There are three ways to boost your traffic online: social bookmarking, video promotion, and article marketing. Of these three, article marketing is perhaps the most common since there are more SEO article writers than there are linkbuilders and video uploaders. Also, it is apparent that there are more words in the Internet than there are graphics or videos!

Since article marketing is the most common, here we give you the four steps in article marketing success:

1. Write an interesting and unique article. A New York Times writer once dubbed the Internet as a huge mound of trash. There’s some truth to that, actually. The Internet is filled with images, words, videos, and other applications, and the truth is that you don’t need 95% of it. The Internet is an invisible and infinite space, so people can upload anything and everything, like hanging something on a cloud. So if you want your written word to stand out, make it really unique and interesting. Your title should be designed to spark interest in your reader. Studies have shown that a web page fewer than ten seconds to catch a viewer’s attention. If you don’t catch the viewer’s attention in five seconds or so, then s/he will simply click the close window or transfer to the next window.

2. Bookmark the articles your wrote through a site like www.onlywire.com. Once you make the perfect article, your next job is to deliver it to where it’s supposed to end, so bookmark them and create common tags for your article so it’s easier them to appear during Google searches.

3. Promote your content! If the bookmarking and the tagging don’t seem to work or are taking too long to work, it’s time for you to explore other ways of marketing for your articles. You may create a video to promote your content, or you may comment on web sites that have similar content and offer help through your article. This is especially useful if your article is a “how-to” article or an educational/ informative article.

4. Submit your article to article directories. Article directories such as squidoo.com and articlesbase.com have a wide repertoire of articles that are classified into categories. People who search for information through certain topics may be easily led to these article directories since they are very visible when search engine run their searches.

Start creating and promoting your articles now, and see your site top the search engine results rank!

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