Your e-marketing strategies for getting traffic to websites should include as varied a mix as possible. In driving web traffic, as in many things in life, putting ‘all your eggs in one basket’ can leave you in a precarious position. Yet many online marketing plans do just that – less-savvy marketers and a great many offline businesses spend the bulk of their traffic generation time and their online marketing budget focused strictly on SEO, or Search Engine Marketing.

But while it’s obvious to more experienced online marketers that SEO should only be one aspect of your efforts to build web traffic to websites, is SEO even the BEST method of promoting the site you’re trying to drive traffic to?

For example, let’s compare article marketing to on-going SEO activities. (On-site SEO is done when the site is built, and it’s only natural to consider the best SEO practices at that point as it takes no additional time. What we’re discussing here is the ongoing time spent on SEO after the website is complete and you’re trying to increase your visibility on the Search Engine Ranking Pages, or SERPs.)

Effective ongoing SEO activities require online marketers to be true specialists. This is because, in effect, SEO companies are engaged in what is almost guerrilla warfare against the search engines. The search engines want to list sites based on their content, their originality and whether the site is truly helpful to search engine users who are searching for information that’s relevant to them. Effective SEO requires search engine marketers to try and manipulate those results in favor of their clients or their own websites and blogs.

This has led to search engines not disclosing their ranking algorithms, and to changing those algorithms regularly as they find SEO efforts affecting their results or they come up with better ways to evaluate each page. For example, one of the methods used to evaluate a page is the number of sites linking to that page, the assumption being that the best content gets linked to the most. Online marketing programmers then created automated reciprocal linking sites called Free-For-All links pages, which flourished just long enough for the engines to catch on, at which point they dropped the rankings of the sites using them. Software was developed that spawned hundreds of sites almost instantly, all linking back to one site. Again, once the search engines had the ‘footprint’ of sites built that way, they dropped those using them. As an additional step, at least one large search engine also starting rating links lower if they come from within the same ‘sub-net mask’ (basically, the same server or servers located in the same vicinity since they may well be owned by the same website owners.)

And so the battle continues, with SEO firms trying to get more website traffic to their clients and the search engines trying to send their website traffic to the most deserving sites based on original, helpful content.

By comparison, top article directories work to help the search engines to achieve those goals. At EzineArticles, the biggest of the online article repositories, it’s now mandatory that articles submitted be unique, hither-to unpublished, properly written and not on subjects most commonly used for spam. Further, in an ongoing attempt to ensure that each article is helpful to its target market, submissions must be 400 words or longer – anything less and there’s usually not enough content to properly discuss a topic.

That being the case, the links from the bottom of the articles are completely legit, as article marketers write their content to attract readers targeted to the niche of the sites they link to. For the article writer that’s important because it means the website traffic generated is much more likely to be interested in the products or services their sites provide, and it’s of value to the readers as its a way to get more information or help in a topic that’s of interest to them.

As you can see, already article marketing is ahead of SEO vis-a-vis attracting web traffic to websites – each provides backlinks to the target website for the search engines to spider, but popular article directories also have their own audience that can be targeted through article submissions. But it doesn’t end there…

As an author builds up a collection of article submissions in the article directory, their target market starts to recognize them as an expert in the niche they cover when writing articles. That name recognition and added credibility is known as ‘branding’, and once again it leads not only to more web traffic to websites promoted by the article marketer, but often to higher conversion rates on the target sites due to being perceived as an expert in that field.

And as if that weren’t enough incentive to spend your time writing articles and submitting them instead of just doing SEO marketing, published EzineArticles authors have one additional benefit – their RSS feed. When you go to the profile page of any EzineArticles author, you’ll see the orange RSS feed notifier appear in your browser’s address bar. Savvy article marketers will take that RSS feed and submit it to the RSS directories just like a blog feed, potentially drawing that much more website traffic to their articles, with the resultant additional web traffic to their websites as well.

While both SEO efforts and article marketing have their place in your online marketing plans, they represent just the tip of the iceberg for generating web traffic to websites. Fortunately Marlon Sanders has not only detailed 16 different ways to drive web traffic to websites, but has built them into point-and-click online software that takes you step-by-step through the correct procedures for all sixteen methods. If you’re not getting enough website traffic yet, follow the steps he lays out in his Traffic Dashboard to achieve the targeted traffic levels you desire.

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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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New Website Traffic and Blog Traffic Resources Uploaded

In the past 7 – 10 days I’ve stayed busy getting new programs, resources and tools online in most of the various areas of Internet marketing, Affiliate marketing and e-mail marketing/List Building, so I thought I’d better stop by the traffic blog and give you guys and gals an update in case you’re not subscribed to our e-zine…

SEO For Busy Marketers

Is your website dying due to no traffic from search engines? Then your search engine rankings need ‘SEO For Busy Marketers – SEO Secrets Revealed!’

Let YOUR Search Engine Marketing Efforts Help You Master Search Engine Optimization And Dominate The Search Engine Ranking Pages!

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Article Marketing Superhero

Are you ready to quickly attract loyal followers while simplifying your strategy down to its core?
‘Find Out How You Can Quickly Be An Article Marketing Superhero – Even If You’re Brand New
To Internet Marketing!’

It doesn’t matter whether you’re the world’s most brilliant writer in the world – or you can barely spell. That’s what spell checkers are for. There is more than one way to mount a brilliant Article Marketing campaign – One that really speaks with your voice – and establishes you as a trusted advisor and marketing friend.

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FaceBook Ad Explosion

Announcing The Brand New, 6 Part, Step By Step Video Course, That Finally Shows ‘How to Post Facebook Ads And Increase Your Conversions At The Same Time…Starting Today!’

This is a step by step video course that takes you by the hand to show you how to explode your conversions with Facebook Ads! This is one of the most risk-free ways to learn how to create quality Facebook Ads, without wasting time and money testing and failing. It’s time you learn from someone else’s costly mistakes so you can get a head start…

This 6-part video series isn’t just another one of those videos that leaves you in the dark – you get to watch over the shoulder from start to finish from someone who actually uses Facebook Ads. This is not just another how to ‘theory’-based tutorial. It’s taken from a real person!

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Social Site Matrix

A Simple Way To Get Traffic To Your Site… ‘Now You Too Can Generate A Hyper Matrix Of Traffic To All Your Websites Within A Matter Of Hours! New Video Series Reveals 9 ‘Under-The-Radar’ Social Networks That Won’t Cost You A Penny To Use’

For most business owners the difficulty isn’t coming up with a desirable product but rather getting the right people to see your product. This video series overcomes that issue and can be repeated over and over with any and all of your products.

Once you understand the process and how to utilize social media networks to their fullest extent you’ll be able to apply the system to any new social media sites that come up in the future. This is an invaluable video series for anyone looking to generate or increase traffic flow to their site.

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Four Great Traffic Building Resources…

So there you have it – 4 new training resources to help you build traffic in numerous ways – one on SEO, one on article marketing, one on FaceBook Ads and one on the lesser-known high-quality Web 2.0 sites like Gather, Multiply, Ryze and 6 other hot properties for online traffic generation. Choose the ones that will help you most and grab them now. Or, if you’re looking to become a true Traffic Master, be sure to add all 4 to your learning library today!

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Top 10 Traffic Ideas for your Blog

Blogs are popular ways to create an online presence for personal and business reasons. You can build a blog for free and begin posting content right away. But, what good is that content if no one is reading it. Here are ten ideas to bring in the traffic your blog needs to survive.

Of all the successful blogs on the Internet, hundreds more have failed. Running a blog is like running a business website. Unless you are willing to put the time in and treat it seriously, you won’t be blogging long.

That is not to say that the failed bloggers weren’t serious about blogging. Mostly, new bloggers aren’t prepared for the work that goes into creating a successful blog. Just building the blog doesn’t mean that people will necessary come to you. You pursue the audience and give them a reason to see what you have to say.

1. Fresh Content – no one wants to visit a blog day after day and see the same posts. Update your blog content at least twice a week. This will be easier if you write several posts ahead of time and upload them at the appropriate times.

2. Article Marketing – the niche you’ve chosen for your blog is one that interests you. If it is interesting you will spend more time doing it. Create content not only for your blog but also to be submitted to article directories. Use the resource box to advertise your blog so people can find you.

3. Social Networking – these sites are everywhere. Join Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter or a dozen others and make connections. You can join groups of likeminded people who are also bloggers or entrepreneurs.

4. Viral Marketing – this is where you spread the word about your blog. Talk to friends, family and even strangers. Give out business cards that have your blog address on them.

5. Use RSS Feeds – RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” Readers can subscribe to your feed and get email updates when new content is posted. It is an easy way for them to keep up with your blog without spending all day online.

6. Submit Blog to Search Engines – doing this allows your blog to be ranked. Google, Yahoo! and Bing are the most popular search engines you want to crawl your blog pages. It doesn’t guarantee top ranking, though. You’ll have to do a little more work for that.

7. Joining Forums – as a blogger you are a budding entrepreneur. Right now you are marketing yourself to find traffic and then profit. Become a member of business forums, work at home forums and others to meet new people and share ideas. You can add a link to your blog in the signature line so others can find you.

8. Visit other blogs – show your appreciation to those who visit you by also posting comments on their blogs. It is a kindness that shows others you are not just out to advertise your blog alone. Your name links to your blog home page in most cases, and those using the CommentLuv plugin also link to your latest post.

9. SEO Marketing – whatever you write, use relevant keywords. Keyword density between three and ten percent is good for getting higher page rankings in search engines. Base your keywords on a research you do to find the most popular words used in search engines for your niche.

10. Social Bookmarking – submitting posts to social bookmarking sites allows others who are members of those sites to track you back to your blog.

Using any of these ideas will start the traffic moving in your direction. It takes time but you will build the readership you want. Getting more traffic to blogs is an empirical endeavor – blog traffic builds over time as more and more links to your blogs are found by the search engines and targeted surfers alike.

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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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There is no argument that article marketing is the most effective type of marketing that you can do to build traffic to your websites, but many of those who want to market with articles don’t know how many articles they need for the efforts to be rewarded.

Many will write and distribute one or two articles, thinking that is enough. In some cases, it may be enough, but it isn’t really enough to build credibility – and by limiting yourself in such a way, you are literally leaving money on the table.

Instead, you need to have an article marketing regimen. You should schedule writing and submission into your schedule on a weekly basis if possible, and on a monthly basis at the very least.

If you do the work yourself, it takes anywhere from a few minutes to an hour to write the article, and it can take about one eight hour day to get it submitted to all of the repositories. If you outsource the work, it takes five minutes of your time to contact your ghost writer, and another five minutes to contact your submission service.

Articles can become very viral, spreading far and wide. building backlinks to your websites and garnering direct traffic through clicks on the links in your Author’s Resource Box. This benefits you and your business, and it stands to reason that the more articles you can produce and submit, the more viral it all becomes. Each and every article that you put out there will be constantly working for you, helping you build website traffic!

If time is a problem, and outsourcing is something that you don’t feel that you can afford, take a few weekends for your article marketing. Write 52 articles, and distribute one each week for an entire year. Sometimes, writing the articles in advance, all at one time, can put your ahead of the article marketing game.

The important thing is that you do get articles out there on a regular basis. Keep your name visible, and continue to send out the articles that will send great benefits back to you by building the most targeted website traffic you can obtain.

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Marketing mentor Doug Champigny is an avid article marketer – check out some of Doug Champigny’s marketing articles and be sure to download his Free Article Marketing Overview. Doug Champigny is a world-famous marketer with a major online presence who often appears live onstage at marketing seminars, conferences, conventions and workshops around North America – watch for him speaking live at a function near you!

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Of all the various ways to boost your blog’s or website’s ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs), one-way backlinks are amongst the most important and most valuable SEO techniques to use. There are three common techniques for generating backlinks to your sites and blogs, and each has it’s own place in your traffic generation strategy.

Hiring An SEO Firm To Get You Backlinks:

The first is paying an SEO company to get them for you – this can be hit and miss based on which companies you use, but in time you can find and stick with a good one.

Benefits: Doesn’t take up much of your time – you’re on to other projects while they get you your links. Drawbacks: Can be very expensive to get links from good PR sites, and paid ads on sites with high Page Rank are overly expensive for most marketers.

Article Marketing To Get You BackLinks:

Second is article marketing – the reliable old way to get your name out there, establish your credibility and generate a lot of one-way backlinks to your sites. There are hundreds, if not thousands of article directories out there just waiting for your articles, and you can build a ton of backlinks over time both from your articles being at the directories, and from people using your articles on their sites and blogs.

Benefits: Unlimited number of links can be generated, both by writing and submitting more articles and by submitting your articles to more directories. It also gives you a chance to prove yourself an expert in your field, and build a reputation amongst the other marketers in your niche. And it’s free if you do the work yourself. Disadvantages: Not everyone is a good writer, has the time to research & write article content, or can think up enough topics to keep a steady stream of new articles rolling out. Outsourcing your article submissions saves a lot of time but is expensive, while submitting articles yourself takes a lot of time if you want wide exposure.

Blog Commenting To Generate One-Way Backlinks:

The newest of the three common ways to get one-way backlinks is by commenting on blogs within your niche. Not just any blogs, though – WordPress uses a ‘no-follow’ tag by default, and most bloggers just leave it that way. Specifically you want to concentrate on blogs that have both the ‘Do-Follow’ and ‘CommentLuv’ plugins installed, as we do here at the Top Traffic Tips Blog. The Do-Follow tag tells search engines to follow your backlink and spider your blog or website, while CommentLuv fetches the last blog post you put online and links to it using your post’s title, thus ensuring your keywords are in the linking text – you ARE using keywords in every heading, right?

Benefits: My own experience using all 3 methods have shown blog commenting to be the most effective way to get one-way backlinks quickly to a new site, blog or affiliate link. While they don’t go viral like your articles do, the time involvement is much less. You simply take your list of appropriate blogs in your niche, and comment on 3-5 of them a day. This keeps the backlinks coming in over time, the way the search engines prefer, and gets links to your various posts according to what your last post was when you make your comment. External one-way backlinks to a lot of different pages in your blog or on your site is truly powerful – more powerful than all of them pointing just to your home page. And, like article marketing, intelligent commenting helps to build your rep as an expert in your field, and leads to more people cliocking through to your link.

Disadvantages: None, really, except the time it takes to locate the proper blogs in the first place, and that’s been solved for you now, with the release of a new directory of appropriate blogs to gain one-way backlinks from – you can download the report with both PDF and CSV copies of over 4,000 blogs to get one-way backlinks from by commenting there, ranging from PR0 to PR7. Start with the list, and find the one’s best suited to your target market, then work your way through, again 3-5 blogs per day.

Two Caveats about your backlink-building campaign – first, don’t ignore article marketing – keep it in your mix because of the long-term viral effect it has in building backlinks to your site. For every four or five days you spend on blog commenting, spend one on article marketing. Just be sure you start with the blog commenting, since it can generate traffic the fastest and points to different pages within your blog or site.

Second, do not – I repeat, DO NOT use auto-commenting software for this – be professional and visit the blogs yourself, leaving intelligent comments relating directly to the blog post you’re commenting on. First, almost every blog using the Do-Follow tag is moderated, so your comments won’t get through anyway. And after you’ve hit them a half-dozen times with spam comments, no matter how complimentary you are, they’ll simple add your IP address to the banned list to avoid having to delete your posts, and will report the comments as spam.

A long-term mix of blog commenting and article marketing will certainly bring you all the traffic you want, so grab the Do-Follow Blog Report now and get started!

To your success building one-way backlinks…

Doug Champigny,

http://www.TopTrafficTips.com

PS- Oh yeah, don’t forget to start by leaving a comment on this post right here after you download your report!

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Top Seven Ways Writing Articles Can Explode Your Targeted Traffic – AND Your Business!

In today’s highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world of ecommerce. Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.

There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.

1.Reach more people

When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e-zines and take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the most important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your quality article; you may reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.

2.Free Advertising

Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to advertise your website without paying exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing language in your articles and make it informative and useful to your readers, you can always include your site’s link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a good impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more effective than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.

3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking

Create a new web page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search-engine friendly. Use top-ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new webpage to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a very effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.

4.Increases Link Popularity

Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource box. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get as many link partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and appealing, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.

5.Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking

By making your site keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search-engine optimized.

6.Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation

By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not only give your site exposure, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your will ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.

7.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies

Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedbacks and testimonies when you publish them in e-zines and free article sites. Record these positive feedbacks and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedbacks, as it will create a good impression on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this highly competitive world, excellent credibility and trust may be the only things you need to attract new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business

Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing author, mentor & speaker, and an expert at driving Web 2.0 Targeted Traffic. For more information read his e-book on Article Marketing or his Massive Traffic Bootcamp.

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Double Your Targeted Traffic From Article Marketing!

©2008 Doug Champigny. All Rights Reserved.

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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