Please I need help with article marketting!

Hi Manuelocal, I strongly suspect that this post (click the link) by the ever-helpful Nicola Lane will be very useful for you, one way or another.

As I seem to be starting a lot of my threads here like this, I'll do it here too...

With all due respect....

...Can you add anymore to that? Your best advice is to just spread your article amongst multiple directories and "hey presto", we retire next year?

How do you know the OP isn't doing this and on what basis do you think this is the way forward? For me this makes up a tiny part of what I consider article marketing and I never just mass spread my article across tons of directories.

Sorry but I fail to see how this will help the OP. :confused:

Try to make your articles shorter, that might improve click through rate. Have not done a thorough experiment on this but the few long articles (over 1000 words) I have the click through rate is low.

I do quite a bit of article marketing. I would suggest you first look at your Title of your articles. One of the most important parts of any article is the title. It must contain your keywords of what you are writing about and be interesting to the person looking for information on your subject. I would suggest you do more keyword research. This is another vital part to getting a good number of page views. It must be a keyword or words that get a large number of searches but has low competition. Hope this helps...

If your using ezine articles you can find out the stats on some of the top posters in your categories. Look at their headlines and how they are writing. If you want the most attention always look at the structure of the top articles.

I read the yoyo diet article, and, to be honest, it was tough to get through. Here are some issues that I see with it:

1. In your opening paragraph, you talk about celebrities, but they aren't the only ones who have yoyo diet trouble. We all do. I'm not a celebrity, and if I'm looking for help with my yoyo dieting, I don't feel like you're talking to ME right from the beginning, and that's not a good thing.

2. Your writing is a bit wordy. For example, where you say, "What is yoyo diet? This is simply the fluctuation of weight caused by extreme weight loss programs that usually promote food deprivation," it's far too wordy and tough to follow. You could have made the same point by simply saying something like, "What is a yoyo diet? It's what happens when you go on a diet that's too extreme. When you deprive yourself too much, you wind up overeating later - and you gain all the weight back."

3. Your writing is not particularly conversational. This ties into the wordy issue. Your articles are not meant to show off all those fancy vocabulary words you learned in high school . Instead, your articles should read as if we were having a conversation - a conversation in which only you and I are involved. The goal is to make the reader feel like you're talking directly to THEM (which ties in with the point I made in #1). How would you explain this to me if we were sitting at lunch?

Tighten up your writing, and you'll likely start to see a higher CTR. After all, if people don't make it all the way to the end of your article, they'll never click on your link!

Hope that helps! Good luck!