Article Marketing Tips To Help You Get More Traffic
Feb 7th, 2010 by Reading and Writing
Traffic is the number one concern of most webmasters, and getting backlinks to your website is a good way to help increase the amount of traffic. One way to do this is by submitting well-written articles to directories and including links to your site. Here are some article marketing tips to help you do this correctly.
Ezine Articles is the top article directory site on the Internet, and it has been for years. It isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, so you might as well learn how to get your articles accepted there. For starters, you must write articles that contain useful content and they must be well-written. It also helps if they are longer than the minimum length.
There are many other directories out there besides EZA. In fact, there are thousands of them. Fortunately, you don’t need to submit to all of them. Just pick a dozen or two that have a decent PageRank. This will be more helpful than posting your articles to hundreds of low-PR websites. Links from higher PR sites count for more in the eyes of the search engines.
You should make a list of about six to ten different keyword phrases that you would like your site to be ranked for in the search engines. You should alternate using these keyword phrases so that you are not always using the same anchor text for each link. A little variety will help your website show up in search results that are similar to your main keyword phrase but not quite exact.
Don’t submit to hundreds of article directories at once. Search engines don’t like to see a website go from having just a few backlinks to hundreds overnight. If they notice this happening with your site, they will bury it so far down in the results that no one will be able to find it for months.
These article marketing tips should help you drive more traffic to your website, and hopefully make more money. By submitting articles to directories, you gain a little bit of traffic upfront when people read your articles and click on the links, but the real payoff comes later when, after much effort, you finally have enough backlinks from your articles to get your website on the front page of the search engines.
