Before sitting down to write any piece of content, it’s vital that you have a plan. The plan doesn’t just consist of the topic you’re going to cover, but much more:
- The content: Map the content people actually want and need. Why should people read your article vs. someone else’s? What will you be saying that is new and different?
- The influencers: Next, map out influencers who would be interested in this article. You can collect quotes from them, mention them, or simply add them to a list of people you’re going to tweet to or reach out to via email when the article is ready. The more personal you get with them, the more likely they are to share the article.
- The media: Map out websites and publishers that would be interested in your article. Many publishers feature articles they find interesting or syndicate content. Reach out to them and let them know you’re writing a specific article they may be interested in. Reaching out beforehand will give you an indication if they’d like to see certain information in that article for them to share it or syndicate it.
- The promotion: Writing the content is only 20% of the job. The other 80% is promotion. Don’t just rely on sharing it a couple of times on Twitter and LinkedIn. Have a list of all the sites, communities, and platforms you’re going to promote on.
Talia Wolf, GetUpLift
Make it all about the audience
The biggest mistake I see is creating content that is focused on you, and not the audience. I hate to break it to you, but your readers don’t care about you! They care about solving their problems. The more you help your readers with what they care about, the more they’ll come back, read your posts, and become loyal readers.
Sue Anne Dunlevie, Successful Blogging
- Originally posted on Content Marketing Institute, read all the tips by visiting http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/05/create-content-audience-love
Some additional tips that can help you with article marketing:
- Put your articles on your site first, unless forbidden. By doing this, your website will gain the attention of the search engines and you will rank more highly. Get the article indexed by the search engines on your site first and then send your articles out in the world to attract more customers.
- Whenever you post a new article, be sure that it contains pertinent links to some of your other articles. By doing this, you will get more of your articles read and give your product or service more exposure. This sort of self-promotion, is one of the main advantages of article advertising.
- Rewrite your article for each submission. To defeat the search engine’s “no-duplicate” policies, simply slightly reword your article each time you submit it. Change it enough that it does not appear to be the same article, and the search engines will provide multiple back-links, one for each new submission you write.
- Search out guest blogging positions. Blogs are often searching for someone to do a guest spot for them, and if you are lucky enough, or a good enough writer, you will be chosen to write an article for them. Use this position to plug your own website as well as the product you are writing about.
- Adding images and a picture in your article makes it more personable and unique, and viewers like both of those features. Just remember that you need to either take the pictures yourself, or legally attain the rights to use someone elses.
- Tell a personal story. Readers love learning more about the writer of an article, so if you can slip a personal story with relevancy into your article, do it! It makes your readers feel as if you are more trustworthy, since you are open to sharing your own stories with them.
- One way to get the most out of article advertising is to write articles to help readers. Sharing expertise, revealing information and offering solutions to problems all help hold a reader’s interest and give him or her a good impression of the author. Helpful articles build their author’s reputation as a trustworthy source of information.
- If you’re writing for someone else’s blog, make sure that you’re still working within the respective market. If you’re trying to sell weight-loss products, it’s not the best idea to advertise your site on a software blog. The readership is just different and you may end up wasting your work for no return.
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