If you want to drive traffic to your website you need to write articles for it. It sounds a lot harder than it really is. I used 1 article that I published to 1 site and it generated led 600 new visitors to Karma Sutra Positions. That is 1 article submitted to 1 article site. And because my domain name is still very young in the eyes of Google, my article also ranks higher in the search results than my actual website does. But that’s okay because I still get the traffic.
I also used to think writing articles are difficult, but after seeing the results I got from just 1 article I decided I need to make writing articles a lot easier for myself.
Choosing your topic
This can be a very difficult thing to do. The first thing you need to do though is do the keyword research legwork. Doing this will give you the advantage of being able to incorporate your keywords naturally into your article, instead of trying to make them fit once the article has been written. Read my article about keyword research. Decide on 1 main keyword phrase and then 2 or 3 secondary keyword phrases that enough people are searching for, but that doesn’t yet have that much competition in terms of other websites having that keyword phrase. It helps choosing something that is of interest to you, because there is nothing more difficult writing about a topic that doesn’t interest you!
Check out http://www.searchenginespy.co.za/ that shows you a list of what people are searching for each day.
Writing the article
Now go and look for some content on your topic. Wikipedia, Ezinearticles and Goarticles are just some of the places that will help you find the content. Find 1 or 2 very good articles and copy and paste their text into a word processing file.
Read the article once, and then a second time. What I normally then do is start typing my article above the pasted text. This allows me to have everything on the one screen while I type my article. Write the article by trying to remember what you’ve just read and putting it in your own words. Glance down to the original article only when you get stuck. The idea here is to write a totally unique article and not just something that you are rephrasing. While you’re writing, remember to incorporate your keyword phrases into the article as well. If you’re going to directly quote the original article, be sure to include a link to it or mention it.
I aim to have about 300-500 words per article. My main keyword I want to use at least 5 times and then use the secondary keywords if they can be used.
Reread your article at least 3 times to make sure there are no grammar and spelling errors.
That whole process shouldn’t take you more than an hour to do. It gets easier the more you do it. While you’re at it, why not write another one as well?
One last thing you want to add is a short footer for the article. This is just a short link to your website making use of your main keyword as the link. For instance: Learn more about the Karma Sutra Positions. This will be the link that drives traffic to your website.
Words of caution
- Keep the article that you are writing sounding natural. You don’t want to saturate it with keyword phrases that causes the article to have grammar errors.
- For articles you submit to article directories, don’t include any links in them. This is what your footer is going to be for. PLEASE NOTE this is just my personal opinion and using links in your article may or may not increase clicks to your website.
Making it work for you
For the articles to start working for you, you need to start submitting them to article directories. There are thousands of them and a simply Google search will yield the results. My recommendation is to use an automated article submitter called Article Marketer. This allows you to save some time by using their service to publish your article to article directories and other publishers. It’s not necessary to do this, and you can do it manually, but I just prefer using this method. It can take anything from 2-10 minutes to submit an article manually, so if you can save an hour by using Article Marketer, you can rather use that time to write another article.
How long will you wait to see results?
It can take up to 3-4 weeks before your articles get approved so just be patient. I found that once the article is approved it instantaneously starts generating traffic for me.
Other examples
I also have an article about Blackjack Counting that I submitted. It was approved about 8 hours ago and it has only led to 3 new visitors to my website on Blackjack Counting. This goes to show you that the amount of traffic that your article will generate depends on your keyword and if you did your keyword research correctly.
Some tools you can use
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