How To Get More Free Targeted Traffic From Your Current Article Marketing Efforts

Article marketing is one of the main pillars of driving free targeted traffic online. Not only does article marketing allow you to very tightly target potential prospects, but it’s pretty much the only free traffic-generation strategy that has remained unhindered by search engine changes and evolutions over the past 10 or 12 years. With tens of thousands, possibly even hundreds of thousands of people already using article marketing online, anything that can suddenly increase their results from those efforts is obviously a pretty big deal.

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Note: This post isn’t about HOW to market using articles – if that’s what you’re looking for then see my free article marketing reports like Article Power and Article Marketing Overview, more in-depth information like my Understanding Article Marketing and < a href="http://start-article-marketing.com/article-marketing-hero/index.html" target="_blank">Article Marketing Super Hero e-books, or simply read these article marketing articles.

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Now you can add the power of the WordPress blogging platform into your article marketing mix in a whole new way… Not by simply adding your articles to your own blog – I’m assuming you’re already professional enough to be doing that – but by hosting your own easy-to-use article directory! We set one up recently using the WP platform as our CMS – take a look at our Articles and Content Article Directory (and even bookmark it to submit your articles). Because it’s built on the WP framework, I was able to install it and tweak it all in one evening. Better still, it’s built using a free theme and all free plugins, so there was no cost to setting it up ( I already owned the domain name and hosting, but once I saw the potential for this I deleted my old site there and installed this over it.)

First up, it’s another place to submit your articles both for traffic and backlinks – and since you OWN the directory, you can do what you like in terms of embedding links in your articles, your sidebars, etc. Secondly, you can target the directory any way you like – adding or subtracting categories is as simple as in any other WordPress blog. While I love EzineArticles.com and have published over 100 articles there, it’s always irked me that they won’t accept articles dealing with private label rights, or allow links to private label rights products, information, etc. With your own article directory, YOU choose what’s acceptable and what isn’t.

Thirdly, and most importantly, you can now invite other authors and marketers to submit articles to your directory. If that seems counter-productive, stop and think for a moment… The more articles published, the greater the potential number of listings for your article directory in the search engines. And since you approve the articles in the same format as you post to your blog, you have the opportunity to ensure each page is search engine optimized – and the various SEO plugins for blogs work just as well in your directory too. Not to mention every page, whether your content or another marketer’s, has YOUR ads, YOUR AdSense, etc, on it along with the author’s links.

And while most authors will just submit articles and leave, smarter pros will also promote their articles there, especially if you use plugins to make the social bookmarking easy for them. Looking back at our article directory you’ll see buttons for sharing each article on FaceBook and Twitter at the top of each article, and one for Google Buzz at the end of the article. There are also buttons at the bottom to bookmark the page on Squidoo, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Technorati, StumbleUpon and other services. The easier you make it for others to promote your directory, the greater the potential traffic and search engine rankings it can achieve. And if links in your Author’s Resource Box drives targeted traffic to your sites and affiliate offers, think of how much more free targeted traffic you can get if those same links appear in the sidebar of every page in your article directory!

On top of it all, I’ve saved the best info for last… You’ve seen how much potential having your own article directory can offer in terms of getting more traffic and boosting your article marketing results substantially, and as I’ve mentioned, once you know how to set these up and what themes, plugins, etc to use you can install your article directory in one day. So you’ll be pleased to know that all of that information is covered in a series of downloadable how-to videos that show you exactly how to install and configure an article directory. Called ‘Your Article Profits‘, the bundle also includes a copy of the free theme and plugins that enable it all, so that as soon as you’re finished watching he instructional videos you’ll be ready to set up an article directory that very same day.

Then, when you submit articles to other directories you publish it in yours as well, and keep on building your article profits!

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Targeted Traffic & Affiliate Marketing – Getting Backlinks With Article Marketing

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://top-traffic-tips.com – All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Affiliate marketing success depends on driving enough targeted traffic to merchants’ sites through your affiliate marketing links. There are a number of ways to achieve this goal, and the more ways you can master the greater your chances for success in your own affiliate marketing business. One of the most successful ways to accomplish this is through article marketing.

For those just getting started, understand that this doesn’t refer to marketing articles online, but rather to using articles as part of your marketing mix. Since most people come online looking for information, providing that information through articles you’ve authored is a great way to get their attention – and done right can lead them to take the desired action by clicking through to the affiliate offers you’re promoting.

This is a two-step process; first you have to provide good, solid content that fills their needs, and then you have to distribute the articles in such a way as to be sure they can find your articles in the first place. To achieve the former, be sure that the articles you author are of interest mostly to the market you’re targeting, and that every single article provides useful information for them. Anyone can write fluff – distinguish yourself as an expert in your field by sticking to solid, helpful information that’s dead-on targeted to them.

Once you’ve started writing your articles you need to get them online where they can be found, that is you need to start your article marketing process. Article directories are the most common place for people to search for information, and generally have strong positioning in the major search engines. Make use of this relationship by only submitting your articles to the top few directories, and by being sure you’ve included links to your blogs and squeeze pages along with a call to action in your Author’s Resource Box at the end of each article.

Every time you have an article published at a major article directory you’ve created another backlink to your sites. This is important for two reasons – both because you can garner traffic directly from the readers at the directory and because the search engines just found another high-authority site that links to yours, which can boost your rankings in the search engine results pages (SERPs). And each boost there can help to bring more targeted traffic to your sites.

In addition, the best article directories also make the articles available to bloggers, webmasters and newsletter publishers who can use your articles as long as they leave your copyright and links intact and active. If you can author articles that get published via this system, you can end up generating a number of additional backlinks through those blogs and websites, and get direct traffic from the readers of those e-zines as well.

It’s also important to note that a myriad of affiliate marketing techniques, strategies and tricks have come and gone since the web was established in 1994, but providing good, solid content through article marketing has always been and will continue to be one of the darlings of the search engines – after all, their sole purpose is to make it easy for people to find the information they need, and you’re providing that information in your articles. As long as you’re writing unique, on-topic articles that genuinely provide helpful information you won’t need to worry about the next update in any search engine’s algorithm – they need the article directories as much as you need the targeted search engine traffic!

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Download your free Article Marketing Overview (PDF & MP3) now to learn more about harnessing the power of article marketing. For more help from super-affiliate Doug Champigny, be sure to check out the articles on his Start Affiliate Marketing site.

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Double Your Targeted Traffic From Article Marketing!

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Article marketing has just been taken up a notch, thanks to one new innovative article marketing resource. Now you can get targeted traffic from article marketing without ever writing or submitting articles, or potentially DOUBLE the targeted traffic you get from your article marketing activities online – and make money online while doing it!

Consider the traditional article marketing model: You write an article, submit it to the article directories (also known as article repositories), and gain targeted traffic in return as people click the links in the Author’s Info box at the end of your article, right? Well here’s how this new article directory improves on that model…

What if you had one or two links embeded right in the content that led back to your site? Obviously this improves your article marketing response, as people are more likely to click embedded links in your article than the one at the bottom in your bio box.

And what if every article you submitted earned you credits toward banner advertising on that same article directory? Suddenly you have more exposure, links on additional pages back to your site, or even a chance to turn your article marketing into affiliate marketing AND targeted traffic generation, by linking your articles back to your own site and the banners to affiliate links, or vice versa.

To top it off, you also earn credits for each person you refer to the site who joins – refer a few article marketing junkies and your article marketing efforts are suddenly paying off big time!

Another plus, as if any more were needed, is that the site pays you a commission on any purchases made by people you refer to the site too. So now even if you never submit an article, by joining the new article marketing directory and acting as an affiliate, you’re earning banner credits and affiliate commissions – making money from article marketing without ever submitting an article! But obviously you’ll want to submit articles here too, since they can be spidered by the search engines and bring in more potential revenue, and because you can use your links in and under the articles to drive more targeted traffic to your affiliate links, blog and e-zine opt-in pages.

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Power Tip For Affiliate Marketing: Many affiliate marketing opportunities provide you with blog posts and/or sample e-mails to send out to your lists or post on your blogs. Put your article marketing affiliate efforts on fast-forward by rewriting those samples into articles and submitting them as new articles – if you keep the curiosity factor and presell techniques without retaining the ‘pitchy’ feel, your click-through rate, and thus your potential income, will skyrocket with little effort.
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When all is said and done, this new affiliate marketing resource can help boost the targeted traffic from your article marketing efforts and your affiliate commissions from your affiliate marketing efforts connected to the site. So get signed up now this great new article marketing resource, the AffSphere Article Directory, and start driving more targeted traffic and affiliate commissions your way today! Don’t give up on your traditional article marketing activities, just add this site into your list of article directories to submit your articles to – and power up your article marketing with very little effort!

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