Take Your Business To The Next Level With Article Marketing

By: Stephen Long

Article marketing is a highly-effective web site promotion strategy to drive targeted traffic to your website, free. By using articles, you gain a reputation and promote your business without the need for costly pay per click advertising and search engine shenanigans. This article will demonstrate why article marketing is one of the best marketing techniques you can use to turn your business into a profitable venture.

Traffic Is Critical

A websites survival depends on the amount of targeted traffic it receives. Some webmasters spend tens of thousands of dollars each month to drive this traffic to their website. But, there is a free method to drive profitable traffic. Well-written articles can make people believe that you are an authority in your field and they will be more willing to spend money with you.

There are two primary methods through which well-written articles can be used to attract targeted traffic to your website. Incidentally, if you perform the first method properly, the second method often happens automatically. These two methods are submitting your articles and acquiring backlinks to your site.

Submitting Your Article For Targeted Traffic

Using your articles on your own website can be very powerful. However, allowing others to place your articles on their websites can have even a greater impact. You must submit your articles to article directories. Your article submissions will be rewarded with a backlink from your article in the article directory to your website.

There are two reasons why acquiring backlinks to your website is critical. The first reason is that when someone visits an article directory and reads your article, they will likely want to visit your site. A backlink gives them an easy way to do this. With enough articles in several article directories, you could potentially drive thousands of people to your website. But, there is a second reason for the backlinks.

Using Backlinks For Search Engine Optimization

Websites that have backlinks are perceived by the search engines as being "quality sites." The level of quality and authority assigned to your website by a search engine for a given subject matter is largely dependent upon the backlinks to your website. Primarily, the search engines want to know how many people (sites) link to you, who those people are and what they think your website is about. This is why submitting your article to article directories is so powerful. Most directories will link to your website with the anchor text of your choosing. So, you can largely control who links to you and what they "think" your website is about.

So, the question is should you submit one article to as many article directories as you can find? Well the answer is both yes and no. You should submit many articles to the article directories that are either considered authoritative by the search engines, receive a lot of traffic daily, or show potential for becoming an authority. Not all of the article directories are the same. Some of the new directories will likely become authoritative powerhouses in the near future as some older directories flounder into nowhere. The key is to find the directories that show potential in attracting traffic and gaining authority from the search engines.

Article marketing and article submission can be one of the most powerful techniques to attract targeted traffic to your website. If you do it properly, finding the right directories and submitting well-written articles that link back to your website, you stand an excellent chance of turning your business into a cash-producing machine.

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