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TYPING FOR TRAFFIC : Marketing Your Website Through ArticlesYou need traffic. It's that simple. No matter how amazingly designed your website is, it will just collect digital dust if no one would get to visit it. The need for traffic becomes doubly important if you're running a business through your website. The fate of your income stream is primarily dependent on the number of visitors you would be able to generate for your web pages.
There are traffic-boosting options, of course. Some enterprises would sell you guaranteed traffic at a per head basis. Others would guarantee to deliver bulks of traffic for a certain period of time. A few would offer to build a product for you which would serve as the heart of a viral marketing campaign that would bring visitors to your website at an exponentially increasing rate.
All of these are well and
good, most definitely. But they would cost you some dough. You would need to have some cash to invest on these strategies.
But there is one tactic that is amazingly effective but will never cost you a single cent. Excited to know about it?
You have surely heard about article marketing. It is a powerful strategy that would give you a lot of back links, without you having to lift a finger. This has made article marketing pretty popular among the Internet marketing crowd.
How does it work?
Well, all you have to do is to write an article, any article for as long as it is informative and worth reading, about any topic related to the subject that your website caters to. A 350 to 900 word article would suffice. After which, you would only have to submit this article to the many article directories in the World Wide Web. Good places for this are www.ezinearticles.com , www.goarticles.com and www.articlefactory.com .
Now the clincher every article you submit should include a resource box where you could briefly introduce yourself and include a link to your website. Every time a user visits the article directory and gets to read your article, two benefits would result:
1. In the mind of the reader, you'd be branded as an expert in the field you wrote about; and
2. Your link would get exposed.
Article directories appear prominently in search engine results. If you write your articles to make good use of applicable keywords, there would be a higher chance that the page where it will be hosted would appear in the results page of every related query. This is the best and cheapest back link that you could ever have in the world of Internet marketing!
Additionally, editors of electronic magazines, or eZines, as well as webmasters, regularly check out these article directories looking for pieces they could use as content for their newsletters or their sites. To avoid copyright violations, they could republish your article provided that they would keep your resource box. This would give your link more exposure. The best thing about this is that article directories will never delete hosted articles. The possibility of your article getting picked up by editors and webmasters the world over would go on and on for as long as your article is there in the article directories.
It goes without saying that possessing some writing skills would make the process easier. But if you are not blessed with such skills, or if you simply don't have the time to prepare your own articles, you could always hire the services of a ghostwriter. The going write of a 500 word article these days is somewhere in the vicinity of $5 to $15. Any amount below this range would be a bargain. Just make sure that the ghostwriter is perfectly qualified for the job.
Imagine if you submit hundreds of articles to these article directories. What glorious advertising mileage your website would experience!
Article marketing is simply amazing. It is worth all the praises it has garnered from webmasters and Internet marketers throughout the world. If you have yet to try this strategy, do so as soon as possible, and it is sure not to fail you.
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