Improve Your Search Engine Marketing by Writing Articles

If you’re looking for an effective and low-cost way to get targeted visitors to your website, writing articles could be well worth your time and effort. Getting something published is a surefire way to get links into your site. Moreover, increasing the number of links to your site can have a marked effect on your search engine marketing efforts.

  • Increase links to your website
  • Boost your site’s position in search engines
  • Improve credibility
  • Get targeted click-throughs

“Increase links to your site exponentially”

There’s always a market for informed opinion on the web. Free content providers have sprung up to cater for this demand. They publish articles that will interest their readers, and also allow other sites and e-zines to use the content.

Writing articles and distributing them across these sites is a great way of increasing your visibility. As well as offering relevant and intriguing content, your article should always include a short sentence about your business, what it does, and (most importantly) a link to your site. If your article hits the right note, a reader will probably click through to see what else you have to offer.

“Link popularity and your rating in search engines”

Of course, getting links published on other sites is a great marketing tactic in itself. But, these links also work hard for you when it comes to search engines. The major search engines place a great deal of significance on ‘link popularity’ when they rate websites. Link popularity is the degree to which other web pages link to your website. The more incoming links you have, the more clout this gives your site when the right search terms come up. If you can supply ‘searched-for’ opinion in your articles, you’ll find they are picked up readily and that your site climbs the listings without any further promotional effort on your part.

Another thing to remember is that search engines index articles as freely as they do websites. Write popular words and your business could have multiple listings where and when you want them the most.

“Improve on credibility and targeted click-throughs”

Writing informative pieces can certainly improve the credibility of a business. Web users trust someone more if they know a bit about them. They trust experts. And they are more likely to believe editorial over advertising space any day of the week.

The key to getting credibility and targeted click-throughs from articles is to write on a subject you know about, and about something your business caters for. If a web user has already chosen to read your article, he or she is probably already interested in your business. The perfect scenario is for your your byline to answer the needs already outlined in the article above. Of course, once you’ve done that, you’ve really cracked it.

Damon Lightley is a director at search engine marketing specialists, SiteVisibility. SiteVisibility helps its clients attract, convert and retain profitable customers through their websites.

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