More on Article marketing

Have you noticed the number of article directories that have cropped up in recent times? Is there a reason for this? You bet there is – because all over the world, in every niche you can imagine, ezine publishers, ebook authors, website owners etc are all searching for fresh content that they can publish for free.

Here is a list of the top 10 directories - there are probably 2000 or more total!

  1. ezinearticles.com                                 
  2. articlesbase.com
  3. buzzle.com
  4. goarticles.com
  5. helium.com
  6. articlesnatch.com
  7. articledashboard.com
  8. articlealley.com
  9. selfgrowth.com/articles.html
10. ideamarketers.com

So why should you let go of your valuable content for free? Because when you write an article and send it out to various directories and ezine publishers, it will begin to circulate around the internet. Think about it – your article containing your resource box and sales page will ultimately be seen by thousands (maybe even several thousands) of people.

Of course it can be daunting to write out an article – it must be well crafted and have a high informational content. While different article directories have their own length rules it’s usually a good idea to keep your articles in the 500 to 750 word mark. When writing your articles, remember that it will be a showcase for your resale rights product. As such you really need to deliver the same level of high quality that is inside the product you’re trying to sell.

When writing out your articles keep the following in mind:

• Think of your article as you would your sales page – make sure you have an attention grabbing header and keep the paragraphs short, interesting and easy to read.

• This should go without saying but ensure that your article contains no grammar or spelling mistakes. These mistakes can crush your credibility.

• Keep the resource box hype-free. Try and entice your viewer to your website without making it seem like a blatant advert.

• Create a plan for your article when you’re writing – what will you include? How will you start and end the article? How many words do you want to write?

Once you’re finished writing your article you should submit it to as many relevant directories and newsgroups as possible. Remember however that you should only submit articles to places where they are wanted – posting an article on weight loss to an internet marketing site is a waste of that site moderators time as well as your own. Search for “article directories” in Google and you will find an endless supply.

Now, here you are, you have a website, you have the URL, and you have an article which is going to promote that website. What do you do? You go to every single article directory found in the search engines, log in, subscribe, wait for them to send you an invitation to welcome you into their midst, and then submit your article. Then you go to the next article directory upon your list, and begin with the same procedure again to infinity and beyond! yawn!

But just imagine of any procedure in which you can just submit an article to one place and have it distributed automatically to hundreds of article directories, at one time. Unbelievable is not it? Well, that where Unique Article Wizard comes in.

This tool is slowly getting lots of popularity as a medium to distribute your articles all over the Internet, without you going through the find article directory — submit articles runaround.

You can find more information about article marketing in my other article  HERE

Getting Traffic to Your Resell Rights Website

So you have your Resell Rights products set up and ready to go…..now what? Well, now we need for people (hopefully customers) to see what a great product you have to offer.

That means we are going to have to get traffic to your site.

No traffic = no customers = no sales.
It would be extremely nice for traffic to come rolling in to your website the moment you uploaded the finished pages to your hosting space. 
In the real world, it just won’t happen that way.

There is actually a huge process involved in obtaining traffic to your website, and the truth of the matter is that the more time and energy you put into the process, the more successful you will be at bringing in new visitors, readers, potential customers and sales.

Luckily, there is a wealth of different ways to bring traffic to your website, and they range significantly from the moderately effective to the highly effective in terms of how easily they will allow you to skyrocket your visitor status. When you are ready to obtain traffic for your website, meaning that you have your resell rights package set up, website is completed, visually appealing, easily navigated, and most importantly, properly uploaded, the first thing that you should do is sit down and come up with a fairly basic idea of who you are looking to target.

You should have a specific target audience in mind as far as who it is that you would like to visit your website. Are you targeting parents? Teenagers? Single mothers? Dog Lovers? People looking for good deals? Come up with a clear cut idea of who it is that is going to best benefit from the contents of your website, because it is these people that you should be gearing up your website promotion strategy for.

For example, if you have resell rights to an ebook about dogs or pet care, then these are the people you want to make aware of your site and what it has to offer them. We will stick with the dog care theme for the rest of this article so as not be confusing.

Now that you know who you want to target, here are some of the things that you should consider doing to target those specific visitors so that they will come to your website.

Optimize your website for SEO, which means that search engines will more readily display your website to people who query search terms similar to the concept that your website is based on. Optimize for keywords that are relevant to your target traffic!

Market articles and other content. Writing content on your niche or concept, or having content written for you for that matter, is not actually difficult at all. Post these articles on article submission websites and show interested parties that you are an authority on the niche of your choice to gain more credibility and notoriety within the industry.

Spread your message virally. What kinds of concepts go viral online? Great ideas include fun or funny images, videos, contests, special events, special deals, and other things that people find worth checking out. Come up with a good concept and sell it hard - People who visit will spread the word, attracting more and more traffic to your website.

Offer something for free. Offer a free information product. For example, take snippets of your 30 page ebook on pet care and make a 6-7 page report with a few highlights and a link to your full product. Encourage your visitors to pass the report to others. Offer a special discount coupon, or a deal on something. People love perceived value and if they know that visiting your website has perceived value of some kind, they will come, even if only to see what you have to offer.

Create a blog and make posts about your product or topics that would be relevant to your topic. Keeping with the pet care theme, how about different dog breeds, pictures and videos of dogs, (there are hilarious ones on YouTube!.) Remember to write on your blog like you are talking to a friend. You could write about service dogs or dogs that have helped people in some way. Maybe even write about a pet you or someone you know has lost. The possibilities are endless. Whatever resell rights product you are offering, just center your topics around it,use relevant keywords & you should do fine.

Check my other articles for detailed ideas on various ways to get traffic.