7 Reasons to Use Article Marketing

Writing articles and submitting them to article directories for publication can increase traffic, build your personal or company brand, and help with search engine rankings by building links to your website.

Free Marketing
Article marketing is a great way to promote your web site, online or offline business. Carefully crafted articles placed in article directories and published by newsletters and other site owners can bring in free traffic for years. An article that finds its way to a good ranking for a popular search term can explode traffic and sales at your site.

Search Engine Rankings
Article marketing builds traffic and backlinks to your web site, and both will help you enjoy better search engine rankings. It has been proven that consistent traffic from a variety of sources and a strong linking program will aid in your efforts to rank for your site and its respective pages chosen search terms. Depending on the term or phrase you are trying to rank for you can see ranking increases in a very short time.

Perceived Expert Status
Quality written articles will establish you as an expert on the topic or in your field. Your well written articles placed in quality article directories and subsequently published in quality newsletters and on quality sites will give readers a sense that you are knowledgeable on the topics you are writing about and will build credibility and trust, the comfort level you need them on to entice them to join your mailing list, return to your site, and make sales to them. If you are using personal branding or corporate branding, article writing is another way to distinguish your self from the crowd.

Inexpensive to Hire Authors to Write Articles for Your Use
Forums such as the WarriorForum or DigitalPoint have article writers waiting to be hired. These hired guns will write articles around a topic or title, and deliver your article in 2-3 days. A typical article will be 4-600 words, can be purchased from $4-12 per article, with many authors offering discounts for bulk purchases. Its advides to try out an author or two with one article to test for quality.

Fast and Easy to Get Started
You can write articles in minutes, with some research and a test editor or word processor. You can have your articles approved and displayed on article directories for download and use by other publishers minutes after submission. Many of the higher quality article directories have slightly longer waiting periods for approval and stiffer article quality requirements, but the wait is worth it.

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