Written by Susanta Sahoo, Article Marketing Expert

Among many article marketing myths, which cease to vanish, the one that comes to my mind is this: writing and submitting articles consistently brings you results. Thousands of articles are being posted to major article directories on a daily basis, yet very few of them are actually read by their targeted visitors. Why?

Because many article marketers lack focus or don’t have a strategy in place. Worse, they write just to add volume and not to inform the visitors or provide them with genuine information. A simple analysis of why some articles get more views than others will reveal the secrets.

You’ve got great content and share it with your audience through your own blog. You make sure you write with the keywords in your mind. You optimize your pages for those keywords. You build links for that page and use the same keywords in the anchor text of the links. You do all sorts of techniques, but you’ll not appear on the first page of search engine result pages (SERPs)! Is this online marketing method not working for you?

How Else Can You Bring in Targeted Traffic?

Search Engine Optimization seems to be the solution, but you’ve tried it and has not seen the result YET. It may be because:

These days everyone is talking about creating quality content on the web. This is fantastic, but it will be incomplete if you cannot generate keywords for website’s targeted traffic. You need to use the key phrases that attracts exactly the kind of traffic you are looking for.

Web Analytics Software Helps a Lot to Generate Keywords

You can check out what people search at major engines to find your pages. To do this, you need to have a web analytics software like Google Analytics. By going through various sections of it, you will get a lot of information that you can monitor and measure to increase your conversion rate. Here’s a practicable method to generate keywords from website analytical software for you:

Written by Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Twitter Marketing Expert

If you want to attract online attention to a particular product, service or cause, consider running a Twitter contest.  Because of the 140-character limit and public tweets, Twitter is an ideal social media platform for this marketing strategy.

How to Run a Twitter Contest to Promote a Product

Let’s say you want to promote a new product – we’ll call it “Miracle Copywriting” – that sells for $89.   You tweet about this new product, including the link to your site where the product is sold.

Do you have a contact page at all? Weird question? Is it? I explain why I ask this:

Some Sites Don’t Have a Contact Page!

Everyday, from morning to evening, 1000s of people are talking about “Content Is King”, etc. Yes, web content is a very important element helping your search engine rankings, but they should be present everywhere including at contact pages.

Some sites/blogs include a link that says, “Contact Us” and you click on it, and … you don’t see a new page to see any web content! What you get is either redirection to your web-based email service, outlook express, etc! What? Yes, this is one of the surprises many of us have been presented with!

I’ve always said  that keywords are the road map to success. I want to explain the role of persuasion analysis and the frequency of performing keyphrase discovery a bit more in details for you, because one thing is very important to remember: keyword research isn’t done only once and only at the beginning of your search engine optimization process. You have to conduct it over and over again in the beginning, in the middle and in the end.

When it comes to web site traffic, everyone agrees that it’s a good factor and we need it as much as possible, but few people are talking about targeted website traffic. There are various methods for bringing traffic to a website. Some lead to what I call bulk traffic and some to targeted influx of visitors. You should decide which one helps you gain your goals before looking for different options available.

Some people get easily attracted to the advertisements saying 1000s of real visitors to your site with reports, proofs, etc. The large number of people couldn’t always do very good to your online business. You should define your plan and see what it is that you really want online.

It may sound confusing a bit first, but let’s clarify the title before everything else. Here we’re talking about two topics that aren’t separated form each other. Marketing blog is a platform you build using WordPress or similar softwares to reach out to more audience, win more customers or serve your customers better. Blog marketing is the next step that begins as soon as you have a blog and feel the need to find a market or audience for your blog. So, let’s take a look at  both steps one after another.

Either you have an SEO service provider or you conduct your search engine optimization process yourself, you need to know how to measure good SEO practices. This is vital, because it won’t be possible to find out if you’re on the right track without having some criteria for discovering it.

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Ensure Legitimate SEO Practices Are Being Performed

Usually, you’ve been through decision making regarding your online marketing method, outsourcing or insourcing options and proper practice planning before you ever decide to see if you’re following good SEO practices or not. You know that by correct and legitimate search engine optimization methods, we mean those that do good to your site, not harm it. And you know that those steps are both to be taken inside as well as outside your website.

In article marketing, you use the body of an article to give and the article resource box to take. You provide a solution, strategy, etc in an article for your readers. Then, you write about yourself, your site/blog, etc at the article resource box to invite your readers to take your desired action.

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At the end of each article you’ll be given a chance to introduce yourself, your business, your site, etc within a short paragraph of 1-3 sentences. This is where you build your backlinks to particular pages of your site/blog. It’s highly important to know what to write to make the most of this opportunity in the framework of your SEO article marketing strategy. I’m going to present you the seven major steps toward a great article resource box.