Article Marketing – Goldmine or Fools Gold?

by M.S. Williams

Promoting Your New Website

After you have chosen a domain name and setup a website, one of the first things you’ll be wondering is how to get visitors to come to your site. This dilemna occurs whether you are setting your site up as a hobby, writing a blog about your main business, creating a niche site in order to make some income using Adsense, or planning to sell your own product.

Article Marketing to the Rescue

Of course there are a lot of ways to get visitors to your website, from advertising to trading links with other sites to getting your link into established link directories. All of these have their merits, but one of the easiest and least pricey alternative is article marketing.

What are the Advantages of Article Marketing

Article marketing flat out works to get many incoming links to your website. You can get as many as a thousand links or more simply by writing unique content and posting it on article directories and niche sites that are always looking for new content. And, a side benefit of writing and posting articles is that you might get to be known as an authority in your niche.

Article marketing can be considered a hidden source of traffic – you don’t have to advertise for traffic. Submitting articles can get your site listed in search engines swiftly. The content you create causes search engines to index your page, including the link that you include in your “about” or “resource” box at the bottom of the article. The search engines follow that link and find your site – exactly what you are looking for.

It’s Not All Rosy

Despite all the positive aspects of article marketing, of course there are some negative parts to the process as well. The biggest obstacle to succefull article marketing is that somehow the articles need to get written.

Of course, you can always pay somebody else to write the article for you, and there are several services on the web now that grant you to get others to do the writing for you – for a suprisingly cheap price.

You have to submit the articles to other niche sites and article directories (or pay someone else to do it.) Submitting articles one at a time can be time consuming. Finding all the right places to submit articles can take some time also.

However, there are article submission services that’ll place your articles for you. And, you can alway hire freelancers to do that job too.

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