Submitting Articles For Traffic

This is Part 2 of the Simple Traffic Action Plan, read part 1 here: -
Getting Website Traffic

Using Article submission to get fresh traffic to a web site is often ignored by new website owners, either because it’s just not “sexy” and takes some actual “work”, or because it seems so “old school” it’s positively old fashioned and therefore can’t possibly still work, right..?

Wrong!

Don’t pay attention to the “doomsayers” saying article marketing doesn’t work anymore, you’ll usually find that they’re trying to sell you on something else….

It not only still works, but if you do it right and be consistent, it works VERY well!

In fact there are plenty of marketers who use Article Marketing as the mainstay of their online business!

Submitting articles actually gives you multiple benefits: -

1. you get the backlinks from the articles to your website or blog which will increase it’s rankings in the search engines and bring more free organic search traffic

2. you get visitors from the article itself

3. the articles can get picked up by other website owners and ezine publishers and used by them, resulting in even more backlinks and visitors

4. you are seen as more of an “authority” on the topic/niche that you are writing about if your articles are seen across many different sites

5. submitting articles is a “do it once, keep getting the benefits long term” action, as once you’ve submitted the article it will keep bringing you traffic for months and even years to come. Personally I have article I submitted over 4 or 5 years ago that still bring me traffic today.

The main point with article marketing is not to get carried away with it, you don’t need to go submitting your articles to every directory you can find, it’s more important to be consistent and keep submitting several articles every week, week after week, as the effect then becomes cumulative.

If you don’t like writing articles, or simply don’t have the time, then get someone else to do them for you.

I have found many article writers using services like Rentacoder.com and Elance.com, and they vary in both the price they charge and the quality of the work they do, and price is not always an indication of quality.

So if you want to find an article writer on an outsourcing site like this make sure you get samples of their work. You will usually end up with work offers from a couple of dozen people with 24 hours or so of posting a job, and you shouldn’t need to pay more than around $5 for a 400 word article.

However, I’ve got a better solution for you…

for one off’s or odd jobs where you just need a few articles written there’s a service that fits the bill perfectly. I use it myself when I need a few extras written now and then.

you can find it here: -

http://www.mat4.com/files/naa.html

you can also then use a service to get your articles “spun” in to new “unique” versions to give you more copies to use.

the best one that I’ve found is here: -

http://mg.gd/a/spinner

# which article directories to submit to..?

i. the first place to start is with iSnare.com as they will submit your article to a whole bunch of other places, including ezine publishers, so you get a pretty good return for you time spent. I believe the basic service is still free, although I have an upgraded account personally, simply because I submit articles through them regularly.

ii. make sure you submit an article to http://www.articlesnatch.com

There’s a special reason for using this directory and it being ahead of the others below, it’s actually the site that a very popular (and powerful) automated SEO tool grabs content from.

you can see the tool here – BFSEO – EvoII

it’s not a cheap system, although it is pretty damned good, but the important thing for us is that if your article gets grabbed by someone using this system they will effectively end up posting a copy of your article (complete with your links in) to a whole bunch of high quality social network sites, hosted blogs and other useful places, so you will end up getting extra backlinks for extra benefit all for free…

nice or what…?

iii. then submit one unique article to as many of these as you feel like (in this order), but try and make sure you do at least the first four.

article directories: -

http://ArticleDashboard.com
http://EzineArticles.com
http://SelfGrowth.com
http://Buzzle.com
http://GoArticles.com
http://SearchWarp.com
http://ArticlesBase.com
http://ArticleCity.com
http://IdeaMarketers.com

# obviously the usual article writing stuff goes without saying, i.e. put a link to your site in the article itself somewhere towards the top (for the directories that allow this, most do), make sure you’ve got a resources box at the bottom with your links again in html and plane text, along with a good “Call to Action”, i.e. give people a reason to click the link and visit your site.

and if you want to use an automated article submission tool the only one I recommend is here: -

ArticleBot

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