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Writing ArticlesGet website traffic (website visitors) by writing articles
If you are any good at writing (or at least passable), then this is just about the best way at both getting free traffic and improving your link popularity. And if you are crap at writing, it is still a good way to get traffic and improve your link popularity!
There are plenty of sites out there that will publish your articles and add a link back to your site at the bottom. Some even allow links in the text. And best of all is that many of these sites also allow other webmasters to use the articles on their own sites, provided that they keep the links intact. So, if your article is good enough, you will find your link all over the place.
I use this type of service all the time, both to distribute articles and to find articles to fill my own sites. If you purchased your site from me, there is about a 50% chance that you will have a few such articles on your own site. However if not, you can go see the sort of thing I am talking about if you Click Here.
There are a few things you should note when writing your articles:
- All sites have different rules, read them and make sure you obey the rules for that site. Most do check, and they do ban people who break their rules, which will stop you sending in future articles.
- Write the article on a subject related to whatever you sell. Remember, surfers will only read articles they are interested in, so if they read an article on ESP, and your site sells a book on testing your ESP powers, then they are likely to buy. But if your site sells website templates, there is only a small chance that they will have been interested in that too - in that case your article should have been on something to do with running a website.
- Make sure your article contains plenty of keywords (words you want to have search engines link to your site), remember that the engines will visit the sites containing your articles.
- Try not to make your article an advert, it will scare people away. Let them read it as an article and see the link at the end, they are much more likely to click on the link if you do this.
- One is not enough, it will drop to the bottom of the list, you will need to keep adding new articles for maximum exposure.
- When they start writing articles, most people sit down at the weekend and write a whole pile, then do not write any more for a few months. This is fine if you spread out the release of the articles. Don't dump them all at once. For example if you write four or five articles on a wet Sunday about once every two months, then keep them on your hard drive and release one every fortnight.
- Even if your article writing stinks, there are still plenty of sites that will add your articles. If it is bad, in may not get picked up by many, or even any, other sites, but at least you get the link back on the sites that you submit it to. No one has any excuse not to put a few articles out.
- If your writing skill does stink, try to write articles on things that few, or less, people will write about. That way there is more chance that webmasters needing material on that subject will pick up your article out of desperation.
- Don't ever pay for this service, there are plenty of free ones to use.
Here is a list of sites that will accept your articles (clicking on the URL should open it in a new window). To find more, use Google/Yahoo/etc. There are lots out there.
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.articlebiz.com/
http://www.freearticles.com/
http://www.isnare.com/
http://www.free-articles-zone.com/
www.articlesfactory.com
www.articledashboard.com
www.content-articles.com
www.article-hut.com
www.articleconnection.com
http://www.web-articles.info/
http://www.articleset.com/
http://www.articleclick.com/
http://www.articlegeek.com/
http://www.articlemaniac.com/
http://www.articleblotter.com/
http://www.articlewheel.com/
http://www.searchwarp.com
http://www.articlealley.com
http://www.a1articles.com
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This column's layout and style was stolen from JW Throat. Well I give him a lot of help on his site, it is about time he returned the favour.
25 September
As you will have noticed I did not manage to get an update in before my holiday. And since I got back I have been too buisy with the backlog of work that built up while I was gone to write anything here. But today, at last, I have uploaded something.
However it is probably not what you hoped for. Read the section numbered "0" and called "Start Here", you probably won't like it, but you need to hear it.
22 August
Four new pages this time, but one is very short. They are on pages 11, 12, 13, and 14 in the index to the left.
Yet again I am away over the weekend - I should actually have left an hour ago, so do not expect the next uopdate until near the end of next week. (Although it is a bank holiday, sadly my trip is work related once more.)
17 August
Two new pages this week one on social networking and one on email signatures. They are on pages 9 and 10 in the index to the left.
Hopefully I'll add another page or two during the week, but I am away again next weekend (once more it is work related) so I may not have the time.
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