Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Spread the Word with Article Marketing

By Winson Yeung

A popular form of advertising is to use article marketing to promote your product or services. You create content articles in specific areas that help promote yourself, your product, company or industry. Most article marketing can be done for free and will be seen by many people. The introduction of mass printing has made article advertising gain popularity.

The rise of the internet and online world has promoted a huge expansion of article marketing. Today there are sites and directories devoted to publishing article for marketing purposes. These sites may contain information on a general scale or sites can be found for very special and specific interests. As long as you follow the sites' guidelines and format then you can post an article.

Article marketing does not take much time and if you find yourself too busy there is a large freelance workforce that specializes in article market writing. Article marketing can help you establish credentials as an expert, improve your search engine ranking, create more lead generations and increase traffic to your website.

Articles for marketing all follow a basic outline of title, body, resource box and brief summary. Specific article databases may have certain guidelines and formats that you need to follow. It is worth while to check this out before you join a site. The title is the most important part of your article and needs to grab the reader's attention so that they actually read your article. The best types of article are focused, easy to understand and most important helpful to the reader.

You should put your most important information at the beginning of your article. This way you will have gotten your point across even if the reader doesn't finish the article. Paragraphs and sentences should be short and if necessary and appropriate subheadings can be uses. Also make sure you use correct grammar and please make sure you use spell check.

Your contact information, product information and further links should be founding the resource box. It is also important to include a few brief sentences about your product or service. You want to try and get your reader to visit your site, buy the product or use your services so you need to have up to date contact information that is clearly displayed.

Once your article is written you need to produce a short summary that may appear with the title of your article. The summary needs to hook the reader or point out what you article will offer. Think of this as an abstract if you are scientifically minded. The summary should be between two and five sentences long. You should make sure to spell check your article as there is nothing more off putting than a badly written article full of spelling and grammar mistakes.

You are now ready to submit your article to an article directory. There are large article directories that cater to every industry and others that are more specific. You don't need a lot of marketing or computer knowledge to be a successful article marketer. By spending a little bit of time each day writing and posting articles you can successfully provide information and promote your services.

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