Here’s another great way to build trust and generate traffic to your website.
If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s real simple. You write articles usually in the 500 word range and submit those articles to article directories.
The real advantage is that article directories, allow you to add an Authors Bio at the end of your article, where you include a call to action with a link to your website.
Some of the advantages of this traffic source is that it tends to build better trust with people, so they are more likely to be better converting traffic. Why?
Because people get to you know you and your business, through your writing, rather than coming in “cold” to your website.
Top Article Directories:
www.ezinearticles.com
www.goarticles.com
www.articlesbase.com
www.articledashboard.com
www.ideamarketers.com/
Of course there are many more, but those are the bigger sites. I personal don’t see it’s worth your time to submit to 100’s of articles directories, because many of them won’t send you much traffic, if any traffic at all.
You have to weigh your time and what you get out of your time before you start going crazy submitting. The one except is if your submitting articles to build back links, this is a time you might want to submit to as many article directories as possible.
Of course most sites will not be powerful back links, but to me, every link counts. For building back links though, you really only need to submit one or two articles to many directories.
In the end it comes down to working smart. For example, if 90% of your article marketing traffic comes from 5 directories, will it be worth your time submitting to the other 10%?
I am saying if submitting to 5 directories takes an hour, but submitting to the other 100 directories that send only 10% takes 5 hours, are you wasting 4 hours of your time.
That same 4 hours you could use to write and submit, say another 4 articles to the sites that bring you’re the most traffic.
That tactic right there could actually quadruple your traffic volume alone. You could be working smarter.
Of course this is also a matter of testing, by submitting articles and measuring the results. Most people submit articles and have no clue what’s working best for them.
I will tell you though, if you are going to give your business your all, it is VERY easy to run out of time, or worst, you end up working ALL the time.
You only have so much time. I know, I’ve been there, done that. So make an effort to measure your results and work on what brings you the biggest return.
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