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Article Marketing Promotion For Speakers

Guest post by: Carma Spence-Pothitt

Article Overview: As a public speaker, you are an expert on some topic. What better way to demonstrate this expertise... and get some search engine juice... than through article marketing.

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Article Marketing Promotion For Speakers

As a public speaker, you are an expert on some topic. What better way to demonstrate this expertise... and get some search engine juice... than through article marketing.

Basically, you write short 300-500 word articles related to your topic of expertise. Then, in your resource box, point readers to your speaker website. This is a long term strategy that can help build backlinks to your site, introduce new people to your topic of expertise and even attract potential joint venture partners and affiliate marketers for your products and services. It can also lead to more gigs booked.

Now here's the trick to making this work.

First, uncover the key word phrases that people use when searching for a speaker like you. Then, optimize your articles and their titles for those key word phrases. You can find these phrases by going to a key word research tool and entering key words that you think are relevant. The tool will generate a list of related key words and phrases that are actually being entered into search engines within the past few days. Read through this list to see if you're right and to further fine tune your list key word phrases.

Now don't get too carried away with your optimization efforts. Make sure that your article is readable and shows off your expert knowledge.

Next, make sure you have a compelling resource box. This is the paragraph at the end of your article that will drive the reader to your website. Write your research box so that it does these two things:

1. Transitions your readers seamlessly from the content of your article to your call to action.

2. Provides the reader with a compelling reason to click on your link.

These things are crucial. If you don't transition the reader to your offer, they will know it is separate content and may skip reading your resource box altogether. And, if you don't give the reader a compelling reason to click on your link, they simply won't.

Are you thinking this is all way too much work? Well, think of it this way... you've already created all this wonderful content for your presentations, why not re-purpose some of it to help grow your website's traffic. Do you blog? You can re-purpose your blog posts and use them in your article marketing, too.

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About the Author: Carma Spence-Pothitt
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Carma Spence-Pothitt is the president of the Women's Business Gallery, an information-rich resource for women entrepreneurs, small business owners, and solo professionals, as well as founder of WordPress ReVamp, which helps authors, speakers and coaches build and nurture a thriving web presence. If you would like to learn the five steps to turbo-charge your marketing, pick up your copy of the free report at www.marketingturbocharge.com. You can also visit The Women's Business Gallery to sign up for the monthly newsletter The ART of Business and receive the free eReport "StART Your Business".

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