Article Marketing: How I Use It to Land Lucrative, Steady SEO Writing Jobs & Make $100+/Day in Affiliate Income
March 16, 2010
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If you’re a regular reader of my blog and websites, then you know that I’m an avid article marketer. I started using this method back in 2002 to promote my very first ebook. It’s worked so well for me over the years that I’ve never given it up. I may fall out of favor with over laziness and/or time crunches, but I always come back to it.
Two New SEO Writing Clients in the Last 3 Weeks from Article Marketing
In the last three weeks, I’ve landed two new clients from article marketing. Both are steady, ongoing gigs that take me less than an hour per day to complete — and add nicely to my bottom line each month. This is why I love SEO writing — it’s lucrative and steady if you do a good job and adhere to deadlines. It’s clients like these two that allow me to live a quite freeing existence, ie, be in Jamaica right now and be off to New York in about 10 days.
One of these clients found me on IdeaMarketers.com, an article marketing site I submit to irregularly. Another didn’t know exactly where, but said that he’d read some of my articles on SEO while he was “doing some research on SEO writing on the web.”
In fact, I rank #1 for the term “SEO writing”. If you type it in, what will pop up is an article by me on EzineArticles.com entitled What is SEO Article Writing? – SEO Copywriting Explained. And, that’s out of over 14 million results! 
How did I get to the top for this very competitive keyword phrase? It’s quite simple . . . article marketing.
$100-$200 Per Day Online in Affiliate & Blogging Income Using Article Marketing
I also make money from blogging and affiliate marketing (recently $100-$200 per day) using article marketing. You can read about that at the link above. Here, I’ll give a quick rundown of how I use article marketing these days to land (lucrative, ongoing) SEO writing jobs.
How I Use Article Marketing to Get SEO Writing Jobs
1. Write: I write and submit at least one article per week to top-rated directories (ie, EzineArticles.com, Amazines.com, IdeaMarketers.com, etc.). I try to do more, but almost never go a week without submitting at least one.
2. Write with SEO in Mind: This helps to drive more traffic to your site. I never write an article without optimizing it for a certain keyword phrase. If you don’t do this, IMO, it’s a waste of time.
3. Mass Distribute: To get the most out of my article marketing efforts, I also signed up with ContentCrooner.com (previously ArticleMarketer.com). This way my articles are continually distributed to on- and offline publishers who sign up to receive free content.
4. Press Releases: Occasionally, I’ll reformulate an article into a press release and submit it to free PR sites like PRLog.com. These types of sites get lots of search engine juice. That’s why I submit there.
5. Rewrite into Foundational Content: Lastly, I’ll write a longer, foundational article for my site that I’ll usually link to in the resource box of the article I distribute via article directories.
To explain a bit further, I think every site should have foundational and what my SEO writing firm calls “easy, breezy” content. Easy, breezy content is the content you distribute to article directories. Foundational content is longer, more in-depth content that should be found only on your site.
My easy, breezy content will cover the same subject matter, but asks the reader to click through to the longer, more in-depth “foundational” content found only on my site to get more detail.
And that’s it.
Two Things You Must Absolutely Know about Article Marketing
i) It Takes Time to Work: You’re not going to get immediate sales with article marketing. This is why I advise new SEO writers (and other freelance writers) to market directly to clients first. Then, after you start making money, devote some time to marketing that will “grease the pipes,” so to speak for future work.
This is what article marketing does.
I haven’t submitted an article on SEO writing to IdeaMarketers.com in three months – maybe longer. So the client who found me there was reading content that I’d written months, or maybe even a couple of years ago.
And that’s the beauty of article marketing. It like having a salesperson on the web selling for you 365/24/7.
ii) It Has to be Done Consistently to Work: You can’t post a few articles and wait for the SEO writing jobs to start rolling in. Article marketing just doesn’t work like that (in fact, most forms of marketing don’t work like that). OK, pay per click (PPC) maybe — to a certain degree.
BUT if you write and submit articles consistently, clients will all of a sudden come “out of the blue.” But, it really won’t be out of the blue because they’ll be running into your content all over the web. And, when you have a presence like that, it makes it hard for them NOT to contact you when they need the types of services you offer. This has been my experience with SEO copywriting.
If you do any kind of search on SEO writing, seo content provider, or write seo content, you’re going to run across me and/or my SEO writing company eventually.
And that’s why I think I landed these last two clients – that and the in-depth SEO copywriting proposals I sent — which, by the way, I’ll be putting together an ebook on soon. It’ll cover how to respond to requests from prospective SEO writing clients so that you have a good chance of landing the job.
I’ll use actual proposals and responses from jobs my firm has landed. Hopefully, this will be ready by the end of next week.
SEO Writing Ecourse News
FYI, the next SEO writing ecourse commences on April 26th. As of today, there are 12 slots remaining. You’ll learn four ways to make money online using your newly acquired skills that will give you financial security. Get full details on the SEO copywriting training this ecourse offers.
Best,
Yuwanda
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