Generating Web Site Traffic With Article Submissions
Generating traffic is one of the trickiest parts of making money online. It would be everyone's dream to be the number one link on Google search results, but this takes money or a crazy page rank which we all know we don't have.
My site has only been up for a little over a month, but I have seen some decent results from article submissions. What are these? Basically I created user accounts on sites that accept user submissions on basically any topic. Then I started posting.
I have only used 3 sites so far.
They all looked pretty good with similar guidelines. Ezine is currently looking like the larger traffic generator, but the other two still seem worth it.
At first I thought it wouldn't do anything, but soon I saw a steady trickle of activity on my website from these article sites. You will only be able to tell this if you have a decent web tracker on your site that tells you the referring link.
Advantages
This gives your article (and your site) more exposure. The article sites allow you to link back to your own site as long as it is appropriate. By posting an article (or portion of it) you can then link back to the full version of the article or other supporting articles on your site. Interested individuals will then end up back there.
The second advantage is that reposting your article causes you to reevaluate it. Fix those spelling mistakes and clean it up.
The third advantage is you now have another site in which people can post comments on your article. Tips and criticism will improve your writing and the validity of what you are writing about.
Fourth, you now have a link pointing back to you site. This will help with Google PageRank and improve your chances in a search result.
Disadvantages
This is more work. Sometimes a lot of reformatting will be necessary to make sure it fits the criteria for an acceptable article on that site. Plus, you might not even generate much traffic from the site anyways.
Is It Worth It?
This is up to you to decide. Post to a variety of sites and make sure you have a web tracker. Then you can see how much traffic each one is generating for you. If you aren't getting much activity from a site, then drop them. No sense in wasting your time if no one is reading on them.
Make sure to read other articles on the site. You will get great tips and ideas for articles on your own site (don't copy). You will learn a lot and can maybe even take someone else's concepts to the next level in complexity and usefulness. Make sure you aren't just rehashing and you can legitimately stand behind what you are writing.
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