Make Money with Ezine Articles: Generate Web Traffic

If you submit ezine articles to article directories, you can generate web site traffic. You will spread links to your site around the web both bringing people directly and showing the search engines that your site is important. You can submit articles and have those links for free.

One of the most effective ways to generate web site traffic is to submit ezine articles (like the one you are reading) to article directories for people to use in their own blogs and ezines. You submit an article of preferably 400-1000 words in length. Anyone can use your article for free as long as they keep your article, and most especially your resource box, intact. Your resource box is the last few sentences in your article. It is the only place where you may include links to your websites. Bloggers and ezine editors have a ravenous appetite for content, so well written, useful articles will spread widely.

The articles target the visitors you want at your site. Submitting articles doesn't have to cost you anything but your time, and they spread across the web without any extra effort on your part. Of course, your time is valuable, and writing may not be a favorite activity of yours, so services have sprung up to help automate the process. You can hire articles written for you, and you can subscribe to services that will submit variations of your articles to hundreds of directories.

Ezine articles can increase your sales and your profits by increasing your web site traffic in two ways:

First, ezine articles can generate web traffic through referrals. People reading the article click on the links in your resource box and come to your website.

More importantly, the presence of links to your site from quality web sites will increase the page rank of your site in the view of the search engines: if all these other sites are pointing to yours, it must mean that yours is important. When your page ranks highly enough to appear on page one of the search results, searches will generate web traffic.

To write the articles yourself, you can use formulas: You can write tip sheets, questions and answers, reviews of products and services, feature by feature comparisons, and interviews. Just do not try to publish a sales letter. People do not want to read a sales pitch. Ezine editors will not publish sales pitches. Your articles will spread throughout the web only if they provide the readers what they want.

Each article will need a title, a body, a resource box, a category that the article fits into, a list of keywords, and a brief description of what the article contains. To use the article submission services, you will need several titles, versions of each paragraph, and resource boxes.

Keywords are the most important thing in article writing. You need to optimize the article for relevant keywords so interested people can find the article. You need different keywords to use in the anchor text in the resource boxes. Those keywords will tell search engines the topics for which your web pages are important.

You don't have to buy website traffic. You can generate web site traffic for free if you submit ezine articles to article directories. Ezine articles are an important way to bring customers to your web site.


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