It’s best to write on topics that are closely related to your business type, while making sure that the article provides good content for the reader, no one wants to read a sales page. Every article that you write will need a resource box section that will contain your sales info including an (anchor text) link or two pointing to your Web site. You could have a terrific product and a wonderful sales strategy, but without the targeted traffic your online business could be going no-where.

You can take advantage of the many free article submission sites on the internet, where you can submit your articles for free, some also offer software and services to help in the process. Once approved, the sites will make your articles available for distribution and publication to ezines, webmasters etc… Now there is no more need to beg for reciprocal link exchanges, pay for text links, or spend hours posting free ads to link farms that no one will read anyway. Articles, written yourself, are becoming the fastest and most affordable way to see results from your efforts.

When done correctly, article marketing can be a very powerful strategy to drive boat loads of targeted traffic to your web site. Whether your online business is brand new or you have been in business for some time, you can gain new customers from article marketing your own articles. To be the most effective, article marketing should just be part of a larger, more extensive SEO strategy. Remember, the main goal of successful marketing is increased traffic and more importantly profit and this can be achieved with the help of article marketing.

I would encourage you to take advantage of article marketing automation software that can make your article marketing campaigns get powerful results. One of my best ways is with article marketing submission services that can submit your articles to hundreds of websites. My favorite article marketing system is the Unique Article Wizard The wizard really gets me traffic to my web site.

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1. Pick Targeted Keywords: When you use targeted keywords you are increasing the odds that a person visiting your site is going to be interested in what you have to say. The ultimate goal when choosing these words is to find words with enough traffic to bring you a fair amount of visitors a day, as well as having low enough competition that will allow you to be higher in the search engine ranks.

2. Write Unique Content: Creating unique content will make you likeable to not only the search engines, but also will make your site welcoming to individuals who visit it. This will help increase your page links and page rank and will help get you closer to the number one spot.

3. Link Back from Your Other Sites: If you own any other websites that are of a related topic you can link back to your own site and start the link building process. This process is what will help your websites page rank.

4. Exchange Links with Others: Along the same lines as linking between your own websites, is exchanging links with other websites of similar content. You can do this by making a simple request with the site owner to see if they are interested in a mutually beneficial trade.

5. Advertise: Free advertising methods, like article marketing, are another way of link building. With thousands of article directories to choose from, you can submit new articles on a regular basis that use targeted keywords that link back to your site.

In this article we discussed 5 simple steps that you can take that will increase website traffic and help to improve your sales as well. When you create unique content that is focused on the proper keywords, build links to your site in a variety of ways and advertise, your website will begin to get higher rankings that will help you to receive more targeted visitors as well as more sales.

The 5 steps above will not only help you increase website traffic, but also sales if they are done correctly. Understanding how to do each step can take time, you probably have more questions…

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Claire Mercer, an Internet marketing mentor, has successfully built a home business using the power of the internet. Her website, WealthyAffiliatesWay.com, can help you learn how to increase targeted traffic to your website using these methods as well as how to make money from home using little to no money of your own.

If you are trying to make money online, then you will need to promote a website, whether you own the URL of that site or whether it is an affiliate link is not important.

Whether you own the site or not, the problem remains the same – how do you get enough interested visitors to your site, so that, if they like your product and can afford it, they will have a chance to buy it, before they get bored and move on.

This is the largest common problem that every single Internet marketer has, and it is called attracting targeted traffic, getting relevant visitors or something similar. All the phrases come to the same thing ultimately. If no one sees your product they cannot buy it or if your visitors are mainly young people interested in tennis, it is no good trying to sell them bird cages.

So, obviously you need as many visitors to your website, who are interested in your product, as you can handle. This means that you need to be highly ranked in the search engines so that people can find your site. The biggest and most often-used search engine is Google. So, how do you get your site ranked highly in Google?

There are thousands of books on this subject, but without exception, the serious ones come to the same conclusion, unless they were written by self-interested safe-list or traffic exchange owners. And that conclusion is that you need links to your site.

Very few people will honestly admit to knowing how Google ranks sites, but most people agree that the more sites linking to your site the better. This has lead some webmasters to try exchanging links with each other. It sounds an easy way to get links but Google can recognize reciprocal links. The best links are one-way links, because it demonstrates that someone values your site enough to want to be associated with it. These are called back links.

Therefore, the real problem is how to get enough back links to your site to persuade Google (and the others) that you run an important enough site to rank it highly for your chosen keywords, which should be relevant to the content of your site. How do you do that?

There are several strategies you can use such as traffic exchanges, safelists, FFAs, forums and writing articles, but to be honest, the first three of these are a total waste of time. I used to own a safelist and have wasted many thousands of hours on traffic exchanges. Posting to forums can be useful, but then ONLY if the link on your post is a follow link. If it is not, it doesnt do any good at all and most are no follow links. This means that you have to do some research to find the forums where your post is worth placing (more on this later). That leaves writing articles as the ONLY sure way to get rock-solid back-links to your site based on your site’s relevant keywords.

So, you write an article on a subject relevant to your site stuffed (but not over-stuffed) with relevant keywords but then what do you do? Thats easy! You search Google for article directories, lists and blogs; sign up to a couple of dozen of the relevant ones or in the related categories and post your article to them.

And that is the way to get the sort of links to get your site highly ranked, so that people can find you and have a chance to buy what you are selling. The only catch is that Google will expect to see new links appearing on the Internet on a regular basis, which means writing and posting time after time after time after time ad infinitum. Or does it?

Unfortunately, yes, it does! But the process can be automated and automation is the key to online success. Set up a proven, successful process and let it run ” day and night: all day and all night! I use a system that helps me turn an article into thousands of variations and posts them to thousands of search engines, directories, lists and websites, creating literally thousands of back-links!

These variations are not spun! (The industry standard way of creating variations is to use spinning software to substitute synonyms eg quickly for fast in a random way. This works to a certain degree but can produce gibberish too). The system I use does not employ this method, but still produces thousands or variants. Then it sends them to article directories and blogs. Thousands of them. In fact today, there are over 11,000 sites on their list and the list is kept fresh on a monthly basis. Most similar lists are not well maintained as it is very time-consuming and so contain many dead links.

This system takes your article, creates thousands of variations and then posts them to thousands of sites. All with your sites link in the by-line, which is also variable. But not only that! It only posts your article to lists and categories that deal with sites like yours (based on your chosen keywords) and posts according to a schedule chosen by you: ie 10, 20, 50, 100, 1,000 posts a day, starting on any future date you choose! So, for example, you could write three articles and have the first one go out starting the next day at 150 a day; the second one starting after seven days at 150 sites a day; and the third starting after two weeks at a rate of 75 sites a day.

That would give your site at least 3,000 links in a month or 100 a day ” all for 2-3 hours work! If you wrote one article a day (an hours work) and it got posted to only 1,000 relevant sites, you would have 30,000 relevant links in a month. And that does not include the bloggers, ezine publishers and webmasters who paste your article into their publication with your link. You could easily end up with 40-50k links. But it doesnt even stop there, because the article will be live for years and years, quietly beavering away at getting you noticed by the search engines and the people searching them. How many sales could that get you?

If you want to see an example of this systems output, you have just read one ” this article and if you would like to find out more, follow the link in my by-line attached to it.