Did you realize that thousands of website operators use a simple technique
to generate targeted visitors to their websites without paying a dime in
advertising? It's true.
In fact, the technique works so well that many
of them don't want you to discover how they get those thousands of website visitors and make so many sales on virtual "auto-pilot."
Their
method? Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in their ezines (online magazines and email newsletters) and post on their
websites. This method rates so powerful that some even call it "the web's
best kept traffic secret."
Now, you may ask, "Why would an ezine
publisher or website owner publish my articles for their subscribers?"
The answer: Content! Over a 100,000 ezines and newsletters
operate on the web (along with millions of websites) covering everything
from pets and cooking to investments and real estate. Many of them need
tightly focused content and they simply can't produce all of it themselves.
Look at it this way... it's the same reason newspapers use the
Associated Press. Individual newspapers often can't afford staff writers to
cover every story, so they accept articles from outside their organization.
You can do the exact same thing for various ezines and websites
catering to your niche audience!
You can get valuable publicity
--
exposure you often couldn't even pay for if you wanted to
-- by providing
valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a byline and a link to
your website (called a "resource box")!
The following represent only
a few of the enormous benefits
of writing and distributing simple articles
online:
** Attain "Expert" Status ** Let's face it! In the eyes
of virtually everyone who reads your articles you rank as the "expert" on
the subject.
Just look at people who write newspaper columns. You may
disagree with their viewpoints, but they still have an
elevated status
in your mind compared to the "average Joe"
off the street.
**
Pre-sell Website Visitors ** If your article appeals to a niche audience
hungry for more information on a very focused subject, you actually pre-sell them better than any sales pitch. In their minds, you've already
delivered content they really want so when they click over to your site you
already have a "reputation" in their minds.
** Traffic Lasts Longer
** Even though the Internet changes very quickly, webmasters are usually very slow to remove content from their sites. Once you get an
article posted on another person's website, you have an excellent chance of
that article staying there for weeks, months, even years.
**
Increase Links To Your Site ** In a recent search I found just a dozen
of my articles posted on over 813 different websites! Not only do those
postings bring me traffic, but they also help my search engine positioning because of my increased "Link Popularity."
** Builds
Your Affiliate Base ** Fact: Affiliates always take the path of least
resistance.
If you provide excellent articles they can easily post on their sites or copy and paste into their ezines, your
affiliates will
promote you more often and more effectively compared to those who don't give
them tools.
Plus, as you make more sales and publish articles, other people will see you providing excellent tools and will want to sign up
as your affiliate so they can use them too!
** Build a Huge "Opt-In"
Email List ** You can use articles to build up a huge list of
subscribers by simply compiling several articles into a series and delivering them at preset intervals.
Often called a "mini-course,"
this technique allows you not only to prove to your subscribers that you
deliver great information, but enables you to capture their name and email adress so you can send them articles and special offers in the future
(with their permission).
** Requires No Special Skills ** People
often think they need to be a "writer" in order to publish articles, but
that's not true!
FACT: If you have a passion for a subject and can talk
and explain things like you would to a friend over a cup of coffee, you
can write articles people will love to read.
So if you operate a website
selling virtually any type of product or service (whether your own or as an
affiliate), publishing and promoting with articles should rank high on your list of traffic generation strategies.
No other method of
generating targeted traffic to your website provides the quality, quantity
and steadiness of traffic in such a simple, straightforward, and
cost-effective manner.
