Writing Articles to gain traffic

Just write something your targeted audience have interests.

 

I blogged about effective article writing recently with Why Articles Fail To Deliver Traffic To Your Website

You might find some of the tips useful?

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I submitted the same article to about 10 article submission websites last week with a link back to my site. The results haven't been noticeable. Not as much article success as other people have had.

 

I haven't seen much success from a couple of articles i wrote barely maybe one hit from these 2, which is nothing, so for now i give up on article writing and will move on to seo, ppc, starting an affiliate program in a couple weeks or so etc.

 

Like any other marketing technique, you have to learn how to do it properly. This takes learning what to do, what not to do and practice doing it. If nothing else, content marketing should be *part* of your overall marketing plan.

 

Well put marketjunction.

Writing articles should just be one of many things you should be doing. You need to have a well-rounded marketing plan to reach as many people as possible.

Writing 2 articles is not going to cut it. You need to be writing as many as possible. Some people strive to write at least one a day. Yes, it is time consuming, but it definitely pays off in the end.

 

Morgansmom raises an issue I've been debating myself. Well two related issues...

How many new articles should I write each week?

How many directories should I work at? Lately I have been seeking out new directories but there just isn't enough time to do all the directories available. Obviously need to re-evaluate which ones to keep on my active list every so often as well as at least try out some new ones every so often but I'm just not sure what the right balance is for this. It might be helpful to hear what other people do.

 

Blatant self-promotion:
I run a manual article submission service. If you are interested, here is the thread describing my services

Ajay.

 

I understand article writing should be part of my overall marketing plan, and i've always heard that article writing is one of the best ways to recieve traffic and build link popularity. Well I just wanted to know how many visitors should i expect from every good article? Or should i ask how many visitors do you guys get per article?

 

Personally, I stick with a few good ones. EzineArticles, GoArticles, and Idea Marketers are pretty good in my opinion. They get a lot of traffic and I usually see quite a bit of traffic from them when I do post articles. I haven't in a long time, but I should really get going on that again. That's where the majority of my traffic came from before I was in the SE's.

There is software available for submitting to multiple directories if you still want to go that approach. You have to pay for it, but if you're writing enough articles, it's definitely worth it.

 

How do you know the people who use the articles aren't just going to take off your website all together or no make it a link? I seen plenty of sites that used free articles and none of them had a link to anything. This is why I never got around to writing articles. It seems like you could go through all the work and everyone could screw you over.

 

Mystic,

Make sure that you write on a topic that interests you and not only to get a backlink. The quality of the article determines if people bother to read it. If they read the article they are also likely to click on the link in your resource box.

If you can write an article related to the material on your site it is the best, but it does not have to be. Backlinks and traffic you get from your resource box which is after the article and there you can include any links you want.

If you find it a problem to write yourself then hire a ghostwriter, it is not very expensive.

 

First, everyone won't screw you over. Maybe some will, maybe a lot might, maybe most wouldn't dream of it, but everyone is all inclusive and not possible. Second, any place you submit to that approves your article gives you a link right there.

If you spend all your time worrying about how someone might screw you on the Internet, you won't go far at all. Being screwed happens, keep chugging along. If you let it stop you, you lose.

Spend your energy where it is wisest to do so.

 

Marketjunction - any way to get traffic stats on our submitted articles? Viewable in the control panel?

 

Actually getting what are you saying but the problem is that still looking for the exact result oriented URL.

 

consumer electronics store is a very easy niche to write articles. Some suggestions:
1. How-to articles, eg how to use xxx, how to choose xxx
2. Introducing products, with the brand and the model number as keywords
3. product review, comparison of different models.

 

@marketjunction your resource link domain is expired now. and @mystic do not panic or worry if you don't received the single visitor from the articles sites.

Few things always consider while submitting the article


1) make a good 30-40 sites of article sites
2) Your articles title would be eye-catchy
3) your article does not looks like spammy article or self promotional in nature
4) give only related link to the article
5) most important submit in related category.
6) try to share and bookmark of your article of best article directory like ezinearticle or buzzle
7) usernames in all sites must be same do not change your username in all sites it looks like duplicate content

I wrote one article on topic of "How Hard Disk Read and Write Head Works" read here this article hubpages.com/hub/How-Hard-Disk-Read-and-Write-Head-Works now this is ranking in google with huge competition on search term like "read and write head" and "hard disk read and write head"

 

Ezinearticles and goarticles are some of the best articles to submit to, there is a problem submitting to too many article directories in a short amount of time, might just raise some red flags about your site, so take that into consideration