Using Articles To Draw Targeted Traffic As Well As Draw E-Zine Lists!
Your current articles you've created for your sites could be building traffic plus building e-mail lists for you much faster if you start to submit articles to article directories regularly.
Distributing your latest articles to the top online article directories exposes your new articles to a enormous potential audience, both at the article directories and on other people's pages if they use your interesting articles as content. Popular articles can be some of the best sources of targeted traffic, thus helping you build opt-in lists and build targeted traffic.
And really, this article marketing strategy only makes sense. Most people start out looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the first source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are added online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and similar sites.
So before adding those new articles to your blog, go to the best few directories and submit your articles, being careful to be certain the Author's Resource Box points back to your blog and squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's aimed at building your opt-in list and your blog audience concurrently.
Ensure your new articles contain useful content - attempting to write an article just for it's search engine value is a basic problem, since getting people to your submitted articles is only half the battle. The real trick is to get them swept up in your articles' message, establish yourself as an expert on the topic, and motivate them to take action and click through to your opt-in form or your blog. That requires both valuable information in your article AND solid, related information on the landing page.
One of the reasons that this system builds opt-in lists so well is that the person is looking for tips on a topic, sees your article and then sees your link to additional information. Amplify your traffic building from your efforts by giving a free report, audio or video on a related topic to prospects who sign up. This way the interested party gets what they want, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.
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