What Articles Get Most Attention?
Ever found yourself skimming through the search results and then having your attention caught by certain topics or headlines? Or standing in line at your supermarket checkout and noticing the headlines on the magazines virtually jump out at you and almost beg you to read them? That’s the power of a strong headline based around a certain topic.
It’s one of the most asked questions in article marketing…”what articles get attention?” We’ve discussed and looked at the various pieces that go into an article that gets attention during the past few weeks but we haven’t really discussed exactly what topics get attention. There are certain topics people get drawn to and if you start applying them to your article marketing you’ll soon see more eyes reading your articles.
The following tutorial reveals eight topics that are consistently hot and when you adapt anyone of them to fit in with your article, you should see an increase in the number of people who will read your piece.
How To Write A Resource Box That Gets Attention
The resource box is so often the achiles heel of many article marketers who rightly invest time in coming up with a great title and content but totally ignore the last runner in the article marketing relay.
When you know how to write a resource box that gets attention you will never have to worry again about low click through rates. This particular piece of article real estate is misunderstood by most. They seem to think it’s their chance to pat themselves on the back and tell their readers how great they are.
Please “leave your egos at the door” when writing articles for profits. Once you accept it’s not about you and it’s about the reader who found your article with a problem needing solving then you have arrived as an article marketer. It’s about them and the following video tutorial illustrates two powerful methods of creating a resource box that gets attention.
Free Article Marketing Tip – How To Make An Article Visually Attractive
In this free article marketing tip we will teach you how to make an article visually attractive. This is a step many overlook simply because they get caught up in the fact they have produced an article they are proud of and can’t wait to get it published so the whole world can see.
Article marketing is a relatively simple concept with the four main stages being keyword research, creating a title, creating content and crafting a good resource box. But there are some things in between which we’ve covered so far in this series that contribute to the popularity of the article and in the long run, being able to make you money.
While writing articles online serves the purpose of providing solutions to those searching for them and the content needs to be able to give some or all of what they need to solve their immediate problems don’t lose sight of the fact that they still need to make you money. In actual fact, it’s like going fishing – the article is the bait that reels in the fish and then you need to be able to direct them to a landing page where your offers are.
Here’s how to make an article visually attractive. Just making this small change can add up to more readers sticking around to read your entire article.
Our next lesson will focus on the resource box and what you need to be doing to guide your visitors to click on your links.
How To Write Internet Marketing Articles
Figuring out how to write internet marketing articles starts with putting yourself in the shoes of a searcher and mimicking what they would be looking for and how they would go about it.
That means thinking about what they would type into a search box and if thwhat they are typing had some intent about it. You see, the biggest mistakes inexperienced article marketers make is either writing an article from scratch without a rudder or writing the article around a broad term where the competition is just too much for them to see any concrete results.
What do we mean about “writing an article from scratch without a rudder?” Simply not optimizing their article around a keyword. Yes it happens and there must be literally millions of pieces of content floating around the internet basically drifting aimlessly without much attention.
How to write an article that gets attention begins with keyword research. It’s the first leg of a four leg relay in constructing an internet marketing article piece that will get noticed with the title, content and resource box completing the relay. Mess anyone of these up and you suddenly put yourself on the back foot against your competition.
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How To Analyze Keywords For Profit
Learning how to analyze keywords for profit becomes easy once you know how. Using expensive keyword tools is an option and something you should seriously consider once you start making money online but for now, all you need are the free resources offered at Google.
Choosing a keyword you think looks a winner is not enough. Even though it meets all the criteria you set including required number of monthly searches and competition numbers, knowing what competition you’re up against is vital.
For example, you may have a keyword that appears to have little competition for you to rank on the first page of Google so you go ahead and create an article or post around it and suddenly find you can’t make it to page one on the search results.
What’s the problem?
The strength of the competition you’re going up against. What if the sites ranking on the first page of Google for that keyword term are all top level domains with authority. Trying to compete against authority sites who have a ton of backlinks and are well established is going to end up in frustration for you.
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