subject: 6 Steps To Article Marketing Success And Get Continuous Traffic To Your Site [print this page] Whether you are selling something online or you just want to make extra money online, you will need to work on bringing traffic toy our site. That is, you need to work on having visitors come to your site and check out your products or the information you have in your website and one of the best ways to bring in traffic for free, is article marketing.
Article marketing involves writing general information articles, adding your links and submitting them to online article directories. By then, it will start bringing in traffic to your website. To achieve article marketing success, here are six steps that you might find useful.
1. Select a topic for your articles. It must be relevant or similar to the topic or niche of your site. Of course, your articles are supposed to get online visitors to your site and so you have to make sure that you really are getting online readers who would be interested in your site or your business. Keep in mind that the topic of your articles determine the specific audience you want to bring to your site, thus you should think about this carefully.
2. Research your keywords. Your keywords are tools in getting good rankings in the search engines and one of the tools in article marketing success. Of course, in the online world, the higher you go up the search engines results page, the more readers you will get, but you have to make sure you have the right keywords and right keyword density as well.
3. Start writing informative and good quality articles. Make sure you are not just copying from someone else's work. Make your article helpful to online readers and make sure you have a catchy title and that you are able to deliver whatever promise you made in the article title. This is important because you need the reader to read until the bottom of the article where they can find the links to your website. If they lose interest before reaching the bottom, you will get lesser results in bringing traffic to your site.
4. Write an effective resource box. The resource box or the author's bio contains the information about you and the links to your site. This is where online readers are redirected to your website; therefore, this is very important to achieve article marketing success. Keep in mind that the resource box is the only place that you can promote your site or your business, thus you have to make the most out of it and make sure you put a call to action in this place and ensure that all your links are working.
5. Read and proofread. Correct spelling and grammatical errors. Also watch out for characters that may not appear correctly on the web. Curly quotes often appear as a bunch of incomprehensible letters on the web, so make sure you use straight quotes always. Use bullets, numbers or even asterisks if you can. This is a great technique to get attention too.
6. Submit your articles to popular and reliable article directories. This will ensure that your article will get the widest distribution or exposure, which will eventually become your online visitors.
Start with these six easy steps in getting traffic to your site and you will later enjoy the continuous flow of online visitors going to your site.
