The #1 Reason Why Article Marketing Fails

When you're first starting to submit articles to drive traffic to your website, it's not unusual to feel a little 'information overload'.

You've probably heard people talking about targeting keywords, doing research on statistics, checking PageRank and search engine ranking lists, and doing all sorts of technical things that you're afraid are over your head and may limit the effectiveness of your efforts when it comes to Article Marketing.

This is completely and utterly not the case. 

I have something interesting to tell you, something encouraging, and something perhaps that's even a bit shocking for some people. 

You may be surprised to find out that the #1 reason why people don't reach their Article Marketing goals is not because of anything having to do with not understanding or implementing advanced SEO strategies or anything complicated. 

The absolute #1 reason why an Article Marketing campaign "doesn't work" is simply because the person did not submit enough articles on a consistent basis.

That's it–a very simple reason, something that can be easily rectified and something that anyone of any skill level can turn around. 

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When Can I Expect Backlinks To Show Up For My Articles?

I recently received this question from someone who had just started article marketing his brand new sites:

"If I know that a link exists to one of my sites via an article which has been published or indeed from another website, how come I don't see it when I do a backlinks check? For instance, at the moment, www.mysite.com definitely has a link from www.myothersite.com and also from articles that have been published. So how come a backward link check registers no links? Just hoping to find out how this works."

That is an excellent question–I think that's a common point of confusion, especially for people who are marketing brand new websites.

Let me help you understand how the the backlink registering works and give you some tips on building more traffic to your site with article marketing.

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How To Write A Better Short Description For Your Article

When you’re entering your article into the submission page, you’ll see a section that asks for a short description of your article.

Here’s how the “short description” field looks on SubmitYOURArticle.com (and this screenshot was taken while entering one of my articles, so you’ll see I’ve already entered my short description):

You may be wondering:

• What is the purpose of the “short description”?
  
• Is it important what you write in there?
• How can you maximize the power of your short description?

Those are great questions, and I’d love to share some ideas and approaches you may wish to try when submitting your next article:

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What’s the difference between an article and a press release?

It’s important to make the distinction between articles used in article marketing and press releases intended for news media, because they each involve very different styles of writing.

Sometimes folks will try to submit press releases in their article submissions thinking that press releases and articles are the same thing, but those two guys are totally different species.

They do have some things in common though, so I can totally understand where the confusion can slip in.

In an effort to set the record straight I'd like to go over how Article Marketing and Online Press Releases are similar, how they're different, and how you can morph a press release into an educational article for Article Marketing.

Let's start with the similarities…

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How to Use Article Marketing to Promote a Book

Article Marketing is a perfect marketing tool for driving traffic to just about any type of website, and that includes websites of authors who have newly released books!

I actually get excited when an author who wants to promote an e-book or hard copy book asks how article marketing can serve them, because the book itself presents you with a ‘content opportunity’ (likely multiple times over)!

There are 3 main things that an author needs to attend to when trying to promote a book:

1) Writing the articles.

2) Crafting a resource box that references the book and links back to the website.

3) Setting up your website to capture email address (and then follow up to sell the book). 

Let's go through these 3 steps:

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