68 Lead Generation, Social Media Marketing, SEO, Copy Writing and Web Marketing Articles

This article marketing page contains 68 original articles (by me) about Internet marketing, copywriting, lead generation, search engine optimization and social media marketing.

Here's a sample of the topics on offer...

• Is there SEO value in Social Bookmarking?
• How to charge more for your product or service
• How to overcome human inertia in lead generation
• Get more sales from ad copy
• Press Release tips
• Online marketing with social media
• Lead generation's deadly sins
• The power of 'you' in online advertising

Click through, have a look around, and bookmark the page.

9 Brilliant Sites for Article Marketing

Of all the people that can make use of article marketing, it's the DIY SEO crowd who stand to gain the most. In particular, article marketing offers these 2 key benefits...

1. You get inbound contextual links
2. You send visitors direct to one or more web sites under your control
   

The first benefit is of particular significance to search engine optimisers. Not only is a contextual link one of the most powerful tools in our toolbox, it will sit on a highly focused web page that contains content directly related to the web page it's linking to.

The cherry on the top is that the page itself will be allocated to a relevant category. The title tag and page name may also conform to best SEO practice (especially if you construct your headline carefully).

All these factors work together to make it highly likely your article will be index well for several long tail keyword searches. And if you want to, you can add it to a virtuous SEO circle and derive additional benefits.

The plain fact is, article marketing and SEO work well together. If you can put together half-decent copy, article marketing is something worth investigating. And to get you started, here are 9 of my favourite article marketing and content sharing sites...

1. Ezine Articles
   
2. Buzzle
3. Easy Articles
4. Go Articles
5. Junta42 (content sharing)
   
6. DropJack (content sharing)
7. Article Alley
8. Delicious (content sharing)
9. Technorati (blog search engine)
   

Even better, here's another content sharing site I've thrown in as an extra bonus: Stumble Upon. 'Stumbling' is a fantastic way to discover new content on the web, and share you own articles (or videos or photos) with others.

Each of these sites has something unique to offer you. For example, Ezine Articles attracts high Google ranking, and a lot of visitors every day. Go Articles gets your content online quickly. Junta42 and DropJack will send you traffic.

Content sharing sharing sites help you to tell others about the article you've just written. These sites tend to rely on voting, and it's possible to work in conjunction with others to get more attention for your articles (and give your virtuous SEO circle a boost).

Article Marketing sends targeted visitors to your web site

Do you have a web site, but don't get many visitors? Or maybe the visitors you do get show little interest in your product or service? Article Marketing will send well targeted high-quality visitors to your site. Even better, you can do it yourself for free.

You'll find a great overview of how to get started in article marketing here. In addition to the information in that article, you'll also need the following...

• A source of inspiration for new article ideas
• Plenty of practise at writing articles quickly
• More useful information about article marketing

Sources of Inspiration:

In find my current clients are a wonderful source of new inspiration. Any time a client has a particular problem, or raises a specific challenge, it will inspire an article. For example, the challenges I faced doing SEO work for this contract catering company, and the 'newbie' questions they asked along the way, inspired several articles on this very blog.

Topical forums are another excellent source of article ideas. You'll tend to find both experts and beginners on forums. Beginners ask 'stupid' questions, and experts answer them. This provides great clues about what people want to know in your line of work. If people are asking, they'll certainly read articles about it.

What's more, once you've written an article on a topic, you can refer people to it. Not just once, but over and over and over again across multiple forums. If you get lucky, other people will start linking to it as well. And if you've included a contextual link in that article, it will deliver significant link juice to your site.

This all helps build your virtuous circle, pushing you ever closer to page one of Google.

External Inbound Links (SEO)

Every body is chasing external inbound links. I regularly receive emails from the clueless begging me to exchange links. That's not going to happen.

What I am doing is building a series of sites, and generating inbound contextual links for each of them. This is a long term SEO strategy based on the principle that all ships rise on a rising tide. How do I get external inbound contextual links? I'm not willing to give away all my secrets, but I will give you a strong hint: Article marketing.