subject: How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Article Directories To Your Blog With This Dumb And Simple-Yet-Effective Testing ! [print this page] How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Article Directories To Your Blog With This Dumb And Simple-Yet-Effective Testing !
As you probably know, using article directories to drive traffic to your blog, is one type of method that will give you long term traffic source, there's no doubt about it. Usually, the procedure goes something like this:
You write an article or a blog post, and then you send it to your favorite article directories, you will then fill in the title of your article, selecting the category your article is in, insert your bio into the signature box, and then click publish, and once your article got accepted, you will slowly gain traffic from that particular article directories.
Clever, Clever, Clever !
Yes, that's what clever and smart people like you do, but in this post, I'm going to show you a way, I feel is so dumb but yet effective, which I believe, no one had even told you before, most probably I'm the first one to discover this. But before I tell you the dumb way, here's something you might want to know. First, the most powerful article directory I use, is not EzineArticles.com, but...
IdeaMarketers.com !
The reason for using IdeaMarketers.com is simply this: IdeaMarketers.com doesn't need to wait for approval, and it had a very large range of categories, you can choose from and lastly it is...
The Bad Blogger's Most Powerful Article Testing Ground !
Okay, now, do you know you can send more then one article of the same content you like without changing a single word of your content whatsoever? I bet you doesn't know. You see, all you need to change is only your headline, and I bet you should know, the headline is the most important element in all writing publication in the world. You see, when people go to article directories they will see a ton of headlines across the category they are looking for and in order for them to spot your article, the best way is to have a...
Hard-Hitting And Attention-Grabbing Headline That Suck The Readers Into Reading Your Article !
So, here's how you should do it, using Ideamarketers.com. First and foremost, you need to have an article ready that's for sure. Let say you wrote an article about...
"How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Blogging And Get It Without Spending A Dime !"
You then create 3 different headlines that relates to the content you wrote.
For example,
How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Blogging And Get It Without Spending A Dime !
How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Blogging And Get It Without Any Hard-Work Whatsoever !
How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Blogging And Get It In The Shortest Time Humanly Possible !
After writing the headlines, you send in the individual same content with 3 different headlines to Ideamarketers.com. Usually I will wait about a week or so, and return to see which headline pull in the most hits. What you have done so far...
Is Not To Get People To Read Your Content, But To Get Them To See Your Headline, And Then Read Your Content !
If your headline sucks, don't expect them to even read your first word. Now, let say the title, "How To Get As Much Traffic As Possible From Blogging And Get It Without Any Hard-Work Whatsoever !" got the most hits, eliminate the other two content that doesn't pull and use the one that pull the most hits and do...
The Bad Blogger's Dumb Test !
Using the winning headline, choose a different category and test it for 3 days (I usually do it for three days). Let say, previously you are using the category "Blogging," now you change it to "Marketing Online" or may be you can change it to just "Home Business" category. You see, it might feel dumb when you are talking about Blogging using the category of "Marketing Online," but do you know... as dumb as it is, the result might just out pull the previous category. Here's something you need to remember and that is...
You Never Know What's The Result Unless You Test, So Just Do It Even If It Looks Dumb !
And see which category pull in more results, and with that, you got a winner. Now, are you confuse? If so, don't you worry, here's the step-by-step process, is quite simple:
Write an article or a blog post
Create 3 different headlines using the same content.
Send all 3 different headlines with the same content to IdeaMarketers.com.
Wait for 7 days or more, and then see the "hits" results.
Eliminate, the one that pull the less results.
Take the winner change it to different category that somehow relates to the content.
Change it every 3 days and record the results, see which category pulls the most hits.
Once you got a winning headline and a winning category, you have got a winning article that will pull traffic for you like crazy for long term.