I have scoured the internet, looking for the most productive and efficient way to market by writing articles.

Whew! This internet marketing thing is harder than I thought. That’s good though, because if it was too easy, it might be suspect. It seems that nothing good in life comes easy does it?

Anyway… back to the matter at hand, article marketing. I figured that after purchasing Honest Riches, I should take this affiliate marketing thing one step at a time. I decided that article marketing would be my first attempt at earning money online.

It seems straight forward enough. Write an article, include your affiliate links(s), publish it and get paid. Well… in theory it is simple.

Everyone says that Ezine Articles is the best (and most respected) article directory on the net, so this is where I started. But, before I did, I thought, “There has to be some article writing experts online that I can consult.” So before I actually started to write my first article, I did some more research and came up with this:

Step By Step – How to get the MOST out of an Ezine Article!

How to get the most traffic from an article.

Okay – this method is assuming you submit all of your articles to EZA, with a good title, good article content, and a good resource box.

1st Step: Open up Word Pad – or whatever you like to use. The program you use must be easy to copy and paste that is really the only requirement.

* Type out the keywords you are going to target in your article and separate them with commas. — press enter a few times

* Create your title — then press enter a few times.

* Create your article summary — press enter a few times

* TYPE THE ARTICLE —- and press enter a few more times.

* Then of course type up your resource box.

Each part of writing an article is equally important do not neglect anything. Once you are done SAVE YOUR ARTICLE TO YOUR COMPUTER.

2nd Step: Submit your article to EZA. (ezinearticles.com) This should be easy because you just saved it to your computer. (The reason for pressing enter a few times between the different parts of the article was to help you stay organized.)

3rd Step: Wait one week – my favorite step for my method to market an article : cool:

4th Step: After that week has passed you are going to do some more with that article. Go back to your original article which you saved on your computer and copy your resource box. Then yes you guessed it press enter a few more times and paste it below the original one.

You are going to make some slight changes – on this resource box make one of the links point to your approved EZA article, and let the other still point to your web page. Once you have completed this…

5th Step: Submit your article with your new resource box (the one with one link pointing to your EZA article and the other pointed to the site that you are trying to promote) to the following 10 sites:

1. Go Articles (goarticles.com)

2. Articles Base (articlesbase.com)

3. Search Warp (searchwarp.com)

4. Article Dashboard (articledashboard.com)

5. Buzzle (buzzle.com)

6. Article Alley (articlealley.com)

7. Amazines (amazines.com)

8. Isnare (isnare.com)

9. Article City (articlecity.com)

10. Hot Article Directory (pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html

Wrap up: Ok I know what you are thinking submitting your article to all these sites is going to be time consuming… Really it is not too bad once you have your username and password to all of these sites.

You have everything at your fingertips because your article is saved to your computer!

The traffic that ends up going to your EZA article and ultimately the website you are trying to promote grows exponentially and it is definitely going to be worth your time. I wish good fortune to everyone marketing online and I hope everyone has success.

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This made more sense to me. You are getting WAY more bang for your buck then by just writing one article at a time.

I submitted my articles. In my next entry I will discuss results.