By Aaron Anderson

It is said by some people that article marketing doesn’t work any longer. This could be true if the articles you write aren’t worth reading but you expect them to be read anyway. Article marketing can be a very powerful strategy for promoting your site if you do it the right way. There are three mistakes in article marketing that a very common and they are discussed below.

1. Confusing the reason for writing articles with the reason for promoting your business with articles.

While a number of reasons exist for the promotion of your business using articles, there is just one reason to write those articles.

First lets talk about reasons for promoting your business with articles. Articles drive traffic to your website. They also position you as an expert in whatever field you are writing about. Now those are great and all but it should not be your focus for writing an article. Then why write articles?

Giving value to your readers is why you should be writing articles. Any other motives will stand out like a sore thumb. False motives will turn people away. If you write in this manner, it is best not to bother.

You need to provide value to your readers before they are going to trust you. Then in the resource box you let them know you have additional information on your website.

2. Using less than an article’s full potential.

Alright you wrote an article so what do you do next. Next you should make sure you have an attractive resource box. If you writing great articles but no one is visiting your website that’s not going to do much for you. Give your readers a reason to visit your site.

Using your keywords as hyperlinks in your resource box is a good technique that will increase your articles effectiveness. This will not only have the effect of getting visitors to your site from direct clicks on the links but will help the rank of your site in the search engines indirectly.

Then you submit your article to article to article directories. And then you’re done, right? WRONG.

This is where most people get it wrong. Then you must submit your article to individual web publishers. Most of the people visiting article directories are just people submitting their own articles. Individual web publishers will post your article on their websites or submit it to their lists were actual people will read your article.

3. Writing useless articles that help no one.

Your articles have to be of help to people or two things can happen. Your business can be negatively impacted by either of them.

First, no one will trust you after reading your article. If they even do finish reading it. Chances are they won’t. The likelihood is that they will click away first.

The second problem is that you will have trouble finding anyone willing to post your article on their website. Their reputations are important to them so they will not risk it by posting your article. They know putting a bad article on their site will lose them the trust of their visitors. They won’t give you many links for your article and that would be a waste of your time

Article marketing is far from being dead. It may take a little more time to do it correctly but you will benefit tremendously.

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By Jimmy Torres

Smart3Up affiliates generally prefer to submit their articles to article directories. These articles are written and published by its affiliates as a way to market their Smart3Up business. Each article produced has the owners bio information inserted beneath the main content so that those who read the article will know who wrote it and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for more information.

Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money with Smart3Up. By using this method, people who are interested in Smart3Up will see your articles. After a search is done under those keywords, people will read the article and view you as an expert in that subject, and will eventually visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on Smart3Up, you can always hire a writer to do the work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in the long run, either through affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then on is pure profit.

There’s plenty of article directories online where you can post your article. Below, are some directories where you can post your articles to.

- article99.com

- isnare.com

- articlefactory.com

- article99.com

- a1articles.com

My advice is to submit a copy of each of your articles to each directory to get the most exposure. If you do this, you can expect to see an increase of traffic and website visitors to your page which will ultimately be the cause of sales and profits to your Smart3Up business opportunity.

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Jimmy is the official top earner of Smart3Up due to his phenomenal marketing skills and support that he provides. To find out more on how Jimmy can help you get top search engine rankings, visit the Smart3Up Blog.

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