Your current articles you've published on your blogs could be building traffic and building e-mail lists for you a lot quicker if you begin to submit articles to article sites regularly.

Posting your best articles to the best online article directories exposes your new articles to a large potential audience, both at the article directories and on other people's pages if they use your interesting articles as posts. Popular articles can be one of the best sources of targeted traffic, thus helping you build opt-in lists and build targeted traffic.

And really, this article marketing strategy only makes sense. Most people come online looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the first source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are added online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and similar sites.

So before adding those new articles to your blog, go to the most important few directories and add your articles, being careful to ensure your Author's Resource Box points back to your blog or squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's targeted at building your opt-in list and your blog audience concurrently.

Ensure your new articles are full of useful content - trying to create an article just for it's search engine value is a basic blunder, since getting prospects to your submitted articles is only part of the battle. The real trick is to get them swept up in your articles' message, show yourself as an expert on the topic, and get them to take action and head to your opt-in form or your blog. That needs both powerful information in your article AND solid, related info on the landing page.

One of the reasons that this plan builds opt-in lists so easily is that the person is looking for tips on a topic, reads your article and then sees your link to additional details. Improve your traffic building from your articles by giving a free report, audio or video on a related issue to prospects who sign up. This way the recruit gets what they are looking for, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.