Article Marketing on Steroids! A FREE Step-by-Step Guide on Writing Articles the Right Way

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Of late, I have read a number of posts where folks seem to have problems with attracting traffic to their articles.

If you are a complete newbie and want to earn some quick cash, this is perfect for you.

a. SELECT THE RIGHT NICHE: As far as article marketing is concerned, selecting the right niche is half the job done. On top of my head, I can tell you the best niches to target are

Dating/Relationships
Weight loss
Acne

Just to illustrate my point, click on the link below,

How to Impress a Hot Woman Without Spending Money - My 3 Favorite Male Qualities (These Are Sexy!)

Now this article has been viewed more than 8000 times in about 60 days with an average hits of over 130 views per day. Of course, it is one of the higher viewed articles,

BUT

Compare that to

One of the Best Kept Mortgage Secrets! USDA Federal Home Loan Program 100% Financing

This is also one of the higher viewed articles in Mortgage, but the average number of views is less than 30 views per day!

b. Once you zero in on your niche, it is time to look at the articles that are getting the maximum number of views and the article authors who are getting maximum traffic.

To give you an example, Pushpa Pal Singh - EzineArticles.com Expert Author has earned the expert author status for the dating/relationship niche. And more importantly her articles get a high number of views. So there is something that she is doing right that we should take a look at, learn and emulate.

1. How to Titles: If you browse through the list, it is very evident that a number of articles start with a "How to....."

2. Using Numbers in Titles: Look at how she uses numbers in the titles

3. Lengthy Titles- Did you notice how most of her titles are long running down to 2 lines?

4. Article Length: Most of her articles are around 300-400 words. This is very important because I have often seen people write articles more than 500 words. You have to understand that most often people don't read the articles entirely. Most often people just scan articles, looking for the main points and sub headings.

If there are a couple of things that I have to add which this author isn't doing

1. Have sub headings or bullet points in your articles.

2. Avoid long paragraphs- Break your articles into a number of short paragraphs

3. Have a great resource page. Click on the link below to know how to write a great Resource Box.

Article Marketing 101: The Perfect Author Resource Box

c. LANDING PAGE: If you are interested in backlinks, then linking to your website or blog is fine.

But if you are interested in making sales, make sure that you have a SINGLE LANDING PAGE where the ONLY THING the user can do is to click and buy a product or leave the site.

Review Sites work even better as great sales page, but I prefer having a single page static HTML page than a blog.

Personally speaking I have had great success with Review Site Templates

Review Site Templates - Quickly Create Affiliate Review Websites

WHERE TO GET CONTENT

1. One good thing about writing content for niches like dating/weightloss/acne is that you will find a lot of information and you can easily churn out 10 articles everyday.

The best places to find content are

1. Ezine articles
2. Digg
3. Stumble Upon
4. MSN
5. Yahoo

HOW TO WRITE CONTENT

I have personally found better success in writing articles with catchy headlines gain a higher number of views than keyword optimized articles. If you can combine keyword research with a great headline, you have hit JACKPOT!

HOW TO ATTRACT MORE TRAFFIC

1. Submit your author RSS feed to RSS Directories
2. Post your article links to Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger etc.
3. Post a link to Twitter

SET A GOAL AND KEEP WRITING

Aim at writing at least 10 articles everyday. It may be a touch difficult at first but as you keep writing you will complete it easily. I can complete 10 articles within 2 hours and I aim at writing 250-300 word articles.

Wishing you the very best in all your endeavors.
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