The One Year Millionaire

If you are getting the hang of Search Engine Optimization and Link Building and you want to add some more ammunition to your marketing arsenal then grab on to the idea of ‘Article Marketing‘ and watch your traffic grow!

Article Marketing is a form of advertising that has been used online for quite some time; in fact, it even dates back to the advent of print media! The basic idea is that a person or business will have written an article or numerous articles relative to their own industry which would then re-direct readers to their own website through a resource box link at the end of the article. This gives marketers the ability to increase traffic to their website, increase exposure and provide useful information to readers at no cost!

The Benefits of Article Marketing:

1. Targeted Referrals.
   Article Marketing is used to increase traffic to your web site. Unlike Social Bookmarking, and Link Exchange services.. this kind of traffic is highly targeted because the people who read these articles are looking for information similar to the content of the articles that you have already written. After you’ve written these articles and submitted them to Article Directories a reader will follow your URL in the resource box and that is just the start of highly targeted visitors.
2. Build Backlinks.
   One of the great things about Article Marketing is that it is like killing two birds with one stone! You write an article to get traffic through referrals from your article; but at the same time, you are creating easy one way backlinks to your web site! One reason this is golden is because if a lot of readers link to this article it will place high in search engines and thus bring you even more traffic! Each article you submit is like a high quality backlink that increases organic (search engine) traffic to your site!
3. Establishing Your Name.
   Writing great articles within your niche is an excellent way of establishing yourself as an expert in your field! If you know a lot on ‘Internet Marketing‘ and submit many articles to Article Directories about certain key subjects within that topic you will be viewed as a knowledgable person when it comes to Internet Marketing. Readers who come across your page are more likely to take your opinion/advice about something or buy products that you promote just because you are an authority!
4. Indirect Sales.
   Direct selling and promoting your products is not allowed in articles submitted to Article Directories; however, many great writers are talented in the way they can write an article which will persuade someone to do something indirectly! If you plant a certain idea in a reader’s head then there is a chance that the person will act on that idea and since your website is right there in the resource box it is easy to close the deal!

Writing a dozen articles related to your website and letting them sit there on Article Directories alone will make a difference in terms of SEO for your web site; but you can do a lot more with it! This may be a good time to think about combining Social Bookmarking with Article Marketing. It is a perfect combination.. it is almost as if they were made to work hand in hand! Here is a short step by step guideline of how you should use Article Marketing to your advantage as a webmaster:

1. Write a dozen quality articles related to your Niche!
2. Submit these articles to a few Article Directories.
3. Once you have submit these articles and they are approved, submit the article links to a few social bookmarking sites!
4. Watch your web site’s traffic sky rocket!

Once you have this system set up for your sites you will find it a lot easier to rank higher in search engines and obtain much more organic traffic! Article Marketing is a great way to attract more and more readers to your web page or blog and it is all free!

In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about staying focused on your goals and not getting distracted!