look at your article stats and [...]