The
Web's Best-Kept Traffic Secret
Did you realize that thousands of website
operators use a simple technique to generate targeted visitors to their
websites without paying a dime in advertising? It's true. In fact, the
technique works so well that many of them don't want you to discover how
they get those thousands of website visitors and make so many sales on
virtual 'auto-pilot.'
Their method?
Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in their ezines
(online magazines and email newsletters) and post on their websites.
This method rates so powerful that some even call it 'the web's best
kept traffic secret.'
Now, you may ask, 'Why would an ezine publisher or website owner publish
my articles for their subscribers?'
The answer: Content!
Over a 100,000 ezines and newsletters operate on the web (along with
millions of websites) covering everything from pets and cooking to
investments and real estate. Many of them need tightly focused content
and they simply can't produce all of it themselves.
Look at it this way... it's the same reason newspapers use the
Associated Press. Individual newspapers often can't afford staff writers
to cover every story, so they accept articles from outside their
organization.
You can do the exact same thing for various ezines and websites catering
to your niche audience!
You can get valuable publicity -- exposure you often couldn't even pay
for if you wanted to -- by providing valuable, content-rich articles in
exchange for a byline and a link to your website (called a 'resource
box')!
The following represent only a few of the enormous benefits of writing
and distributing simple articles online:
Attain 'Expert' Status
Let's face it! In the eyes of virtually everyone who reads your articles
you rank as the 'expert' on the subject.
Just look at people who write newspaper columns. You may disagree with
their viewpoints, but they still have an elevated status in your mind
compared to the 'average Joe' off the street.
Pre-sell Website Visitors
If your article appeals to a niche audience hungry for more information
on a very focused subject, you actually pre-sell them better than any
sales pitch. In their minds, you've already delivered content they
really want so when they click over to your site you already have a
'reputation' in their minds.
Traffic Lasts Longer
Even though the Internet changes very quickly, webmasters are usually
very slow to remove content from their sites. Once you get an article
posted on another person's website, you have an excellent chance of that
article staying there for weeks, months, even years.
Increase Links To Your Site
In a recent search I found just a dozen of my articles posted on over
813 different websites! Not only do those postings bring me traffic, but
they also help my search engine positioning because of my increased
'Link Popularity.'
Builds Your Affiliate Base
Fact: Affiliates always take the path of least resistance.
If you provide excellent articles they can easily post on their sites or
copy and paste into their ezines, your affiliates will promote you more
often and more effectively compared to those who don't give them tools.
Plus, as you make more sales and publish articles, other people will see
you providing excellent tools and will want to sign up as your affiliate
so they can use them too!
Build a Huge 'Opt-In' Email List
You can use articles to build up a huge list of subscribers by simply
compiling several articles into a series and delivering them at preset
intervals.
Often called a 'mini-course,' this technique allows you not only to
prove to your subscribers that you deliver great information, but
enables you to capture their name and email adress so you can send them
articles and special offers in the future (with their permission).
Requires No Special Skills
People often think they need to be a 'writer' in order to publish
articles, but that's not true!
FACT: If you have a passion for a subject and can talk and explain
things like you would to a friend over a cup of coffee, you can write
articles people will love to read.
So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of product or
service (whether your own or as an affiliate), publishing and promoting
with articles should rank high on your list of traffic generation
strategies.
No other method of generating targeted traffic to your website provides
the quality, quantity and steadiness of traffic in such a simple,
straightforward, and cost-effective manner.
Jim Edwards, a.k.a.
TheNetReporter.com, is a syndicated
newspaper columnist, nationally recognized speaker, author, and
web developer. Owner of nine (9) successful e-businesses as well
as a professional consulting firm, Jim's writing comes straight
off the front lines of the Internet and e-commerce.
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