Although this is a free method of driving traffic to your site, it is a very powerful method over time.
The problem is you don’t see results immediately…you see results over time. And that’s where people get discouraged. They submit 10 articles to a couple of article directories and say ‘What the hell is going on? Am I still not rich? This method is bullshit!
The thing is, it’s a method that pays big dividends in the long run. By the time you’ve written tons of articles, they start piling up and search engines start showing your pages in search results.
You start to see a steady stream of traffic to your site because your articles will appear at the top of search engines (using SEO techniques). This is what search engines love. They love good quality content; content that provides people with useful information; content that solves people’s problems.
Your article could be submitted to hundreds of article directories, posted on other people’s blogs as a guest blogger, or placed on your own blog.
Of all these, I prefer my blog posts for the following reasons:
1) List creation
This is very useful, especially if you are an affiliate promoting other people’s products and services. All you need is to direct people to a subscription page via a link that you ask them to click on.
And there are things you need to do to motivate people to opt-in, like offer a free ebook or video training if they choose to leave their email address.
2) Search Engine Friendly
Search engines love blogs. This is because they are sources of information. But this will only work well for you if you have valuable content, not just low-quality articles stuffed with keywords because search engines continually tweak their algorithm to filter out the junk.
And in order for your post to appear at the top of search engine search results, you may also want to learn SEO techniques.
Submitting Articles to Article Directories
This also has its own advantages. For example, if you submit your articles to a directory that ranks high and gets a lot of traffic, you’ll also get a lot of traffic to your site. That’s why I love EzineArticles. Google loves EzineArticles. The site receives up to 1 million visitors per month. That’s huge!
So submitting your articles to EzineArticles can also be a source of good traffic for your site, especially when you have a well-written resource box that drives your readers to your site.
I hope you have enjoyed this article. Go ahead and start writing articles right now.