What Is Article Marketing?

Article marketing is the writing of articles that are relevant to the subject of the web site that you wish to promote. It works because the writer is permitted to add two hyperlinks to the articles, normally at the end, which will permit the reader to click through for further information.

Therefore, if you desired to promote a web site on cookery, you might write a series of articles on styles of cooking or using various kitchen gadgets.

If you send these articles to a general article database, you can expect a fairly low click through rate (CTR), but if you posted it to a cookery blog, you could look forward to a higher CTR.

The good thing is that everyone who clicks through will know what they are likely to see on your site, so they are targeted visitors and focused visitors are more likely to become customers.

The articles that you post to webmasters of blogs and article databases usually want to approve them for length and content, but if you are honest, that is rarely a problem Another advantage of article marketing is that these webmasters never shove your article off their web site when new arrive.

They may put them into archives, but the archives are still readable and scannable by Google and this is an important advantage as well.

You see, Google rates web sites on their popularity and one of the techniques it uses to judge popularity is how many links there are on the Internet referring back to it. They are called backlinks. People found this out and tried to work around it (and still do) by exchanging backlinks.

However, Google rates one-way backlinks higher than mutual links. An article on a blog gives you two one-way backlinks until the blog goes under. If you pick where you post astutely, this may never happen.

Google also checks to see if the host of your link is applicable to your site, so it is worth posting to sites that are relevant to yours and Google awards extra merit if the site holding your link is an authority site, that is, a top site on that subject.

If you submit an article to an article database and a leading authority site or newsletter on that subject picks it up and prints it, you will get heaps of bonus points from Google, shoot up in the ranking, get loads of visitors and more clients.

The message is to write good, relevant articles and submit them where they can be discovered. By this I mean, use the biggest article databases, because that is where the top people go to look for articles if they are stuck and also post your article to blogs that are relevant to the subject of your article, which should be relevant to the theme of your website, which should be relevant to what you are trying to sell.

I recently had one of my articles picked up. I had 3,450 plus visitors to my web site within two hours and 256 of them became customers. If only it could be achieved every day. The thing is, it can, if you get the approach right. Stay on target.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article writes on quite a few subjects, but is at present concerned with Marketing Your Website. If you would like to know more or check out some great offers, please go to our website at The Best Sales And Marketing Strategy.