Are you still struggling to commence Article Marketing the right way and searching for the right Article Directories?

Many folks struggle to write articles as they have not written any earlier, don’t know what content to produce, don’t know what topics to choose, don’t know how to write an Article or are fearful of doing so.

In Article Marketing Part ONE, I will show you what are the benefits of Article Marketing, how to get started as a newbie, how to find and generate content, alternatives to writing Articles and some recommended Article Directories. This Article will enable anyone pick up Article Marketing as one of their Marketing Strategies online.

So, let’s get on with another VERY powerful traffic generation technique, Articles!

Why Article Marketing?

On the internet Article Marketing is one of the most popular methods to drive traffic because it is easy, effective and free.

So you need to publish short informative articles in your respective niche to appropriate Article directories on the internet. This is where people come to find relevant information and is considered to be a kind of knowledge repository.

Note: Another very important aspect that most people tend to forget is that once you write an Article and submit it to the Article directories, that Article stays on the directory (almost) forever with an (almost again) permanent backlink to you website and indefinite traffic to your blog till people find and read your article.

How to get started with Article Marketing?

Initially Article writing can be a time consuming task but not until long that you will notice ideas and content comes to you naturally and Article writing becomes a routine enjoyable task. Don’t worry, just relax and read on.

If you are new to internet marketing or your niche, think of what is the problem you are facing. Considering that you are a newbie to internet marketing and totally confused, don’t know where to start from, have loads of information but unable to decide what to do i.e. suffering from Information Overload then hop on to Google an do some research to find an answer to your query (Information Overload).

After reading a few websites or articles on this topic, you will be in a position to understand your problem and also write an article that outlines ways to tackle or resolve the problem.

If you have a topic in mind and want to write about it, great. If you need more information then back to research my friend.

Tip: Don’t ever forget that Google is your BEST friend.

Writing articles yourselves initially serves many purposes

1. It gives you a lot of knowledge since you perform research and learn about your niche.

2. It adds your personality to the content.

3. You have first hand experience of what is required to write content, format it and upload it to directories. This knowledge also comes in handy when you are outsourcing your articles.

Alternatives to writing Articles?

If you think that Article writing seems a difficult task for you initially, then there are 2 alternatives that I propose

1. You could Article Generators that create article content with super human speed. One that I have known to be really good, though have not used myself personally since I am ok writing articles :-) , is Article Wizard Pro and is a tool created by one of the top leaders in the industry called Jonathan Leger.

2. Outsourcing writing articles to ghost writers. This is another good alternative that provide you with articles that you have full rights and ownership to and you can submit under your name. Register on Elance Dot Com and place you requirement and you will hopefully receive few bids in next 24 to 48 hours. Make sure to check the rating of the ghost writer and if English is his/her language.

If you think one of the 2 alternatives works for you and is generating expected traffic and desired quality then keep using it, if you think you are ready to write articles then go for it.

What are Article Directories?

Article Directories are article submission websites where you can submit your article to the relevant categories and also find free content.

Recommended Article Directories?

I would recommend the following Article directories
1. Ezine Articles
2. Article Base
3. Go Articles
4. Article Dashboard
5. Article Alley
6. Article City
7. Easy Articles
8. Article Directories
9. Articles 888
10. Article Rich

However you will find a lot of other article directories by searching for “list of article directories”, or “top 50 article directories” or something similar. EzineArticles is the BEST of the lot.

Please go through “Article Marketing Part TWO” where I offer you some cool tips to achieve better Article Marketing results.

Enjoy your day!

Cheers!
Abizer

Tagged with: • •

Filed under: Internet Marketing Strategies

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!