10 Reasons To Celebrate Your Article Marketing Success BEFORE Your Google Ranking Improves

When you first start to submit articles, it will likely take three to six months of steady work before you start to see results. That time can feel like an eternity for a website owner who is eagerly looking for some first signs of his article marketing success.

During that initial period when you are getting your article marketing campaign revved up, you are making progress with your website and changes are taking place, but you just can't see them yet. These are 'below the surface' changes, rather like a seed that starts growing in the ground before it breaks the soil.

It's completely natural to want to see the first fruits of your labors as soon as possible, so why not choose to focus your attention on areas where immediate results are popping up?

There are lots of things to celebrate when you first get started article marketing. Here are 10 ideas:

1 - You can congratulate yourself for undertaking a marketing campaign for your website.

A lot of website owners don't even bother with that or know that it's necessary, so if you're actually taking action to market your website, you're way ahead of the game.

2 - You can get direct clicks from articles from the get-go.

It takes months for search engines to adjust rankings, but you can start receiving additional traffic from your articles as soon as they are published. Now, it won't be anything compared to search traffic, but it's still more than you were getting before. The more articles you submit and the more times those articles are republished on different websites, the more opportunities you create for people to click the link in your resource box and end up at your website.

3 - You're providing helpful content to people who need it.

This is the ultimate reason for writing articles, and you can get fulfillment from helping others from the first day you start submitting articles.

4 - Your articles can be published offline, in magazine, books, etc.

Free reprint articles can sometimes find their way offline, and that's another way for you to connect to your target customers. Getting published offline doesn't impact your search engine ranking, but it can still help bring attention to you business.

5 - You're learning something new that you can teach to others.

As a small business owner, you never stop learning. You might not feel completely comfortable in this new field, but you are still doing something admirable by taking the first steps. You are a beginner, and a beginner knows more than someone who hasn't even started. Even with a very basic knowledge of article marketing, you are equipped to start teaching this helpful skill to others.

6 - Your writing skills are likely improving.

Practice really does improve skill level, and with each article you write you are getting a little better at writing articles.

7 - You are becoming a better teacher.

Each article that you create should teach your reader something specific about your niche. It's great to teach someone how to do something. Teaching is a skill, just as writing is. The more articles you write, the better you will get at teaching people about your topic.

8 - Your headlines are getting better too.

The first impression that an article makes is in the title, so you can attract or repel readers in the first few seconds that someone is looking at your article. With each article that you write, you can try different techniques with titles and get a better feel for what works. Improving your titles is a huge deal!

9 - You are becoming more creative.

Many of us did not write on a weekly basis or think like a teacher before we started article marketing. Writing articles forces you to think more creatively, with your article subjects, your titles, your writing style, your teaching method, and your resource boxes. You become more creative with each article that you write, even from your first articles.

10 - Celebrate that you are keeping at it!

So many people start things and then give up shortly thereafter when they don't see immediate results.

Think about people who start exercise routines--how many give up within the first few weeks? Lots!

How many keep on going? A minority. Those who stick with it though are sure to see success. It's just a matter of time before fat starts to melt away and muscles take their place. It's the same with article marketing. Stick with it and you will see more tangible results as time passes.

There are too many positive things happening when you start submitting articles to focus solely on one thing that has a payoff months away. Instead, celebrate the wonderful things that are happening now. You deserve it!


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