By now, you've probably heard about the power of article marketing when it comes to your internet business.
While there has been a lot of hype regarding article marketing, it really is a great way to get your name out there and become recognized as an expert in your field.
Once your website is up and running, it's going to just sit there unvisited, unless you market it and drive traffic to it.
Article marketing is a great, cost-effective way to do this.
In fact, it doesn't cost you anything but time to market with articles.
And once an article is written, it can drive traffic to your site for years to come.
If you have a content website, articles can also increase your organic search engine results, which will in turn result in even more visitors to your website.
Article creation is clearly one of the most powerful free methods you can use to generate traffic and build your online business.
Why? Well, let's see.
"Content is King.
" Ever hear that? It's been true on the Net for years.
People are looking for content.
Sites have to continually put up new content to keep current visitors happy.
Writing articles and submitting them to article directories does some amazing things.
First, it helps to build your credibility as an expert on your site's topic.
That's awesome.
Second, you generate direct traffic from people clicking on the link to your site in your resource box at the end of your article.
Third, you generate one way links (the best kind) back to your site from other sites, which in turn helps your site's search engine rankings, which in turn increases your traffic yet again! I feel the most powerful off-page search engine optimization techniques you can use naturally come about from article writing.
If you think I'm stressing article writing too much, I'm not.
I've just seen the results through experience over time.
It's powerful and it works.
Period.
My articles on EzineArticles.
com have been viewed over 65,27 times.
And that's just on that site.
That doesn't include how many sites now have those articles on them, with my link.
Article writing is powerful.
If you can help other sites and ezines by providing free, quality content for them, they'll be more than happy to give you exposure.
So, not only do you get exposure by having a resource box at the end of the article, but the people who click on your links have done so because something in the article caught their eye.
In other words, you've already made a good impression on them! It's like getting warm leads versus cold leads.
Look at it this way.
When they find your site via the search engines, they don't know anything about you.
They are cold.
And they'll make a quick decision as to whether or not your site has what they want.
If they click through to your site via an article of yours that they've read somewhere else on the net, it's like I said above.
You've already made a positive impression on them.
Get writing and start your article marketing campaign today!