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By | November 22, 2008
Marketing your business through internet articles is no longer a luxury; it is a complete necessity to succeed in online business. Article Marketing is a great tool to use when it comes to adding traffic to your site. If you are not familiar with what it is, Article Marketing is simply writing articles and submitting them to article reprint directories on the web. Keeping content on your website and blog fresh is key to driving traffic to your site and to getting search engine traffic. Many website owners and bloggers visit article reprint directories on a daily basis, in search of articles to use on their sites. When you submit an article to a directory, you are allowing other website owners and bloggers permission toadd your article to their site for free. However, a stipulation is that they include an “about the author” box at the end of the article. You get to write what you want included in that box, so include a bit of information about the product or service you offer as well as links to your site. The purpose of this is so readers of your article will see your biography information and the links to your website.
Your article could end up on hundreds or thousands of websites, and quite possibly, millions of people could end up reading it! Who knows how many people could click on your link? To find these reprint directories on the web and see how they work, do a Google search on “free reprint article directories” and many listings will pop up. Some are highly targeted and feature articles on certain topics. For instance some only print health articles or food articles while other directories are more general. You can submit your article to more than one directory, and there are even some software packages that will submit the articles for you. Write about the focus of your website. Be creative and think of why someone would want to visit your website then create a short article about that topic. If you are a massage therapist for instance, you could easily write about benefits of a regular massage or take it a step further and write an article about the fact that massage therapy can help with arthritis and other health issues that people don’t normally think about with a massage. If you do not like to write, you can consider a ghostwriter to write your article for you. The prices for an article will vary, but an average rate is about $10 to $12 for a 500 word article. Once you discuss with the ghostwriter what you are looking for, they will write the article and send it back to you. Some ghostwriters may also submit articles to reprint directories for you.
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