Content Is King ! Promote your web site	Visited: 2329 3.0/5.0 (2 votes total) Rate: Select 1 - Terrible 2 - Poor 3 - Average 4 - Good 5 - Outstanding
by Bruce Riddell January 25, 2006

There are literally thousands of website owners who use a very asimple technique to generate targeted visitors to their web sites without paying a dime in advertising! Yes, that statement sounds unbelieveable but it is true!

What is their method?

They create highly focused articles that they allow other people publish in their ezines (online magazines and email newsletters) or post on their websites. This method is very powerful! You may be asking yourself about now, "Why would an ezine publisher or website owner want to publish my articles for their subscribers?"

The answer is simple: Content!

There are over a 100,000 ezines and newsletters covering everything from A to Z. Many of them need tightly focused content and they don't have the time or inclination to produce it for themselves. You can get termendous exposure and traffic to your web site by providing valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a "about the author" box and a link back to your website (sometimes called a "resource box")

The following represent only a few of the enormous benefitsof writing and distributing simple articles online:

1) Attain "Expert" Status

In the eyes of virtually everyone who reads your articles you rank as the "expert" on the subject.

2) Pre-sell Your Website Visitors

If your article appeals to a niche audience hungry for more information on a very focused subject, you actually can pre-sell them better than any sales pitch

3) Your Traffic Will Last Longer

The Internet changes very quickly and webmasters are usually very slow to remove content from their sites. Once you get an article posted on another person's website you have an excellent chance of that article staying there for weeks, months, even years.

4) Increase The Number Of Links To Your Web Site

In-bound links help in searchengine positioning because they increase "LinkPopularity."

5) Helps You Build a Huge "Opt-In" Email List

You can use articles to build up a huge list of subscribersby simply compiling several articles into an email course and delivering them at preset intervals. This technique also allows you to capture their name and email adress so you can send them articles and other special offers in the future (with their permission of course).

So if you operate a website selling virtually any type ofproduct or service (whether your own or as an affiliate), publishing and promoting these products with informational articles should rank high on your list of traffic generation strategies.

No other method of generating targeted traffic to you web site provides you with the quality and quantity of traffic that providing free article content does.