Writing articles that other people can reprint on their website, or in their eZine is one of the most effective ways of getting free traffic to your website. Write articles related to your website and allow other people to reprint them on their website provided that your by-line remains intact and that they link to your website from the article.

Writing articles accomplishes three things:

1.You get free traffic from websites that reprint your article.

2.You get a link to your website, which in turns helps your Search Engine rankings.

3.Over time, you develop a reputation as being an expert in your field.

The by-line of your article should have the name of the article, your name, a short description of the article, reprint information, and a link to your website. For example:

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Choosing Keywords – The Truth about KEI

Written by George Manty, owner of http://websitepromotionbook.com

This article can be reproduced in whole or in part, providing this byline is included along with a link to http://websitepromotionbook.com

There are many excellent places to submit your article. My personal favorite is GoArticles. It is very easy to submit articles to GoArticles and my articles have spread fairly quickly by submitting them to GoArticles. Writing quality articles can REALLY help publicize your website. Here is a list of a few other places you can submit articles to:

http://www.articlesfactory.com/
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Free-Content/
http://www.freesticky.com/stickyweb/
http://www.web-source.net/article-announce.htm
http://www.ideamarketers.com/

There are many other places online to submit articles, just use your favorite search engine to find other places.

In addition, I highly recommend that you check out Jim Edwards ebook, “Turn Words Into Traffic”. It explains in detail how to maximize the use of articles to bring traffic to your website. It is an excellent resource for those of you who plan on writing articles to bring traffic to your website.

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2 Responses to “Places to Submit Articles”

1. Alan Liew – make money online Says:
   
   September 6th, 2006 at 9:14 pm

   I try submit an article to newssprings.com/ but it seem that site has closed.

2. George Manty Says:
   
   September 7th, 2006 at 12:39 pm

   Looks like it has changed to some sort of subscription site. I will remove it.

   Thanks,
   
   George

All of the websites mentioned in my previous post (and many others) are great places to get free content for your website. In fact, you can make good money reprinting other people’s articles on your website and using affiliate programs or Google® AdSense® on your website. There are several other advantages of reprinting other people’s articles on your website:

1.It gives your website more content (which Search Engines love).

2.It gives your visitors more content (which visitors love).

3.It allows you to have more internal links to other areas of your website (which help search rankings).

4.It allows you to target more keywords (which helps your traffic).

When you reprint an article you shouldn’t always blindly use the name of the article in the title tag and heading tag. Find related keywords that it will be easy to bring traffic to your website with. It’s important to use other people’s articles in this way.

Lastly, when you reprint articles, make sure you only put articles on your website that you believe are well written and are of great value to your visitors.

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I mentioned earlier that directories are a great way to get one way links. Directories have been used by those in the Search Engine Optimization world for some time, to increase rankings and bring more traffic to their site. However, many SEO experts believe that the Search Engines are giving less power to directories.

There are still many ways to get good links, writing articles (like this one), trading links, buying links, etc. But I have never noticed people talk much about one of the BEST ways not only to get a powerful link to your site, but also to drive traffic to your site. And that is….

Review Sites!

There are more and more website review sites, and product review sites popping up on the Internet. For one thing, creating one can be a good way to make some extra money. Some people can even earn a living by owning review sites.

That said, review sites can bring you TONS of traffic. Sites that I have worked on have had over *3000 visitors in a week by being featured on a review site. Not only that most review sites archive their reviews, which can mean a continual flow of traffic to your site, and a permanent link.

If you want a ton of quick traffic to your site, search for review sites that review websites in your industry. It can be a great way to drive traffic to your site.

I know you might be wondering what review site brought my site over *3000 visitors in a week. It’s called family first and you can visit them here: http://www.familyfirst.com/

They review family friendly websites. When I had my site reviewed it was free, but now they charge a small fee. Most reveiw sites are like that.

If you have a really cool or different site, you might want to submit it to Cool Site of The Day (http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/). We had a site reviewed on cool site of the day and got over 2000 visitors from that link the day it was featured.

There are many more review sites out there just waiting for your site to review. Review sites (especially the bigger ones) can be an excellent way to drive traffic to your site without the Search Engines.

*Note: I have had other sites reviewed on Family First and not generated nearly the amount of traffic as my first site, probably because they have changed the way they link out to sites. They used to link out to sites on their main page, but now they bury the links deeper in their site making it less likely to get visitors from being reviewed on their site.

To learn more about getting tons of traffic to your site click here!

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Blogs can be time consuming, but the Search Engines love them. Search Engines love content that is always updated. Blogs are the perfect format for constantly updated content. Creating a company blog is a great idea if you have the time to do so. Starting a company blog is a great way to increase your Search Engine traffic and build customer trust.

There are many free places you can start a blog, or you can host your own blog. I recommend owning the domain your blog is on, because you have more control over it. Most web hosts provide blogging software for free, so it is easy to set up a blog on most web hosts.

If you want to go the free route, here is a small list of some free blogging sites (there are many others):

http://www.blogger.com/ (this is what I use for some of my blogs, they are owned by Google®)
http://www.blogeasy.com/
http://www.blogstudio.com/
http://www.blog-city.com/
http://www.xanga.com/

Once you have a blog be sure to link back to your website from the blog. Also be sure to list your blog in all the related blog directories you can. This will help your blog get indexed by all the major Search Engines and help some with it’s Search Engine ranking. Use Robin Good’s list of blog and feed sites to submit you blog to (http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/). It is the most comprehensive and up to date list for promoting your blog that I have come across.

Trading links with other related blogs is another way to get good links to your blog. (I don’t do that nearly as much as I could).

A well done, regularly updated blog can significantly increase your website traffic . It can also be a great marketing tool for your product and/or services.

For more information on starting and running a blog here is a list of the best resources I know of:

Andy Wibbels Blog

Performancing

ProBlogger

2 Responses to “Using Blogs to Drive Traffic To Your Business Site”

1. Franck Silvestre Says:
   
   December 15th, 2006 at 7:04 pm

   I always use blogs to drive traffic to my websites, and I must say that it is my preferred strategy.

   generally, what I do is that I write 20-30 articles at the beginning of the month. It’s really time consuming though.

2. Hooshmand Moslemi Says:
   
   June 25th, 2007 at 3:38 am

   WOW! What a great information!

   It is too important to have a live Blog. It means it should have some useful content and updated more frequently. Once you update your posts, the search engines will index the page and bring you fresh and targeted visitors.

   In order to get better results, you need to add some functions to your Blog such as subscription forms or buttons, social network widgets, contact forms and so on The point is to create a useful and live Blog which makes your visitors enjoy reading it and makes them return.

   I hope it will help.

   To your success!

   Hooshmand

You can advertise your product in other businesses’ newsletters that cater to your target audience. This technique can work well and it can bomb. I don’t advise this for beginners, as there are more cost effective, longer lasting methods of promoting your website.

However, if you feel compelled to advertise in a newsletter, do LOTS of research ahead of time. Find out as much as you can about the newsletter. Look for testimonials from past advertisers, and compare their products with yours. Make sure your product is a good fit for the eZine you choose to advertise in. I strongly recommend that beginners not bother with advertising in other people’s newsletters unless they are advertising for free or next to nothing.

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