Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Turn Your Blog Content Into Traffic Pulling Articles

Articles are a very popular and easy way of getting
traffic to your blog or website. Articles are popular
because Search Engines, Internet Marketers, website owners,
and ezine publishers are voracious carnivores for fresh,
quality content.
A really good article that informs the reader about a
certain topic qualifies as fresh, quality content.
Therefore if you can create quality articles you can easily
get backlinks and traffic to your website. As a blog owner,
creating quality articles for submission to the major
article directories is very easy because your blog is
already be filled with quality content!
So all you really need to do is take the content from your
blog and package it into 350-500 word articles complete
with a catchy headline. This should realistically only take
you a few minutes. Once you have an article put together
you will then want to submit the article to a few major
article directories. The manual submission of your articles
to directories can be more than a little time consuming.
So how do you get traffic from articles?
When you submit an article to the directories you are
allowed to include a link back to your blog or website
along with your personal information in the resource box at
the bottom of your article. The resource box with your blog
url in it turns the readers of your articles (your blog
content) into free traffic. It's that simple!
Two little known secrets to tripling your traffic from
articles....
In order for people to read your articles you need to give
them a reason to chose your article over someone else's.
This is where a well written headline comes into play. A
good headline provokes the readers attention and teases
their curiosity. You can write a catchy headline by:
1) Using words like 'secret,' 'discover,' 'important,'
'never before seen,' 'amazing,' 'incredible,'
'unbelievable,' shocking truth,' 'how to,' etc.
2) Asking a question.
"Is it possible to....,'
'Have you seen...,'
'Why does...,'
'When is...,'
'Who is...,'
'What you don't know about...,'
'Can you really...,' etc.
Avoid writing headlines like these (actual article headlines
taken from ezinedirectory.com):
"Fiberglass Speaker Boxes"
"Internet Usage"
"Essentials of Broadband Routers"
"Legalities of Pollution"
"Innovative Floor Tile Ideas"
Instead, write headlines like these:
"Are Fiber Glass Speaker Boxes Really Worth The Money?"
"The Shocking Truth Behind Internet Usage!"
"What You Don't Know About Broadband Routers"
"What Are The Legalities Of Pollution?"
"Have You Seen These Innovative Floor Tile Ideas?"
What headlines would get your attention?
Once you have succeeded in getting readers for your
articles you then need to get the all important click thru
to your blog URL. This is very easy to do. Instead of
submitting the entire article to the directories, split the
article in two and submit only a portion of the article. In
the resource box you would then write something like, "Part
2 Of This Article Can Be Found At www.yourblog.com" or "To
View The Rest Of This Article, Please Visit My blog At
www.yourblog.com." Using a tagline like this instead of the
usual "All Of This And More Can Be Found At..." kind of tag
line practically forces the readers of your articles to
click thru to your blog.
A tip on article splitting....
You want to split the article at a point that will entice
readers to read the rest of your article. You can do this
by going through the article and finding what you believe
to be the most interesting or informative part and
retaining that portion on your blog.
For example, suppose you had written the article above on
innovative floor tile ideas. In order to split the article
you could divide the ideas into a list and retain the top 5
or 10 ideas on your blog. Then you could write a tag line
in your resource box like "For The Top 5 Innovative Floor
Tile Ideas, Please Visit www.yourblog.com."
If you can create quality articles in a flash you can just
as easily create a stream of traffic to your blog.
The bottom line:
Traffic is the key to your success and as blog owner there
are many different ways you can create a flood of free
traffic.
In 2 days time we're going to look at a few of the ways you
can turn that traffic into cold hard cash!
Your friends,
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