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Article Series:
Niche Marketing Opportunities
Increase
Your Web Traffic With Niche Articles
by Jeff Cohen
For your internet business to be successful,
you need to get large amounts of targeted traffic to your website,
and internet marketers have found some pretty ingenious
ways of driving targeted traffic to their websites, including pay-per-click
campaigns, SEO (search engine optimization), email marketing
and ezine advertising. Many marketers, however, have neglected
a simple top quality method of driving traffic to their sites:
writing short 400 word articles and submitting them so they
appear all over the internet.
Don't be mislead into thinking this is a waste of time, having
your articles appear on lots of different websites helps you
in two major ways:
1. Each article provides a link back to your website. If the
content of the article matches the content of the web page
you set the article link to, the search engines will deem this
a relevant link. The more relevant links you get to your website,
the higher it will be ranked in the search engines. The higher
your site is ranked in the search engines, the more traffic
you will receive.
2. People who use the search engines are looking for information,
and if they come across one of your articles, and while reading
the article find the content interesting and helpful, they
will be inclined click on the link to your website so they
can continue their research. The more places you can find to
display your articles, the more people will find and read them
and the more traffic you will get to your website.
What should your articles consist of? Nothing fancy, each
article should be around 400 words long and contain just enough
content to:
- Give
the reader some useful information.
- Interest
an ezine editor enough to want to publish your article.
- Get
the readers interest raised to the point they want to click
on the link to your website to get more information.
Your article could be:
- One
or two tips lifted from the info product you are selling
from your website.
- Paraphrased
information from a particular web page you would like the
reader to visit.
- A
review of a product you would like the reader to purchase.
The link in a review would point to your affiliate page via
a link tracker, or to a page on your website where you offer
more details.
You
don't even have to write your own articles... You can
pay a ghost writer to write them for you. To do this, visit
websites like Elance.com where you can list details of the
articles you want written and find people who are interested
in writing them for you. Make it quite clear to the person
who writes your articles that you keep the copyright.
Once you have your article ready for distribution, you need
to submit to as many places as possible, including these three
places:
1.
Article Directories. After a quick content check, the directories
will then publish your article instantly, and once you submit
your content to one of these directories it will begin to be
republished all over the internet. People are constantly on
the lookout for quality articles, and you can allow them the
rights to re-use yours as long as they leave intact the link
back to your website contained in the bio at the bottom of
the article. Anyone who wants to visit your site can do so
by clicking on this link.
2.
Ezine Editors. Submitting your articles to popular ezines
related to your niche website will get you lots of well-targeted
traffic. Many ezines desperately need new good quality content.
If you submit an article for publication in one, you will get
a lot of publicity in return. Having hundreds or even better,
thousands of people reading your articles is always a good
way to increase your website traffic.
3.
Your Own Article Directory. Many webmasters
and ezine publishers don't know that article directories
exist. After reading one
of your articles they will visit your website and you should
prominently display a link to your own articles. The link must
make the reader aware that you content is free for use in any
website or ezine. For example, use the wording "Get Free
Content For Your Ezine" in a link in a very noticeable
place on your website. # # # # # SolveYourProblem.com : 2007
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