Welcome to the latest series of posts on the General Marketing Blog. Over the next few posts in this series we will be posting the A-z of getting traffic to your blog or website. Today starting with A-d.
A is For Articles – Create articles and add them to article directories.
Writing articles and submitting them to article directories has many benefits from creating back links to your website to extra traffic. If you are lucky then publishers might just pick your article to publish on their website or ezine.
Why Have lots of Websites Publishing Your Articles?
Simply because if they want to publish your article on their website or ezine they must include the resource box of the article which means more back links for you. This will also bring you extra traffic from their readers clicking the links in your resource box.
Their is hundreds of article directories on the Internet here are some to get you started.
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.trumparticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
B is For Blogs – Set up a blog for repeat traffic.
Blogs are a great way of getting repeat visitors. If you are providing them with quality content then they will return to see what else you have to say. Blogs also create interaction between you and your visitors with the ability for them to leave comments on your posts.
Their are several options when it comes to starting a blog.
http://www.blogger.com free hosted blog
http://www.wordpress.org Self hosted blog (recommended)
Blog posts can also be submitted to content management website for people to vote on the quality of the posts. These website not only give you a free back link but will get you traffic as well here is one to get you started. http://www.blogatiser.com
C is for Classified Ads.
Classified ads although not the best form of traffic generation can be useful and bring in some traffic to your website. The only real upside to them is you are getting a free backlink for short period of time usually 30 days. Here is a free classifieds ads website.
D id for Directories – Submit to them.
Submitting your website or blogs to different web directories will bring you more backlinks and a higher search engine ranking. Their are thousands on the internet both free ones and paid ones. Here are just 2 to get you started.
http://www.pollget.com
http://www.insidehits.com
http://www.blurbblogdirectory.info
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#1 by Dorsi on May 20th, 2008
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Great information-I will be back often for your articles- they are very informative.
Thanks!