Most people don't believe article marketing is effective, and while others are giving up, thousands are making a full time income by writing articles online. How come article marketing works for some and not others? In this article, I will show you how to get the most out of article marketing, and what things you should avoid so that your articles are not deleted from the search engines.

Use Unique Articles- The reason why most people don't see any results for their articles is because they are posting the same content on multiple article directories. While this is an effective method, you will soon find your traffic to your links not getting any play from the search engines. Google has become stricter on duplicate content; so those same articles that you place on multiple directories are getting deleted by the Godfather of search engines. What can you do to avoid this probelm? One method is to use a free semi-automatic article spinner. You can find them for free online. It does take a while for you to set up (about 2-3 hours), but once you set up the brackets and the formats, you will be able to write over 300 variations of the same article! Now you can start posting these different articles to multiple directories.

Write More Articles- The truth about article marketing is; you will not get that many page views from the search engines directly. This has to do with the stiff competition of article directories, and your article can get lost in a sea of content that is submitted every 2 minutes. Your real traffic will come from the search engines, so you will be gaining traffic through the backlink that is placed in your resource box. If you don't use an semi-automatic spinner, then you need to write at least 10 articles to submit to 10 different article directories. Search engines pay more attention to backlinks that come from different domains.

Pay Attention To SEO- Search engine optimization will go a long way; especially with the more popular ezines like EzineArticles.com and Goarticles.com. It might be a good idea to use two or three low competition keywords and place them in the first two sentences of your article including the title and tags. You should rank a little higher than the other articles listed in the directory. Also, it doesn't hurt to place the title of the article and the end of the content. Also, make sure to bold one of your keywords. The search engines tend to pay more attention to keywords that are in bold.

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Erica Williams is the owner of the 'Self Employment Money Now' blog and offers free resources on how to make money online. For the ultimate writing guide, please visit Getting Paid To Write Online- Make $1000 a Day