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If you’re an online business owner you probably already know about the various types of marketing methods to drive traffic to your websites. What you may not have discovered is that article marketing ranks as one of the best ways to drive visitors (traffic) to your website, bring those same visitors back as repeat traffic while simultaneously improving your organic search engine rankings.

As an article marketer, if you regularly submit articles to the top performing article directories you will generate more exposure and traffic to your websites and increase your amount of generated affiliate sales as well as sales of your own products.

Unfortunately, many novice and beginner article marketers fail to truly capitalize on the outstanding returns a properly performed article marketing campaign can produce. For this reason, when writing your articles you need to make sure to consider the following tips in order to achieve the best results.

A Proper Article Title Is the Key to Success

Before writing your article, always make sure your take some time to work on creating a solid article title or headline. This will be your first opportunity to attract a reader for the rest of your article and it is also one of the top components to getting your article ranked high in the organic search engine listing. You need your title to target long tail keyword phrases, match the content of your article and if possible be a subtle tie-in to the product or service you plan to promote in your author’s resource box.

The keyword usage in your title is particularly important because the right combination of long-tail keyword phrases (low hanging fruit) will help position your article within the search engines and create additional exposure and traffic for your articles.

Article Content Still Reigns Supreme

Without question, the notion that content is king still rings true but a more accurate tag-line would be quality content is the king of kings. The fact is, you need your articles to offer your intended target audience (readers) useful information that is of reputable quality. This focus on creating engaging and quality content within your article body will entice your readers to feel compelled to clink on any links within your resource box once they get to the end of your article. Good content that is properly written will have your readers curious and wanting more of what you have to offer.

As with your article title, long tail keywords sprinkled throughout your article will serve as good search engine spider food. A good rule of thumb is to use your targeted keyword phrase as close to the front of your first paragraph as possible, somewhere in the middle of your article, in the closing paragraph of your article and within the resource box.

A well written article also includes a properly formatted article conforming to grammatical standards and without any misspellings. Always make sure to read your article over several times in order to find any errors and don’t be too quick to rely solely on the efforts of the editorial staff for the article directory you plan to submit your article to.

The Article Submission Process

After you have spent the necessary time to craft an article you need to make sure you leverage its potential by submitting it to as many of the top quality article directories as possible. This can be a time consuming task and there are many products and services that can automate this process for you. Don’t get too caught up in trying to submit to every article directory. Instead focus on the top performing directories and you will soon see the traffic flowing to your website(s). Don’t let the duplicate content scare prevent you from submitting the same article. I’ve personally submitted the same article to many directories and never had any issues.

Consistency is the Key to Long Term Article Marketing Success

Without a doubt, it has become much harder to drive traffic with a handful of articles now than it was 3-5 years ago but by working towards writing as many articles as you can and submitting them every day you will see a huge difference in your generated traffic and website rankings. Even if you only manage to submit one new article a week you will still have at the end of a year 52 new articles working to provide thousands of visitors and potential one-way links back to your website.

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