Three Top Areas of Focus for Your Article Content

| by Diana Barnum | August 23, 2006
As internet marketing with articles grows in popularity,knowing what to write about can be the key to your returnon investment (ROI). Because when you focus on targetedcontent, your investment in time, energy, effort andpossible budgeted funds spent on the articles’ creation canyield greater returns.

Here are three top targets of focus for your next articles:

Greater Audience Reach

Remember that most people are looking for informationonline. So fill this need with your quality article byreaching out to multiple areas surrounding your niche sothat you can benefit from more exposure and higher visitorclicks. For example, if your niche is vitamins, yourreaders are health-conscious, so add information aboutother health-related topics like maybe adding productreviews about different kinds of eye drops and eye wearcombined with beta carotene supplements.

Sales Letter / Advertorial

Submitting your articles to other websites presents theopportunity to basically advertise without paying highdisplay and classified ad fees. Avoid pushy sales languagein your articles, saying things like, “for the BEST……clickhere…” and instead, make them informative and useful toyour readers. Head to the local library to grab some goodbooks on copywriting, take a copywriting course or two and/ or download some ebooks on the topic. And learn to “show”and use storytelling in your pieces. In this way, yourarticle contains relevant and helpful material for yourarticle readers, plus you are making a good impression foryour website, which could ultimately lead to more visitsand hopefully purchases, referrals and repeat visits. Keepin mind that good quality content in an article is farbetter and more effective than a few lines of ad space. Youhave a special opportunity to pre-sell your products orservices to your prospective customer – plus you get toinclude your website's link in the resource box. Win-win!

Search Engine Optimization

Market your website for those technical visitors, too: thesearch engines, to bring more clicks your way by creatingnew web pages for your articles on your site. Optimize thearticles to make they are search-engine friendly by usingtop-ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give yourwebsite a high search engine ranking. That way once youupload your new web pages to your server, search engineswill spider through them and you can gain an increase insearch engine ranking. Remember that search engineoptimized content is a very effective strategy to use togain a high ranking in search results.

So don’t just start writing. Plan ahead and write strategicarticles to improve your article performance!

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