Article Marketing - The Secret to Massive Traffic

Article marketing is my pet topic. I work on article marketing quite a bit to drive free targeted traffic to my websites. It gives you the privilege to get a published article links on the search engines. The quality of traffic from article marketing is one of the best you can ever get other than PPC and conversion rates from the articles I have written are excellent. Sometimes, it can be as close as 5%. Getting a published article links all over the search engine is a major plus for your business.

With confirmed article links, your site will be soon create a buzz all over the major search engines. Article marketing also give your site a guaranteed article links as potential customers look out for this before buying from any site.

I highly recommend article marketing if you really want to make a lot of sales online. This is the secret to big sales that internet marketers employ to rake in millions of dollars.

There are several reasons why article marketing is so popular:

Article Marketing

1. It is absolutely free. You do not need to pay a single cent. Article directories accept and publish your articles for free. All you need is to write the articles.

2. It drives FREE instant and targeted traffic to your websites. Within a short time, your article gets indexed in the search engines and rank well in Page 1 or 2 if it is optimized. Such traffic is your warm market.

3. Articles are great sales pages! If you write well enough to presell your customers, they would be ready to buy your products once they hit the sales page.

4. Articles get you high Page Rank one-way links. Imagine your article on a PR7 website with a link to your website? These boost your website ranking.

How To Write To Create An Avalanche Of Traffic To Your Websites?

1. Do your research at the forums. Hear the voice of your prospects and know what they want. Find out the main theme, the underlying message of their topics. Perhaps they want to know how to write an article in the fastest way possible?

2. Target the right keywords.Targeting Long Tail Keywords. This is the KEY! Most article marketers get it wrong!!

3. Include the keywords in your article title. Start with the keyword, avoid placing it towards the end and avoid unnecessary words. Search engine spiders read content from left to right. Too many irrelevant words can confuse them.

4. Include the targeted keywords in your article introduction, body content and conclusion. Go for 1 to 1.5 % keyword density.

5. Write Regularly. Try to write at least 1 or 2 articles a week on different keywords. You would realize that the traffic soon becomes consistent.

6. Submit different versions of the same article to various article directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles, SearchWarp, IdeaMarketers and ArticlesBase

More so, make sure you have confirmed article links so that your potential customers do not see you as a scammer. With your guaranteed article links which makes your site an authority site, all over the search engine and major site; you will definitely have a lot of sales which means a lot of profit for you.

The Search Engine Optimization Method

The number one method to dominate the first page of Search engine results is to do more than your competitors is doing. You need a long term plan to dominate search engines result pages. It's difficult to give a definite method that search engines will use to determine who will be number one and who will not. The reason being Search engines Companies change upgrade their systems regularly and their algorithms are changed from time to time.


However, how high you rank depends on two major factors:


   1. On Page - What is found on your website and
   2. Off page - What other sites say about you by linking to your site.


Most search engines use "on page" factors to play 30% of ranking and "off page" factors takes the remaining 70%. The percents vary depending on how competitive a niche is. Sites with lots of direct affiliate links get a slap and do not rank as high as sites without direct affiliate links.


Nevertheless, for you to keep you search engine rankings high you have to make search engine optimization method an ongoing task as opposed to an event you outsource one and forget. The following steps are recommended from the beginning and on an ongoing basis:

Search Engine Optimization Method

* Web design - Do your site on a content management system, which will allow you to add more fresh content in future and an ongoing basis the easy way as opposed to a Static Site that will make you rely on a developer each time you want to add content.


* Link Building - make sure you get a standard Link Text with your primary keyword to link to the home page, and your Secondary keywords to link to other pages on your site.


* Article marketing - Write irresistible articles that will make other web masters want to link to you. One way links gets you more value than link exchanges.


* Comment on blogs - using you link to comment on blogs gives you a score on your search engine score rating.


* Social Bookmarking - share articles from your site on social Bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. This way you site will be discovered by more people and even make them want to link to back to you from their site.


* Social Network Sites - Share contents on your site on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. This increases the number of links to your site.


In conclusion, keep on doing something that will affect positively your on page and off page factors as shown above.