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If you are creating your own articles, rewriting PLR articles or having a ghostwriter do the work for you, there are several things you need to keep in mind for your articles to be effective tools in marketing your blog. When teaching your self how to blog and make money, article marketing will positively be high on your list of things to master, so here are a few brief tips to help you succeed.

Article marketing works only with niche specific, highly optimized laser targeted long-tail keywords. You will have to research these keywords well for relevance to a purchacing targeted audience and then know how to incert these keyword phrases properly in your article.

Further, you will need to understand how to properly rewrite your articles so that you can submit them to directories without them being rejected because they are "duplicate copy". In other words, you definitely won't be very successful with article marketing if you just supply the same article to loads of directories thinking you'll get high search engine rankings because you created a load of backlinks.

Here is an example about long tail keywords, let's make beleve you need to write an article about Autoresponders. You will need to find long tail keywords with autoresponders in it to use as the primary keyword phrase for your article.

After some searching, you decide that the phrase "Download Free Autoresponders" has a acceptable search volume and works for your purposes. You will need to insert this entire keyword phrase in the title of your article, and again in the first paragraph in your article for search engine ranking purposes. Ideally, you would utilize this keyword phrase in to your first sentence if you can. Also, you want to include it in the body of your article and in the last sentence or at least the last paragraph of your copy. Don't overuse your keyword phrase or you may be penalized by search engines for what is known as keyword stuffing. Finished articles should come in somewhere around 350-700 words.

Don't try to cover more than one topic in your article. Keep your information focused.

When you are just getting started, you'll probably get mixed results. However, do not be alarmed if some of your articles just don't work. You may have a couple that get high traffic with no conversions while some others may have low traffic but create sales. As you learn how to blog and make money you will become more skilled at effective article marketing and get more consistent results.

Remember that all articles must have three parts; the title, body and a conclusion.

The title serves two primary purposes. The first is to give search engines information they need to categorize your article using the keyword phrase you are using. The second is to grab the attention of your readers and create interest in reading the remainder of your article. A great way to do this is to promise to reveal secret information, solve a problem or offer something for free that has exceptional value.

Your first paragraph should be written to stir interest and set up the content in the body copy of your article.

Body copy is the meat of the information that you are providing your reader, and plays off the promise of the headline and first paragraph.

Your conclusion will sum up your content and is where you put your call to action if you want the reader to take some specific action as a result of the information you have just provided.

Creating effective articles is a topic that is best covered in a much broader course than can be covered here, but hopefully some of these basics will give you some ideas about what is involved. If you are learning how to blog and make money, there are many things you will need to master and a good suggestion is to find a comprehensive step by step course that covers all aspects of this business model and then refine each step as you go.

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