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7 Common Fears Of New Article Writers
If you're a newcomer to article marketing, I know how intimidating it can feel to be faced with the prospect of writing not just one quality article, but a steady stream of them. For many people, the last time they wrote a piece of content ...
The #1 Reason Why Article Marketing Fails
When you're first starting to submit articles to drive traffic to your website, it's not unusual to feel a little 'information overload'. You've probably heard people talking about targeting keywords, doing research on statistics,...
How To Write A Better Short Description For Your Article
When you're entering your article into the submission page, you'll see a section that asks for a short description of your article. Here's how the "short description" field looks on SubmitYOURArticle.com (and this screenshot was t...
What’s the difference between an article and a press release?
It’s important to make the distinction between articles used in article marketing and press releases intended for news media, because they each involve very different styles of writing. Sometimes folks will try to submit press releases in their...
How to Use Article Marketing to Promote a Book
Article Marketing is a perfect marketing tool for driving traffic to just about any type of website, and that includes websites of authors who have newly released books! I actually get excited when an author who wants to promote an e-book or hard cop...
Getting Started With Article Marketing: Just Focus on these 3 Big Things…
I always get excited to hear from folks who are new to the article marketing world who are enthusiastic about diving in and learning everything there is to know. Recently I received this message from a subscriber to our newsletter: "Articl...
The Difference Between Educational Articles and Promotional Articles
I always tell folks that in doing article marketing their articles should be educational in nature, rather than sales oriented, but I think that sometimes even by saying that articles should be "educational", that still leaves a bit of myster...
Article Titles–The first 3 words count!
Have you ever thought about how important your article titles are? In your title your 3 objectives are: 1) To convey what your article is about. 2) To capture a reader's attention, which will in turn inspire them to read your article. 3) To...
Do You Have An Article Idea List?
Writing consistently is one skill that is absolutely necessary for executing an effective article marketing campaign, but what do you do if you're just stumped when it comes to writing ideas? Before I started organizing my writing ideas, I would ...
Reader Question: How Can I Use Keywords In My Articles To Please Search Engines And My Target Readers?
Recently I asked you "What do you want to learn about Article Marketing?", and I got a great question from Georjina. Georjina asked: I’d like to take my article writing up a notch, such as how to effectively use SEO and keywords when wr...
What Are Your Article Stats Trying to Tell You?
Recently at SubmitYOURArticle.com we made it so that members can now see stats for all their articles on a single page, rather than having to click to see stats on your articles individually. In the members area, just click on Article Manager > ...
Top 25 Article Marketing Tips
Over the years I've learned so much about how to do an effective article marketing campaign, so I thought it might be helpful to gather some of my best tips and just list them all in one spot. Since you wouldn't get very far in the tips...
How To Use Your Blog To Generate Articles
If you're using both article marketing and a blog as marketing tools to drive traffic to your website, I've got some good news for you! You can actually play one marketing tool off of the other (and practically kill two birds with one stone) ...
How To Find Great Article Topics
As article marketers, we write as part of our livelihood. We're writing articles every month (when all goes well! ) and are submitting them consistently over the lifetime of our website. But like all writers, you probably have really prol...
How To Write Search Engine Friendly Article Titles
You've probably heard folks telling you to use your keywords in your articles and your article titles, but when you're writing articles over the long term simply putting keywords in your article titles can become repetitive very quickly. ...
What is your most effective resource box lure?
When you're doing Article Marketing your resource box is the key to driving traffic back to your website. You can have the most gorgeous, eloquent, well-written article in the world, but if you drop the ball on your resource box, you&...
5 Safeguards To Be Sure That Your Resource Box Links Work
It's pretty frustrating to go to the trouble of writing a really insightful and eloquent article, only to later discover that the link in your resource box doesn't work for one reason or another. If this has happened to you, you know what I&...
How To Get Your Articles Accepted On The First Try!
Copper Square Number 1 Originally uploaded by Leo Reynolds When you're doing article marketing it's not just a matter of cranking out an article and then getting it published–most quality publishers will screen each and every article an...
How Do I Write Articles For A “Shopping Mall” Type Website That Sells Many Different Products?
Kanyon shopping mall Originally uploaded by Spushnik I am always telling you to write articles on the topic of your website, but what if your website is more like a shopping mall, with lots of different categories and pages selling all sorts of diffe...
A Step-By-Step Guide To Turning Your Articles Into An E-Book
Image by pallotron Recently we were talking about how to get double duty out of your articles by turning them into an e-book. For one thing an e-book is a great lure to add to your resource box ("grab the free e-book on this topic at my web...
Get More Marketing Mileage Out Of Your Articles–Turn Them Into An E-Book!
Image by pallotron We've been talking recently about getting multiple marketing uses out of your articles, and I must tell you that creating an e-book from your articles is one of the simplest and most beneficial things you can do! Here's why...
How To Write a ‘HowTo’ Article in 7 Easy Steps
Hopscotch Originally uploaded by Jan Tik Article marketing is all about providing readers with educational articles, and what better way to educate and inform than to write a HowTo article? As we discussed a few days ago, a How To articles prov...
5 Reasons Why “How To” Articles Are So Sticky
Hammer Originally uploaded by Darren Hester Recently we talked about the amazing reader appeal of 'list articles', and I would say that the 'How To' article is right up there in terms of popularity with readers. Why are 'How To...
How Do You Know What Topics Strike A Nerve With Your Target Market?
arrow found the target Originally uploaded by melilab A key aspect of article marketing is providing valuable educational content for your target market, but how do you know what sorts of information your target customers are looking for? Of co...
5 Creative Ways To Get Multiple Marketing Uses Out Of Your Articles
my swiss army knife Originally uploaded by Alesist You're doing article marketing, and on top of that you have a blog, a newsletter, and also participate in various social media activities. You start to wonder– "How in the world can I w...
How To Write Articles Lightning Fast with an Outline
Moleskine map of 婺源 by Gaoyuan Originally uploaded by ♥ China ♥ guccio How do you start writing an article? Do you: A. Just sit down and start writing B. Make a few notes, then write C. Create a full-blown outline to work off of...
The Joys of Yahoo Site Explorer: Getting the Low-Down on your Website’s Progress
My Terminal Binoculars Originally uploaded by Jim Frazier Chances are the reason why you started article marketing go something like this: * You want to drive traffic to your website * You want to leap-frog up the search engine rankings * You w...
How To Customize Your Resource Box In 3 Steps
Roberto Clemente Bridge Originally uploaded by michaelrighi Lately we've been going backwards and forwards over how to craft a really strong resource box. We've established that first off, you need to have a really great basic text resource b...
5 Essential Ways To Build Credibility Through Your Articles
Believe, Love, Fly, Watch Originally uploaded by *BlueMoon When you start an article marketing campaign you'll often hear advice on ways to improve the technical SEO oriented side of article marketing, but there is one very powerful aspect of art...
How To Write A Killer HTML Resource Box…The Easy Way
Easy Button Originally uploaded by Bravo213 I see this more times than I'd like to admit: An author has an absolutely gorgeous text resource box, but their HTML resource box is just a skeleton of what it should be with just their keywords h...
