I have a website that gets over 30,000 hits a month and most of that was through article marketing and forums. Use EzineArticles.com, they get the most traffic and you can check stats and it tells you how many page views you get and how many people clicked on your author bio box url.
Article marketing is usually done for the purpose of getting relevant back links and gain loyal visitors. Usually quality article directories have good traffic where people read articles. It is not necessary that every one click on signature link, so one can not analyze the exact traffic. however it has been seen that proper article marketing improve your website traffic and definitely a good tool to spend time on.
Good well written and informative articles can be a very effective way to draw visitors to your site. You need a good resource box that sells the clickthrough to your site. Another technique is to separate your article into two parts. Post the first part of the article, then in your resource box give the links to go find the second part. Of course this works best when you write good articles with solid information so that they feel a need to read the remainder of your article. Does not work well with crap articles that are merely a rehash of what is already out there. If you are going to write crap just be thankful the article directories let you in at all (they are becoming more selective...at least the better ones) and be happy with a backlink that will bring you little, if any, traffic.
Very good advise, David Articles do bring in traffic especially they are highly targeted. The only concern is the quality of your article..
It's all about traffic, all of it. Even backlinks. If you are not catering to the needs of the end user and are only concerned with SERP and/or PR, then you are missing the point, completely. When I first cam to Digital Point (a year ago yesterday) I saw threads talking about this very thing, and I didn't really believe it. I've used Google for years, and MetaCrawler before that. I do not recall ever coming across an article directory in all the searches I've ever done...and I've done a lot. Since then though I have been paying a bit more attention, and have noticed that many of the articles on places like About.com, and other news sources (including blogs) are pulling from article directories. While I'm not sure if this is due to the submitter pushing it to these other places, or if these other places found worth in the article. Either way though, it does fall down to QUALITY of the article. A well written article in the right place at the right time can and will do wonders for a site, back links from the main article, backlinks from the places that pick the article up, and traffic from all of them... but again, only if it's worth reading. No one is going to bother to check the sources of a crappy article... chances are they won't even finish reading it. Q
The number of people who visit from articles depends on the Niche you are in. If it is not comtetitive or widly searched for you will receive a low number of visitors, however the visitors you do receive are more likley to be intrested in the subject you are writing about. Article marketing can be very effective and you can get a good lift in the SE from backlinks as well as a great quality of visitor, they allready know what your site offers and your style of writing and they are intrested in learning more from you.
agreed with most of you. as long as there is a backlink, there must have a traffics follow the link...
I recommend Isnare.com too. I've found it to be well worth the money. You can do the $5 thing or the $50 a month thing and have unlimited articles distributed.
Yes but only if you have to do a great bulk of articles in a short time and can't afford to have them outsourced. Your best bet at any given day is to write a good article up by yourself or paying an experienced writer to do it for you. Trust me, it's worth the investment. As so many others have pointed out, it's all about quality.
I'll have to agree with you. I also started with back links in mind. Now I will say that the traffic is a great bonus and a good article for me will generate about 100 visitors a day when first published. I am sure there are others who do much better. The thing I like about visitors from articles is that they are more likely to buy!
I'd like to ask about isnare. I have never used it before. For $10 they can distribute 5 of my articles to different resources around the web. Is it worthwhile? How would you personally better spend your spare 10 bucks - isnare, Adsense or McDonalds?