Increase Web Site Traffic - Part 6

Article Marketing
If you're serious about making money online, article marketing should be one of your main promotion strategies. It's a great way to build a consistent flow of traffic.

Here's how it works:

Each week, you write at least one article about the product you are promoting. It doesn't have to be long 250 - 350 words is ample. If you make it too long, your reader may never get to your resource box.

If you are promoting Affiliate Cash Secrets, you could write articles about affiliate marketing and promotion. For example, "10 Ways to Profits from Affiliate Marketing" or "7 Steps to Affiliate Marketing Success."

Whatever you write about, just make sure it doesn't read like a sales letter. Your articles should be purely informative.

How You Get Traffic from Your Articles

First, you should submit your articles to all the popular article directories. When webmasters and ezine publishers look for free content to reprint on their websites and in their newsletters, they turn to article directories.

In exchange for the free content, they agree to leave the article intact and include your resource box. This is where you get your traffic. Every time someone reprints one of your articles, your resource box is included with your name and a link to your site or an affiliate site.

You should start with 10 articles. That will get you started as an expert author at EzineArticles.com, the number one article directory on the Internet.

EzineArticles.com alone gets about 40,000 visitors every day, so your articles are very likely to be picked up and reprinted by several publishers.

Here are the top places to submit your articles:

• http://articlemarketer.com
• http://ezinearticles.com
• http://articlesfactory.com
• http://articlecity.com
• http://ezau.com
• http://goarticles.com
• http://newfreearticles.com
• http://sitepronews.com

You can find more directories by searching on Google. But I highly recommend you start with the list above.

But Satyajit, what if I can't write?

If you can't write or simply don't have the time, you can hire a ghost writer at http://elance.com. In fact, I use ghost writers when I don't have time to do it myself.

Ghost writers will typically charge around $5 per 400-word article. So if you want 100 good articles, it's gonna cost you $500.