Saturday, November 25, 2006

Writing Articles Can Improve Your Online Business For Free
© Faye Brown

Article Writing is a way to show others that you are an expert in your chosen field. If proper channels are used to distribute your articles this will create an increase in traffic to your website. Search Engine spiders love quality articles. With steady publication of articles written by you, this will enable you to get into the top listings in search engines, for keywords used in your articles. This will increase your popularity of the link added in your resource box and will continue to increase creating long-term exposure.
Here are some tips to get you started in article writing and distribution of articles that creates free long term exposure to your website.

Your articles should have quality content enriched with keywords for the search engines to find. You may have to do research on the topic that you are writing about, so you can position yourself as an expert. The time you spend on article writing is well worth it in the long run.
Submit your articles to e-zines, article directories and web sites for publishing. Include your resource box at the end of the article to get free advertising. A resourse box contains a brief summary about the author and a valuable link back to your website or blog.
You can use various strategies to help increase how and where your articles are seen and distributed on the Internet. The more places your articles are posted mean the search engine spiders will have more places to find your article, this giving you a higher rank.
You can combine some related articles and turn then into a free e-book that you give away at your website or blog and allow them to do the same multiplying your advertising.
You could also take a few articles and create a free repot to get potential prospects to opt in to a capture page by enticing them with this valuable information.
You may submit your articles to publications that pay you for your submissions, earning commissions as a freelance writer.
Submitting your article to directories is a way for other to take your work and create links to you website or blog. You will be asked if you will allow your article to be used by others. Say yes as long as it is not altered and your resource box is included.
Articles are most successful when they contain no advertisements or links in the body. Many publishers will not publish articles with links to anything in the body. They want clean, well written articles that relate to the keywords and the category you pick for submission. Do not pick an unrelated category or it will no be published.
With quality information in your article will generate readers to want to come back frequently Take time to check your spelling and grammar. You a very good spell and grammar check or have a family member or friend proofread it for you to determine proper sentence structure is used.
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Faye Brown is a success coach that uses the philosophy of Paying It Forward. For a complete marketing system that you can use to build your current business visit: Paying It Forward In Internet Marketing
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