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Friday 20 December 2013

Hints For Improved Article Marketing

By Barun Kumar


If you are operating an online business, then one of the best ways that you can improve your profits and presence is through article marketing.

There are many techniques that you can experiment with in order to become successful and see the results for your efforts in only a short time.

One of the first steps in marketing your business on the internet is to learn the difference between black hat and white hat optimization for search engines. Search engine optimization, which is often abbreviated to SEO is the method that is used to make search engines find your website more easily and rank it higher on their pages. When you hear the term white hat SEO it is talking about legitimate and above board optimization practices that are permitted by the search engines on the internet. In contract, black hat SEO practices are sneaky methods that try to get increased results for a webpage using tactics that are not approved by the search engines - and while these methods may work for you in the short term, using them risks having your site banned from the search engines.

Consistently adding high quality content on your site is a very important aspect of effectively marketing your webpage. It is important to give people a reason to come back to your site by adding interesting and useful information to the site on a regular basis. If you feel confident in your own writing skills, then you can write your own articles for your website. If you don't think that your writing is up to scratch or you simply don't have the time to devote to it, then you can easily hire an affordable freelance writer.

Quality of the content is important, there are many websites that are happy to include content that is riddled with spelling errors and strange grammar that is clearly not written by native English speakers. If you want your website and your business to appear professional, then having good quality and accurate writing is important.

Key words are important when you are trying to improve traffic onto your website. Key words are a word or couple of words in a short phrase that people are likely to type into a search engine when looking for a business that matches what you offer. If you offer vacation packages for example, then one of your key words might be "cheap Florida accommodation". This word should be used a couple of times throughout your article in order for the search engines to pick up on it.

Some people do key word stuffing, which is when you use the key word over and over throughout the article. They mistakenly believe that it will get them more traffic and sales, while it might get a little more traffic in the short term it puts people off returning to your site as the content is usually unnatural and uncomfortable to read.

There are loads of different SEO and article marketing techniques that you can put to use in order to get more traffic to your site and keep them coming back to you. Trying out a few of them and learning more about other techniques will see your online presence expand and that means more profits for you and your business.




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