Article Marketing Plan: Part One
Posted on May 11, 2009 under Article Marketing, Search Engine Rankings, Website Traffic | No CommentArticle Marketing Plan: Part One
If you are wanting to to gain some free search engine traffic, one of the thing you should be doing is writing at least one article on your specific niche or topic every week. If you can write more than one that would be better but for now one would do to start bringing you a significant amount of traffic.
For example, one article per week about will build links with that will last a lifetime. Also quality and credibility are strong factors when writing articles. If you don’t have a goal to be recognized as a expert in your selected “niche” then don’t bother with article marketing.
Also article marketing will last a life time and continue to drive traffic for years to come. You will gaing quality targeted traffic as well with article marketing techniques. Below are some quick steps to help you in your article marketing efforts.
#1 Select and identify a niche that you want to write about. Be very specific in your choosing.
#2 Go to google and type in the search box, adwords keyword tool. Once you get to this page, type in a keyword which identifies with your niche, Type in the captcha
and you will see a list a of keywords generated. Now find the ones that have 2-4 words within the phrase that have a decent amount of search volume.
For this you want to use the exact match feature in the drop down menu in the upper right. Now open up another tab in your browser and go to google once again. Type in one of those keyword phrases that you have found and now type that in the search box with quotation marks at the beginning and the end. This will give you an exact search match querey and allow you to look in the upper right corner to see how many pages on the internet are ranking for that exact keyword.
If the search shows that hundreds of thousands of pages are already using that exact keyword on their pages, it may be a little hard for you to get top ranking right away, however if you find that 100,000 or less are ranking for that exact keyword then you may have a better shot at ranking high for that keyword as well.
You can do this for each keyword phrase that you think has a good search volume that you would like to write about. I know this seems like it may take alot of time but don’t you want to yield some great results for your article marketing, instead of just slapping an article together that will not send you the traffic you want because the article can’t be found by any one.
By doing these first two steps you are assuring that your article marketing efforts will not go to waste and that you have actually created a successful plan of attack in terms of generating traffic to your website. This process can be tedious but it is a must if you want to succeed.













