Article Marketing Tips For Beginners

I am purposely keeping the resources on this page to a minimum, because I know that when you’re first starting out, having too much information can be as debilitating as not having enough!

My goal here is to offer you enough info to get started, but not so much that you feel overwhelmed.

Still, there’s a lot of info here–Don’t feel like you need to read this all at one sitting.

Skip around to the bits you are most interested in, and you can come back to this page at any time as you need more information.

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How To Write A Resource Box

The resource box is the short author bio that will sit below your article each time that it’s published. The resource box is super important because:

1) It contains a link to your website. This means that every time your article is republished, you build another backlink.

2) It establishes expertise–in your author bio, you will give the reader some indication of why you should be regarded as an authority on the topic.

3) It gives you a chance to encourage people to click through to your website. People will see a link in your resource box, but they will not necessarily click the link unless you give them a reason to. The text you use in your resource box has the power to convert readers into clickers! When people click the link in your resource box, you’re building targeted traffic to your website (which is what you’re after!).

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New! Upgrades To ArticleLeverage

Since we launched ArticleLeverage™ over a year ago, the response from members has been tremendously positive–thank you for all of your feedback and comments!

We are always trying to improve how the submission process works and add more features, and we have recently done an overhaul to the how the ArticleLeverage™ system fits in with the article submission process to make it easier to use, and also to allow you to see variations of previously published articles.

Let’s go over the major changes…

1) You can now access ArticleLeverage™ from the Preview page for your article.

So, after you enter or edit your article, you can go to the article Preview page and at the bottom of the page you will see a button that will allow you to make your ArticleLeverage™ variations:

Access ArticleLeverage™ on the article Preview page

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How To Create An Article Marketing Campaign: Step 5–Keywords

Sometimes people will ask me, “If you were in charge of getting my website a higher search engine ranking, exactly what would you do to achieve that goal?”

I am happy to share this info with you because I have my own websites that I want to rank highly in Google and the other search engines, and I want as much targeted traffic as possible and to also draw more business into my website.

Isn’t that what you’re after too?

I have spent a good bit of time and effort figuring out what works and doesn’t, and I have developed a strategy for my own sites that has produced really excellent results. I used this strategy for my most recent article marketing campaign that I started about a year ago, and I couldn’t be happier with the results.

Over the past few weeks I have been sharing this strategy with you, going step-by-step through each and every thing that I did to create an article submission campaign that works and is pretty easy to execute.

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How To Create An Article Marketing Campaign: Step 4–Writing!

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I’ve been telling you exactly how I would set up an article marketing campaign if I was in charge of marketing your website (and this is the same technique that I’ve used with great success in marketing my own sites).

Let’s do a recap–

Step #1 Establish Your Baseline

Step #2: Check Out Your Competitors

Step #3: Organizing and Brainstorming

Now we’re getting into the meat of things! In Step 4, we’re starting to write and submit articles!

We’ve got a few guidelines to keep in mind:

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How To Create An Article Marketing Campaign: Step 3–Organizing & Brainstorming

The first two steps were setting you up to be able to measure and track your progress.

In Step 1, you established a baseline for your website and set up a spreadsheet where you’ll do monthly tracking of certain stats.

In Step 2 you figured out who your top competitors were and you entered your baseline information for them.

In Step 3, we get down to business–here is where you organize your article marketing campaign.

I’ve noticed that the #1 reason why some people give up or don’t see success or simply say “I don’t have time to do this” is that they haven’t planned their marketing activities out very well.

When you own a business, whether it is an internet business or a traditional business that has a website, you need to take your marketing activities seriously. No matter what type of business you have, if you are able to position your site at the top Google, you will receive more targeted traffic to your website, and traffic translates into more business for you!

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How To Create An Article Marketing Campaign: Step 2–Your Competition

You may have gotten into the habit of thinking of your article marketing as just one article here and another article there, but it really helps to approach your article submissions with a big picture view.

Submit just a few articles, and you probably won’t see drastic results, but submit a handful of articles every month for 12 months and you will see what marketing momentum can do for your site!

Consistency is key with submitting articles as with any online marketing tool, and creating and implementing an article marketing strategy can inspire that consistency.

I use an article marketing strategy myself that is comprised of a series of simple steps.

Last time I told you about Step 1: Establish your baseline.

Today we’re moving on to Step 2, which is: Establish the baseline of your competitors.

Why in the world would you want to look closely at how your main competitors are doing?

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How To Create An Article Marketing Campaign: Step 1–Your Baseline

I was telling you recently how it really helps to think of yourself as implementing an article marketing campaign rather than just writing article by article and seeing how it goes.

You need to take a long term perspective with article marketing (as with any online marketing tool) , and I know that’s the area where we struggle–most people want to see results yesterday!

I know it’s hard to plug along not knowing where you’re going or where you’ll end up, and that is why creating an article marketing campaign can make all the difference in your results.

I have been article marketing for years and years, but just last year I started a new campaign that has created tremendous results for my sites. I did something a little different and it really paid off.

I thought it might be helpful to you if I shared exactly what I did so that you can get an idea in your head as to what is possible if you implement an article marketing campaign and stick with it over the long term.

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How Many Articles Should I Submit–Is More Better?

I recently received this question from a member:

I know you recommend submitting articles at a trickled out rate, such as 8 articles a month spaced out during the month, but I've recently heard someone else advise that if you submit 50 articles at once, you'll get more traffic than if you submitted 1 article/day for 50 days.

Neither of the items they're comparing is even close to eight articles a month or two a week, but given that we're trying very hard to generate traffic right now, it's got my attention. Perhaps it's worth a blog posting if it hasn't already been covered somehow. Could you respond or point me to your best answer?

7 Common Fears Of New Article Writers

If you’re a newcomer to article marketing, I know how intimidating it can feel to be faced with the prospect of writing not just one quality article, but a steady stream of them.

For many people, the last time they wrote a piece of content that needed to be top notch was in high school or college, so it’s no wonder that the thought of starting an article marketing campaign can bring up feelings of nervousness.

I’d like to assure you that it’s okay to be a beginner!

Even the most experienced, proficient, and successful article marketers were at one time novices. And it’s actually a perk that article marketing requires steadily writing articles, because it’s only through experience that any of us see improvement.

I wish that I could just sit down at a table across from you and address each and every one of your fears, and as much as possible that’s what I’d like to do here. I’ve made list of 7 of the top concerns people have, and I’d like to go through them one by one.

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