Writing Articles To Generate Traffic

Writing articles is one of the absolute best ways to generated free traffic to your site. You write a short article, submit it to a few places, and get a permanent stream of traffic. Here are some of the ways that you can get traffic to your website from articles:

1. Direct click-throughs from an article bank. I get lots of traffic from people reading my articles at an article bank, and clicking on the link in the "author's resource box."

2. Search engines. Try "cheap international plane tickets" on Google, and you'll get sites with my article. Wherever the article is found, readers can click through to my travel site.

3. Other sites. When I see a referral address I don't recognize in my site reports, I check it out. Usually it's a web site that is using one of my articles.

4. Your newsletters. If you have a subscription address link in your articles, you can generate repeat traffic to your site, assuming you host your newsletter on the site.

5. Other's newsletters. If your article is used by a high-circulation newsletter, you can get a lot of traffic in a short time.

Article Submission - The Basics

Write an article and submit it to article banks and newsletters. Most article banks carry "free-distribution "articles. Anyone can use them for their site, newsletter or blog, if they don't change them, and they leave the links active. The link(s) is in the "resource box," where you say a few words about yourself and invite the reader to visit your web site.

Think about this for a moment. You post the article once, and it spreads to other sites and becomes many streams of permanent traffic. Why permanent? An example: I get traffic for "mexico real estate" on my site HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com because of an article written by someone else. The author gets clicks through to her site, but I get search traffic and some revenue too, so why would I ever remove that article?

Some article banks charge, by the way, but there are plenty that are free. Many have several options ranging from free to better placement or active distribution for a small charge.

List-Articles

Article writing doesn't have to be difficult. Online articles are generally short and less formal than magazine articles anyhow, but if you really don't have a knack for writing, try a "list-article." This type of article is the most popular online. This is fortunate for you, because it's also the easiest type to write.

If your site is about making money on Ebay, you could write an article titled "Ebay - The Top Ten Sellers." A two-sentence introduction, a list with a sentence or two about each item, a bit about yourself and your site, and you're done. Another article might be "Ebay - Six Mistakes People Make." How can we not read that if we want to avoid the mistakes?

Note: To see an example of an article bank, visit GoArticles.com. It's not my favorite, but it's easy to register and to use.

Next Time: Article writing - what to do and mistakes to avoid.

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