Blog posts don’t just have to be small personal opinions on things. They can be long and detailed and full of insight if you so desire. They can also significantly help your online presence.
And long blog posts can give you another advantage as well. Let’s say you’ve written a really good article on a subject you frequently write about. You’ve sent it to a few article directories and you are pointing the resource box towards your main website.
Why not make even more out of that one article by using it as a blog post?
And better still, you could give anyone and everyone who reads it permission to put it on their website or blog. They might link to it anyway, but why not let them copy and paste it over with a backlink to your site?
People are forever looking for fresh new content to put on their own sites, and if you actually say to someone, ‘Hey look, I’ve got a great piece here you can use wherever you like – just make sure the contact details at the bottom stay the same…’, that’s really persuasive. It’s steering them carefully towards doing exactly what you want them to – which is to stick your nice long blog post on another site somewhere to give you even more exposure.
The internet is all about sharing, but even while some people might like to read and use your content elsewhere, they won’t ever get around to asking you if they can do so. If you give them permission up front you never know where your articles could end up.
If you’re pretty new to internet marketing you’ll still be looking for ways to promote yourself and start to make a name for yourself. Giving people permission to republish your blog posts is a great way to do just that. So why not start writing, posting and offering right now?
Article marketing is a great way to do many things for your online business. It is like killing three birds with one stone because it can bring you people and it can help you with search engine traffic as well as help you encourage others to spread your message in a viral way.
Article directories like E-zine Articles will let you join for free and write an interesting article for submission to their site. This article has a resource box that will let you link the article back to your site. This helps humans and search engines.
You can generate website traffic. People will read your well-written article that’s written with a slant to encourage them to visit your site. They could buy what you’re selling after visiting you.
Search engines will see the sprinkling of relevant keywords in the article that point to your site and this will help you with your search engine optimization. The keywords you optimize for should be anchored text with html in your resource box and point to your site.
When you submit to these types of article websites you’re giving others free use of your article with the rule that they need to keep your article original and include your links. By writing an interesting article, you’ll get increased exposure because others will publish your article on their site.
There are many article submission sites available to choose from. Some have varying rules about links and content so read the terms of service and consider posting a few articles a week as part of your self promotion and SEO efforts.
