{"id":4646,"date":"2008-09-09T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/making-money-with-article-marketing-an-unwritten-rule\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T17:27:18","slug":"making-money-with-article-marketing-an-unwritten-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"Making Money With Article Marketing – An Unwritten Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Rosie Cottis<\/div>\n

If you want to make money online, you will probably have tried your hand at article marketing. Whether or not you think of yourself as a writer, this is one of the simplest and most effective forms of internet marketing. The basic formula is very simple: just write<\/a> an article on your subject area, add a hyperlink to your site, and submit to article directories.<\/p>\n

But there are a few basic things that you must do if you want to actually bring in the dollars with your article. If you do not think about these points before you start, you could be wasting all of your precious time. And time is money, right?<\/p>\n

This just means taking a moment to think about the article’s reason for being – or rather, two reasons, from different points for view. First, what will the reader think is the main point of the article? And second, how does it fit in to your marketing, or how will it make money for you?<\/p>\n

Sure, from your point of view, your main reason for writing an article is to make money. But your readers don’t want an article that is written too obviously from that point of view. It is usually best to keep that motivation of yours so well hidden that it is almost invisible.<\/p>\n

So keep in mind that the main reason for writing an article is always to inform or assist the reader. Nobody should have to guess what they are being helped with – this should not be hidden at all!<\/p>\n

If you are selling information, you probably don’t want to give away too much. But it’s easy to pick out one point, perhaps something that you didn’t cover in your ebook, or something that is quite well known. It needs to give real value to the reader, so it should be both interesting and helpful in solving their problem or whatever need or wish they have that led them to read your article.<\/p>\n

Remember that there are people who write articles<\/a> and run websites simply for the love of it, without making a cent from them. Those people usually have strong feelings about their subject, whether it be their religion, their pets<\/a>, a food fad, or whatever. Imagine you were someone like that and you just wanted to tell the world about your subject. Then add your link at the end of the article.<\/p>\n

However, do not be carried away and try to put everything you know into one article. Three points is plenty, and one is enough if you have a lot to say about it. Too much information is confusing for the reader. It is very important to leave them wanting more.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, your hidden reason for writing the article will be in the back of your mind. This may be branding (building awareness of you as an authority on the subject, e.g. through a blog), lead generation (sending readers to a squeeze page), or, if the article is very closely related to your product, direct selling where your resource box links to a sales page.<\/p>\n

So before submitting your article to directories, consider its purpose from both the reader’s point of view and from the marketing perspective. Will the reader get what he or she wanted, but still be left wanting more? And where are you sending them – would a squeeze page be more effective than a sales letter this time?<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Some people make thousands from article marketing – but not you? You are probably making some easy-to-fix mistakes. Before you write another article, check out Rosie Cottis’s free report 5 Fatal Bum Marketing Mistakes<\/a> Get a totally unique version of this article from our article submission service<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to make money online, you will probably have tried your hand at article marketing. Whether or not you think of yourself as a writer, this is one of the simplest and most effective forms of internet marketing. The basic formula is very simple: just write an article on your subject area, add a hyperlink to your site, and submit to article directories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}