Note: this post is an excerpt from Nick’s Traffic Tricks
This is probably the cheapest of all the methods because it’s virtually free. Your only cost is web hosting and the cost of your domain name. Submitting to article directories is free so take advantage of it.
Okay, how do you get the most out of this?
Well, that’s where a lot of people disagree, unfortunately. So this is the tactic I choose. Others are welcome to add their 2 cents.
I choose not to fight the masses. So I go after the keywords that don’t have as many competing sites but still have a decent number of daily searches according to Wordtracker. I make my cutoff 50 daily searches and no less. Competing sites I cut off at no more than 50,000. Yeah, I’m picky, but the keywords I target that meet this criteria bring me decent traffic.
I do not plaster my articles all over the Internet because I am building for the long time. I don’t want duplicate content to ultimately turn my search engine rankings to dust. Yeah, I know, there are those who argue that duplicate content penalties are a myth. I’m not going to get into that here. I’m just letting you know what I do, and that’s to submit to just a few places and different articles for each. Ezine Articles is still the king in my book.
When you submit articles, make sure your articles are informative and the resource box has a strong call to action. Resource boxes that read like “John Doe is an author and has a degree in…” won’t cut it. You need to write something like…
“Sick and tired of
This is what I do and my opt ins come regularly everyday.
Try to write at least 3 or 4 articles a day. Why?
Well, that’s where the rating of this method comes in.
Quality Of Traffic - 10. These are people who are specifically looking for this information. You can’t get much more targeted than this. If the site in your resource box is a solid match for the content of the article, you should get quite a few opt ins.
Speed Of Traffic - 10. You’re going to start getting this traffic right away, as soon as those articles are posted. With Ezine Articles, it’s 6 to 24 hours once you’ve reached Platinum status, which only takes 10 articles submitted.
Quantity Of Traffic - 3. This is the big problem with article marketing. You’re not going to get a lot of traffic in the beginning because you don’t have many articles in circulation. However, once you have built up a nice article base, you will start to see the quantity of traffic increasing over time.
Article marketing is what I call the long haul process. It’s not a quick fix like Adwords, which you can pay for dearly if you don’t do it properly, but it’s a cheap way to get highly qualified traffic fast. Over time, the amount of traffic you get WILL increase, but you have to write everyday.
This post was written by Steve Wagenheim. If you want a fool proof step by step formula for writing articles in under 30 minutes…check out the link below. It’s a book written by Steven Wagenheim who has the number 1 rank at Ezine Articles for the category of Internet Marketing…beating out over 4000 other contributors.
http://www.honestincomeprogram.com/tcawamg.html
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