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Are your article marketing campaigns as successful as you want them to be? If not, then you may want to take this quiz.

This quiz will show you how to effectively promote even if you don’t have a product of your own. You’ll also learn why you need a dedicated article marketing strategy, how article titles will make your campaigns more effective, and how to optimize your articles for the search engines.

1. If you don’t have a product of your own, you can promote affiliate products. Article marketing will allow you to:

a. Add value to the product
b. generate a lot of traffic, but it’s not targeted
c. make you look better than the merchant
d. allow you to make sales on all of the merchants’ products

A. If you are an affiliate, and you are using articles to promote affiliate products, articles add value to the product because it gives readers more information. It also allows you to differentiate yourself from other affiliates. By offering readers more than other affiliates (your competitors), you have a better chance of making the sale.

2. A dedicated article marketing strategy will allow you to:

a. submit to as many article directories as possible
b. drive more traffic to your web site
c. submit consistently to drive traffic
d. add value to your products

B. The more articles you have in circulation, the more opportunities you have to connect with your target market. It also allows you to build credibility for your business, as well as add value to your products. More articles simply means more traffic and more chances to make the sale.

3. Creating an interesting article title will help you:

a. syndicate your article
b. get your article published
c. make readers want to read your resource box
d. get readers to click on your article and read it

D. Your article is no good if no one reads it. Craft an interesting title that makes readers want to read your article. Get the click. Once you get them to read your article, then give them a compelling reason to click your resource box. Get the click. It’s the key to traffic and sales.

4. The easiest way to optimize your article for the search engines is to:

a. Use black hat search engine optimization techniques
b. Use white hat search engine optimization techniques
c. Include your keywords in the title and article body
d. submit to only a few directories to get backlinks

C. Your keywords tell the search engines what your article is about By correctly classifying your article, it will show up in the searches when it is supposed to.

Black hat SEO will get you in trouble. There are many ways to use white hat SEO. Submitting to directories helps you get backlinks. If they are high traffic directories, then you will get more traffic.

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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