Need Better Search Engine Positions – Article Marketing Still Gets Results

Article marketing, and sometimes called ‘bum marketing’ simply because even a bum with no cash can use this strategy to build traffic and perhaps also sales, is one of those evergreen techniques that have been producing totally free traffic for decades.

If you’re just starting out online and you need to earn money in the most risk free method possible then article promoting is what I recommend. Make sure you visit my top home business opportunity blog and my online home business blog for more great content.

Currently the key to article marketing is not precisely what a few individuals claim, which is to blast your content to a large number of websites. The real reason for this is simply because of the ‘duplicate content’ penalty which will basically discount a lot of the pages your content is on simply because you will find so many other sites with the exact same content. Distribution to a large number of article directories is usually recommended by individuals with software applications to promote or services to promote.

We are looking to get totally free traffic through the article directories thus this means that we should be focusing on the websites with the maximum quantity of traffic, which narrows it down to 4 or 5 websites. All the other websites put together almost certainly don’t receive 1% of the traffic the others obtain thus it’s fairly acceptable to discount them.

At the time of writing, the article websites to distribute to are:

* Ezinearticles.com

* Articlecity.com

* Articledashboard.com

* Goarticles.com

These websites have a lot of traffic, from individuals undertaking research and from natural search engine traffic. They’ve a very high page rank and therefore very excellent search engine positions for even a few extremely competitive key phrases. You can use this in your favor by writing 400 word content tightly targeted around a particular key phrase.