Gain Customers Through Articles

Article marketing is not a new Internet marketing tool. This marketing tactic has proven itself to successfully bring increased traffic to your website and, subsequently, increased sales. If you are not writing articles about your product or industry start now.

How does this work? The process is easy.

Write content rich articles relating to your website and submit them to "free content" submission sites. The process is easy to do and it will take some upfront time but you know your business. You know your product. You know the value of what you sell for your customers. Put that knowledge in the form of an informative article and it can increase your website traffic, sales and subsequently, your income.

How can article writing boost traffic and income?

Every article you submit to an article directory contains a link to your own website. If your article was valuable to the reader they may choose to click on the link and pay you an unexpected visit. The best way for someone else to market your website is when a webmaster publishes your article on their site for content. Your link remains active and the visitors to that site can read your article and click on your link. The more webmasters who use your article, the better for you.

Continue to write webpage content articles about your product, service, or industry. 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 back to your site increases. Ensure that all the links do not come back to the same page. 'Deep links' means that each article links back to a different page on your website. Choose the page that closely coordinates with your article. The readers of your article are already interested in that topic so linking them back to your site, containing more information on the same topic, keeps the reader as a visitor on your web site longer.

Many of the Readers already have specific things they need but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. When they read one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, and visits your site they feel like you have provided them with the information they needed and purchase from you. See how easy that is?

The second value of this is that the 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 your website has from all your published articles, the more importance the search engines attaches to it. All the new link activity will increase your website's placement in the search results.

Search engines do not just index the websites, they also index published articles. All of the activity derived from your articles gives you a higher ranking which turns in to being closer to the first page when individuals search for your product/service. There are other techniques you need to know, including keywords and keyword phrases, to be as successful with this marketing technique as possible.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to a free content site. In a short span of time that article is 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. Write more articles, get more traffic. Consider submitting to several article directory sites or use an article distribution service and really watch your web site visits and your sales increase.

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.

Toni Grundstrom is a Freelance Writer. Article Marketing is now one of the best ways to market your website (or should I say let others market your website). Now is the time to begin writing articles for distribution and/or put them on your website as rich content. Turn Your Words Into Marketing Gold

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