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5 Solid Reasons Why Articles Are the Most Powerful Tool For Driving Traffic To Your Website
Slide Show IInternet Sales University by Wolf HaltonSEO-Review-4-U.com
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
As you probably know, having traffic is very important for your website if you want to successfully earn money online.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
You can drive traffic to your website using a wide range of tools.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
Writing and submitting articles remains the most powerful tool for increasing your web site traffic and boost your sales and online profits.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
So why is writing and submitting articles so powerful in driving traffic to your website?
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
Articles help you become an expert in your niche. Experts develop a following.The more useful the content you put on the web, the more people trust you.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
The more useful the content you put on the web, the more people trust you.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
By writing high quality and informative articles in your niche, you become an expert.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
The people who follow you come to trust you and have confidence in your judgment and motives.
Traffic is Your Site's Oxygen
As an expert, customers will feel confident to buy from you and this will increase your sales and online business profits.
ROI of Writing Articles
ROI means Return on InvestmentThe fixed costs of writing articles is your text editor or word processing software, your computer and your time.
ROI of Writing Articles
An average cost, starting from nothing: Computer Used can cost less than $200
Text Editor Notepad comes free on Windows
You can get the very enhanced Notepad++ free from http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
GEdit and Kate (and several others) are free on Linux
ROI of Writing Articles
An average cost, starting from nothing: Computer Used can cost less than $200
Word Processor Microsoft Office from $200 - $800 depending on the package
OpenOffice.org has a full office suite for $0.00 You can get it for Windows, Linux or Mac from http://openoffice.org
ROI of Writing Articles
An average cost, starting from nothing: Your time...
Though you may have the mistaken impression that your time has no value, to get a figure for ROI, either rate yourself at the amount you get paid at work, or at least minimum wage. For the sake of illustration, let's say $10.00 per hour.
ROI of Writing Articles
An average cost, starting from nothing: At the lowest rates above:
Computer: $200.00
Editor: 0.00
time to write a short article: 40.00*
* 4 hours is a long time to put together a short article. My average short article without graphics takes about 2 hours.
ROI of Writing Articles
If the item you are selling makes you $10 profit, selling 24 of them puts you at break-even with your computer paid for.The fixed cost on your second article will be $40 or less.
Where does your break-even point come if you are using a computer at the public library or at your school?
ROI of Writing Articles
You can purchase Private Label Rights (PLR) articles that are already written, however you will have to rework those articles to avoid duplicate content
ROI of Writing Articles
You can also choose to hire a ghostwriter to write some articles for you. This is not very expensive, and it may save the upfront cost of buying a computer and using your own expensive time to write. http://Freelancer.com
Submitting Your Articles
You can then submit your articles to many directories. Enter Article Directory in your search engine and see how many hits you get.
Submitting Your Articles
There are some tools that you can use to automatically submit your articles to many directories, and this increases the number of links pointing back to your website.
Submitting Your Articles
Articles are viral and powerful in driving traffic to your website because people send useful articles to their friends, and because search engines like non-sales content.
Submitting Your Articles
At the bottom of all your articles, place a resource box with your website URL. Your articles will be published by many directories, websites and e-zines with your website URL. This creates backlinks to your site.
Submitting Your Articles
Search engines use back-links as a measure of a site's popularity. The more places your site is linked from, the more popular it probably is.
Submitting Your Articles
So Simply by writing articles and submitting them to article sites, you are creating a powerful viral power with many websites displaying your website URL
Articles Live Long and Prosper
Articles you write will continue to drive traffic to your website for a long time.
Articles Live Long and Prosper
You might want to use different tracking links on your articles so you can tell which article brought the traffic.
Articles Live Long and Prosper
All your articles are archived in article directories and that means anyone can still read them and visit your website.
Articles Live Long and Prosper
All your articles are archived in article directories and that means anyone can still read them and visit your website.
Articles Live Long and Prosper
Your articles can generate thousands of permanent one-way links to your website.
Articles Get Search Engines to Work for You!
Writing and submitting articles to article-directories is a very powerful way to make your website rank high on search engines.
Articles Get Search Engines to Work for You!
Include your keywords in your articles!
Articles Get Search Engines to Work for You!
When people search for information related to your niche and type those keywords, your articles and website show up in the search results.
Articles Get Search Engines to Work for You!
When you show up several times in the top 10 results of a search, you appear to be very much the expert.
Articles Get Search Engines to Work for You!
People like to work with experts and will gravitate to your site almost like magic!
To Summarize
Articles help you become an expert in your niche.
Articles are an affordable way of driving traffic to your website.
Articles are viral and powerful in driving traffic to your website.
Articles bring long-term results.
Articles make search engines drive traffic to your website.
To Summarize
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-Cheers! Wolf Halton