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Are you looking for ways on how you can take your article marketing to the next level? Let me uncover the 6 hidden steps to help you do just that:

1. Submit only to reputable article submission sites. Don't waste your time submitting your articles to publishing sites that have little or no traffic at all. These websites cannot help you in any way reach your article marketing goals. Stick with the ones that are highly visited so you can increase the chances of your articles being read and republished.

2. Increase the number of your articles. In article marketing, more articles mean more inbound links. More inbound links can lead to increased targeted traffic. As you know, when you have enormous traffic on your website, you can tremendously increase your sales potential and your online revenue.

3. Make your content targeted. To drive quality traffic to your site, you must produce content that will attract the right kind of online visitors. For instance, if you are selling cosmetics, you must write about beauty tips and other related topics. These can attract people who are deeply interested in your products who might consider buying from you.

4. Keep you articles focused on one theme. Avoid presenting irrelevant data or content that can greatly confuse your readers. Prepare an outline first before you write your articles. By doing so, you can decide on what information you need to include or exclude on you content.

5. Keep SEO in mind. Don't forget to design your articles in such a way that they will be search engine-friendly. This is the best and only way to give your articles good page ranking.

6. Read and follow the rules set by publishing sites. This is to save you from the hassle of revising your articles should they be rejected by article submission sites.

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Internet marketing is really only as complicated as you make it. The real definition of internet marketing is selling online, getting your product or website out there to be seen. There are so many different ways that you can accomplish this. However, some of the ways are better than others, and some of them, well, you should just not use. You can end up blacklisted, have your IP banned, and other things you want to avoid. Let us take a look at a few different internet-marketing techniques and discuss the right and the wrong way to accomplish these tasks.

Message Board Posting Posting on a message board is a great way to get your website and products seen. You simply place a link to your site in your signature and post on relevant topics that you know about and that concern your business. However, there is definitely a right way and wrong way to do this. Below is a list of the things you should avoid when using message boards as a part of your internet marketing:

Telling people to look at your website or click on your link

Spamming message boards with ads for your website

Spamming other members with private messages about your website or business

As you can see, these things will get you in trouble really fast on a message board. First of all, there is no need to tell people to click on or look at your website if it is in your signature. People are nosey by nature, and when you make a post, and you know what you are talking about, they will automatically click on your link and check out your business.

Many message boards have sections for their members to place ads. If you want to place an ad on a message board, be sure that it is in an ad-approved section. Otherwise, you will find your posts deleted, and you might end up banned from the site.

Sending unsolicited messages to other members in private can even get you in loads of trouble. Never send messages to other members of a message board unless they have asked you for more info.

Sending Out Mass Emails When sending out mass emails, there is a right way and a wrong way to do this as well when you are internet marketing. Make sure that all of the emails that you are sending are to people that have requested them. They have opted in so to speak and that means that they are an actual lead. Scraping the internet for email addresses of just anyone and sending out your emails to those that did not request is a good way to get in trouble online. Spam is something that many do not tolerate, so be sure that you avoid it.

To be sure that you are sending out emails to those that want it, always have a link in your email so that the recipient can unsubscribe from them. In other words, if the person you are sending emails to does not want to receive them any longer, they will be able to be taken off your email list.

Be Careful Where You Get Your Leads From There are so many people online selling leads for any type of business and company. If you are interested in buying leads, make sure that you buy from someone that is well known for giving great leads. While every lead list that you come across will have a few duds on it. There are some reputable people online that do sell good leads. Find them; ask your internet-marketing friends for recommendations of where to buy leads. Word of mouth is your best resource.

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Building links to a website can be one of the most tiring parts of trying to profit from niche websites. Constantly building links to just one website is difficult enough at times, so multiplying this across dozens of niche websites is often a huge stumbling block for many people.

Could this be the reason a lot of people seem to fail at niche marketing (or so many of the internet marketing forum posts suggest)? Quite possibly.

There often seems to be a trend with failing niche marketers when it comes to link building. They have a niche to target, write the articles for the website, submit a few articles to directories and build a few links through blog comment posting or requesting from related sites. Keeping this up for months down the line though takes a lot of perseverance.

What about when you get to the point of owning 10 niche websites, 50, or 100?

As you can imagine, building links for this many sites without hiring full-time staff to help is no easy task. A good step to take when researching niches you think you might enter is to take a look at your competition. The more competitive a niche in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), the more effort it is going to take with your link building campaign. Good niche selection though can see you rank for small niches without having to build thousands of links over months to years.

There is literally an endless number of tiny niches that each provide profit potential. For this reason, niche selection is our biggest ally to the extent of the link building campaign we are going to have to undertake. For example, I often prefer to target a niche around a keyword that gets 100 visits per day and only needs a couple of hundred links, than a keyword getting 1000 visits but needs thousands of links to rank well in the search engines. Not only is it obviously easier to get just a couple of hundred links than a few thousand, but the competition will be far less and easier to outrank more quickly.

I cover an easy way to build links effortlessly in the Niche Marketing Primer report, where I outline a very simple strategy for profiting from niche websites. Get your free copy from http://www.onlinewithjustin.com/niche-marketing-primer.html.

Article marketing mastery sounds more like an unattainable ideal than an actual destination doesn't it?

I don't expect to ever leave my trusty Dell one day, after writing an article and say "Damn. Nailed it. Time to 'master' something else."

It won't happen. And that's the beauty of all of this.

Progress not perfection.

While I was a copywriter at J Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam in New York, we creatives would get literally drained by the amount of times we would have to present our ideas. Internally and to the all mighty clients who pay all the bills. Present to this person, present to that person. Get on a plane to Atlanta, present. Go to focus groups, present.

One of the tricks that we came up with during all of that tedium was a game where we would try and insert a phrase into meetings with the head clients. Simple phrase...were totally unique but also HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO SELL THEM.

The 'game' part of it was to see who could most creatively insert the phrase!

For instance, before we got into the conference room with the client, the creatives would agree on the phrase, and the more ridiculous the better. So if I was selling ideas to The Bronx Zoo (which I continually did), the phrase might have been something outrageous like having to say "albino criminals" or "why LAWN FURNITURE IS SEXY.' And who ever could do it WITHOUT calling attention to how RIDICULOUS it sounded...won!

Bear with me here, I'm turning the corner.

Well what I didn't know at the time, but do very well know now is that what we were actually accomplishing with this little creative 'phrase game' was that we were inserting unique KEYWORDS into the meeting. We were, in fact, 'cloaking our keywords.'

That's right...KEYWORDS.

Now, here's why you should be playing this not so little game...

By finding VERY SMART ways to insert unique phrases into your articles THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TOPIC OF YOUR ARTICLES, you will be able to track them as they fly around the net.

You'll be able to do natural searches for your own CRAZY keywords and see which webmasters have picked up your content. Because of the uniqueness of your keywords, they will completely be your own. No one else should have ever used these words in combination...that's your tracking key.

Again, it is very important that you DON'T use a crazy keyword (which can be more than one word, don't forget) that will pull your readers off course. It can't be disruptive. So finding clever ways of putting them in there is important to the natural flow.

Try it with one article.

Watch as your work ends up in countries you've never even heard of before.

It's as wild as...let me think...as wild as albino criminals I suppose.

Enjoy!

Kevin Browne is a former Creative Director and Senior Copywriter at agencies including J Walter Thompson, McCann Erickson and Young and Rubicam. Kevin now runs TABinteractive where he shows web owners how to FINALLY make ridiculous, and consistent online sales at http://www.tabinteractive.net

While the basics of Search Engine Optimization or SEO are pretty much textbook, it isn't the textbooks that you're competing with, it's the competition ... who within the most competative markets make it almost impossible to get to that search engine position of being number one. Discovering the Truth about Search Engine Optimization will require an analysis of every factor of optimization.

Professional SEO

Profession Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is more than simply understanding the goal of a website. The real SEO Professional, or real 'Search Engine Optimizer', will do extensive query-based keyword research because they know professional optimization needs a strong keyword foundation.

SEO professionals ask the all important question ... Who is the "target audience" or the "target market" ... and then, they work to create a website that brings their content to that audience through the search engines.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves:

-Optimizing every page's page titles, meta tags, attributes, anchor text and more.

- Theming of the primary domain, sub-domains and supporting web properties (such as blogs, forums and companion websites).

- Content is king ... and paramount to good optimization.

- Search engine friendly GUI navigation (internal linking strategy). - A must have 'inbound link' building strategy (external links coming in).

The professional SEO (search engine optimization) knows that if you want to be found in the top of the search results for a competitive keyword term, you have to cover all your search engine optimization basics and more. That means both, exceptional website on-page and external off-page SEO, as well as a fully comprehensive link strategy.

Professional SEO Company

Any Professional SEO worth hiring understands that effective SEO (search engine optimization) constant continuing education because the search engine algorithms and the rules search engines use to position a web page within the search engine results page (serp) are always changing. The search engine most challenging to the SEO professional is Google. Here's Google's tips on things to look for in an SEO company:

- Be wary of SEO firms that send you email out of the blue.

- No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.

- Be careful if a company is secretive or won't clearly explain what they intend to do. - You should never have to link to an SEO.

- Some SEOs may try to sell you the ability to type keywords directly into the browser address bar.

- Choose wisely.

- Be sure to understand where the money goes.

- Talk to many SEOs, and ask other SEOs if they would recommend the firm you're considering.

- Make sure you're protected legally.

- Professional SEO Strategy and Conversion

The truly Professional SEO and Search Engine Optimization Company understands that there are other considerations to be kept in mind.

For example, a website must not only be optimized for search engine spider algorithms, but it also has to remain optimized for the visitor as well. Ranking number one in all the major search engines is what gets the visitors to your website, but then the website must convert those visitors into actual sales.

Professional SEO is like Royalty

If content is king, then website design is queen. The combination of the two, if done correctly, will produce results for both your search engine rankings and your revenue. While keyword location, weight (absolute and relative), density, proximity, frequency, keyword targeting ... is a important part of the puzzle, how the code for the website is created and the linking strategies are equally considered royalty in the world of the professional optimizer. The knowledge of how best to accomplish that is always changing and that's why a real SEO professional who is on top of the trends, can be worth gold to the success of your business.

About the Author: Bobbie Grennier is an SEO copywriter and SEO web site writer at http://www.SEO-Writing.com. She publishes several blogs, but you're most likely to be interested in her Webmaster Blog at webmaster.typepad.com. Visit her web sites http://www.wild-wolf.com or http://www.wildwolf.ws for more SEO information or FREE reprint articles.

There's a specific way that you must start every article, if you want to get the maximum amount of readership as possible. It's important you start out this way so that you can best use your time, so you can get the most results out of your internet marketing business.

Also, if you do it right, you'll be able to make more money writing less articles - and the bonus is that those articles will better help your target audience, making them more appreciate of you and your services.

See what I did just there? I told you why you needed to learn what you're about the learn. This is important because roughly 31% of the population are predominately "why" learners. In other words, they can't learn about anything until they know the reason why they should learn it.

Not all people are this way. Some people only want to know the "what if". They're saying - I don't care so much for how it works or why it works, I just want to know that it works and can work for me. But not everyone is like that.

So, in order to not alienate 31% of your audience in your article, you have to tell them why. Here's a checklist I use to start each article out with. It works wonderfully because if you think about it, a 'why' is really asking - what's my motivation for learning this. Humans have six basic motivators, after their survival needs have been met.

These six motivators are:

1.To gain power or control
2.To not lose power and control
3.To enhance their relationships and to help other
4.To prevent the deterioration of their relationships and to not harm others
5.To accomplish something
6.To not fail at something

You should make an effort to touch at least briefly on all six of these motivators as they relate to the topic of your audience. This will make sure that you get as many readers as possible.

Plus, it streamlines the article writing process, so not only are you writing better articles, you're writing them faster than ever.

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