Image via Wikipedia 1–Short Articles Perform Better Than Longer Articles

Yes, the more you write the more you’re putting off your readers. This could be for a few reasons like; people don’t have time to read your article or don’t like reading large articles at their computer. If you do need to write that much either cut out the fluff and just give great content or break your article down into 2 parts.

2-Articles With Freebies Have The Highest Click Thru Rates

We all love freebies even article readers so by giving freebies away in your resource box your click thru rate will increase. The freebies you can give away could be a free report or an e-course. Personally I’d offer a free e-course because you can stay with your prospect for longer period of time (5-7 days) and they’ll also get used to e-mails coming from you.

3–More Articles The More Traffic You’ll Get

I know it’s probably an obvious tip but its true, don’t go optimizing your 2-3 articles for the search engines, rather go for quantity this way your readers have more ways of finding you.

4- 50% Of Article Directories Don’t Make It Passed Their First Year

Article directories are touted by many as an easy way of making piles of money with Google adsense but what they don’t realize is the work that goes on it the background. And because of this 50% of people either give up and move on to the next easy money making scheme.

If you’re submitting your articles go for the well known ones first like ezinearticles.com, articledashboard.com this way your articles stand a better chance of being around for a lot longer time.

5 – The Average Click Thru On Article Resource Boxes Vary From 2 -12%

This isn’t one of our stats but one that comes from Ezinearticles.com. You may have been disappointed with your results with article marketing but if you’re getting this type of result you’re doing well.

The reason for these lower CTR’s could be for reasons like a larger amount of people using article marketing nowadays plus poorly written resource boxes.

6 – Article Marketing Works Best For List Building

You may have been using articles in the past to make sales but as you’ve seen from point 6. you need to have a lot of views to make a sale. So, rather than going for a sale use articles to build your mailing list instead this way you can keep in contact with your prospects for longer and make more sales.

7 – Most People Don’t Put 2 Links In Their Resource Box

In most article directories you’re allowed to put 2 links in your resource box so make the most of it. One link should be the keyword you want people to find you in the search engines and the second one should be your sites address e.g. www.yoursite.com. This way if your article to posted in text form your link is still visible and it’s only a matter of a quick copy and paste for your reader to find you.

8 – Adding A Picture To Your Articles Adds More Credibility.

Like squeeze pages, adding a picture to your profile in an article directory adds credibility to your articles. It’s nice to know that person behind the article plus if your reader doesn’t remember your name they’ll probably remember your face the next time they see it online (which could be at the bottom of a sales letter…nice ?).

9 – The Average New Article Receives between 10-250 Views In Their First Week On EzineArticles.com

Have you just put an article on ezinearticles.com and its not doing well?

Don’t let this get you down and you give up on article writing yet. The low article views could be for a few reasons like weak headline, new writer or just writing content that everyone else has wrote about.

Don’t give up keep writing and your audience will start to grow. If you provide quality content again and again people will seek you out.

10 – Don’t Be Afraid Of Giving All Your Tips Away In Your Articles.

Want to stand head and shoulders over everyone else in your niche? Give as much content away in your articles as possible. People will love you for it and your articles will get read more and passed around.

Don’t think that giving it all away you’re going to lose everything there are always going to be better and faster ways of doing things, you couldn’t give it all away if you tried.

Here are 6 ways to help you get the most results from your article writing…

1. Is Your Article Relevant?

Before beginning your article for your chosen niche, have you done any research on what you’re going to write about you? Could be writing an article that nobody wants?

So how do you find the hot topics?

•    Visit a forum for problems that your chosen niche is having or tips they may be looking for.

•    Browse through the top article directories and find out what the most popular articles are in your niche and use them for a brainstorming your next article.

•    Do a quick keyword research and just give them more or what they’re looking for. If weight loss tips comes up why not write an article on that.

2. Write An Article On Something Current Or In The News.

By writing an article that’s up to date with what’s happening in the world you can help stand out from the crowd and show you’re in touch with what’s going on.

So how do you keep up to date?

•    Sign up for Google news and have reminders sent to your inbox when something about your niche gets posted online. This is a great way of having the latest news coming to you rather then trawling through site after site for fresh information.

•    Visit Amazon and find out if there are any new products or books on your chosen niche. For example if a new diet book came out you could use it for your next article idea.

3. Create A Sequel Article.

Why not follow the idea of Hollywood, if you’ve written an article that really did well, why not write a sequel (Part 2).

How?

•    Is there anything more you could add to that last article that you couldn’t fit in?

•    Maybe things or techniques have changed so is there any new information that you could use to freshen up that article and make it more up to date.

4. Make Your Article Viral.

Even though you’re up to speed with article marketing and using articles there are other people who aren’t. A newbie may come across your site like an article you’ve written and possible want to use it on their site. They could contact you and ask for you permission by why have them do that. At the bottom of the article why not write a short blurb saying that this article is free to use as long as the content isn’t changes in any way.

Or if you have affiliates working for you why not write article for them to use. Its simple to do and it free’s you up because they do all the work of submitting them to the article directories and it also gives them free content to use on their site that’s relevant to their business.

5. Write 2 Articles To Increase Your Website Traffic.

Why not write 2 article that are closely linked. For example you could write 2 article with “20 Weight Loss Tips”. You send the first article (with the first 10 tips)to the article directories but in your resource box say that part 2 with the other 10 tips is only available to be read at your site.

Anyone who reads the article of course wanting to know more would click the link and visit your site. After that it’s up to you whether you use Google adsense, an opt in box or whatever, to get the most from your traffic.

(I’d love to say this article idea was mine buts it came from the internet marketing master Jimmy D Brown.)

6. Promote Your Other Articles.

You’ve sent a lot of time writing other articles so why not promote them in your next article. Someone reading your article might not know that you have 10-15 or more articles out there, so why not tell them.

How?

•    Mention in your resource box that you have many other great free articles on your website or blog that are related to this article.

This helps to make the reader feel that if you’re written so much on this topic you really must know what you’re talking about and could be worth listening to or buying from now or in the future.

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