Article Marketing - Tips, Strategies & Secrets that will work (With Live Example) Today we can see lot of people who say that article marketing is dead or it is no more important. But true winner will say a big NO to this. And I am one of the true winner. In this thread you will see some important tips on why article marketing is important and how that can improve your search engine rankings and traffic for your website. Look out, live example below. Before getting started, let me start from basics. What is article marketing all about? Article marketing is a process of writing unique and compelling articles and publishing them in article directories to drive traffic. Article directories credit back the author by giving them a link back to author's website in author bio section. In this way a website owner can get back links. By making the article viral and syndicate it one can drive countless traffic to his website. Here are some strategies that can help one to be on top of article marketing. Write informative articles This is the major area where people fail. Many think that submitting an article is just to put some basic 250 words together and submitting it. It is not. We need to write compelling article that can go viral. The article should be in such a way that people should love them, want to publish it in their website, that will get natural links. So guys, the next time if you say article marketing is not working, just think of writing unique, conceptual and excellent article. If you are not able to do so, hire an article writer! Submit to Quality Article Marketing Directories Do not submit it to many article directories just for the sake of getting links. Submit it to quality article directories to get the maximum exposure. What are quality article directories - PR NOT EQUAL TO QUALITY! Many think that quality is just having good PR. As per many Google evangelist, a quality article is the one that follows quality! That does not accept every article and that does not host spam articles. Give some love to your new articles Your article is also a part of your content work. So give some love to it by giving back links from other web pages or your home page. Build some links to it too! Some Quality Article Websites 1) www.ezinearticles.com - PR6 2) www.selfgrowth.com - PR6 3) www.goarticles.com - PR6 4) www.isnare.com - PR6 5) www.thewhir.com/article-central - PR5 6) www.articlecity.com/index.shtml - PR5 7) www.articledashboard.com - PR5 8) www.site-reference.com - PR5 9) www.articlet.com - PR5 10) www.buzzle.com - PR5 Note: Please add some more quality article directories. Please add only quality ones. All the above are theories. Now let us see some practical success of article marketing. Secret of Article Marketing (Live Example) Checkout this article on Reverse phone lookup Number of visits - 692,771 PR - 4 This article will get a minimum of 2000 visits a day and I am sure the website owner will get a minimum of 200 or so visits. The link takes us to affiliate website and how much sales this website owner will take home? That's the power of article marketing. Do's of Article Marketing 1) Write compelling articles. 2) Target long tail and create unique title for it. 3) Title should also be intriguing and interesting. 4) Keep good amount of words for your article. 5) Give some love to your articles by back linking from other resources. 6) Encourage your friends and family to publish your article in their website. Dont's of Article Marketing 1) Don't write articles for the sake of writing. 2) Don't write for the sake of links. 3) Don't just have the minimum words. 4) Have your links in the bio. I took my time to compose this post just in a notion that in future no one will say article marketing is dead. So please pour in your thoughts by adding value to this discussion. Also please share some of the valuable article directory lists. Spread the word If you like this post please publish this post in your website can give a link back with article marketing as anchor text. You can use the html below. -------------------------------------------------------------------- <a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1594408">Article Marketing</a> -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Luther