Write and Submit Articles for Traffic

How does writing articles get you traffic?

This is the single most important thing you can do to get traffic to your website. Pay close attention. It ties in with RSS feeds and you will not believe the potential until you try it yourself. WOW is not a good enough expression for the results you will see.

What am I talking about? There are many people out there that are too lazy to write their own site content. They are your competition, by the way. They search the free article sites all the time to find relevant information to put on their websites. They don't want to write anything of their own so they just take your articles and use them for site content.

So why would you want to help them? You aren't really going to help them, they are going to help you, they just don't know it because they didn't read this. They already knew everything they needed to know. You will soon be loving them.

Here's how it works:

You write your article, a really good, informative article about your subject. You submit your article to the 'free article directories'. The lazy website owners find your article and put it on their website. You want this to happen, trust me. You see, according to the rules of the free article site, they have to include your name as the author and a link back to your site.

Let me say that again, A LINK BACK TO YOUR SITE!!!

You don't have to link to them. They just have to link to you. The search engines love these types of links. It will show the search engines that your site is important. The more links to your site you get, the more important the engines will believe your site to be. You will become an authority on your subject and you will get very high rankings.

Once a search engine regards your site as an authority, it will send many, many visitors your way. This process does not take months to get going. If you write and submit an article today, you will get traffic from it tomorrow. If you write and submit an article a day on your sites subject, you will probably find yourself on Google's first page by the end of the week.

Please remember, the article has to be good. It has to be on the subject of your website. It has to be interesting enough that people will want to know more. You can do this, I know you can.

So how does this all work?

First and foremost, all the links back to your site are going to get the search engines excited about you.

The lasting effect is even more exciting.

Once you are on several other websites, and this will only take a couple days, you will start to see a lot more traffic. If a website only gets 5 visitors a day and 3 of them click on the link to your website, there are three free visitors that you didn't have to work for. (I know you think writing that article was work but considering the benefits, it's not really work.)

Ok, now let's say 10 people pick up your article. 30 new visitors. 20 people pick up your article. 60 new visitors? Now write 5 more articles. What do we have here? Hmmmm?

Can you see where this will take you? This is traffic heaven my friend.

Think of the possibilities. If you write an article a week. Where will you be in 10 weeks? I should mention here, that not all the websites that pick up your article will be from lazy website owners. If you write good, riveting articles, you will get picked up by many important websites as well.

No one has the time or desire to write 6 or 7 new articles a day but website owners want new content to keep their sites interesting. If your articles are good, they will pick yours. Now your back link is on the websites that get thousands of visitors a day. Holy Smokes!

Now you are seeing the big picture.

But wait... there's more. Most of these websites will keep your article around forever. Maybe it will eventually get stuck in some archive file but that's OK. As long as your article is somewhere on their website, you still have the back link.

To summarize, this is the single most important thing you can do to get your website on a strong footing right from the start. It will only get better. The snow ball effect is working to your advantage here. Write and write and write some more. 

So with all this article linking, why do you need reciprocal links? Mainly because you are providing another service to your customers. Maybe they didn't find what they were looking for on your site, if you offer a place for them to find the information without having to go search again, they will appreciate that and they may remember your site as a good place to find all the information they need.

Most web surfers don't understand all the mechanics behind the web. They don't realize when they left one site and went to another. If they click on a link on your site, they think they are still on your site. So they eventually find what they need and all they remember is they found it on www.computers.com. They tell their friends about how informative your site is and their friends come to you for information and hopefully they will spend money.

The bottom line is, you can't have too many links going to your website. As long as they are relevant links about your subject matter. You are probably tired of hearing that but if you start taking any old links, you are doomed. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. And in the case of the world wide web, doing it wrong could cost you years trying to fix it. Don't try to kid yourself by thinking that hearing aids are sort of like electronics. They aren't and you know it. You will flush your whole website down the toilet if you start trying to rationalize links that you know don't fit.

If you want in on this article writing traffic but you just can't see yourself writing articles. There are people out there that will write them for you. The best price I have found is at: Know More Get More. (She is my daughter-in-law, a college student with 3 of my wonderful grandchildren. She writes very good articles and I'm not just saying that cause I love her. J  She is really a very intelligent woman and very cheap.)

To find the article submission directories... Just Google  - free article directories - and you will have a few million to choose from. Pick the top 10 or 20 to get started.

Get this nifty Article Directory Submitter to put your submitting on overdrive.

(Article submitting can be done without this tool. This is a 100% free traffic generation technique.)

Now... Go write articles for traffic!