Viral marketing is a methods of list building
First of all, we must define success in article marketing. If you do not know what you are trying to achieve, then how will you know if you have made it or not?
Before we can even talk about how to define success in article marketing, we must think about what are the possible goals with article marketing.
There are two general ways to make money with article marketing: direct traffic, and building long term inbound links to help you gain high search engine rankings for long term traffic.
In the first case, direct traffic, you will be writing a larger number of articles (100-200 per month if you are fulltime online) and submitting them to a small number of high-traffic article directories.
In the second case, you will be writing a smaller number of articles (perhaps 10 per month) and submitting them to up to about 200+ article directories online. This will create high numbers of backlinks to your web site, which will help increase your search engine rankings, so you can develop long-term sources of income.
Which to choose? I think you should have some mix of both of course you have to decide how much of each you want, as any time spent on one takes time away from the other.
One of the biggest keys to success with article marketing is quantifying your goals online and with article marketing, then going out and doing them. That means if you commit to 200 articles written and submitted this month, if you get behind you simply have to work extra to catch up.
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1200 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.
