Newbie article writers tend to be misled into believing that success in article marketing will happen overnight. I know, I was one of them. Have you been misled? Heed this advice about online writing. Money to Be Made I came into this profession of internet writing and marketing thinking I pretty much had it in the bag. I had written magazine articles, newspaper articles, and countless corporate financial reports. After retiring from the corporate world, I was looking for something else to do. In my research, I quickly discovered that consumers were spending a lot of money on the Internet. Consumer internet spending was on the rise. Every year it grew over the previous year. I wanted a piece of that pie. In fact, just last year, 2010, according to U.S. Department of Commerce consumers ... [Read More]

Newbie article writers tend to be misled into believing that success in article marketing will happen overnight. I know, I was one of them. Have you been misled? Heed this advice about online writing. Money to Be Made I came into this profession of internet writing and marketing thinking I pretty much had it in the bag. I had written magazine articles, newspaper articles, and countless corporate financial reports. After retiring from the corporate world, I was looking for something else to do. In my research, I quickly discovered that consumers were spending a lot of money on the Internet. Consumer internet spending was on the rise. Every year it grew over the previous year. I wanted a piece of that pie. In fact, just last year, 2010, according to U.S. Department of Commerce consumers ... [Read More]

In the first article if this two-part series, "Beginning Article Marketing And SEO - Success Steps Part 1", you discovered five tips to help get you started down the article marketing path. This article will build from that article and provide a more technical look at the elements of a good article.   Note: You can find this info and more in the SEO article marketing guides mentioned below. The title of your article is its most read part. Not everyone will read your entire article, but almost everyone will read the article's title. The title is often referred to as "the hook". A good title will increase your chances of "hooking" a lot of readers. The article shouldn't be filled with really long sentences that drone on forever. After reading the... [Read More]

Article Productions is changing the face of the article marketing world. It has now become the most effective place to post content for your article marketing campaigns, and the available powerful tools will help you gain thousands of backlinks, high levels of traffic, and free syndication all in one place. Although some say article marketing is no longer effective, Article Productions is proving otherwise.   What Is Article Marketing?   Article marketing is the system of posting articles and content to various online directories that are based on your market area. They are designed to bring traffic and buyers to your website where they will then hopefully buy from you, or join your sales funnel. It is also the way many generate links and authority in their niche. The trouble i... [Read More]

The best article submission service is going to provide you a submission into the most article directories as possible.   To start off, article submission is when you take an article that you have written, or had somebody write for you, and submit it to the different article directory database sites available on the internet.  This is absolutely perfect for traffic and article marketing. Some submission services will provide your article to just the easy sites available or sometimes they do not submit to more than just a few dozen of them.  When in actuality the best services will submit to as many article database sites as possible. There are several reason why you want to find the best submitting service available.     Articles that are submitted could be rea... [Read More]

Video marketing is one of the best ways to promote your business or website and is much more effective than the traditional article marketing route.  There is nothing wrong with article marketing and combining them both together is actually a very powerful method. However it is the video that on it's own packs a bigger punch than an article as you can show your prospective customer the product that you are promoting.  What do you think would be more interesting to a prospective customer, a five hundred word article promoting the features and benefits of a product or business or a visual presentation of the same thing. My personal opinion is that I would much rather physically see how something is going to benefit me rather than reading it and trying to visualize the same thing... [Read More]

Are you using video marketing as one of your power tools for online marketing. If not, you are missing the boat for making money online by simply making videos. And the great news...You don't even have to be in them! First off, watch the video below for some very eye opening results you can get with a lot less competition compared to article marketing. Oh, and I want to point out. No, I am not going to stop doing article marketing and just replace it with just doing video's. Article marketing is also one very powerful way to get traffic and I will continue to do it without question because you want to tie it all together as one. Anyway...Watch the video below and I will pick up where I left off with some more great tips and how this all ties together so you also keep writing articles ... [Read More]

Article marketing has been pronounced "ready" for burial on several online marketing forums today. Although rumored before, this is undeniably the real deal. As we gathered into the chapel, I picked up one of those little cards at the registry. It had a brief description, a copy and paste quickie, of the life of our fallen friend. The full details came in the form of several paragraphs formatted three sentences, two sentences, one sentence. Appropriate considering the newly departed. The first thing I noticed was, after a few blah blahs about his early life, was those that had preceded him. Small ads, banner advertisement,on page seo. Google was even on the list but that was simply not true. The reason I know Google was not dead also was for the fact he was officiating the ceremony.... [Read More]

Article marketing is something that contains writing an article. Many great writers fail at the marketing aspect. Go to any forum and sooner or later you will see some fool give the advice that all it takes is the ability to write. They will even go as far as stating writing well is not important. Hate to break it to them but they are totally lost and should keep their opinions to themselves. Check the very same forums and the person replying more than likely either has a new product out touting how easy making money writing online is or they are an affiliate for such a product. The product will be long gone before a lot of people read it but the ones that do waste their money on this shoddy product will end up spreading it's lies and more than likely keep someone else from ever ma... [Read More]

Article marketing and Bum marketing have been blended and twisted to the point of being conceived as being the one and the same. Nothing could be further from the truth. Bum marketing was a concept that worked well for a few when first conceived but has found results falling off or disappearing all together.   The bum method actually encourages no website. This is it's main drawing power. Make a killing submitting articles. No website required. Well guess what. Most article directories will not allow you to point to an affiliate page anymore. The producer of Bum decided to use Ezine Articles as it's premier place to submit articles to. At the time I am sure the owner was static. Already an established hub for article marketing, these Bums were welcomed at an alarming rate. If ... [Read More]