Article marketing seems to be the hottest mania and with good reason. It’s by far the greatest free way of promoting your business and increasing your sales and opt in subscribers.
By submitting your articles to article directories, article announcement lists, and ezine publishers, you accomplish a number of things.
First, you confirm yourself as an specialist in your subject. Readers are more likely to pay attention to you if they feel you understand what you are talking about.
Second, by attaching a resource box to your article, you are giving the person who reads a link to your website. If the reader is impressed with your knowledge, they will likely click on your link to go to see what it is that you are offering.
Third, you step up your search engine page rank by providing a non-reciprocal link to your website. Search engines appear to give additional weight to non-reciprocal links in their page rankings.
But lots of marketers are not happy writing their own articles. They simply do not grasp how to put their thoughts into words. Or worse yet, they do not have any thoughts worth printing.
That is why private label articles are in such great demand these days. There are a number of of these services available and more seem to be popping up every day.
Therein lies the quandary. Depending on how these articles are used, the results can be good, bad, or downright ugly.
The Good: As stated formerly, private label articles, when used appropriately, can give the non-writer a big advantage over other marketers. They can improve your traffic, sales, and opt in subscribers. That is fine.
The Bad: A regular mistake made by marketers using private label articles is getting lazy. They just copy and paste the article and submit it, as is, with no personalization.
At the very least, you should change the title. On the whole article directories require that your article be accepted before they are posted. But do you actually think they read every article that comes in? Not likely.
They get dozens, even hundreds of submissions every day, so it’s improbable that your article will actually be read.
But most directory software will automatically search their database for duplicate titles. If the title of your article matches one in their database, yours will be rejected.
So do yourself a favor and at the very least, change the title. It might also be a good idea to change the wording in the first paragraph.
The Ugly: Many marketers load so many links in their article that it becomes one long ad. This will not only get you rejected, but eventually banned if you do it often enough.
A good article contains useful information to the reader whether they buy your products or not. Provide them good quality content and you will increase the chances that they will click your link in the resource box.
Private label articles are a fantastic tool, but do not get lazy!
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