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Writing Articles For Money

Friday, February 20th, 2009

articlemarketing924People have been writing articles to make money for years. In fact article writing was the first form of marketing I did when I started working online some 4+ years ago. I didn’t know how to market, or even where to market. I stumbled upon article marketing via a form.

So how can you start writing articles for money?

Simple, all you have to do is find what your target market is, then do a little bit of keyword research. Now by keyword research I mean you need to research which keywords people are searching or would search to find whatever it is you do, or sell. This way when you write your articles you can key in on these keywords, and increase your Google page rank for your article.

Once you’ve completed your keyword research now begins the fun part of actually writing the article. It’s important to know that you don’t have to be some writing expert, and you don’t even need to know how to spell (thanks to spell checker). All you have to know is that the best articles are 500 – 700 words long. Keep your articles short and simple. If you go into to much detail you’ll lose peoples interest.

After you written your article now its time to submit that article to the top article directories, and I’ll save you time by telling you the top 3 article directories are in order 1) ezinearticles.com 2) buzzle.com 3) articlebase.com. Create an account at each directory and submit your articles to them.

Now each of these article directories will allow you to create an about the author resource box. This resource box will be displayed at the end of each of your articles, and this is where you will make your money. Inside it you will leave a short one or two lines explaining to people who you are, what you do, and how you can help them. Make sure you leave a link back to your website or else your article will go to waste.

Finally if you really want to get your articles ranked in Google I highly recommend submitting them to social book marketing sites. Here are a few I recommend.

1. Digg.com
2. Propeller.com
3. Reddit.com
4. Socialogs.com
5. Indianpad.com
6. Slashdot.org
7. Getigadget.com
8. Furl.net
9. Wirefan.com
10. Bibsonomy.org
11. faves.com
12. Folkd.com
13. Linkagogo.com
14. Mister-wong.com
15. Connotea.org
16. Mixx.com
17. Upchuckr.com
18. Jumptags.com
19. Connectedy.com
20. Postonfire.com
21. humsurfer.com

All you do is create an account for each of the sites you wish to use. Then you’ll see a button that says something along the lines like submit story or add link. Click on it and fill out the required info and hit submit and your done.

Articles are a great way to make extra money online. This type of marketing method alone can easily generate you 1 – 2k per month over time. Of course this will depend on what products you are promoting, and how well your articles get ranked in Google.

3 Things That Will Help Jump Start Your Marketing

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

marketing-strategy-win-new-clientsOver the past couple of days I’ve been trying to come up with some new ways to market online that I’ve never tried before. I find myself sticking to the same old marketing techniques time after time, but I feel they are getting old, and out dated. I also find myself getting bored when I’m done my normal marketing.

With that said I want to help give you a few ideas or things I recommend that will help jump start your marketing. I’m finding that most people join a business and then they ask “what do I do next?” Well your about to find out.

1. The first type marking I recommend you start doing is good old fashion article marketing. This is one marketing technique I feel will never get old. Content is the king of the Internet, and fresh content rules over anything else. So if you can keep pumping out fresh content on a daily basis your future will look bright.

Writing articles will not cost you a dime. All you have to do is put in the work to write the articles unless you out source them. If you do out source your article writing you can find people to write your articles at http://www.getafreelancer.com/ I personally got people to write me articles for as little as $6 per 500 word article.

To this day I still get traffic from articles I’ve written about 4 years ago, and all my hard works has paid off then, and its still paying off now as my articles earn me an easy 1 - 2k per month from promoting Clickbank products.

2. Ok articles are good, but what if you want to get traffic fast, and see results within 5 - 10 days? Well then I recommend buying Solo Ads. Buying Solo Ads is a great way to get lots of targeted traffic to your website at an affordable price. You can do a simple Google search for “solo ads” and a number of sites will popup offering cheap and affordable solo ads.

A Solo Ad is a stand alone email that gets sent to the contact email address of people. These are very effective, because only your email is sent out. If you buy solo ads and use a good lead capture page you can expect to get some good results pretty fast.

3. Video marketing. Places like YouTube get millions of visits per day, and it’s a traffic gold mine. Sign up for an account at YouTube.com and start making videos that talk about your business. Make sure your videos make you look like an expert. People who see your videos will be more likely to buy from you or visit your website if you look like you are a pro in your business.

Now one other thing I recommend you do is after you create a video jump over to HeySpread and use  their service to blast out your video to all the other popular video sharing sites. YouTube is good, but you want the most exposure you can get, and HeySpread will help you do that by automatically submitting your videos to other popular sites.

HeySpread charges a very small fee to submit your videos. I’ve submitted a number of videos there, and it basically comes out to be around $1 to get your video submitted to all the top video sharing sites.  If you want your videos to be seen and get as most exposure as you can this is a must use site.

So there you have it. 3 ways that you can quickly and easily jump start your marketing. All 3 ways are proven to work, and will greatly help you stand a good chance at running a successful business online.