7 steps to Article Marketing
I ve just finished writing up my 7 steps to article marketing plan which at the moment is in the very early stages. I have had this idea for a while now and although through doing research I ve found many other blogs and websites which have a mass of information talking about article marketing. I thought that with my own personal experience and way of writing I will be able to make my 7 steps to article marketing a little different and a little unique.
This is basically an introduction to what is coming up in my 7 steps to article marketing and to tell you what the main titles will be for this series. You may know that I have an article series on going already called 11 things to consider before you start blogging which talks about my own personal mistakes that I have made since I first started blogging and shares my own advice on how to ensure you don’t make the same mistakes or others. Well this is going to be quite similiar in the way its written, I am a firm believer that something isn’t unique unless you add your own experiences, opinions or express something that you believe your self within your articles. So thats what I try to do in many of my articles.
This new series will take a look at article marketing, one very popular form of internet marketing and one that is commonly used by many affiliate marketers.
The series will comprise of these 7 chapters:
Chapter 1: What is article marketing?
Article marketing defined
Types of article marketing
Chapter 2: Article marketing sites - Ezine articles explained
Where can you submit your articles?
Why Ezine articles is the market leader?
Step by step guide to maximising traffic through Ezine articles
Step 1: Get an account
Step 2: Get used to Ezine articles
Step 3: Ezine articles Authors home explained
Chapter 3: Keyword Research - The first steps to article marketing
Brief introduction to keyword research
Why keyword research is important when article marketing
How to maximise traffic through keyword research
Optimising your article in ezine articles
Chapter 4: Article marketing - The article writing
Clarify what type of article marketing you are performing
Length of your article
Include keywords from last section
Chapter 5: Article marketing secrets and tips
Include your last paragraph in your resource box
Add a well optimised title and keywords
Include keywords in your summary
Ensure you have chosen the right catergory
Surf and destroy - How to benefit from other article marketers so you can then destroy them
When to submit and why
Chapter 6: Article marketing - Ezine submission completed, now what?
Completed Ezine article submission.
Submit your article at other article directories
List of article directories and brief explanations
Chapter 7: Affiliate marketing, whats so different?
Affiliate marketing explained
How affiliate article marketing is different to normal article marketing
The differences
I opted to add the last chapter because I thought, considering article marketing is so popular with affiliate marketers why not make one chapter totally focused on these people. Give out tips and advice from my own affiliate article marketing experiences to these marketers and hope that the things that I have learnt can help those too.
The first chapter will be written and uploaded someo time next week probably mid week (Wednesday or Thursday) so please look out for it. As well as this the next chapter of 11 things to consider before you start blogging will be uploaded Monday so again stay tuned and please subscribe to my RSS feed.
Enjoy your weekend and speak to you soon.
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