Article Marketing Plan: Part Two
Posted on May 12, 2009 under Article Directories, Article Marketing, Article Writing | No CommentArticle Marketing Plan: Part Two
In part one of this article I talked about the first two steps you must take in order to accomplish any kind of success with your article marketing efforts. You know that you must find a niche or topic you want to write about and then you learned how to compile a list of keywords using google’s keyword tool.
Without doing these first two steps you would not know what people were interested in and how they were searching for it online in the first place. So be certain if you haven’t read part one of this article to do so before you continue on with the remaining steps in this article. Now to continue lets talk about steps 3 and 4.
#3 Now it’s time to write your article. This is the part where alot of people get scared and just drop out all together, because they feel they are not a writer and that people would not be interested to read what they have to say. This is where you have to make a decision within your plan about how the articles are going to be written.
Here are some ideas to help you better understand.
- If you feel confident enough and you feel you have the time then by all means write the article yourself.
- If you don’t feel confident or you don’t have the time then maybe asking someone in your family or even hiring someone to write your articles could work.
- You could even hire a freelance writer or someone form elance.com, rentacoder.com, guru.com or a number of other sites like these to write some good quality articles for a decent fee. (remember these articles will do their work for years to come so paying 8 – 12 dollars for a good article could bring you in hundreds or even thousands of dollars in the future.)
- Another option is to use a piece of article writing software to help you craft your very own articles. One of the best I’ve found is “Instant Article Wizard” It will allow you to write a well crafted keyword rich article in as little as 15 minutes. And it will be an article that you can claim the rights to as well.
So as you can see there are many ways to actually get your articles written and this is a very important part that you must think about within the whole spectrum of your article marketing plan.
Once you have gotten your article written you have to let people know about it. You have to make them aware that there’s a new article that could help them out or give them some good information that they have been looking for.
#4 Now it’s time to put your article out on the web so people can see it,read it, and find your website that you want them to visit. To do this you will need to submit your article to an article directories or in this case many article directories.
Once again go to google an type in article directory and you will see a list of them come up in the search results. Now there are tons of these article directories out there but you want to focus on mainly the important ones that have good page rank and are highly respected by google.
You can usually find out this information when you actually go to one of these directories and look at the google toolbar in your browser. If you don’t have this option you can check Alexa.com as well. One of the most popular article directories is EzineArticles.com and there a several more, but you only want to focus on the these major ones to start with.
Once you have your list of article directories to submit to then you are ready to submit your articles and start driving traffic to your website. If you follow these basic steps and create an article marketing plan before you begin you’ll see better results from your efforts.













