It’s no secret. Articles are an excellent method of driving traffic to your site.
However, the secret to making your article interesting is to give away enough information to solve one part of the problem, but to leave the other part unsolved so they want more information. Let me explain:
If I was just beginning to learn how to promote affiliate programs, I would be after information on how to create a website that sells, and of course how to advertise that website.
Now if you were writing an article and you had a product to sell on affiliate programs, you would write an article on how to create a site that sells, but leave out the part about advertising your site.
Of course people will need this information if they want to succeed, so more then likely if your resource box is compelling they will click on your link to your website.
So, how can you write your article quickly, plus make it a viral marketing machine to help drive traffic to your site?
Well firstly you have to know where you want the article to go. For instance, are you planning on making this a series of articles that link together or is it just a one- off article?
You must determine the outcome for your article before you can write it.
Now, writing your article isn’t all that hard, and certainly not as difficult as most would have you believe.
As a rule of thumb, you should try and make your article between 500 – 700 words. To do this, outline the topics you are going to cover and writing 100 or 200 words on each topic. This helps to make the article flow and easier to write.
For example:
If your were writing an article on getting more traffic to your website on a budget, you could us an outline similar to this.
1. Introduction to budget advertising
2. How to write articles that get publishing every time
3. Joint venturing for huge profits
4. Getting all the free links you can
5. Search engine ranking tactics that work
Then you would write 100 – 200 words on each topic It’s that simple.
Article marketing is one of the most powerful forms of marketing you can get online. And the best part is that if you’re just starting out it is also extremely cost effective.
I highly recommend that if you haven’t yet started to write and submit articles, you should make this your #1 priority over the next few weeks.
Here are the steps to writing an effective article…
1. Choose an attention-grabbing title:
Whether or not someone even reads your article at all is dependent upon your title. This is especially important when you submit it to directories and publishers where there are hundreds of entries.
Here are some templates you can use for your titles:
How to _________ In _________ Steps
How to _________ In _________ (Time Frame)
The Real Secret to Quickly ______________
Top 2 Ways to ________________
3 Little Known Tips for _____________
The Hidden Costs of ________________
2.) Determine 3-5 points of interest:
You’ll want your article to be 500-750 words, so write 3-5 sections that are about 100 words each along with an opening and a closing.
3. Write an interesting opening sentence:
Your title gets them to take a look, and you want to immediately get them into the main body of your article. There are several things you can do in this opening sentence to lure readers in deeper…
o Ask a question.
o Reveal something startling.
o Inject emotion.
o Present a problem.
4. Close with a call to action:
Your mission is to get them to move on to your desired action. When they finish reading your article, they are going to do something other than just sit there and stare.
They’ve got a ton of options and only one of them is to do what you want them to do.
What you want to do is LEAD the reader to your resource box. You do this by bridging the gap between your article and your resource box – you create a “transition” between the two.
In your article conclusion, you’ll summarize the 3-5 points you made in the article. Your resource box should reference something related to those 3-5 points. It will draw the reader to click to your site.
Whether you are submitting your articles to directories, posting your articles at your website, inserting your articles into viral e-books to be passed around the web…
…your #1 goal is to get subscribers onto a list and your 2nd goal is to get them to your sales letter.
You can do this by giving away a free report or mini- course in your resource box and place that freebie at the top of a sales letter or redirect them to a sales letter after they’ve joined a list.
Facebook and Social Media – The Next Marketing Opportunity
Marketing as an activity is all about reaching the right customers with the right products, and the result sought is delighted customers who are more than willing to open their purses wide enough to boost your revenues. For many years, marketers stalked their target customers through various means and by trying to get their message across to spread awareness about their wares.
Traditional Means of Communication
Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.
Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.
Enter Social Media and the Internet
The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:
The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.
The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.
Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.
Facebook – At the Center of Social Media
With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.
A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.
These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.
How does this help a marketer?
Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.
Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:
Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.
Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.
Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.
What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.
The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.
However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.
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Do you own or operate your own website? With the rising popularity of the internet, there is a good chance that you do. A large number of internet users run their own personal websites, but others run their websites as a way to make money. Of course, any website owner wishes to promote their online website, but those who rely on their websites for income are more willing to. Whichever type of website you have, did you know that you could help to promote it with online social networking websites?
If you are wondering how and why you should use social networking websites to promote your online website, you are not alone. A fairly large numbers of internet users aren’t even sure what social networking sites are or how they work. Online social networking websites are like online communities. They give internet users an easy and fairly safe way to come together. Many social networking websites are designed to make it easier for you to search for and make contact with other internet users, especially those that you have something in common with.
With a fairly large number of social networking websites, including MySpace, having over a millions users, there is a good chance that you could not only make new friends, but find internet users that would be interested in visiting your online website, especially if that website is your personal website. When joining an online networking community, you should be given your own profile page. On this page you could not only describe yourself, your online website. By mentioning what your personal online webpage is all about and providing a link, you should receive a number of new visitors.
As previously mentioned, social networking websites can benefit all website owners, but especially those who are looking to make a profit with their websites. This can be done one of two ways, by selling something or by relying on revenue from advertising. If you have a website that selling products or services, you may find it a little bit easier to use social networking sites to your advantage. This is because, if you wish, you could do product or service spotlights. Each day, week, or month, you could showcase one of the products or services that your website sells. This could either be done right on your profile page or on a blog page, which is provided by most social networking websites.
If you are using your online website to make money with advertising programs, such as affiliate programs or Google Adsense, you may need to approach social networking websites in a different matter. Since you will not necessarily have a particular product or service to focus on, you will need to approach these websites as if they were personal websites. If your website discusses being a dog owner, it may be a good idea to state your love for dogs in your profile. After doing so, it would be acceptable and not necessarily considered spam to add a link to your online website. As with all other types of online websites, social networking websites should help to increase the number of page views your website receives. In most cases, more page views mean more clicks which means money for you.
As you can easily see, there are a number of different ways that you can promote your online website, no matter what type of website you have or what you use it for. By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to see an increase in your page views, in no time at all.
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