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You can get targeted web site traffic and make your website successful by building links to your site. One way to do this is by article writing.

Writing Good Quality Articles To Get Targeted Web Site Traffic

It is obvious that good quality articles get read more often. By submitting articles to article directories, however, you face the possible risk of your links being filtered out by the search engines, especially if your article is not so great. But a good quality article, submitted especially to article sites can go a long way in getting your website free targeted web site traffic. You can aim for two things here – one is to get back links out of the sites which republish your article with your resource box and the other is find good websites that will reproduce your article.

Once you submit a good article making sure you’ve got your resource box in place with the relevant keywords, you will be found by other webmasters who will want to republish your article in their newsletters and send them out. Through this, you will experience a rush of free targeted web site traffic since the webmaster’s recipients will click your link provided in the resource box of your article. This way, you get linked to good quality sites and rise in search engine rankings as well. What if the search engines filter out your link? You will still continue to have the links where your content is published.

Now lets see, you’ve got targeted web site traffic. Go a step further and contact the webmasters who republish your articles. They will probably be interested in doing it on a regular basis. By retaining your active links along with the articles on their sites, you will ensure getting targeted web site traffic when the people who click those links arrive at your website. This is a very effective way of building links to your websites. Continue to produce good quality content that is unique and relevant to your website and it will be a great long term method that will serve you consistently.

You can also look at various other sources to obtain web site traffic through your articles – namely article directories, link exchanges with sites that relate to yours, listings in site directories, etc. The main thing here is to submit excellent quality articles.


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If you are a person who is interested in fast ezine publishing, there are some pointers that you will want to come to understand. Through this article you are provided with an overview of six key ways to successful and fast ezine publishing. With this information, you’ll be well on your way to fast ezine publishing success.

The first key to success with fast ezine publishing is to make certain that you have an attractively designed ezine. Looks matter when it comes to fast ezine publishing.

Of course, when it comes to fast ezine publishing, you will want to make sure that your publication has the very best content possible. Keep in mind that this is a very competitive marketplace and you need the very best content in your publication.

The third factor that you want to keep in mind is the necessity of developing a strategic marketing plan. It is all well and good to create a publication. However you will not be successful until you get people to read what you have created.

The fourth factor associated with fast ezine publishing is to make certain that you have an attractive and user friendly website associated with your publication. The website will serve as a portal through which your readers will enter to gain access to your publication.

The fifth factor that you will want to keep in mind is making sure that you have a responsible budget associated with your publication. You need to spend the appropriate amount of money to create your publication.

The final key that you want to keep in mind is the importance of you taking the time to keep up with market trends on the Internet and world wide web. You will want to make sure that your publication continues to be well connected with what is going on in the world.


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You may have heard many established names claiming to share that one, ultimate secret that can open the gates of wealth and success in the field of online marketing. This secret may be enshrined in the form of an eBook, an eCourse, a seminar or an audio/video product they are sharing. They generate a lot of hype to make people feel that they’ll be missing out on an opportunity of a lifetime if they do not grab the chance to see for themselves what the secret exactly is.

Well, I don’t know about them, but I have long been familiar with that one secret to internet marketing success.

It’s called a mailing list.

This may sound simplistic. This may even sound absurd. But it is really that simple. Your mailing list will make or break your chances of succeeding in the world of online business.

Why is this so?

It is a proven statistic that, at the average, your prospect will NOT buy from you on the first contact. Heck, he won’t even buy from you on the third contact, nor the fourth, nor the eighth.

At the average, your prospect will buy from you on the twelfth – yes, the TWELFTH – contact. That’s a whole lot of perseverance required, my friend. Of course, you wouldn’t be dealing with a handful of prospects only. You be dealing with thousands upon thousands of leads.

So the question: how are you supposed to stay visible in their lives, enough for you to make that twelfth contact?

The short answer: through a mailing list, of course!

A mailing list is also called a follow-up system because it does exactly that – follows up on your prospects. The system is quite simple: you capture the email addresses and other related details of your prospects. They then become your leads. Thereafter, you will send them some friendly reminders about your offers, some freebies to warm them up to your good graces, and some tales and anecdotes so that they may get to know you better and you’d be able to win their trust.

A mailing list is also your leverage for so many things. Want to enter into beneficial joint venture that will catapult your online enterprise to the next level of prominence? Your JV partners will judge your worth based, partially, on the size of your mailing list. Want to host a seminar and you’re on the lookout for presenters? It’s a “what’s in it for me” business and they will ask how big your mailing list is.

A mailing list is not a strategy for success in this industry….

A mailing list is a MUST if you want to make it big in the world of online marketing.

A mailing list is what separates those who are serious about this business, and those who have just heard about it and who want to gain some quick cash. A mailing list is what separates long lasting online businesses from flash in the pan types of ventures. A mailing list is the key – the ONE true key – to succeeding in the World Wide Web.

A mailing list is made possible by a subscription to an autoresponder service. The autoresponder service automates everything. You won’t have to manually send your emails. The autoresponder service will do that for you on stated intervals.

An autoresponder service will be your business partner, given the sheer importance of a mailing list for your online business. Hence, choosing the right one is essential to your success. Do take time scrutinizing the options available, as you’d want only the best partner for the fulfillment of your goals in this field.

Take a look at my free quick start guide to building your own mailing list:
http://markflavin.com/ListBuilding.html


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Article marketing is most probably the most effective link building strategy in existence. Picture it this way. Article directories allow you to include a resource box for every article you will submit. Inside this resource box, you could include a link to your website. If you will submit just one article to 100 article directories, you will in time receive 100 back links to your website (in theory, sometimes not all of them are picked up by the search engines). There are thousands of article directories in the World Wide Web!

Now, if you will submit, say, 5 articles to a hundred directories, you’ll get close to 500 back lines over time.
The best part about this strategy is that quite a number of article directories have high page ranks. We’re talking about PR4, PR5, and on occasion, PR7 websites! Having a link to your own website in a website which has a high page rank would give a significant boost to your own pages’ search engine standing!

All seems rosy with article marketing, but as with everything else, there are doubts as to its real nature.

Let’s have a no hold barred, truly in depth discussion about the matter, by asking the questions you always had in your mind but had no opportunity to set loose. Let’s begin.

1. If I submit the same article to many article directories, won’t it violate a search engine’s policy against duplicate content?

No, it won’t. Since we’re dealing with high ranking websites, the search engines would assume that the submitted content is their original work. This is the reason why a lot of article directories are pretty confident about the articles they display. The problem that they encounter, really, is with regards to the credibility of their services. They don’t want to be known as a repository of junk content, that’s why they have outlawed the posting of PLR articles as well as articles imbued with affiliate links.

2. Does this mean that I could submit articles which I have already posted in my own web pages?

No! Since the search engines would assume that the higher ranking websites are the originators of the content, your web pages would be distinguished as duplicates, and this could possibly lead to the de-indexing of your website. You wouldn’t want this to happen. (Please see comments below for more debate on this point)

3. Could I submit as many articles as I could to as many article directories as possible?

Yes, you could! In fact, this is very much advised, to build up your link popularity and secure for your website a great page rank.

However, please bear in mind that search engines, and Google in particular, become quite wary about a website that suddenly experiences a great increase in the number of its back links. It is advised that before you submit another article to the article directories, you have to wait for at least 3 weeks after your last submission.

4. My page views are quite low. Does article marketing really work?

Yes, article marketing does work! If your article’s page views remain in low levels, ask yourself the following:

a. Is the subject of your article interesting enough? Does it cater to a wide audience?
b. Is your title enticing enough to merit a reading of your entire work?
c. Is your article informative enough to merit recommendation?
d. Is your article readable enough to give your audience an easy time in digesting the information you want to share?
e. Does your resource box/autor bio compel the reader to click on your link

These are the factors that contribute to low page views. Doing some necessary editing to correct these problems can dramatically increase the number of times your article would be viewed. Additionally, some article directories really attract a few visitors. But the popular ones like www.ezinearticles.com , www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com should give you hundreds of readers in a month’s time.

5. How sure am I that my article would be kept intact by people who would use it in their own websites or eZines?

You can never be sure. This is why you have to run your own check from time to time. Search for unique phrases in your article, and click on the results. Determine if the webmaster honored your resource box. If he did not, you could ask him to include the same, or you could file a complaint with the article directory so that they themselves could act on the matter. Vigilance is the key.

Have a great day.

Regards,
Mark Flavin

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