Article Marketing – Goldmine or Fools Gold?

By M.S. Williams | April 7, 2008

You’ve got a website, now what?

After you have chosen a domain name and setup a website, one of the first things you will be wondering is how to get visitors to come to your site. This dilemna occurs whether you are setting your site up as a hobby, writing a blog about your main business, creating a niche site in order to make some income using Adsense, or planning to sell your own product.

Cheap and Easy – Article Marketing Works

One of the easiest ways to get traffic to a new website is through writing and publishing articles to other websites, including article directories and other niche sites. These articles that you write act like a site magnet to the search engines. The link that you include in the article gets your site listed quickly in the search engines – and your site’s future is off to the races.

What are the Advantages of Article Marketing

Article marketing flat out works to get many incoming links to your website. You can get as many as a thousand links or more simply by writing unique content and posting it on article directories and niche sites that are always looking for new content. And, a side benefit of writing and posting articles is that you might get to be known as an authority in your niche.

Article marketing can be considered a hidden source of traffic – you don’t have to advertise for traffic. Submitting articles can get your site listed in search engines quickly. The content you create causes search engines to index your page, including the link that you include in your “about” or “resource” box at the bottom of the article. The search engines follow that link and find your site – exactly what you are looking for.

Some Disadvantages of Article Marketing

Despite all the positive aspects of article marketing, of course there are some negative parts to the process as well. The biggest obstacle to succefull article marketing is that somehow the articles need to get written.

If you really don’t want to do the writing yourself, there are a number of sources where you can hire others to do the writing for you.

The other major obstacle is the time it takes to submit your articles to the article directories and niche sites. The problem here is there are thousands of sites that accept articles – to submit to a large share of these sites takes a lot of time.

This effort can be outsourced too. There are firms that do the article submission for you. And there are software programs that remove much of the tedium from this process as well.

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