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How to Get Traffic to your Web Site with Articles
It's not my intention to give you a 5 or 10 step plan to get
traffic to your web site. But I do want to talk to you about one
of the best traffic generating systems that exists.
Posting your Articles to Article Directories.
And it's really a surprisingly efficient way to bring in
traffic.
Hopefully you're not saying "But I don't have any articles". If
you don't, and are serious about wanting traffic, then get some.
Either write them yourself, or have them 'ghostwritten' for you.
It is amazingly inexpensive to do this, and the benefit is
priceless, and non-stop.
The most well-known place to have articles written 'on the
cheap' is http://www.elance.com
You must believe me when I say that the benefits are endless.
Most of us start out reluctant to spend a lot of time posting
articles, but when we finally become convinced of the value of
the extra traffic, we become believers. Then we kick ourselves
for not doing it sooner.
Here's How it Works:
Let's say that your web site is about Affiliate Marketing, as
mine is. You need to become known as an expert in your field.
The best way to do this is by having articles on your
content-based web site telling all you can about affiliate
marketing techniques.
In addition to pages on your web site, you can become well known
even faster by posting articles to Article Directories. They are
in the business of providing articles to the Internet public on
many different categories of expertise.
People can read them, and even more significantly, they can post
them on their own web site, or even use them in their email
newsletters. Well how does that help you? Simple.. your name and
resource box is at the end of every article, and people will
surf over to visit your site from that.
That is how you get extra traffic.
Do all those who read your articles visit your site? Of course
not. In fact, only about 3% of readers may visit. This is quite
normal, but it does eventually snowball into significant
numbers. Here's How.
When people use your articles on their web sites or ezines, they
must also maintain the credits and respect the copyrights of the
author. I felt really honoured when I discovered that some of my
articles were used the day after I posted them. And you only
discover a very few places that your work is used. Most of the
time, you can't know.
The first Directory I posted to is Ezine Articles at http://EzineArticles.com/ which is the
fastest growing of all of them. By logging in to my members
page, I can view how many times each article has been read. What
I can't see is how many times people borrowed my articles, and
how many times they were read in that new place, etc, etc.
Can you see how significant all this is?
One more important point is the question of how long the
articles should be. My personal preferences are 700
to 1,000
words. However, 500 to 800 is an acceptable range. In fact, if
you have a 2,000 word article, you should split it up into 2
parts. That way you get the advantage of one extra page of
visibility.
Finally, there is the question of how many directories you
should post to.
You need to be aware, that posting articles can be a very time
consuming exercise. For that reason, it may be best to test
many, but only use a few. The more popular ones are usually
better organized and permit article posting in an easy way. Ths
includes previewing it before posting it with errors.
I used to post manually to 8 directories but have rejected more
than 20 that were such a drag to use, that I gave up on them. On
the easy ones to post to, I can get in and out in less than 5
minutes for one article.
Here are some current favorites:
Ezine Articles http://EzineArticles.com/
Article Alley http://www.articlealley.com/
Go Articles http://www.goarticles.com/
Idea Marketers http://ideamarketers.com/
What is surprising to discover is that every directory has it's
certain type of reader with differing tastes. An article read 50
times on one directory may be read 200 to 300 times in another
one. And the reverse also happens for a different article
subject, when comparing the same directories. Instead of 50 and
300, it could be 300 and 50.
This proves that you must post to several directories. 20 to 35
is a good number of directories to use. Even that is hard to
maintain. It's really quite time consuming to post to that many
submission services, so imagine if you wanted to do even more.
Well, I've found a fantastic new software program that automates
the article submission process, and allows you to post articles
to over 200 directories. It's fast and largly automated. Get
more information about submitting articles at Article Submitter
If you change headlines and a paragraph or two, then that is
also good. Let the search engines find you more often that way
as they will take them as different articles.
I don't have enough articles posted yet, but I slowly add more
every week or so. My primary target is 25 to 35 articles, and
eventually 100 articles.
To find out where some of my work is, just search on Yahoo or
Google for "Fred Farah"
Until next time.
Fred Farah copyright 2005
About the author:
Fred Farah
The Best Affiliate Products
and Niche Market Strategies for Maximum Profits
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