When we spend our money on article marketing, we focus on two things: 1) Cleverly convincing the readers of our masterful prose to visit our business’s website; 2) doing a bit of search engine optimization for the page on our website to which we link. We naturally want to get the most for our money that we spend on article writing and distribution. Especially when we use a web writing service, we want to make sure that we do more than merely recover our investment. That makes sense, in so far as we take it.
Sometimes our enthusiasm for generating external links to our website’s pages and our hopes that our readers will take the bait and click through to our site gets in the way of a rather important detail. If our article marketing efforts are really going to give us the results that we anticipate (or at least dream of), those published articles must actually be discovered by our prospective readers and the fickle search engines must consider them important by the heartless math of their algorithms.
Face facts, our new article isn’t the only one being posted on EzineArticles or GoArticles on any given day. Indeed, it probably isn’t even the only article being posted that day that deals with our topic, although nobody has written as cleverly as we have of course. So how do we insure that our article rises to the attention of the readership above all of that clearly inferior competition?
Yeah, I know the standard writing and submission tips:
* Make sure your title is descriptive and memorable.
* Use a good set of accurate and popular keywords to associate with it when we submit.
* If the article directory offers and opportunity to provide your own synopsis (as does EzineArticles), spend the time to write in well and make it inviting.
While all of the suggestions are valid, they do not go quite far enough. We have to take another step, add another recommendation to our standard list in order for the major search engines to provide our article with the respect that we know it deserves. After all, most of our potential readers will find our article by means of a search engine. Only then can they be emotionally moved by our prose. Only then will they follow the link to our site. Only then will they repeated buy our product and service. Only then will we become as wealthy as King Midas as we sit around in our pajamas, working from home only fifteen minutes a day. Oops, I think I may have read a bit too much hype from the make money from home scams. I offer you my sincere regrets for getting carried away.
What makes the search engines respect content? Links. Multiple links. Links with similar and accurate anchor text. How do we get those wonderful external links? Well, we either sit back and wait for them to magically appear, or…
We need to dedicate a portion of our article marketing plan to building links for our articles, themselves. Granted that will reduce the number of links we have the time to provide for our business’s site, but the advantage is that the links that we do have pointing to our site will become more potent.
Most of us should probably assign about 20% to 35% of our article marketing content to providing external links directly to our previously published articles. Here’s and example of what I mean: Every once in a while, submit content to A1Articles that has links to your two or three of your articles on EzineArticles and GoArticles. Use an EzineArticles article to link directly to a master work that have have posted to ArticleMap.
If this sounds as if it might complicate your record keeping and your approach to writing, you’re right! Consequently, many Internet marketers outsource all of this to a well trained company that really understands writing, submissions, keywords and search engine optimization. Then we can just sit around in our pajamas and count our money.
