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In today's newsletter...
Special Back to School Issue...
How to Get Website Traffic.
By Jim Daniels
As the youth of America, and
many other countries return to classrooms this week, it's time
for you to do the same.
That's right, open up your
lesson book and take notes. Today you're going back to school...
Website Traffic 101!
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If you've read my
newsletters for any length of time, by now you know one of the
best super-effective, grass roots website traffic strategies...
....writing and submitting
articles.
Not only can this strategy build you a loyal following, it can
deliver targeted visitors, increase your search engine rankings
and ultimately, boost sales.
However, it is easy to equate article writing with days of high
school or university paper deadlines, and those dreadful
all-nighters. Those stressful memories can make article writing
seem like hard work, and keep you from taking advantage of this
powerful strategy.
I want to get you over that
hump today, because the fact is, writing your own articles for
the web isn't difficult at all..
It All Starts With An Idea...
One of the biggest hurdles most writers face is finding ideas to
write about. Naturally, you'll be sticking to your niche, but
pinpointing a topic to write can seem challenging.
Once you have decided on a general area, a
good way to narrow your article topic down is to focus on the problems that people have.
You may already know the common problems that people have in
your particular field, but if not, a good source of information
is to look at related online forums and note the most common
questions asked. Try a search for your niche at
http://groups.google.com/
and you'll find some active discussions from real people.
Oh, and if you don't have all the answers, a small bit of
research can assist. Often the answers are readily available
with a Google search which the readers could do themselves.
However, you are adding value and convenience by providing a
range of answers in a single article.
Short and Simple is the
Rule Online...
Most people don't like to read large documents from the Web, so
your articles can be as short as 300 - 600 words long.
If you break the article into an introduction, a small number of
sub-headings and a conclusion you may only have to write about
100 words in each section. You'd be surprised how fast the words
add up.
The first draft should be for your eyes only. Don't try to
produce a final copy as you write. It tends to be much quicker
to get your thoughts down and come back to edit later.
The final
step in the writing process is to proofread your article making
sure that the writing flows and would be interesting to the
reader.
Ask yourself, 'does the article provide information the
potential reader is looking for?’ Also ask yourself if you can
you get your message across using less words.
Finally, if possible, have someone else proofread the article, not only
looking for spelling and grammatical errors, but helping you cut
out the "fluff".
Once you have your article completed, what you DO with the
article is even more important. I'll cover that next.
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How to get a ton of traffic from your
articles...
Perhaps the most important thing about article writing is what
you do with your articles once you've completed
them. Here are the four things you must do with each of your
articles, to leverage them into traffic and income.
1. Add an 'About the Author' section after your article, with
a link to your website.
This is where you tell readers about yourself or your site, and give them a call to
action. Make them an irresistible offer they cannot
refuse, such as a free product or service.
2. Add the article to your own website.
Each article you write should get
it's own page at your site or blog. Search engines
love original content and the more you add to your site, the
better your ranking will be in your niche.
3. Publish the article in your
own newsletter and send it to your subscriber list.
If you
do not have a subscriber list, you need to start growing one
right away. You can do that by converting your best articles
into an ebook and giving it away at your site via an opt-in list
subscribe form. Here's the
web-based tool
I use to automate that process.
4.
Submit your article to article directories and newsletter
publishers in your niche.
As other websites publish your
article, you receive one-way back links. That not only results
in direct traffic, it improves your search engine ranking faster
than you might imagine.
Note: Submitting articles can be a
tedious and time-consuming process. If you want to save time,
consider using Steve Shaw's
reputable article submission service. (Steve was one of my
first BizWeb eGazette subscribers. In fact, I just signed up for
his service myself!)
In Closing...
After writing your first few articles you will find that it is not
nearly as
daunting as it first appears. You never know, you may even want
to offer your services as a freelance writer on the Internet as
a way to make some extra income.
But one thing's for sure, you'll never find a better "grass
roots" strategy for marketing on the Internet. In fact, if you do it right you may see an increase
of thousands of website visitors a month -- not to mention a
sharp increase in sales.
I can personally attest to the power
of this strategy, as I used it extensively to build my income
well into the six-figure a year range. And you can do it too!
That wraps up today's gazette. See ya in a few weeks...
Jim Daniels - JDD Publishing Co.
P.S. Did you read my Special Report yet?
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Daniels
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