Article Marketing Strategy to Get More Targeted Traffic To Your Web Site
In this article you are going to learn how article marketing can be used to increase your websites rank in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) and drive you all the free traffic you could ever want.
First off, I want to say that this is not an instant process and it will take some time for you to see results, but if you do what I tell you and stick to it, you will see results.
You need to have a basic understanding of SEO (Search engine optimization) to get the most out of this article. If you don’t, I suggest you search for “Stomping the Search engines” on Google and you will learn everything you need to know.
In almost any SEO endeavor, the first thing you want to do is figure out what keywords you want to target and rank for in the SERP’s. For those just starting out it is a very good idea to target low competition “long tail” keywords because they are much easier to rank for. I like to stick with keywords with less than 50,000 “phrase match” competing pages.
After you figure out what long tail keyword you want to target you then need to create the page you want to have ranked in the SERP’s. When creating this page be sure to include your target keywords in the title and H1 tags of the page as well as have them throughout your body text. You do not however want to keyword stuff your pages, keep the keyword density to 2% and 5%.
After getting the page created on you site, you want to write an article that is related to the content on your site. The article should be short and to the point, around three to five hundred words.
As soon as you finish the article, rewrite it twice. This is called article spinning and is not a required step but is highly recommended that you do it. Just go through your article and rewrite each paragraph so that they still say the same thing but in slightly different words. By doing this you can put together hundreds of unique version of your article to submit to the web.
Fifth, it now time to create the part of the article that will get you traffic and help your site to start ranking better, the authors resource box. Most article directories allow 2-3 outgoing links in the resource box, the key here is to link to the pages you want to rank better using the pages target keyword as the anchor text. You should use multiple variations of the keywords so your links look natural to the search engines, as long as the phrase you are linking contains your keywords you should be fine, in fact it is a good idea to thrown in a few “click here” and “your domain” as well, raising its importance and position in the SERP’s.
Your next mission is to get that article out to the web to as many sites that will take it. This means post it to article directories, web 2.0 sites, article exchanges, etc that you can find. You want to have as many different places on the web linking back to your site as you can get, and if they happen to have a good Google page rank all the better.
The reason you want to spin your articles is so that the search engines will not discount or disregard your links on other pages because it has found the same exact text and links on other sites, thus allowing you to having 100’s or 1000’s of unique versions of your article, all over the internet, giving you their full support.
For more information on how to drive targeted traffic to your sites, check out Article Shotgun. It covers every aspect of article marketing making it the web’s most complete article marketing strategy guide.
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