How article marketing will increase your sales
Article marketing is a common SEO tool used to increase traffic to a website. It can work for an ebay store like any other website that has a fix URL (web address).
With article marketing, your write typically a 450-600 word article providing information that a potential customer may be looking for. You then submit it to numerous article directories. Once Google and the other search engines have "crawled" your article, people will read your article.
The gold in article marketing is that most article directories will include a "resource box" where you can place upto two links to other URLs. This could be to other articles, or to your ebay store!
Effectively you are enticing internet users looking for information by giving them what they are looking for, then introducing them to your products.
So how many article directories should you use?
AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.
The more adverts you have floating around the internet the more links to your ebay store you have out there to feed you more customers.
How many articles should you write?
AS MANY AS POSSIBLE?
The more article you write on different topics relating to your niche, the more chance you have of "catching" information seekers and enticing them to look at your listings.
Submitting numerous well written useful articles to the larger ezine sites and article directories can actually generate a following for you. When people read one article from you that they found useful, they may then look up all your submissions. This will give your store links multiple exposures to your information hungry customers.
Submitting to numerous article directories can be slow and frustrating work. Submitting to the larger ezines is generally a manual only process, but there is some cheap software out there that can make submitting to hundreds of article directories a few minute affair.
This software will not only submit your article to hundreds of directories, but it will also submit links to website directories helping to generate hundreds more "back links" backlinks help increase your ranking in goggle to increase your listings visibility to search engines. This will be covered in more depth by another article.
