Writing Articles To Drive Traffic To Your Site

Article Writing can be a great way to drive traffic to your site. However, before you organize the words into an entire article, you should define 3 things.
1. Who is your audience?
You should know which group of the people do you want to reach, Identify exactly who will have the highest interesting in your article's content and it benefits them!

2. What are they looking for?
Play the audience's role, think about them, what's problems do they have, what dreams do they have, what keeps them up late at night worried sick?

3. Why you writing the article?
You should decide in advance the outcome you want from your article! Do you want people to visit you sites? click your affiliate links? subscribe to your auto-responder or buy you products?

Persuasive Online Articles

Publish them on other sites
It's simple math. Your site receives 200 hits a day. Site B receives 500. If you get an article published on Site B, your site and marketing links are exposed to 700 people.

Unfortunately, this can be easier said than done. You have to convince the editor or webmaster of Site B that your article is more worthy of publication than Michael Johnson's about the same subject. If you think you can, then you are all set to start your very own article marketing campaign and boost traffic to your site. Here are some hints to sell articles for your article marketing campaign.

1. Keyword optimized headlines - "How Much Can You Make This Year?" will get more readers than "Make More Money," but only if people find the article first. "Get Rich Writing Simple Articles," might have been a more attention grabbing headline, but I used "Online Articles" because that is a keyword phrase that people are actually searching. Of course, if you can use good keywords AND eye-catching headlines, it is even better.

Another way to have the best of both, is to write the article twice. Firt write it with a good keyword-optimized title, and then re-write it and submit it again with a more catchy title. Paint a picture in seven words or less, if you can. "A Thousand Dollars Fell Off My Table," might lure them in. Titles with,"10 Ways To..." or "Avoid These Six Mistakes..." or "How To..." in them, are popular too.

2. The article description - Many article directories require a description. This lets the reader know what the article is about, and hopefully convinces them to read it. Hinting at things and leaving the reader wanting more can help: "If you're making these errors, you're losing money every day. Learn to avoid the most common optimization mistakes."

3. The article body - You should write in your natural style, or, if you haven't yet developed one, stick to easy "top 10" types of articles. Keep paragraphs short, or readers will lose interest. Hinting at incompleteness can also help to get readers to visit your site. Instead of, "Here's how to write articles." Say, "Here are a few of the techniques I use to easily write new articles." You want them looking for the other techniques - on your site.

4. Use subtitles - The use of subtitles and headings breaks up an article, making it easier to read. Subtitles also help to optimize an article for search engines, if they contain good keywords. You'll notice I often use subtitles, like the one coming up...

Online Articles - The Resource Box
You write online articles to get traffic, which you get from the link in the author's resource box - if the reader clicks on it. Invite them to do so, and never just put your name, achievements, and a link. At the very least say "To learn more, visit..." or something similar.

What other methods to promote ours articles?
We can submit them to Article Announcement sites, we can promote them to Ezines directly, we can promote them by offering free reports, also we can use many many other resources and methods to promote our articles!