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Article Marketing Basics for Beginners

If you are in business as an Internet Marketer, you should know about Article Marketing. Article Marketing is a fast, easy and FREE method of building backlinks and increasing traffic to your websites.

New to Article Marketing? If so, this lens is for you! Learn the basic steps to Article Marketing and use the Article Directories list as a resource for placing your articles!

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Benefits of Article Marketing

Why Should I Learn Article Marketing?

The benefits of article marketing are numerous. What's so great about article marketing is that it is the easiest and fastest way to promote your site. Not only is it easy and fast, it's free of charge! Contrary to the typical marketing strategy in the corporate world, where hundreds and even thousands of dollars are spent, article marketing is free.

Another benefit of article marketing is that it gives you instant exposure. Ever heard of stories where a song or a book gets that instant success overnight? This is also true with article marketing. It gives you a direct and instant exposure, period.

A third benefit of article marketing is its incredible efficiency. Once you've put in the effort to write the article, all you have to do is watch and see your website get promoted passively! This means that every day your site will be promoted and more and more customers will link back to you, bringing more and more visitors to your site.

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The Basic Steps to Article Marketing

It's As Simple As 1-2-3!

Article Marketing - Ezine ArticlesSo- how exactly does one engage in Article Marketing? Here are the simple steps:

1. First, create (write) an article or review about your brand, your area of interest, or what your are selling. For example, if your web site is geared towards the sale of guitars and things associated with guitars, you may want to write an article about guitars. I recommend that your articles or reviews be at least 400 words in length, as this minimum word count seems to achieve better Google search results. It also makes the article more attractive to potential web site owners.

2. At the end of your article create a short "author bio." In this bio make sure to include the URL you wish to market. For example, you might include a sentence that says something like "For more resources or for further reference, please. visit my site" and link it to your website.

3. Post your article to popular article directories on the internet. One of the top directories site owners use is EzineArticles.com Ezine Articles hosts thousands of articles in dozens of subject areas. Check out the list of article directories further down this lens!

Once you've taken these three basic steps, you'll have a timeless marketing piece that other web site owners will want to post to their related sites, providing both traffic and valuable backlinks to your own site. Talk about passive marketing!

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  • LigaSuper Jul 4, 2011 @ 2:41 am | delete
    Usefull lens....Thanks.
  • cdcraftee Jun 11, 2011 @ 11:24 am | delete
    Hallo JeaniG,
    I have just had my first birthday on Ezine articles - and had my 50th article published. Fame and fortune are unlikely for my style of writing, and my reminiscing-type content - but I'm having the time of my life, and that is pure gold to me.
    Christine
  • notimetoulouse Jun 7, 2011 @ 8:14 am | delete
    Lots of great info here for a newbie to article marketing, and not too 'pushy'. Thanks for putting it together.
  • Morticella May 31, 2011 @ 6:42 am | delete
    This lens is listed in squidojo please report any problem and great lens
  • myshelle01 May 27, 2011 @ 1:41 am | delete
    I found your lens interesting and food for thought. Thank you.
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