Article Writing For Traffic Generation Revisited

Longtime readers may remember my article writing series, which originally appeared here in three parts (here,
here,
and here), which showed you how to write and submit articles to send free (but not immediate) traffic back to one of your sites. I had cause to revisit this topic last week as I was writing one of the final chapters of Uncommon AdSense, and I thought I'd update the material for my readers here as well.

The basic premise is unchanged: write simple articles (like this one I just published, Beyond AdSense: Make Money with eBay by Adding Niche Stores to Your Sites and Blogs) and publish them in well-known article directories like EZineArticles and SearchWarp. Make sure the resource box at the bottom of the article (your bio) has at least one link back to a site that you're promoting. Do this on a regular basis and those articles will start to drive traffic back to your site.

One thing that I've changed in the book was to not recommend placing the article text on your site. With duplicate content filters the way they are today, there's little chance the article on your site will rank ahead of the article directory's version. In fact, you're best to take the only-publish-to-one-directory approach with each article, although I'd vary which article directory you use each time. Your article will still get published in other directories, but you won't be flooding the Web with the same article text.

A nice side effect of this simpler approach is that it takes away the drudgery of submitting your article to multiple directories. EZineArticles actually has a very nice online interface for creating and submitting articles. I was able to create couple very quickly without having to use anything else, so that's the first place I recommend you try.

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Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense. If you like this posting, why not ask Technorati to fix their broken tracking system!

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