Sunday, August 16, 2009

Article Marketing Services - Content is Still King

By Nigel Evans

To successfully drive visitor traffic to your website you should do your best to establish it as a key resource of information about your niche. To best achieve this, create relevant and fresh content and make sure that you distribute it by using the best article marketing services.

Articles should be well written and provide good and factual material about the subject. People still surf the Internet for answers to their problems and for information about a huge variety of subjects and when they search they enter their query by typing in a series of words. These are known as keywords and, to successfully drive traffic to your site, you must make sure that your web pages are appropriately optimized and that article marketing services focus on these exact keywords.

This article does not seek to tell you all about search engine optimization but suffice to say that your website must include the correct keywords appropriately placed within the content on the page. You should create a separate page on your site for each keyword or key phrase, describing different aspects of your business product or service.

It is possible to really narrow down the focus of someone searching for information by referring to what is called a "long tail" keyword or key phrase. For example instead of searching for the word "dog," a long tail search phrase could be "yellow Labrador retriever." A list of webpages would be returned by the search engine tailor-made to the exact information that the searcher requires. Now, if you are a breeder of yellow labs then you could promote your service through your website by making sure that each site page is optimized for the exact keyword phrase.

Article marketing services can really help you promote your website by distributing written articles including an exact phrase, such as yellow Labrador retriever in its title and within the article body. The key phrase should appear an ideal number of times within the article body. We recommend 1% which means that in a 500 word article it will appear maybe five or six times maximum. Some people make the mistake of writing articles with too high a density and this is known as keyword stuffing, which is generally counterproductive.

In addition to the writing of optimized articles, article marketing services will distribute your articles, together with a specially designed resource box including a bio and a link back to your website, to hundreds of premium article directories on the web. These are highly trafficked sites where people may find articles about their chosen subject. When they find your articles, again by inserting yellow Labrador retriever, for example, they would read it, hopefully find it informative and will click on the accompanying link to go directly back to your site.

Article marketing services will help to establish your site as the expert and authority within its particular niche. In addition, search engines like to see back links to your site and this will help to rank it, so that it appears more prominently in search results.

For years now, internet marketing experts have extolled the virtues of article marketing services. Together with pay-per-click, this practice is the best way to drive focused traffic to your website.

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