Article Marketing for Web Site Promotion
Article marketing is one of my favorite forms of web site promotion, because for me it has one of the highest conversion rates of everything I do. I get some of the most targeted web site traffic from article marketing, and that is one of the things I like most about it.
When I first got started in internet marketing, I got involved in all kinds of traffic. Exit traffic, expired domain traffic, traffic exchange traffic, safelist traffic – all of it came with big promises and guarantees – but none delivered. I spent a lot of money there, just thinking that if I had enough traffic, I could win the game. But I could not win the game with raw traffic alone – I needed targeted traffic that wanted to hear from me, and read my articles, web pages, ebooks and information.
Well, I kind of stumbled on article marketing for traffic. You see, I had heard that article marketing was good for getting a high search engine ranking in the big search engines, so I started writing a few articles and posted them to like 100 different article directories. And in a few weeks, I had a number one ranking in several of the search engines for a few keywords. But the real awakening for me was the direct traffic I received when submitted articles to the big three article directories in terms of traffic.
By submitting articles for direct traffic instead of links, I receive targeted traffic that wants to learn more from me.