7 Ways to Market Your Small Business Through Articles – For Free!   by Kyle Grant

If you’ve been selling products on the internet for any length of time, then you’ve already heard of article marketing with ecommerce optimization.

Article marketing, in its simplest form, is the process of writing high-quality and informative articles, that lend to your expert status on a particular subject. These articles are then distributed to several high-ranking article directories like EzineArticles.com, Goarticles.com, Articlesbase.com, and isnare.com, where you can include a brief HTML or text based author bio with links back to your website.

These links in the bio, not only send traffic back to your site, but also provide you with high-quality and authoritative backlinks from each of the article directories. These backlinks, when structured properly, can provide you with a rankings boost on the major search engines for products for online store owners.

However, you should always maximize your articles’ exposure by re-purposing the content in additional locations. Some of the most powerful methods include:

- Chopping each article into 2-3 blog posts to add on you own site’s blog. Schedule each to post 1-3 days apart.

- Combining multiple similar articles into a special report, then selling or giving away that report as a lead generation tool on ebay, your own website, amazon.com, and other sites.

- Reading the article, out-loud, and recording your voice to make a short audiobook and/or podcast that can be disseminated to the various podcast directories like iTunes, podcast alley, and others.

- Taking the audio version of the article, and adding stock or your own photos to make a slide-show video, which you can then submit to video directories like YouTube.com, viddler.com, revver.com, and others with increase ecommerce traffic.

- Combining the audio, video, and text versions of one or more articles on a particular subject, and make a “home study course” that could then be sold at a premium price point.

- Take one or more of your most well-received and popular articles and offer it for publication through your local newspapers and magazines.

- Take all the articles for a given period of time (i.e. month, quarter, year) and package them into a book that you can sell on amazon, or offer as premium paid content for visitors to your website.

You can feel certain that you can maximize your website’s exposure, and profits, by taking the above ideas and implementing them on each article that you write…consistently over time.

About the Author

Kyle Grant runs the eCommerce Site Owners private members-only website, where he provides in-depth training, how to eCommerce videos, checklists, downloads, templates, and time saving tools for online store owners.
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