Unique and Original Articles - 7 Traffic Tips

By Charles Chua C K

How do you take advantage of your unique and original articles that you have written to send traffic to your site? Here are the 7 traffic tips:

1. Blog Posts: You write your unique and original articles and post it to your own site. And from your blog you let the search engines search your site by the key words that you have used in your articles. More than 50 % of surfers look for information on the Net by keying in certain search words. When the key words in your article match their searches your article is listed among others by the search engine.

2. Article Distribution: You select from you articles and submit your popular ones to article directories. For each article that you submit you add, at the end of the article, the URL of your site and also the URL of the original article.
When you do these, you comply with Google's advise so that the crawler will know where the original article is and also there is no duplication of content. Secondly, you build two backlinks to your site. One is directly linking to your front page and another one is linking to the article page.

3. Social Bookmarking: This is another excellent way to build traffic to your site. When your article is bookmarked, readers will have to click the link at the bookmarking site in order to go to your site to read the full story. You can bookmark you articles at many places: Mixx, Furl, Digg. Reddit, Propeller, Faves and many more.

4. Join Blog Carnivals: This is by far the best way to bring traffic to your site. You can join blog carnivals at blogcarnival.com. When your article is selected, your article link and your blog link can be found in the organizer's article at his site. It is actually a wonderful one-way backlink to improve your Page Rank and Traffic Rank. Check this carnival that I joined recently at Thatsblog.

5. Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories: By joining blog directories you are also encouraging traffic from other members of the directories to visit your blog. For some directories your articles are listed and linked to your site. Bloglines, Blogarama, Blogdigger, Blogflux and Bloggernity are some of the many directories that you can join and direct traffic to your site.

6. Forums: Participation in forums discussing about subjects relating to your blog posts is also a good way to send traffic to your site because you provide a URL link to your site at your signature panel.

7. Comments: Just like forums when you make comments on other sites you also leave a one-way backlink to your site. When you share a common interest with the site that you have commented you are also prompting the blog owner to visit your site.

Written by Charles Chua C. K at http://allaboutlivingwithlife.blogspot.com Posted originally by the author at: http://allaboutlivingwithlife.blogspot.com/2008/10/unique-and-original-articles-7-traffic.html

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Free Blogging and Other Traffic Tactics

A recent conversation with a friend led us into a discussion about the number of new people starting an online business. The discussion turned toward the numerous ways that one can and should begin with little or no money to make money online. It's surprising how many people out there wanting to make money still don't have a website. The first thing I did when I started online was begin with a free blog. I went to blogger.com and set up a free blog showcasing and branding me and my (limited at that time) knowledge about internet marketing.

Blogs are very effective for the following reasons:

• You can establish yourself as an expert

• To promote affiliate offers or your own products

• To Build a following (or you may know it as building a list)

• To make money through recommendations and/or advertising

• Easy to add fresh content easily

• Get high rankings in the search engines that you need for exposure

• Blog about a topic you enjoy

These are just a few reasons why blogs are becoming so popular.

Here are some common MISTAKES that bloggers make that can lead to failure:

• You don't have a targeted theme, in other words, choose a specific topic

To blog about and stay with that theme. Don't blog about golf if your blog's

Theme is about tennis.

• You don't update your blog often. We, as humans, love fresh and relevant content...

So do the search engines!

• Your blog is "messy." If you have edited the layout of your blog by adding banners,

Widgets, etc, it can start to look "spammy." This is not good for making profit as

Many will get "turned off" as being your obvious intent. Remember, people (and search

engines) want information, not a sales pitch.

• You're not building backlinks. If you are seeking to rank in the search engines then you need to get backlinks from other sites to boost your ranking!

An effective way to maximize your blog is to build multiple sites in related topics and linking them all together from within the content and blogrolls. For example, if your blog is about internet marketing then consider having a minisite on affiliate marketing, another site on search engine optimization, another site on list building, etc.

What should you post on your blog?

Always having to write and post a new article or story on your blog can become stressful. Remember, you don't always have to write a fresh 300-500 word article for your blog. An example is this post, through conversation you can come up with some easy, interesting and relevant information that you can make as a post. However, here are some other ideas for your consideration:

• Find a video on YouTube and write a small post or "blurb" about it.

• Consider writing a "Top 10" article. "The 10 Easiest Guitar Songs."

• Post up an article that you came across and just comment on it.

Just keep in mind that even a small post will get the search engines crawling back to your site. To understand more about robots, spiders and crawlers used by search engines read my post:

Robots, Spiders and Crawlers Oh My!

Here are some helpful and FREE Resources, all are .com sites:

Wordpress (My recommendation over blogger.com)

Blogger

Squidoo

Hubpages (like squidoo)

Gather (like Squidoo and Hubpages)

Feedburner (RSS feed publisher)

Pingomatic (ping after you post)

I hope that you find these recommendations helpful and that they will help your business grow.

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