Article writing is a little overwhelming if time is a factor. As the number of blogs I have increases I am feeling the pinch to create articles for those blogs and there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day.
Heck, even when I only had a couple of blogs I still had days where my brain couldn’t get in gear for writing articles.
For the times I get writers block, for whatever reason, or just don’t have time, I like having alternative methods for getting great content and that means outsourcing.
Article Marketing Method One – Find Guest Bloggers
When I am looking for guest bloggers I focus on just one of my blogs at a time, using my main keywords to find other blogs in the same market, using the major search engines.
My first priority is to find good writers. The net is full of writers who have english as their second, even third language and they don’t always make good sense in their writing.
Then, I contact those I have found throught their email address if it’s available, otherwise I leave a comment with my request.
Important: I I don’t just leave a comment requesting them as a guest blogger. I comment with value added content sharing what I learned from their post. If I can I will add something from my point of view, so the blogger gets a good vibe from me. Then I make my request.
I also try my best to be the first to comment on their post, that way it’s likely the author will see it, like it and respond to it in a positive way.
Article Marketing Method Two – Hire Content Writers
You will find numerous sites to hire article writers for you article marketing needs.
Forums are great places to find writeres, just be sure to ask for examples of their writing.
Of course I always rely on my favorite search engine, Google, to look for article writing services.
Article Marketing Method Three – Get Free Content
1. I have found article directories are great places to find articles. It’s important using article directories for your article marketing efforts to know you can’t modify the artilces and you are legally bound to use the author bio.
Again go to your favorite search engine and type in your keyword. Then add ‘article directory’ at the end.
You will usually find plenty of free content.
I use a few services, where I can write articles and submit articles for other bloggers to use or for getting articles for my own blogs. The perfect way to get articles and to share content to increase the number of backlinks to my blogs.
2. Article Marketing Automation – AMA is a great way to get content for free. Due to the fact that others are writing these articles you want to go through each article to verify that they are well written.
Important: You want to follow through the links that are in these articles to be sure they go to relevant sites. As you know there are a lot of spammers who will use article marketing sites to get more backlinks to their spam.
3. SEOLinkVine – SEOLinkVine is another great service I use to get free articles.
It’s been my experience than even getting a few free articles saves me valuable time for other things.