"Writing Articles For Traffic"
Writing articles for traffic is a great way to get visitors to your website or blog.
The new article marketer may have been surfing the web and heard that it is easy to drive traffic by writing articles, only to start writing and find out that there is more to learn than just submitting an article and instantly recieving loads of traffic.
If your Website Traffic has come to a...
...then continue reading to learn how to get it moving again.
Stop Sign by Peter Griffin
It is true that writing articles is a great way to drive traffic, but there is more to it than just creating a resource box with a link in it and having people show up at your website door.
Writing a good article consists of four things,
and all four must fall into place before an article will be successful.
1. Title
This is the most important part because if your title does not stick out from the other 2 billion being served by the article directory, no one will notice it and if it is not intriguing enough, why would anyone want to read your article if they did notice it? Also, if you want it to rank well with the search engines, keywords will need to be included in the title.
2. Summary
This is also important as it gives the reader a little more detail about what they can expect to find in your article should they decide to read it. This could also be the decision maker on whether or not they read your article, if the title wasn't intriguing enough to persuade them, then maybe by reading the summary they will decide to read what your article has to offer.
3. Body
The body is for the reader, it belongs to the reader and everything you put in it should go to the reader. In other words, this is where you help out the reader or where you try to convey your message to the reader.
The body is not where you try to sell to them. It is a good idea to use SEO in the body of your article provided you can keep it readable by humans, as this is who your real target is anyway.
Your ultimate goal in the body of your article is to :
A. Write Useful Content For People To Read
B. Write Keyword Rich, But Not Excessive Content For The Search Engines
C. Write Professionally So Other Publishers May Want To Re-Publish Your Article
If all goes well, people will enjoy reading your article, Search engines will give you a good ranking for your article and many other people will help spread your article(and your links) around the internet.
4. Resource Box
This is your box, and this is where you try to convince the reader to click your link. Many people think this is the most important part of your article because this is where you get to try and sell to the reader and it is where you can place your links, but if your title cannot persuade them to read the article then they will never see your resource box or your links.
If you feel that you need more help on writing articles, then check out this great ebook
that is titled "Article Dominance", it shows you how to
write great articles that the search engines will love in only 8 minutes.
(Possibly the best $17.00 you will ever invest in yourself!)
Also, if you are looking for a good program to help you in organizing
your articles, keywords and resource boxes then check out the new
Article Edge 1.0 Software as this is a great tool for helping you
keep up with your article marketing efforts.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this page.