By Jim Kukral
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May 6, 2008
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Article Marketing
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I always thought that doing “article marketing” was a waste of time. That was until I actually started doing it and I’m now seeing that if you do it right, it can drive lots of traffic to your web properties. Plus, hey, if you’re writing high-quality, original content… that’s not such a bad thing.
Check out my thoughts on Ezinearticles.com. Easily the #1 player in this space. Watch my video below for the super secret to doing article marketing right. Here’s a sample of one of my recent articles.
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Business Around A Lifestyle
The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.
That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?
Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.
Great video Jim!
Good advice, Jim. I've been marketing with articles for nearly 4 years now. EzineArticles remains the #1 article directory out there followed by Buzzle.com and a few others.
I have several hundred articles out there. They've generated thousands of leads, brought in loads of adsense income through mini-sites etc.
To promote an authoritative site they aren't going to do you much good. They'll drive a little traffic, but they're best for lead generation and promoting small, mini-sites.
We have found ezinearticles.com to be quite effective in the promotion of our advertising specialties business. My wife and I have been posting for a few months now, and neither of us have put up that many (25-30) articles, but we have already seen traffic from the articles and they have been picked up by other article sites.
I'm curious to see what putting out a high number of articles in a compressed time will do for you. I'm also interested to see if you have any techniques for cutting through the clutter of the other sites and getting articles noticed.
Great video, (I've subscribed by the way.)
I really like the laid back professionalism. (A bit like Joel Comm).
I've just proved to myself the power of writing articles for my own blog.
Used to post once in a blue moon. The last couple of days I've gone to town,
only to find it now showing up all over the place on page ones of Google.
So now I'm going to do a series for Ezinearticles.com and see how it compares.
Feeling optimistic.
Pete.
Great and extremely timely video, for me, Jim! I'm so glad you're picking up on my wavelength! ;)
Your hair looks nice – I like it darker. :)
Thanks!
Thanks a bunch. Let us know how it goes. Remember, you have to write at least 25 articles a month to truly see the effect.
Good points Josh.
Thanks so much for the news I needed RIGHT now!
Look forward to your 30 day follow up post. I posted on your “article marketing experiment” over at Groovy Entrepreneur, plus i registered yesterday with EzineArticles. I see it is really a serious community of publishers, the management behind the site, is doing a solid job of putting out quality articles from citizen writers.
I 've been hearing alot on article marketing, and have been meaning to try it. Thanks for the push!
Jim, you're so right. EA is the place to go if you want to get tons of free traffic to your site. In fact, I just published a new (free) report on the subject of writing profitable artcles. You can download it from: http://www.articlequickstartguide.com
Thanks for the post! Some article e-marketers warn that posting identical material across various sites can actually harm seo…It really pays to post original content, erather than cut an paste.
thank you. nice post
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Hey I think that article marketing with ezinearticles is a great thing to do especially is you have a good expertise on a certain subject… getting those articles out there will bring you traffic and conversions on your website!