Getting Traffic Through Article Marketing

What is article marketing really?

Do you ask web owners one by one to buy your articles? Do you contact publishers to have your articles or prints for a fee? Ironically, it is giving away your articles for free….this is the reality of article marketing. But…it is the only tested mighty way of establishing your authority online with your particular business.

Who can use this method?

Majority of the Internet marketers are rapidly switching from costly Google Adwords to article marketing because it is more effective.

How is it done?

If you have an online business, you have to create short articles relevant to that business. These articles must talk about helpful guides, insights and knowledge useful for the readers to implement. You can submit them to Article Directories at no cost (FREE). There are many high traffic sites, among them are:

Article directory sites where you don’t need to register;

• http://www.articles4business.org/submit.php
• http://www.friendlydir.info/submit_article.php
• http://www.linkinsane.info
• http://www.articlebiz.com
• http://www.selfseo.com

Article directory sites where you need to sign-up;

• http://www.ezinearticles.com
• http://www.articlebase.com
• http://www.goarticles.com
• http://www.articleclick.com
• http://www.articlemarketer.com

The Article Directories publish your articles on the above sites (there are more, not mentioned here) and allow the author to add a link or two in favor of your business site together with a short marketing message at the resource box. This demonstrates that what you gave for free promotes your site for free, through your link at the resource box.

The purpose of directory submission is getting traffic to your site for free. It can build high traffic fast. Considering your articles are picked by hundreds of websites from directories read by visitors and clicked at the link you left at the resource box; you can get perpetual stream of traffic.

Posted articles on article directories generate traffic from different places. Visitors come from:

1. The article directory sites:

There are many ezine editors, journalists, bloggers and those interested in finding articles that search for content from article directories. If they find your article interesting with useful information, they are free to use it provided the resource box with your link goes with it. Can you imagine the volume of traffic if all those who picked up your article have half a million subscribers?

2. Via search engines:

Articles with relevant keywords are indexed by search engine spiders and appear in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Optimized submission to article directories with high Google page ranks such as the ones listed above have a strong impact on search engines. Visitors coming to your site via search engines are targeted ones who are exactly looking for your business using keywords or phrases found in your articles.

3. Subscribers:

Subscription to article directories is based on specific categories, if your article falls under the category people have subscribed through RSS feed, they are instantly notified that your article has been posted. Article directory submission presents your work to a whole lot of subscribers without extra cost and effort on your part.

Therefore, you should give top priority to article marketing when putting up a business online. Plan ahead and have your articles written early even if your website is still under its development stages. This will give you enough time to create articles which can help your target customers find you online and drive high traffic to your site.

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