If you own a web-based business, you know how important it is to get web traffic. Just having a website up and running will not bring you potential customers by itself. You need to literally point people to your website and turn visitors into customers. Hiring an article marketing writer will help you accomplish this and transform your website into a thriving business.
Relying on search engines to find your business can be a daunting task. If you are selling a product or service on the internet, you already have hundreds if not thousands of other competitors already on the web. Search engines are not going to put you in front of potential customers’ eyes because there are more well established websites with good content that they have already been directing people towards. You will be starting at the proverbial bottom of the totem pole. Having an article marketing writer providing you with fresh well written web content and articles is a good start in raising your search engine rankings. You need to start a good, keyword rich article campaign to move your site rankings within the top ten of the major search engine rankings.
Search engines like Google and Yahoo love good content and fresh, relevant articles. Their sole job is to provide people with the best, freshest, and pertinent information possible. This is what article marketing is all about.
Lets say you run a business that sells utility knives for example. You are marketing your business and yourself as the experts in utility knives. You want to give people fresh and timely information that they may look for when searching for utility knives. You want to give them valuable information and offer them solutions by pointing them directly to your website.
An article marketing writer can create an informational article that you will submit to article directories. At the end of each article you have what most directories call a resource box or bio box. This is the area you will place a link that points directly to your website. Now with this article, you have given a visitor some valuable information that he has read through. When they get to the end of the article they discover where they can get more information by clicking on the link to your site.
Lets continue with the example of the utility knife website. Your article marketing writer has created an article using the key phrase “Safely Changing Box Knife Blades”. This article spells out in detail, with the preceding key phrase throughout, how to safely replace a dull blade. At the bottom of the article there is a link in the resource box pointing directly to your website. The link may look something like, “At XYZ Knife you can see our full line of knives with lifetime blades. Never change a blade again.”
The above example is very broad in scope, however you start to get the idea of what I am saying here. When someone types in “how to change knife blades” in their search box, your article is going to come up within the first few pages of search results. Personally, I have seen many cases where good articles have made the first page of results the next day or even within hours of posting. That article is pointing directly to your website. Readers are finding that article quickly and finding your site quickly. This can mean hundreds of unique visitors’ everyday that can become customers.
Having a good article marketing writer on your team is very advantageous to any online business owner. If you want to make money you need to have customers. If nobody knows you’re out there, they won’t visit your site. Start seriously considering beginning an article campaign and have an article marketing writer create keyword rich, well written articles for you. Your business will flourish by this effort.
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overcoming writer's block // December 17, 2008 at 12:36 am |
Great post! And having a good article marketing plan is a must have to drive traffic to your site. But more important is some of the other items you talked about like: the right keyword, a well written article etc.
thanks again for the post.