Monday, August 10, 2009

Article Marketing Services - Content is Still King

. Monday, August 10, 2009
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By Nigel Evans

To successfully drive visitor traffic to your website you should do your best to establish it as a key resource of information about your niche. To best achieve this, create relevant and fresh content and make sure that you distribute it by using the best article marketing services.

Articles should be well written and provide good and factual material about the subject. People still surf the Internet for answers to their problems and for information about a huge variety of subjects and when they search they enter their query by typing in a series of words. These are known as keywords and, to successfully drive traffic to your site, you must make sure that your web pages are appropriately optimized and that article marketing services focus on these exact keywords.

Search engine optimization is it too broad a subject to cover in this article, but you should note that your website has to include the correct keywords appropriately placed within the page content. Each different aspect of your business product or service should be represented by a separate page on your website and linked to the appropriate keyword or key phrase.

It is possible to really narrow down the focus of someone searching for information by referring to what is called a "long tail" keyword or key phrase. For example instead of searching for the word "dog," a long tail search phrase could be "yellow Labrador retriever." A list of webpages would be returned by the search engine tailor-made to the exact information that the searcher requires. Now, if you are a breeder of yellow labs then you could promote your service through your website by making sure that each site page is optimized for the exact keyword phrase.

Article marketing services can really help you promote your website by distributing written articles including an exact phrase, such as yellow Labrador retriever in its title and within the article body. The key phrase should appear an ideal number of times within the article body. We recommend 1% which means that in a 500 word article it will appear maybe five or six times maximum. Some people make the mistake of writing articles with too high a density and this is known as keyword stuffing, which is generally counterproductive.

Article marketing services are quite comprehensive and in addition to the writing of the optimized articles will send them together with a specially designed resource box, bio and link back to your website to a big list of premium article directories. These sites have high traffic numbers where people are looking for articles about specific subjects. They will read your article about, for example "yellow Labrador retriever," find it creative and informative and click on the accompanying link to go back to your website.

If you want to become established as the expert and authority within your niche, article marketing services can definitely help. You will also benefit by an enhanced position within search results, as search engines do like to see back links coming to your site.

For years now, internet marketing experts have extolled the virtues of article marketing services. Together with pay-per-click, this practice is the best way to drive focused traffic to your website.

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2009 Chiropractic Marketing Strategies

By Matthew Loop DC

Theres a great secret about chiropractic marketing that you probably havent heard yet. DCs have been holding this secret close and for the past 2 years, those that have practiced this secret have had amazing success. How would you like to successfully brand yourself in your community, get exposure to thousands of potential patients, built credibility and trust, and earn other forms of income, all at the click of a button? Those who know the secret know how to do all this, and those who dont are really feeling these economic hard times in a profound way. The best part is that the secret is free.

So, what is this phenomenal medium for getting your message across to thousands of members of your community easily and at no cost to you? The answer is chiropractic video marketing! Mark my words, in 2009 video marketing for chiropractors will explode! Early adopters like myself have been reaping massive financial rewards and acquiring new patients left and right from this amazing change in communication dynamics. Videos work for you twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This, as far as I'm concerned, is one of the best forms of leverage for your practice.

It has never been easier to reach-out into the community and give a virtual hello and introduction to your services. When people see your videos blanketing the search engines, they feel like they already know you even before coming into your office. This blows print advertising out of the water. Let me give you a quick example of how powerful video chiropractic marketing can be for your practice. Imagine if you had just one video that you submitted to 30 different video sites that garnered just five views per day at each website. That would be 150 views per day (multiply by seven) for a total of 1,050 per week!

If you were to do a pay-per-click campaign and pay just one dollar per click, you would spend over a grand every week to get that kind of exposure! Imagine if, instead of one video, you had ten videos. Are you beginning to see the power, yet? When I say this is the biggest secret of chiropractor marketing in 2009, it's because it's true. You must change with the times or you risk failure in business. Older forms of chiropractic marketing and advertising are only hurting your pocketbook and slapping you in the face with mediocre returns. That's no way to live, really.

Video marketing is perhaps the easiest and cheapest way to get monumental amounts of exposure and respect on the internet. The amount of credibility and trust that you gain will put you in a prime position for success in all the months to come. Think about your videos as selling YOU-- the product. More than your expertise or your practice, people want to believe in you, and buy into that product.

When I first began creating simple videos, I didn't even have a video camera. I used screen-capture software. Now, even most digital cameras have a video function within them. The time has never been more ripe to begin to capitalize on this booming trend. The statistics don't lie, as over 52% of all online content is currently video. Just starting out, I would make a goal to crank out at least one or two videos per week for your chiropractic practice. Personally, I usually create at least three per week.

Nobody likes rejection, and the beauty of video marketing is that you dont really have to face that. New patients come to you. You dont chase them! Start by telling your chiropractic story on your video, and tell it genuinely. Go ahead and be sincere, and show the camera who you really are, and what is meaningful to you as a chiropractor. Once you tell your story, make your videos about the patient, and the patients needs and concerns.

My life has been transformed since Ive harnessed the secret of chiropractic video marketing. Get your first video rolling today, and start to get excited about the success that you will find with this powerful form of marketing. With practice youll get better and the process will get easier. Now buckle your seatbelts for an amazing ride in 2009!

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