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Bloggers blog. Thats what they do. A blog is short for weblog and its really an online journal that can be updated easily and frequently without any knowledge of HTML code.

Traditionally, article marketing has been used by authors who are promoting their books or information products. Lately, Ive noticed a growing trend of bloggers using article marketing to grow the traffic to their blog and you should too.

Three reasons why it makes sense for bloggers to engage in article marketing:

1) Youve already got a lot of content produced in each of your blog posts. 200 words should be your floor for each article that you produce. In some cases, you already have enough words per post to create 10-50 articles instantly. If you dont, then stitch posts together of a similar theme until you have 200+ word articles to put into article marketing distribution.

2) A blogger has the same traffic building problems that any typical website has, and therefore article marketing can help your blog in the same ways it can help a non-blog website. Benefits include qualified traffic coming to your site year round, quality backlinks being built without any messy recip-linking campaigns, and youre expanding your reach to other experts that might not otherwise have found your blog.

3) Bloggers by nature are more Internet savvy than your typical author. With this said, most bloggers already understand how to create revenue with pay per click (PPC) advertising programs. As such, you already know how to produce keyword intelligent titles for their articles. This guarantees maximum traffic impact for each of your articles.

If you are already a blogger and are new to article marketing, heres how you get started:

1) Produce a cache of 10-25+ articles from your existing blog content.

2) Submit them to the major article directories and any that are niche-relevant to your field of expertise. You may also wish to submit them to ezine publishers directly from your niche.

3) Rinse and repeat until you have 250-1,000+ articles in distribution this year. Hire a college student or editor if you dont have time to get this strategy into practice as itll be well worth it.

4) Watch your traffic counter slowly rise, day by day as your articles work hard for you delivering qualified traffic to your website year round.

Article Marketing as a strategy will not break your traffic counter on your first month of investing in this strategybut, I guarantee if you engage in this strategy, your blog will grow in traffic and popularity beyond the traffic you were already creating by simply blogging. You knows, you might even increase your sales, land a new job, or improve your rank in the search engines as a side-benefit from your article marketing strategy.

About The Author:

Christopher M. Knight invites you to submit your best quality original articles for massive exposure to the high-traffic http://EzineArticles.com/ expert author community. When you submit your articles to EzineArticles.com, your articles will be picked up by ezine publishers who will reprint your articles with your content and links intact giving you traffic surges to help you increase your sales. To submit your article, setup a membership account today: http://EzineArticles.com/submit/

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Once your articles are listed in the directories, web site and blog publishers will choose them up from the directories and publish them. There is no extra endeavor required from your side. There is no more requirement of pleading others to swap links with you and there is no need of waiting for web sites to link to you. Article marketing is the best way that will generate traffic to your web site. When you submit an article to a directory you are usually giving other site owners consent to re publish the article on their website, as long as the link to your web site remains in place.

Article marketing can serve as a source of online traffic only when the submission of articles to the directories s made judiciously. Probably the most admired technique among marketers on a budget is to submit your articles manually to the best 5 article directories that have good traffic. Also the articles that you write should be rich in keywords and targeted to the present and prospective consumers of your product. Understand what the people search and what keywords they use to reach a product such that of yours. Article marketing proves helpful only when the prospective consumers are able to find your articles relevant to their searches.

Article marketing is regarded as an important means to drive traffic to web sites. All that is required to write intellectually and submit your articles judiciously. It can work wonders to your business.

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For anyone who wants to live the dream of working from home, article writing on the internet offers a very real opportunity to do just that. Whether you want to earn money directly for the articles you write or use your articles to help sell a product or drive traffic to your website, there will always be a market for well written and informative copy.

Ideally, you should not put all of your eggs in one basket. Try to build up a good working relationship with a couple of clients who can give you regular article writing work and pay you per article. What's the best way to do this? I recommend the Guru freelance job site. There are a lot of freelance work sites but not all will pay well. If you can write decent copy fairly quickly, you shouldn't have any problem getting clients.

However, if you are capable of writing good editorial copy you should also use this to create and sell your own information products such as ebooks, tutorials, articles or tip sheets and sell them directly through your own website. I recommend keeping a log of everything you write during one week. After a week, sit down and figure out how you can put together multiple articles to sell as a report.

You can also use your website to market your skills as a writer to prospective clients. But you may ask, how do I drive traffic to my website and boost sales of my information product?

Once again, you can use your writing skills to achieve this. You can submit your articles to article directories to help create links to your website which will boost your sites popularity among the various search engines and should increase your exposure. The more you write, the more your traffic will build over time. Don't give up if traffic is small at first. Consider each article a salesman that goes out and knocks on doors. Eventually, someone will open a door.

When you submit an article to an article directory, webmasters and editors can use your content for free but the article must include your profile and a backlink to your website. This is how you get quality backlinks to your site. Out of every marketing method I've tried (i.e. link exchanges, directory submissions, PPC), article marketing has brought me the best backlinks and the most traffic. Another option is to find an affiliate product that you like and believe in, write articles to promote it, and get a commission for each sale that results from your articles.

The beauty of article writing is that you can write about any subject you want, no matter how specific. In fact, niche areas are often where you will find the most success. You can also use your article to promote your products while driving traffic to your website. If you are selling an ebook on flower arranging, a number of well written articles on the subject linking to your website will increase the chances of sales.

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In the online article authoring world there are many different types of folks who write articles and although most of them write in order to use informational marketing to attract customers on the Internet to partake in their goods or services, the total number of reasons that people write articles is truly astounding.

Indeed, I think that anyone who makes this connection is correct in considering that authors write on different subjects for different reason and their points about the author being an expert in one or more fields but not in others also makes sense. For instance for me, I have expertise in Franchising, Small Business, Marketing, Branding, Car Washing, Trucking, Aviation, Technology, Sports Competition, Winning, Philosophy, Humanities, Politics, Economics, Innovation and various related fields. But I write about all sorts of stuff and I would say that those areas I am not so good at, it is a challenge to write a strong article, I am happy with and thus I would not obviously be any kind of expert in those areas.

Many authors believe and I concur that an author can be an expert in some domains, but not all. But how would the reader know this? Should a panel be set up at the top online article submission sites to grade author status as experts? Well, if that is feasible considering the resources involved to look over the articles and considering the "primate politics of panels" then this would solve a problem.

On one of the top online article submission sites, I noticed that there are only 3 pages of authors who have over 100 articles, then starting with only those authors of over 100 articles, it could be done fairly easy. A panel could look at those authors to find out if they were truly experts in various subjects and when they submitted articles to those categories they might be accompanied by a star?

There is a company called "Topix" which has local panels rating news, all volunteers even, and it works fine. If there were only 300 authors to rate, this is easily feasible and eventually maybe it could be taken down to 75 or 50 articles and thus someone to get to the rating system level would have to pony up and write some articles, thus also stretching them to prove they could perform and "SHOW ME" type proof of expert status.

Also remember that the author could submit which categories they feel most qualified in and the group could choose these categories based on their accomplishments in the real world and then "+" their articles? I am a firm believer in real world experience and doing over merely someone who is a "great writer" and can spin a phrase.

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Article marketing is not as profitable as before. That's what 'gurus' tend to say to get you afraid. The truth is, although there are more article writers right now, the amount of people surfing the Internet has also increased. So it comes down to the same amount of traffic.

Here are my 3 biggest secrets for getting massive traffic from your article marketing:

1. Always Build A List With Your Opt-In Page

This is what I do - I always build a list by sending traffic from my articles to a opt-in page. I don't send them to a sales page - that just turns most people off. But a squeeze page offering free information is better received. List building is one of the key activities you must be concentrating on online, so direct your traffic to build your list!

2. Submit Only To The Top Directories

Although you can make submitting articles to hundreds of directories quicker with an article submitter, it's still terribly difficult. You have to register at all the directories, and most article directories are different from each other, so that makes article submitting with submitters a slow process still. My advice: submit only to the top 5 directories. Spend more time writing articles.

3. Write In A Conversational Style

Let's face it, as human beings we are emotional beings. We respond better to conversational writing (that's why blogs are so popular!) than boring, technical writing. Unless your subject calls for it, I'd advice writing in a conversational style (like what I'm doing here!) as this will generate windfall results.

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Article marketing is your ticket to online success. Whether you are running your own ebusiness or engaged in affiliate marketing, this amazing product and website promotional tool can help you reach your goals. All you need to do is write and distribute quality articles that are targeted to the needs and demands of your potential clients and watch the traffic and online revenue going your way.

Here are the 3 latest secrets to multiply your article marketing:

1. Consider the publishing sites. As an article marketer, you will most likely to spend more time working with publishers in your attempt to convince them to publish your articles online. To minimize or eliminate the chances of your articles being rejected, I suggest that you read and understand the terms of service of each article submission site. Though most of them have different rules and regulations, there are universal guidelines that they would like you to follow and these are: Your articles must run at least 300 words, they must be free from blatant advertisements, inappropriate content, hyperlinks, and too much keywords. In addition, they must also be well-written and content-rich.

2. Write more. In article marketing, the more articles you write and submit, the more quality inbound links you will obtain for your website. Thus, it follows that if you would like to augment your traffic and improve your search engine ranking, you must be willing to multiply the number of your output.

3. Use striking headlines. Increase your clickthrough rate by using attention-grabbing titles that can easily pique the curiosity of online users. Keep your titles short but intriguing. Direct to the point yet compelling. It would also help to make them keyword-rich so your articles will fare well on relevant searches.

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If there is one widely accepted means to promote and advertise your products and services on the net that is very cost effective and reliable in terms of yielded results, it will surely be article marketing. The dilemma in article marketing results from the variety of ideas and methods being employed by the article marketers. It is best hoped that these fresh ideas can shed light towards achieving good article marketing:

1. Article marketing should be directed towards a well-focused article. The main component of your marketing scheme dwells more on how effective the article material is. Therefore, it is essential that you give emphasis and importance on what sort of article material you are going to market.

2. After knowing what sort of article materials are to be produced, the next important aspect of article marketing that you need to focus on is your mechanism on how you will market these articles on the net. Make sure that you make a good plan and strategy on how you can potentially maximize the distribution of these articles to gain wide popularity. You can go about having these articles posted on other sites - a lot of sites are welcoming articles - or you can have them published on your own site, too.

3. Make a powerful byline positioned either at the top portion of your article or in the middle. The byline will be your chance to market and promote your identity or any product or service that you wish to advertise. This is a better way to promote rather than including your promotion on the content of your material which at a certain degree disrupts the continuity of the presentation of ideas.

4. Track effectively how these articles are performing on the net. You need to know whether or not these articles are pulling in some potential clients directed towards your business. If at a certain point they do not, then you will need to make some necessary adjustments to improve the yielded results.

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Q: How do I re-purpose 5 existing articles to the article directories ASAP?

A: That's a great question because many people have existing content sitting around somewhere that they could quickly and easily post online in the article directories.

So here are the steps to get your existing content up quickly.

Step 1 - Focus on just one article directory to start, and I'll suggest EzineArticles. I'll show you my three tiered submission approach to all the article directories in another article.

Step 2 - Get an account at EzineArticles - Simple and easy to do. You get your account and can start submitting articles right away.

Step 3 - Chunk it down - Most content that has been written before may be too long for the article directories. Writing articles for distribution on the internet is a different animal. If you have an article that is 900 words long, you want to chunk it down into at least 2 articles, maybe three. In this way you have 3 "article agents" out there working for you instead of just one.

Step 4 - Submit your article - So many people put off this step because they are waiting for their article to be perfect. DON'T do that! Get your article(s) out there working for you. You can go in and tweak and fine tune them later. This is especially true when you are re-purposing old content.

Step 5 - Do steps 3 and 4 over and over again. Article marketing is a numbers game, and the higher your article volume the higher all your other numbers will be.

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