Increase Website Traffic With Article Marketing
April 14th, 2008Make Your Site More Popular
After you have chosen a domain name and setup a website, one of the first things you will be wondering is how to get visitors to come to your site. This dilemna occurs whether you are setting your site up as a hobby, writing a blog about your main business, creating a niche site in order to make some income using Adsense, or planning to sell your own product.
Article Marketing to the Rescue
Of course there are a lot of ways to get visitors to your website, from advertising to trading links with other sites to getting your link into established link directories. All of these have their merits, but one of the easiest and least costly alternative is article marketing.
The Positives of Article Marketing
With article marketing, you can get links coming into your site from hundreds or even thousands of other sites that will use your article. Article marketing costs nothing - all it takes is your time to create original content that others might be interested in reading. Article marketing gets your name out on the internet as someone who has an interest in your niche area - soon you might be seen as an expert.
Article marketing can be considered a hidden source of traffic - you don’t have to advertise for traffic. Submitting articles can get your site listed in search engines quickly. The content you create causes search engines to index your page, including the link that you include in your “about” or “resource” box at the bottom of the article. The search engines follow that link and find your site - exactly what you are looking for.
Some Disadvantages of Article Marketing
Even though article marketing is a great boon to a brand new website, there are, of course, downsides too. One obvious problem is that you have to write the article that you are going to submit.
Of course, you can always pay somebody else to write the article for you, and there are many services on the web now that allow you to get others to do the writing for you - for a suprisingly cheap price.
And you must place the articles in the niche sites or article sites. Placement is always free, but each site has different methods for uploading or submitting the articles - since there are hundreds or thousands of such sites now, submitting all the articles can be quite time consuming.
However, there are article submission services that will place your articles for you. And, you can alway hire freelancers to do that job too.