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Article marketing is the most effective way I know to market online. Not only will it help you build value into your products, but it’s also a great way to build backlinks to your web site, as well as incorporate a complete search engine optimization strategy.

However, many writers never get all of the benefits of article marketing from their campaigns. Here are four mistakes you may be making and how to correct them:

1. You don’t have a product, or you have a product no one wants.

You don’t need a product to make money online. Simply join affiliate programs and promote someone else’s products.

The key here is to do your research. First, decide what you are interested in. You will be writing articles about your topic so you want to make sure you know your topic and have an interest in it.

Make sure there is a market for your interest. Then, create a basic web site to drive traffic to. Start writing articles on your topic and drive traffic to your site.

2. Your article marketing isn’t as effective as it could be because you are trying to do too many marketing techniques at once.

The most effective Internet marketing techniques are the ones you will do. That means you need to be consistent in your marketing, i.e. do it on a regular basis. Provided you are learning from your mistakes, you will get better with time and your marketing will become more effective.

The most techniques you’ll be able to do effectively at any given time are three. The beauty of article marketing is that you can combine it with other techniques like search engine optimization, saving you time. You can also convert your articles to PDFs and give them away as free reports.

Focus on article marketing as your primary marketing strategy. Learn how to do it effectively both from a writing and marketing stand point. You’ll get more traffic and sales that way.

3. You’re leaving traffic on the table because you’re not combining article marketing with search engine optimization.

Combining these two techniques together is really very simple. First, you want to include your keywords in your title and articles. Don’t go crazy adding your keywords to your article. You want your article to make sense. Just include them several times throughout the article.

Submit to as many article directories as possible as this will help you get a lot of backlinks. This includes both general article directories and topical directories. Also, submit to all of the top article directories to help with page rank.

4. You haven’t learned to craft an effective resource box so no one clicks through.

You include all kinds of irrelevant information in your resource box like what your hobbies are, how many children you have, how long you’ve been married. I hate to hurt your feelings, but those who are reading your articles don’t care. They want to know what’s in it for them.

Offer them additional information at your site so they click through. A free premium is always good, and if you’re building a list, even better.

If you want to make more money from your articles, then avoid making these mistakes. You’ll improve your bottom line very quickly.

To your success,

Mike Lawson

Mike Lawson is a freelance consultant to internet marketers. His Professional Writing Service provides quality content for article marketing automation programs .

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