There is a free way to promote your website and products which leads to increased targeted traffic and sales.
Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.
How does this work?
It’s as simple as writing content relating to the topic of your site and submitting them to ezine publishers and article directories. People are always looking for new content for their own sites or ezines and they’ll gladly publish non-spammy, quality content.
How can article writing boost traffic and income?
Each article you submit has a ‘resource box’. A resource box contains a blurb about you or your site and then a link back to your site. If a reader finds your article intriging, they may click on the link to find out more.
As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.
The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your website’s placement in the search results.
If your site is promoting a product or service, the traffic that your articles bring will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future.
One of your articles may be the deciding factor in a potential customer choosing your product over a competitors. Having articles published on various sites establishes you as an expert - and your products have a higher corresponding shine.
Returning to search engines, the content of your articles will be indexed and you will be able to benefit from additional long tail keyword search terms (generally 3 or more words in a search string). This will increase your traffic also.
And to think, it was very little effort on your part to write the article, get it published and wait for it to be indexed by the search engines.
It is no wonder why many webmasters are suddenly reviving their old writing styles and taking time to write more articles about their site than doing other means of promotion.
Getting their site known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.
With articles it is critical to write about things people want to know about. It generally works best if you have a conversational tone, but still professional with a little sales pitch added at the end.
If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.
If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your website and your products or services.
Write and submit some articles. You will see an increase in targeted traffic, long tail search results and conversions. In a few months you could be doubling or tripling your earnings.
Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.
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- Steven Lohrenz
Highlights 
July 29th, 2008 