An Article A Day Keeps The Competitors At Bay
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by Marsha Maung
Nov 12th, 2008
Internet is all about connectivity, regularity and dissemination of information. This can be done through regular posting of articles in your website; I know it’s easier said than done but if you want to help your website rank higher in search engines and keep your website visitors, this is the only way to go about it….AFFORDABLY.
In fact, if you spend some time writing out the articles yourself, it’s free.
As you're reading this, doubt could be sniping away at your hopes. It’s normal. Probably skepticism and procrastination has huge roles to play too but let’s just imagine that each article that you write is like a vitamin supplement to your body. Every time you pump an article into your website or an article directory, multiple types of vitamins surge through your body (online presence via your website) and makes it healthier.
While this does not automatically create a phenomenal increase in your web traffic, every article helps slowly but very surely.
Some website owners hesitate because they think that each other article that they write has to be search engine optimized. This cannot be further from the truth! Search engine optimized articles should be written ONCE IN A WHILE…and I am talking about two or three times a week alternating between your reader-focused articles and search engine-focused articles. So, it’s really not THAT hard.
Writing articles for your website serves your brand and website in two ways; one, it keeps the content of your website fresh and search engines love FRESH CONTENT. Secondly, having quality articles in your website everyday will help establish you and the people behind your company, as experts! If you want to win consumers over via your website, you’ve got to brand yourself that way through your articles.
Suffice to say, online purchasers don’t purchase, normally, stuff that they want the first time they see it. The first time they chance to your website, they are filled with skepticism and questions cloud their heads. It’s only when you ‘meet’ with them again the third, fourth or fifth time will they actually consider VERY SERIOUSLY about what you have to offer.
And there’s no better way to entice your consumers to part with their money than to ‘speak to them’ via your articles. Over a period of time, people will start believing you, handing over their hearts to you, and once that believe system is set up, they’ll purchase from you not only one time…but repeatedly.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marsha Maung is a Malaysian-based freelance writer with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her blog for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
REPUBLICATION RIGHTS! IMPORTANT!!
Listen up! I am a very nice person, if you think this article is neat and you'd like to publish it in your website, all's cool with me but with one condition. Only one and from the bottom of my heart, I wish that you would, in all sincerity, allow me my one single wish....to place the following codes into the your website at the END OF THE ARTICLE. It's not going to disrupt much, so please do it?
Either paste the above ABOUT THE AUTHOR stuff into your website (with links included) or copy the following codes into your website. That's it! Thank you! *muax*
<b>Marsha Maung</b> is a Malaysian-based <a href="http://www.marshamaung.com" target="_blank">freelance writer</a> with two kids. She spends her time ferrying her kids around, watering her plants, writing web content, SEO stuff, ghostwriting books and also indulges in the occasional Facebook-ing. Visit her <a href="http://www.marshamaung.blogspot.com" target="_blank">blog</a> for more dirty details on the life and times of a mother, writer, designer, housekeeper, coffee-maker, poop-wiper, chef...and just about everything else under the sun.
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