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The single most important thing for any blog or website is traffic and while there are many tools available to help drive traffic, the writing and submission of articles remains the most powerful way to increase traffic to any blog or site. My post today examines 5 reasons why this technique is so powerful.
Become an Expert in your Niche
Creating well written and informative articles can establish you as an expert in your niche. You will build trust and confidence with your readers which will make them more receptive to any sales offer you may have.
Affordability
Article submission is one of the most affordable means of generating traffic. You can write them yourself or you can hire a ghostwriter relatively inexpensively. You can then submit these articles to many directories manually or you can use one of the many tools that practically automates this process. Either way, this will increase the amount of links that point back to your blog, which will increase your page rank, your search engine rank and your Alexa rank..
Articles are Viral in Nature
All article directories allow you to add a personal snippet in what is referred to as a “resource box” at the bottom of each article you submit. Most, if not all, directories will allow you to put at least one link in the resource box. This could be a link back to your blog or one that points to a product you may be promoting. In addition to providing you a means to link back to your blog, your articles can be republished on other blogs and websites thereby becoming viral in nature. It’s this viral nature that can drive more traffic and point more links back to your blog, as well as establish your expertise. And that’s a win, win, win.
Long Term Traffic
Because your articles never disappear, they can potentially bring you traffic for years to come. Articles archived in these directories can be read by anyone and can generate thousands of back links to your blog. Not only that, articles can be picked up by search engines on their own merit and due to the ability to link back to your blog in the resource box of your article, the search engines will also crawl your blog as well.
Although there are many other legitimate ways to drive traffic to your blog, submitting articles remains the most powerful way to drive traffic to your blog, increase your page rank, search engine rank and establish your credibility.
And with that, I hope this finds you well.
[...] 4 Reasons Why Articles Are Your Most Powerful Traffic Tool …15 hours ago by mkyd1963 Article submission is one of the most affordable means of generating traffic. You can write them yourself or you can hire a ghostwriter relatively inexpensively. You can then submit these articles to many directories manually or you can … [...]
Good post, Mike. You are now an EzineArticles.com expert author, which established you as an expert in your niche.
Why don’t you link your Ezine web page to your blog now? Many bloggers aspire, some even continue to dream, to get published in Ezine and become an expert author. But you are now one, so maybe it’s now time to “build trust and confidence with your readers which will make them more receptive to any sales offer you may have.” as you yourself said.
Just a thought.
Eli @ Business Sphere´s last blog ..How To Turn Your Web Surfing Time Into Money
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October 30th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I tried that, but it didn’t work for me…..I’ll try it again, though….In any event, I had to change my theme…the Revolution theme i was using was loading slow and I finally found a good one….Suffice it to say, I’m getting there……Thank you for stopping by, Eli…I really appreciate it.
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I have to admit that when it comes to my blog I really don’t understand all the technical stuff. Page rank, traffic, back links, you name it. I just put up my posts and that’s about it. I’m really clueless and the more I try and figure it out the more confused I get.
I have to tell you though that I really like the new look of your blog. I think it’s much easier on the eyes than the blue.
ann´s last blog ..A Halloween horror story
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October 31st, 2009 at 11:34 am
Thanks for the compliment, Ann. Without getting technical, submitting an article that’s related to what your blog is about to a directory like EzineArticles can help your blog in all those things. But in terms of establishing your credibility as an expert in your niche, article submission is the way to go. Thank you again for your compliment and I hope this finds you well
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Mike, one last suggestion. I think it would be better if you put the logo of an EzineArticles.com Expert Author, to establish your credibility as an expert in your niche, instead of the present logo as Featured on EzineArticles, which does not communicate well your being an expert author. I know that once you are a published author, Ezine sends you widgets, e.g. expert author. It’s good now that you linked the logo to your Ezine page. I tell you, not many bloggers get published in Ezine.
Eli @ Business Sphere´s last blog ..How To Turn Your Web Surfing Time Into Money
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October 31st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Consider it done, Eli. Thanks for keeping me on my toes.
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