Advertising With Articles
 Online Advertising Secrets Exposed – Part 4
Advertising with articles is not only an extremely effective way to advertise online it is also one of the fastest ways to see a return on your investment. If you have a limited budget then this is the way to go because it doesn’t cost anything to submit articles. It works like this; you write an article on a topic related to your business or product. Then you include a resource box at the end that has text describing your product with a link to more information. Then submit it to article directories where webmasters look for content for their websites or ezines. They then publish your article if it fits in with their site. The whole thing is done on a no cost basis and is beneficial to everyone. The ezine publisher or webmaster gets a free article, the article directory gets visitors to their site and you get publicity for your business.
Usually the only stipulation for the person publishing your article is that they are not allowed to alter it in any way. This includes keeping the resource box and link to your site at the end of the article. One of the reasons that this works so well is that the only people who will publish your article are ones that have a site on that subject. You then have a targeted audience that is already interested in the subject of your site who is reading your article and then clicking through on your link.
If you do not mind doing some extra work then there is an even more effective way of advertising with articles. Instead of submitting your article to a directory, you can search out the websites that you would like to see your article on and contact the owners to see if they would like you to write an article for them, (with your resource box of course).
A lot of website owners like to get extra content and if it is a high traffic site then it might be worthwhile offering to write exclusive content for them. This means that you write articles them only and that you will not send to other sites. This will make the owners a lot more interested in getting free exclusive content for their site.
But remember it is not so much quantity as quality that counts. A good article that is well written is much more likely to be used than a lot of articles that are not so good. But if you do it right then article advertising can be a very effective way of promoting your site.
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Your fellow WAHM in success,
Anita
Topics: Internet Marketing Articles | 5 Comments »
April 26th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
I’ve had a lot of success with submitting articles to blog carnivals and sites like Ezinearticles.com. Great post!
April 27th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Anita, it looks like there are a lot of choices as to where you can submit articles… do you have a favorite place to submit them? Or do you submit to a lot of different places?
Bev
April 27th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
EzineArticles.com is top on my list, so I completely agree with Lisa there. Otherwise, I do have a list of places to submit articles at MommysHelperOnline.com
Keep in mind, that list is very old and needs some serious updating. I even have a small list to add to it.
That’s something I’ve been putting off for entirely too long. Let me go do that now and I’ll come back and let you know when it’s done
Glad you ladies liked the post!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
You know any more all I post to is EzineArticles.com. It’s by far my favorite because of the amount of traffic and SEO benefits of just that one alone.
Alright I’m curious…..what’s a blog carnival or have I been on the computer too long today? LOL.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Phew … that’s something that’s needed done for a long time! LOL! The link above in my last comment has been all updated and I even added about 40 new directories!
Enjoy!