Article Marketing -- The Traffic-Driving Gift That Never Stops Giving

Article Marketing is a very effective and economical approach to promote your site, your products and yourself.

You've constructed your web site and got it looking just the way you want it. Now is time when you suddenly realize, your website serves no purpose until people start visiting it. ‘If you build it, they will come’ does not work on the Internet… Not when you are competing against billions of other web sites! Until you start promoting your site, no one will be able to discover it.

Thankfully, there is no shortage of methods you can use to get traffic. Writing and posting articles, often called Article Marketing, is a great place to start. Unlike many other traffic generating schemes, Article Marketing has worked since the beginning of the Internet, and will never stop working. Best of all, it can be complete free!

Article Marketing helps you in several ways simultaneously...

- They are a means of providing great content and value to your readers. The more value you offer, the more curious readers will become about you and your products or services.

- As you write more articles, your name becomes more recognized, both by readers and by the search engines, and your reputation as an expert rises.

- Each of your article posts will include a signature file, also known as a resource box, inside which you can post a link back to your website. It can also contain a bit of biographical info about yourself, and/or a quick pitch for your site, product or service. The links you include will drive some traffic directly back to your web site. Then as you keep contributing fresh articles over time, you will be growing the backlinks to your site exponentially.

- Your articles may be picked up from the article directories by publishers looking for great content for their sites. This will get your name, your writing and your links in front of even more people!

Make sure the information in your article is interesting, useful and valuable. Giving your readers compelling, valuable information builds their relationship with you, and makes it more likely that they will click through to your site. Your articles are not mini-sales letters. They do need to give valuable information. In fact, the article directories will likely refuse your articles if they are promotional or trying to sell anything.

An article which doesn’t grab the attention of your reader is likely to be overlooked or ignored, which guarantees that your link is not clicked. This is doubly important for your article headline and summary. Make these stand out to encourage people to click and read more.

Make sure your writing is original. Copying and re-posting an article which already exists will create problems for you. Search engines and article directories don't want to give their users a bad experience by returning the same content multiple times. When you submit your article for posting, it will be compared to all the others which are already indexed. If they find your content is duplicates other articles, the directories will refuseyour submission, and the search engines will not give you credit for the backlinks. Not to mention, your readers may catch on too. The idea behind article marketing is to build your reputation, not to harm it.

Now, if you are worried that you aren't a particularly great writer, or that you may not have the time to write this much material, you have the option of hiring someone to write articles for you. A simple web search will turn up many people and services which can writre articles for you. You may be able to give them nothing more than a few keywords, and they will research and write everything for you. Additionally, experienced ghost writers often are familiar with search engine optimization (SEO) practices, which they can incorporate into your articles, making them even more effective for you. Make sure you insist that the articles they write are entirely original, and that you are buying exclusive ownership rights to it.

You can check to see whether your articles are original by entering them into the Plagiarism Checker at http://www.articlechecker.com/.

You can then post your article to the article directories. There are literally hundreds of these on the Internet, which you can uncover through a web search. The top directories are important to your search engine results page (SERP) rankings. Posting to the hundreds of other directories out there may not have as profound an impact on your traffic or SERP rankings. But having hundreds of backlinks out there which point to your site is better than having just a handful.

You can get hundreds of links from just one article. By writing just one new article per day you can have thousands of backlinks in a couple of weeks.

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Alex Arthur emarketingheadstart.com/

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