Writing Articles to Build Your Targeted Traffic

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Targeted traffic is the lifeblood of any Internet marketing, niche marketing or other online business. There are many ways to build your targeted traffic, and article writing is one of the easiest and most effective ways. It is also free….now THERE is a word most Internet marketers just love! FREE! Free advertising…. Free targeted traffic…. and both of them can be accomplished at the same time and by using only the knowledge that you already have about your niche topic and your computer.

The Internet isn’t called the ‘Information Super Highway’ for nothing. It’s called that because it is the place that most of the civilized world uses to get the information they need to help them look better, feel better, have more fun, get vital information, or just learn the ’stuff’ they want to know. The Internet gobbles up information like a pig at a trough. Website owners and ezine publishers scramble for information to fill their web pages and their publications on every topic under the sun. This is where using article writing to build your targeted traffic comes in.

Write articles that are between 300 and 800 words long and that are key-word rich about whatever the topic of your website is. At the bottom of the article, include a resource box that includes your name and copyright information and a link to your website. Other website owners and ezine publishers will reprint your article and publish it to their websites or lists. Presto! You have gotten free advertising and the possibility of having every person who reads the article click on the link to your website - and it’s all targeted traffic, because they’ve read your article and want more information on that same subject - or they wouldn’t have clicked through!

Writing articles and submitting them to article directories is one of the easiest ways of building your targeted traffic and it is absolutely free! Another nice benefit is that the directories themselves are spidered by the major search engines, sometimes several times a day. Your link in your article on the directory site provides a conduit leading the search engines to your site more quickly, thus getting your site into the search engines that much quicker. And the sooner the engines are sending you more targeted traffic, the more sales you’re getting from that free targeted traffic.

And don’t forget to use those articles, or an altered version of them, on your blogs too! Article marketing and blogging are the two fastest ways to build long-term targeted traffic, and when tied in with social bookmarking at sites like Technorati & Digg, you can drive an amazing amount of targeted traffic for free - and that’s our favorite price!

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Internet marketing mentor and speaker Doug Champigny is an expert at driving tageted traffic using Web 2.0 techniques. Learn a lot more about driving targeted traffic to YOUR sites through his Massive Traffic Bootcamp or by meeting Doug in person at one of the live internet marketing seminars he speaks at.
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