Thursday, November 12, 2009

Sweep Your Customers Off Their Feet With Your Words

By Mike Ogle



This would be the simplest and easiest way to promote your website, products or services, online... and it is all for free. The best thing is, it has the power to boost your traffic and sales in an instant.

Articles. One of the easiest ways to promote your website in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings.

How does this work?

Write articles relating to your website and submit them to "free content" submission sites. Easy to do, takes little time and can increase your website traffic, sales and of course, your income.

How does this group of words lift your traffic and earnings?

In any submission sites or directories, you can leave a link to your site at the end of your article. If the readers are happy with what you have written, they would probably hit your link and visit your site. In addition, the articles that you have written can also be used by webmasters as a content in their site.

Of course, the link to your site will also be included. Hence, people who will be seeing or reading your article on their site might choose to visit yours.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your website's placement in the search results.

Say your are promoting a product or service. The link that your articles have garnered will provide you more buyers. Don't be discouraged if some of your visitors might only browse your products and services. There will come a time that they might need your product. Hence, they will go back to your site and make an actual purchase.

There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles, gets interested by the contents you wrote, go to your site and became enticed by your promotions. See, how easy that is?

Search engines also index the articled your have published. They don't solely focus on websites. Indexing extends to any article that has been written about the central them of your website. Hence, if an Internet user searches for your niche, your articles and website will be shown in the search engine's results.

If your think of it, all you have to do is just write some articles and upload them on directories. You did not have to make efforts to bring them to your site.

Many webmasters have tweaked their old writing styles and have opted to write about their website rather that doing other ways of promotion.

Getting their site known is easier if they have articles increasing their links and traffic and making it accessible for visitors searching the internet. Since many people are now taking their buying needs online, having your site on the search engines through your articles is one way of letting them know about you and your business.

One incredible thing about articles is it provides you an area where you can share your expertise and be entertaining. You can actually talk the readers into buying your products without being obvious about it.

It only takes a few minutes or an hour to write a decent article and have it uploaded on your favorite directories. You might not be aware of it, but your articles are actually distributed to other sites. Before you even know what is actually happening, your site is already enjoying the perks of your hard work.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your website and your products or services.

You may try writing a few articles today and check its after effect yourself. You might even be surprised by the number of visitors and profits your site will be gaining after a few hours or days of uploading your article.

Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.

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