Articles

One of the most powerful ways to drive traffic to your site is by submitting articles to publishers. Most people fail to show massive results in this area because they don't put in a few extra minutes of effort to make their articles stand out.

The starting point of any good article is the headline. Spend a good portion of your allotted time on the headline. Make sure it grabs a passerby attention and it isn't something someone can say ho-hum to. The headline will draw the user into your article. If you can't get the person to start reading your article, it doesn't really matter what is written in the article itself. Really spend some time on the headline, it pays real dividends.

Next, your article needs to informative and well written. The user should want to read the entire article. Put a unique slant on your topic. Throw a bit of your personality into your article. You aren't writing for a computer, you want humans to actually read it and finish it! Then check it for spelling and grammar errors. If it seems it's written by a 2nd grader, nobody is going to trust what you say! Now, you'll need to send out unique copies of the article to each publisher. The duplicate content penalty is real. The true name should be the omitted results penalty, but under any name it damages your chances of building links and generating traffic. Create at least 3 versions of your article and get a software tool to merge them into a unique readable whole to be sent out.

Finally send out your articles to as many publishers as possible. There are dozens of software packages and services available to submit your article, though only a handful while send out unique content automatically. You can find some though, including free ones. Once you have the software, spend at least a hour a week building up your list of websites, newsletters and other publishers. Don't stop until you have at least a list of 5,000.

Once you've done all these steps, I can't help but think you'll be a success. Traffic will start finding your sites more often, more back links will count and the search engines will give you a lot of love by positioning you well. All it takes is a little extra time, which most people aren't willing to put in. Differentiate yourself from the crowd by doing so!