2. You know how effective article marketing can be, and
the path to achieving results lies with your attitude. The
more professional your approach, the more impressive
your results will be in the long run. You must have a
consistent system that you follow, as it won't help to just
make halfhearted efforts. Getting consistent results
takes consistent effort. It's essential to educate yourself
as much as possible and then to apply everything you
know. What follows are some article marketing tactics
that will help you achieve consistent results.
3. If you want to get the best results from your articles,
what length should you make them? The shorter variety
are anywhere from 400 to about 500 words. A long
article is one that approaches a thousand words, in
some cases even longer. If you focus on writing longer
articles, you'll have an edge over those article marketers
who write shorter ones. To begin with, a longer article
has a better chance of being syndicated by an authority
site. Secondly, when you put your articles on your blog,
and you must, then you are casting a wider search
optimization net.
4. As an article marketer, you have to figure out how many
words your articles should contain. The shorter variety
are anywhere from 400 to about 500 words. One
approach is to write longer articles, which are usually at
least 750 words. In general, you'll do better by writing
and submitting longer articles. First, sites who syndicate
your articles generally prefer longer content, and that
means there is a greater chance of getting syndicated.
Just as importantly, longer articles that appear on your
own blog will have a better chance of getting well
ranked by the search engines. If you find yourself lacking
in inspiration, then use your phrases from your niche in
Google Alerts - problem solved.
5. Then you will choose interesting news topics, which will
be relevant to a keyword phrase, and then use that in
your content. Just paraphrase the news and present it to
your niche readers, and it is so simple to do. Using this
strategy will never fail to be a source of interesting
variety on topics that are of current relevance to your
readers. Also, it breaks-up the usual forms of article or
content writing and will engage your site visitors.
6. There is still quite a buzz about taking your marketing to
FaceBook, and there are compelling reasons for it.
Create your own group there, and you can do that and
invite other groups to join yours, etc. Once you are in,
then you begin showcasing your content to all the other
users and also do some networking. You will be
strengthening your brand due to the fact people can see
who you are, and then just go from that point onward.
7. Theft of original content is very common online, and if
you publish anything on the internet this has most likely
happened to you. Swiped content is a particular
problem if you regularly submit to article directories. If
you use the right approach, however, you may be able to
turn this problem into a blessing in disguise. Contact any
webmaster who has used your articles without giving
you credit. What you do is be professional and polite,
then explain the situation to them. First of all, inform
them that if they want to use your articles they must
publish the resource box or a link; then tell them that
you'll be glad to supply them with articles consistently if
they agree to this condition.
8. In a reasonable manner, let them know that you're
prepared to file a DMCA take-down notice if they refuse
to give you the proper credit.
9. As you have seen in this article, there is a lot you can do
to make your content much more powerful. As long as
you are willing to give your niche what they want, then
they will continue to read what you write. Just commit
to making everything you write of high quality because
people are very tired of poor quality content.