Article Marketing - How To Craft Winning Articles

By Thomas Lau


Just in case you're in the dark about it - article marketing has long been proven to be one of the most powerful, very low cost ways of acquiring traffic to websites. If you're not careful, though, if you write substandard articles they'll perform poorly for you. It's a fact, though, that most people are not automatically writers of great articles.

It's just normal that some have to put more effort into it than others. Thankfully it is possible to learn how to write articles. With work and effort, you can write good articles and then take advantage of all that article marketing has to offer. Here are some hints to help you out.

Your articles are not essays, so avoid treating them as such. The essay structure: "tell them what you are going to say, say it and then tell them what you said." A "reverse pyramid" arrangement, or structure, is found in articles. In an essay the least important information is put in the middle of the work. In an article, there's always an introduction, then the most important information follows, after that the least important information occurs just before the conclusion. What this structure accomplishes is it gets the most important information read sooner.

Being too conversational could make it sound like you don't know what you are talking about. However be clear with your points and be succinct. Be careful with how you treat 'entertaining' writing, and remember they're reading for information. Always write with ethics, do not copy (plagiarize) anyone else's writing.

Don't forget to research and give your readers accurate and good information in your articles. You don't have to give away all of your knowledge. People can be perceptive, and if you sincerely try to help they'll take note of it, and that will reflect positively on you. There are lots of reasons for this, but if you do that it helps people to make a buy decision with you.

Of course you do need to offer solid information in your articles. No need, though, to give up the whole farm. If you try to help people, they generally will notice and that's a good thing. And that's how you can help people decide to do business with you and buy from you.

If you study them, you'll see that these articles have a different structure than articles found in papers and magazines. The voices used in each is different. You may find it useful to learn the differences. It may not be beneficial to write in a manner that people online are used to seeing. Take some time to figure out what makes internet article marketing articles different than the articles you are used to seeing in major periodicals. Article marketing has proven over and over again to work with traffic generation. Simply stated, bad articles do nothing but harm your business reputation, and they will not bring you the traffic you want. It's common sense plus business sense to take the time to learn how to write effective articles. If you do this, they will come - and you'll be rewarded.




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