Traffic Series - Part 2 - Article Marketing as a means of traffic.

Welcome back to my Traffic Series. If you haven’t read my first article in this series on building traffic you can read it on my list advice blog.

In part 2 of my traffic series we are going to learn about Article Marketing.

Before we get into how to do article marketing lets answer the question, “How can it drive traffic to my site?”.

There are hundreds of article submission sites on the internet that you can submit your articles to. When you do this you will be able to put a small bio at the bottom of your article and in that bio mention your site. When anyone reads your article they will see your bio and click on the link to your site. We will talk more about this bio later.

There are many sites on the internet that use content from these article sites. This will give you even more exposure as hundreds of sites will have your article on there site and they must display your bio. This is how you get the traffic.

With article Marketing you must create your own article or outsource to have one done. If you outsource make sure that the freelancer knows you intend to put your name on the article. This will usually cost $4 to $5 for each article.

When creating an article you must make it interesting and cover the topic you are describing very well. The title needs to catch the attention of those looking for information so be sure to include the keywords of your article in the title. How to articles are very popular so you could use How to in the title. Teaching copywriting is for yet another article so we will move on.

The article body needs to be aprox 400 - 600 words. If your topic is much larger consider making it a series of articles.

The bio is your golden ticket to traffic. The bio is generally designed to talk about the author. In my experience you give a short sentence about yourself then put a plug for your site. If you have something to give away like a free report that would be something you would want to put in your bio.

Your article is ready so now you need to submit it to article submission sites. Three of the top sites are:

• Go Articles
• Ezine Articles
• Article City

There are hundreds more just do a search for Article Submission Sites.

Submitting articles can take quite a bit of time so you may want to consider purchasing a software to speed up the process. I suggest using Unique Article Wizard. With Unique Article Wizard You can submit to hundreds of Article Submission Sites with a simple to use interface. Unique Article Wizard has many other options for article submissions. If this service is closed you can get on the waiting list and I strongly suggest you do. This is the best article submission service I have seen.

Article submission sites vary in the amount of time it takes for them to approve your article. Some take a few days and others take weeks. Submit to as many as you can and your traffic will begin to flow.

Submitting articles regularly will get your name as an autority out there. Using Articles Series is also a good way to get people to come to your site to stay informed.

You now have everything you need to know to drive massive amounts of traffic to your site using article marketing.

In part 3 of my article series we will be talking about using squidoo to drive traffic.

See you then,
Glen Barnhardt