If you really want to be successful with your article marketing then you need a plan, so here are a couple of pure article marketing strategies that will bring you traffic.

No Cost Article Marketing Strategies;

1 - Get your blog content

• This should be between 500-800 words - (length depends on topic and information contained).
• For every 100 words you should use your keyword phrase once or twice.
• Use short paragraphs and bullet points for easy reading.

2 - Spin your article

• Take this article and cut it down to between 400-600 words,
• To avoid duplicate content penalties you are going to spin or rewrite every sentence in this article at least three times. For added effect vary the length of the sentence and paragraph..

3 - Compare
If you want to be extra certain, submit your two articles to an article compare tool. There should be at least 30% difference - Some say 50% difference, I try to get at least 75%

While there are programs available to spin your articles automatically the quality of the spun articles is so bad that most article directories and blog owners will not accept them.
Alternatively there are programs available that will assist you with spinning your article and these are well worthwhile. Alternatively, if you don’t want to spin your article, you can re-write it completely for each submission.

4 - Offer Your Article To Directories
Send your first article through to EzineArticles. Once it has been approved there then work on sending either the spun versions or rewrites to at least 10 other article directories.

5 - Build 2.0 Sites
There are places like Squidoo.com, Hubpages.com and Zimbio.com where you can set up your own page. At the moment Google love these types of sites, so build a page in each site based around one of your articles.

6 - Upload Your Docs and PDF’s
The search engines also like sites whose content is in Word and PDF document form, so upload Word and PDF versions of your articles to these. Examples are docstoc.com and scribd.com.

Repeat this process for your next group of keywords.

This is the basic plan. Other article marketing strategies are just a slight variation of it.

Article Marketing Strategies - From $47 a month

Follow step 1

2 - Rewrite your article and submit it to EzineArticles.com.

After it is live at EzineArticles.com

3 - Join sites like those listed below who have their own network of blogs and article directories and submit your articles through them.

• ArticleMarketingAutomation.com,
• SEOLinkvine.com,
• UniqueArticleWizard.com,
• ArticleProductions.com

Most of these sites also have spinning tools available as part of the monthly fee

Make sure that you also submit rewritten versions of your articles to at least the top 10 article directories and top 5 web 2.0 properties - Squidoo, Zimbio etc.

Article Marketing Strategies for The Bigger Budget

1. For those that do not want to write articles or would rather concentrate on writing and not spinning them then eLance and Odesk have writers for hire. Be warned, a good article will cost you between $10-15.
2. Then you can take these articles and submit them to one, two or even all the article submission services.

You can also look at tools that will automate much of the site building process for you - like AffiloJetpack so that you can spend your time on creating and distributing articles.

No matter what your budget, the basic article marketing strategies remain the same;

1. Write like mad
2. Rewrite
3. Submit
4. Repeat

Invest In Your Business

To get the absolute best from your article marketing you should either invest in some comprehensive training like that found in Mark Lings AffiloBlueprint or in tools that will help shortcut the process or even do most of the hard work for you - like AffiloJetpack or in outsourcing. Whichever course or product you choose, so long as it saves you time and money you will not regret investing funds back into your business.

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