Article marketing is one of the ideal ways to drive targeted traffic for your website and improve your search engine rankings. In this article we are going to elaborate how you could use article marketing to generate traffic for your website.

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Article Marketing

Maybe you have encounter article directories such as Ezinearticles.com or Goarticles.com in your browsing on the internet. These article directories are full of articles written by various website owners and at the end of each article you will find an author bio box which tells you who the author is as well as having a link to their website. This is called as article marketing, it uses articles distributed through article directories in order to generate traffic for the person’s website and that traffic could also be sent to your website if you begin using article marketing.

Importance of Keyword Optimization in Article Marketing

In order to get the most out of your article marketing it is important to use keyword optimization in your articles. This means that you select right keywords that have a high search volume but relatively low competition. You could use keyword research tools such as Wordtracker, Overture and Google’s Keyword tool to have this information. In order to see how many competing pages there are simply key-in the keyword phrase into the search box and see how many pages the search engine lists. Once you have opted these keywords include them throughout your article, in your article title and preferably in bold somewhere near the top of the article – this would improve your article’s ranking on the search engines.

Article Marketing – Improve Your Search Engine Optimization

Article Marketing could improve your search engine optimization in many ways. The first is that by optimizing your article for keywords you are optimizing it for the search engines and so the link to your website will be close the top of the search engines by seeing your article first and then from there people could visit your website. Article marketing is also good for creating links to your website by other websites printing your articles on their websites. The search engines regard links a vital factor in measuring the importance and rank of your website and so by distributing your articles you are further able to improve your search engine rankings.

Most people who get information on the internet will utilize the search engines to do so and by improving your search engine rankings you are a lot more likely to drive traffic for your website.

Drive Traffic through Other Webmasters

Aside from generating traffic through improved search engine optimization caused by article marketing, you can also generate traffic by other webmasters placing your articles with your resource box on their website. This means that when they do their marketing and pull visitors to their website that those visitors will find your link and so they will generate traffic for your website as well.

Article Marketing – Automatic and Manual Submission to Generate Traffic

Do you utilize automatic submission softwares for your articles or do you manually submit articles for article marketing? There are pros and cons to both ways of submission and you will have to decide for yourself whether you need to use automatic submission, manual submission or both to generate traffic with article marketing. Automatic submission is a ideally faster and you will have your articles to a lot more directories than you would be doing it manually but your articles will not be as targeted and will probably not rank as highly on the search engines. Manual submission is a lot slower and you would probably only be able to focus on a number of directories but you will be able to target your articles better and get better search engine rankings for your articles.

The Best Article Directories to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Whether you are manually submitting articles or whether you are using automatic submission there are several article directories which you should manually submit your articles to for great results and to generate traffic to your website. The first of these article directories is Ezinearticles.com. Ezinearticles.com is ranked so highly on Google and by posting an article on their directory it is a lot easier to have good search engine results. Another one of these article directories is Goarticles.com which also gets a fairly high ranking.

In conclusion, article marketing is an excellent step to generate traffic for your website as you not only benefit from developed search engine rankings but also from visitors pulled to other webmasters websites and through that to your website. In order to make good articles for article marketing you must focus on keyword optimization and enjoyable content that people like to read. You can submit these articles manually or automatically but it is ideal to include a manual submission to Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com in your submission program.

Peter Holmes is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”.

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This post is going to evolve around 2 terms: Viral Marketing and Viral Video Marketing

What is viral video marketing anyway? It is marketing in such a way that your video (or the ad being promoted) gets forwarded from viewer to viewer simply because they like the video and want their friends to see it. There is nothing forced upon the viewers to forward it to their friends, but they want to on their own terms and do anyway.

Many people and businesses view viral video marketing in different ways.

• Some people see it as a way to simply get people talking about their product, service, business, or website.  Such people and businesses do not necessarily care if people like the videos or not.  The video was created mainly for the purpose to get people talking about it.  When people talk about it, the website will increase it’s viewers.
• Others however, utilize viral marketing to get their ads in front of millions of viewers just like a traditional commercial (reminds me of Superbowl half-time advertising).
• There are people who create such videos, just for the sake of doing it.  This is where the whole viral marketing craze began – people liked creating their own materials for others to see.

Whichever way you see viral marketing,  there is no doubt that it can be incredibly effective method to generate website traffic to your site.

Over the years, there has been an incredible number of videos that have successfully gone viral and have had millions of viewers as a result. Such exposure can lead to very large amounts of website visitors and profits for any website or business. This no doubt provides excellent exposure.

Viral marketing videos do not need to make sense to be effective and successful. They need to be entertaining and able to maintain a viewers attention long enough to send a solid message across. If a video is well fit for a market, people will like it and will send it on to their friends. Whether the message being portrayed is to visit a website, try some product, or even just to sign up for more information, a entertaining video that viewers like will get passed on for others to view.

There is no “best” viral video because they come in so many forms, varieties and in are targeted towards many different markets. However, there are good and bad viral videos which is why some videos make it big online, and others have troubles even getting a few hundred views.

I can’t count how many videos I have seen shown on television programs that originated online. When something goes viral, it can become a worldwide phenomenon, or a localized success and as a result, so can your webiste or business. This is just another potential updide of viral marketing though!

Viral videos can be anything from a home video taped on a cell phone, to an expensive commercial advertisement. Whichever format you use for your video, there are a few things that you will want to keep in mind.

1: Identify your market

Just like when you market anything anywhere, you should first identify your target market. It is your target market that you want watching your video the most because they will be the ones “best fit” to be interested in your video. Many of them will send it on for their friends to view as a result.

2: There is no NEED for professional grade video

Take a look at many successful viral marketing videos. You should notice that in no way is it necessary to have perfect video skills with fancy effects. A majority of successful viral marketing videos are actually home made clips shot by someone with minimal experience. It’s not the quality of video that is important here, it’s the entertainment factor of the video itself.

3: What will make your video go viral

What is it that your video has that makes it stand apart from others? It is this factor that will help your video climb to the top of the charts and have people passing it on to friends. Take a look at videos that you enjoy and have already (or would) passed on to friends and understand why they became successful in the first place.

Maybe there is some hilarious moment that was caught on tape, possibly something very shocking happened to be video taped, maybe some kid acts in some desperate fashion, you may even have some incredible performance etc.

The truth is, there is no limit to the amount of things that can potentially go viral… but you should ensure that you include factors in your video that will help it stand apart from others (in a positive way).

4: Distribution

Possibly the most critical part is the distribution. Your video is complete, and ready to be sent to video websites. However, if you mess up on this part, all of your previous efforts can go down the drain.

Here are a few prime viral marketing video examples at work:

This first video is not professional quality by any means, yet it has received over 18 million viewers at YouTube alone. This video itself does not promote anything, not even a website…but in the comments the website is promoted. www.laughingbabyethan.com. If the site was included in the video somewhere, massive traffic would be advancing to the site daily at a much larger rate than they most likely received.

The next video premiered back in 2006.  This guy, now known as the Numa Numa guy, became incredibly popular online. He was talked about and responded to many times over both in text and video responses.

This is a great example of a viral video that became very successful because people find it entertaining to watch. As you will see, there was lots to talk about (and make fun of) after this video went viral.

The next example is a video that was taped without any professional equipment…no professional taping here! Its a funny moment caught on tape that I am sure has proven incredibly profitable. There has been over 22 million viewers to this video. This demonstrates a simple yet highly effective way way to get your site in front of people … simply a funny moment!

Okay, this next one I don’t completely understand why it became so popular… but it did. It appeared during the whole Britney Spears breakdown thing.  I can’t even watch the whole thing myself.

Over 22 million viewers watched this and made his youtube and myspace page very successful.

Below is an example of a massively viral video that isn’t like most others. This actually shows Ronaldinho testing out new Nike shoes. This ad has had over 25,000,000 (yes that’s 25 million) viewers since it was released on YouTube alone. Just think about what this can do for the nikefootball.com website that is promoted in it, even if only less than 1% of viewers actually advance to the site…

The next example of an effective viral video that has become incredibly popular is titled “Potter Puppet Pals”. As I mentioned earlier, a viral video does not NEED to have a point…and this is such a video.  At least I don’t see a point behind it…yet, it is entertaining! This has proven to be incredibly popular with over 50,000,000 views. They tie it into the already HUGELY popular Harry Potter phenomenon. (Does this give you any ideas? … think about combining your video with something that is already very popular…).

Now to the cream of the crop in my opinion. This beauty has has over 99,000,000 (Yes, 99 million!!) viewers on YouTube alone…This is exposure at it’s best! It is a very well thought out dance performance titled “The evolution of Dance”. Once again, if a website had been promoted at the end of the clip, very large numbers of visitors would be flocking the site, but unfortunately one wasn’t.  It does still demonstrate a type of video (performance) that has become very popular online (and can be again).

If you are lucky enough to have your video become a viral success, then you will see great results.  If your business or product has a marketing strategy with a viral nature behind it where people may create a video about it on their own, (hint: or with some enticement!!), then you can receive some amazing free exposure for your product, service, or website.

Before I finish, I want to provide you with a little hint if you are ever interested in making your own video.

Hint: Make a short clip to direct viewers to your main video … if your short clip is good enough, you can have it receiving millions of viewers and directing them on to your main video and then to your website. Your main video can drive visitors to whereever you want them to go!

Creating a video that becomes a viral masterpience can be a very powerful way to market your product, service or website online.  Don’t overlook the power of video!!

If you have enjoyed this post, why not tell your friends?, after all… I wrote this so people can read it and watch the great videos.

To your success,

Mark Garland

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