Increase Web Site Traffic by Article Marketing

How to Increase Web site traffic with article marketing

Article marketing is one of the tried and true methods to increase Web site traffic. There are hundreds of article directories on the Internet. You write your article on the subject you wish to promote and put a link or two in your resource box at the end of the article.

You need to write good quality articles if you want them accepted into the top article directories. You also want them to be attractive and actually get distributed to other sites and read by real people. This is not the place to use junky PLR articles unless you do major rewrites on them.

You can choose to submit your articles to just the top article directories or you can submit to hundreds using the various article submission services that are designed to get you lots of backlinks and hopefully increase Web traffic for your site.

I have listed some tips below to help you get started to increase Web traffic by using article marketing. You can get many more Web traffic tips with the free ebook series to the right.

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Article Marketing Tips to Increase Web Site Traffic

As mentioned above, the first rule in article marketing is to write good original articles. They don't need to be literary masterpieces, but they do need to be unique and readable. It is also a big plus if there is a hook or something that draws the reader in and gets their attention. Since your links only appear at the bottom of the article you want the reader to stay interested and read to the bottom of the article.

The above brings up another point. You don't want your article to be too long or not many people will read it to the end to get to your links. You will need it to meet the minimum length required by the article directories, but if you want the maximum effect to increase Web site traffic you will want to keep it under 500 words if you can.

Many people wonder if it really does any good to submit the same article to dozens or hundreds of article marketing directories because they will be viewed by the search engines as duplicate content. If your primary interest is building links to your content those links do still count. In an ideal world you would submit a totally unique article to each directory in your article marketing efforts.

Since none of us has time to do that, the next best alternative is quality spinning of your articles. If you are going to spin (automate the creating of unique versions) your articles you must be very careful to make keep the quality. The best service for doing just that is SubmitYourArticle. This service allows you to create alternatives for each sentence and makes it easy to keep the articles readable and unique. I use the service and highly reccommend it.

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