Wealthy Affiliate University Benefits: Article Marketing

If you're just starting out with internet marketing and still hasn't got the money to invest on advertising, you can consider doing Article Marketing as it is FREE. Article Marketing is writing an article about the product you are promoting or anything that you are interested in so when people read them, it will drive them to your website = and that's FREE TRAFFIC.

So, why is it free?
This is how Article Marketing works. You write an article about the product you are promoting or a topic/ subject you are interested in and then you submit it to article directories that allows you to create an account and submit your article for FREE. These article directories are sites that has already built their search engine rankings. Which means there's a bigger chance that your article can get listed on the first page of search engine in a matter of days. Your only responsibility is take a lot of consideration on the policies of these article directories. Make sure you follow their rules in writing and submitting so you don't get banned.

Key to Article Marketing
So, let's get to the root of article marketing. Ranking in Google very quickly, like in a matter of hours is possible if you have the right keywords when you use Article Marketing. The key to it is writing an article with quality content. Content is the first thing that the search engines look for and to have your content optimized for a low competition keyword. Right, so how do I do that? That's where keyword research comes in. When you write an article, choosing the words to put in your article is crucial. The words in your article are the ones people "type in" in search engines like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. These words that they type are what we call the Keywords. And keyword research is finding out the words with low competition and how much competition you are up against. In order to determine whether a keyword is competitive or not, you can "google it" and check out how many search results will come up under a particular keyword by typing it in quotes ("...") and it will give you the result for the exact search phrase. And once you find keywords with low competition, you can start writing your article that will focus on that keyword.

Can you still follow through? There is a full tutorial about Article Marketing inside Wealthy Affiliate University that gives you detailed information on the following: