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Top Seven Ways Writing Articles Can Explode Your Business



In today's highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival, especially in the cutthroat world of ecommerce. Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. Fortunately, there is plethora of website promotion strategies you can use to drive traffic to your website.

There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use, and they can be very effective. How, you may ask, can writing articles help improve your web traffic? Here are the top seven ways in which it can help explode your business.

1.Reach more people

When you write good articles, it would be a shame not to share them with other people. You can post your articles in your website or you can submit them to other sites such as e-zines and online publishers. By submitting your articles to these sites, you give exposure not only to your ideas but also to your website. Simply include a link back to your site or include your information in the resource box. With this, you get exposure and free advertising as well. Submit your articles to popular e-zines and take advantage of their popularity. Other sites who find your article relevant may also link back to you. Thus, you increase your link popularity, which is one of the most important strategies in the internet world. Remember that most people are looking for information online and by filling this need with your quality article; you may reap the benefit of more exposure and higher web traffic.

2.Free Advertising

Submitting your articles to other websites presents an opportunity to advertise your website without paying exorbitant fees. Although you should avoid marketing language in your articles and make it informative and useful to your readers, you can always include your site's link in the resource box. In addition, by making your article relevant and helpful to your readers, you are making a good impression for your website, which could ultimately lead to a visit and hopefully a purchase. Good quality content in an article is far better and more effective than a few lines of ad space. You have a very special opportunity to presell your product or service to your prospective customer.

3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking

Create a new web page for your article in your website. Optimize your article to make it search-engine friendly. Use top-ranked keywords and Meta tags that can give your website a high search engine ranking. As soon as you upload your new webpage to your server, search engines will spider through it and you can gain an increase in search engine ranking. Remember that search engine optimized content is a very effective strategy to gain a high ranking in search results.

4.Increases Link Popularity

Instead of looking for other sites who would want to establish reciprocal links with your site, you can simply submit an article to other sites. Just do not forget to include a link to your site in your resource box. When these websites pick up and publishes your article, you automatically get a link partner. Try to get as many link partners as you can. Link popularity is one of the factors used by search engines in determining search engine rankings. Make your article especially useful and appealing, so that more websites will be encouraged to publish it.

5.Optimizes your site for improved search engine ranking

By making your site keyword rich, you can greatly improve the search engine ranking of your site. Remember that keyword density is one of the most important factors that search engines use when determining the search engine ranking of site. However, you should always provide relevant, useful and pertinent information. Avoid the temptation of overusing keywords just to gain a high ranking as this may turn off most web surfers. Relevance and quality is still the most important things to consider when writing articles and it will be doubly useful to your site if you make these articles search-engine optimized.

6.Establishes a Good Impression and Reputation

By writing excellent, original and relevant articles, you not only give your site exposure, you are also creating a good impression on your prospects. Encourage more people to visit your site and do business with you by establishing an impressive reputation through your articles. Be seen as an expert in the field and your will ultimately gain more customers eager to do business with you.

7.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies

Certainly, your articles are going to receive feedbacks and testimonies when you publish them in e-zines and free article sites. Record these positive feedbacks and comments and use them as promotional material in your website or in any of your advertising efforts. Your credibility will be greatly enhanced by these feedbacks, as it will create a good impression on your prospects as well as your existing customers. In this highly competitive world, excellent credibility and trust may be the only things you need to attract new customers or make loyal patrons out of your existing customers. Original, relevant, useful and pertinent articles are important tools you should utilize to improve and explode your business

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The Key To Writing Affiliate Marketing Articles

In this article, I am going to give you a brief outline for writing affiliate marketing articles. This will put you head and shoulders over your competition that will post affiliate marketing articles without caring about how they are written.
There are a lot of methods to driving targeted traffic to websites. One commonly overlooked method for getting free traffic to websites is writing affiliate marketing articles. Unfortunately, this is even more true for affiliate marketers who are trying to siphon traffic to their sites.

In this article, I am going to give you a brief outline for writing affiliate marketing articles. This will put you head and shoulders over your competition that will post affiliate marketing articles without caring about how they are written.

1. Don’t try to write the perfect affiliate marketing article. Frequently, when writing affiliate marketing articles, people tend to "overthink" the article writing process and think they are writing Shakespeare or are rivaling Stephen King. Thankfully, you don’t have to have a Masters degree in English to write excellent affiliate marketing articles. All you need to do is write in an interesting way that conveys the information.

2. Make sure your keywords are placed in the affiliate marketing article frequently. Ideally, when writing affiliate marketing articles, you’ll want to sprinkle your target keyword into the article. The ideal place for inserting your target keyword is the headline, the first paragraph of your article, and the last paragraph. Be careful not to "keyword stuff" your articles--- the search engines can pick up on that really quickly and penalize you in short order.

3. Make sure you have a call to action in your affiliate marketing article. AT the end of the article, you want to have a call to action that refers them to a website for more information. Ideally, you want this to be the "money site" or the affiliate site where the person can buy the product.

4. Make your affiliate marketing article informative. You must make sure that your affiliate marketing article makes the reader feel good that they read it. They must learn something or feel like your affiliate marketing article was worthwhile if you want them to check on your "call to action button:" to your affiliate page. If you just have an article the wastes the reader’s time, they are not going to request further information from you.

5. Make sure you are not too "salesy" in your article. When writing affiliate marketing articles, you don’t want to write a sales-letter. Articles are supposed to be a "soft sell" that nudges them toward a buying decision. Be sure to remove "salesy" language such as "ground-breaking,"breakthrough," and "cutting edge." Also remove the pronoun "You" so it looks like it is informing a wide audience—and not a sales letter that speaks directly to a single person.

Writing affiliate marketing articles also gives you a perfect change to get free traffic to you’re website. Why is that? Since you are usually getting a percentage of total sales (around 50% for most information products) it limits how much you can spend on common advertising methods such as pay-per-click and banner advertising. Writing affiliate marketing articles that subtly promote your affiliate product or service can reap huge dividends for your affiliate marketing efforts.

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About the Author:
Russell Brunson has been a successful internet marketer over the last 4 years, he is actively helping other people to achieve their goals online. For more information go to http://www.DotComSecrets.com

By Russell Brunson
Published: 10/1/2007



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Article Directories


Here are some great sites where you can both submit your articles as well as find articles for use on your webpages, Ezines, or Blogs. Just remember to keep the resource box intact so that you don't get sued for stealing content.

Amazines: " We offer free articles, free web content, and free article feeds which are submitted by our network of quality registered authors. Once registered, our authors are free to submit articles for distribution to Ezines, affiliated websites and anyone else who wishes to use our article database.

We are building the most comprehensive article database that is free and easy to use for the Author to submit and manage articles. And free and easy for the Publisher to use articles on their webpages and include them in Ezines and our publishing mediums. ."
Article Dashboard

Article 99: Internet business and marketing articles.

Article Depot: More than 20,000 articles.

Article Alley:

Article City

Article Directory Pro: Made to make article submission much faster and easier.

Article Direct: Small Business Articles

Article Finders : "Our mission is to have the largest collection of free articles from across the net covering every subject that we possibly can. This helps anyone searching for free information and gives excellent exposure to article writers. Check back often as we will be adding new free articles every week."

Article Hub

Article Blast: "FREE ARTICLES... FREE CONTENT... FREE INFO... FREE ADVICE... ArticleBlast.com is your source! Articles ranging from babies to business... health to home improvement... sports to self-improvement and so much more. Please feel free to add any of our content to your website, newsletter, or e-zine. A wealth of information is just a click away!"


Article Desk: "This is where anyone with a website can get quality content for their pages. We all know, quality is vital if you want to rank well on the search engines. However, some people do not have the skill or the time to write the content they need to build a quality web site. That is where we can help. Writers submit articles here for publication on our site so that you can find them and copy them into your site. Click here to discover how an article directory works. This article directory, like most article directories, is free."

Article Press: "My goal is to create a quality resource for Publishers and Authors alike. In the coming months you will see many changes happening to the site. I will be starting major advertising campains, changing the default template of the site, and creating a custom logo.I am always open to suggestions for the site and look forward to working with all of my quality customers."

Articles Factory: Free articles, free web content, free reprint content.

Article Obsession: "

Website Owners - Article Obsession will continually provide you with fresh new articles for your websites, ezines, and blogs! Check back often for new targeted content.

Writers - thousands of website, ezine, and blog owners use Article Obsession to provide unique and fresh content to their audiences. Sign up and start submitting your articles today!

Promote your website - add your url in our Link Directory. Reciprocal links are appreciated!"

Articles Orange: "Squeeze your content into the web."

Article Pros: Article Directory, Get Free Reprint Articles and Content for your site.

The Article Shelf

Articles Base: Choose from over 265,000 articles, free articles and content for your site or newsletters, submit your own articles, free signup.

Article Wisdom:

Article Zoom:"Your search for quality information ends here. Whether you are curious over a subject or trying to find information to post on your website, then you have come to the right place. Quality content will bring in more visitors to your website.

Publishing any articles from our library is FREE & requires NO MEMBERSHIP! However you must abide by our Terms of Service"

Best Management Articles: Business strategies, ideas, solutions, and tips.

Business Know How

Business Nation : Submit articles, absolutely no affiliate links. Here is a reason why you need your own website.

Business Tool Chest :1001+ Internet Marketing Resources.

Content King

Ezine Finder

Dev Mechanic: Webmaster tools, developer tools, articles.

Digital Women: Digital Women has been providing information for women on loans, grants, business funding, home business ideas, lending tips and business networking resources since 1998!

eBusiness Articles

E World Articles

Expert Articles

Ezine Articles: This is one of my old favorites. i actually get a lot of well, my Ezine articles from here.

Ezine Writer: Another good one for finding great content and submitting your own articles. Over 25,000 articles in this article directory.

Free Sticky: Please read the submission guidlines before posting.

Free Article Depot:
"Welcome to Free Article Depot  -  There are now 58522 Excellent Articles in our Database from 7103 Authors."

Free Articles Zone: Tons of different categories. Whatever your site is about, you'll find something here.

Free Coaching Articles


Guide Dawgs: "Are you looking for helpful advice on some obscure topic or are you simply looking for a great new hobby? You've come to the right place. GuideDawgs.com is a community of people who share their knowledge with others in the form of guides.   Browse around and we bet you will find what you are looking for. Bookmark Us Now!

Are you an expert in a special field, or just a member with some helpful information to share? Write a guide and share your knowledge. It's free, easy, and with GuideDawgs.com's new AdSense Impressions Share Program, you can even earn money. Learn More about the benefits of joining GuideDawgs.com."

Go Articles: One of the web's largest article directories.

Idea Marketers:

I Read Articles: "Your one-stop source for free articles. Do you need contents to add to your web site? Or articles for use on your opt-in newsletters and e-zines? IReadArticles.com has scoured the web and indexed a huge collection of articles on various subjects. Just click on the appropriate category to read the articles."

I Snare: Free content for your Ezine or website.

Mail Biz

 Marketing Seek

Niche Content Articles

People Development Articles

Power Home Biz: Accepts only home business related articles.

Reprint Articles

Simply Search 4 It

Small Biz Articles

Submit Your Article:"Free Content? Browse the latest top quality free reprint articles from our clients below. Or use Search above - 21675 articles, rising daily, all with instant free reprint rights. Get articles direct."

Webmaster Articles

Web Pro News: This is good content. I actually subscribe to this newsletter.

Web Source: Your guide to professional web site design and development.

World Wide Information Outlet

Zongoo: Zongoo Daily News Newspaper delivers fresh news everyday from local and international news. Our news are delivered in real-time on Google News!

Deliver fresh Daily News on your website:

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