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Article Directories Drive Traffic by Cody Moya

Today, internet marketing has become the number one method of advertising a business. The Internet works for your company 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It never sleeps. It never takes a holiday. Everywhere webmasters are utilizing the incredible marketing potential of the Internet. Every day, websites are built to help companies that might never have attracted the right customers instead reach millions. Profit increases, sales are made, and everyone is happy.

But a website is completely useless if it doesn't attract visitors. The way to make money online is by attracting an audience. And the best way to do this is to have great content on your website.

Content is the text and images of your website. The text is the most important for most searches; search engines like Yahoo! and Google seek out keywords and phrases that can only be found in text content on websites. And when the right combination of keywords and phrases are found on your website, they will move you up in the order that you're listed when someone searches for those keywords. For instance, if your site is all about "cat food," then your keyword phrase should be "cat food."

Depending on how your site compares with other sites on cat food, your position in a search list may be high or low. Ideally, you want to be within the first fifty, and higher if possible; few people look beyond the first fifty keyword matches.

But this leaves most webmasters with a problem: how to get that great content on their websites. Few webmasters are prolific writers, and it takes a lot of writing to come up with good content. And even if you have the best mousetrap in the world, if the search engines don't see attractive content, they'll skip right over you to the guy who uses a string and a piece of cheese, but can write good keyword content.

Enter Ghostwritten Keyword Articles

You don't have to write your own keyword articles. Instead, you can purchase keyword articles written by talented writers. These writers sell all legal rights to their articles, generally to a broker you work with directly, and you're allowed to put your own name on these articles as the author.

The benefits of this are:

• You become recognized as the expert you are.
• You can place this high-quality content on your web site, improving the ranking of your website on search engines
• You suddenly gain control over well-written information you can share with your established customers
• Your new customers keep coming back to your website seeking fresh content

Placing great content on your website is not a one-time investment. Web consumers are impatient, looking for information they can apply to their own lives immediately, and are always hunger for fresh data. If you're selling cat food, one article on vitamin-fortified tuna for cats isn't enough; you'll need to keep placing information online to keep customers coming back. And article brokers can help you do this, with each fresh article gradually increasing your search ranking as the search engine spiders learn that you have frequent fresh high-quality information.

But that's not all.

In addition to placing these articles on your own web site, you can register as an author with an online article directory. These directories are repositories of article content written for specified keywords by various authors. These directories allow you to search through hundreds of quality articles, choosing the ones that best express the ideas behind your website. And the service is generally free; once you have registered with the site and chosen articles, you can add the articles to your website.

So why, you ask, should you hand over the article you just bought to someone else for free?

The hitch to online article directories is that the user needs to include the resource box embedded in each article, the box leading to the author's own website. When someone uses your article, they're creating a link to your website.

Besides keywords, search engines look for links to your website when they're ranking your website. The more people who use your article, the more likely you are to see your ranking move upward. Everyone wins: the writer is paid, you have great content on your site, the other person using the article gets great content as well, and you get a link back to your website from them – free advertisement and upward movement again in the search engines.

Some of the most popular Article Directories include

Go Articles: http://www.goarticles.com

Ezine Articles: http://www.ezinearticles.com

Idea Marketers: http://www.ideamarketers.com

Marketing Seek: http://www.marketing-seek.com/index.php

Other rules and regulations apply to each directory, so you should be certain to read everything referring to agreements carefully.

About The Author:

Cody Moya writes about Article Marketing in his free 50 parts course on Internet Marketing. You can sign up for his Free Internet Marketing Course and get additional information at his Website: http://www.marketing.us/

Article Source: A-Zz Article Archive

Copyright © 2007 Ewen Chia

Affiliate marketing is truly one of the most powerful and easiest models online to generate massive cash quickly, fact is you can get started in minutes from now without the hassle of creating your own products or websites.


While there're many factors to consider in the affiliate marketing business, one of the most critical questions I get every time from newer marketers is always...


“Ewen, How Do I Promote My Affiliate Link?"

Here then are 7 powerful tactics you can use today to promote any affiliate program with:

==> Tactic #1: Your Own Opt-In List

If you've your own existing opt-in list this would obviously be the quickest way to start. However I'd like to provide you with some ideas to maximize the response and results you wouldn't otherwise get if you never applied them.

It's always a good tactic to provide some kind of time-sensitive bonuses to entice your list to buy through your affiliate link. It has always work and it'll continue to work.


You should also do at least 3 follow-up mailings as statistics have proven that you will get the most sales from your 2nd and 3rd mailings.

Now what if you don't have your own list to begin with? The most logical action would be to seriously consider building your own money-making list without delay. A complete course to build and profit from your own opt-in list is at http://www.ewenchia.com/listsecrets.htm

Alternatively a 'second-rate' method is to use...

==> Tactic #2: Other People's Lists

What do I mean by this? One quick method to leverage on someone else's list is through ezine advertising, particularly with solo ads.

As in all kinds of advertising, what you want to do besides advertising the affiliate program is also to build your own list. A simple way to do this while promoting the affiliate program is by using a catchy one-two sentence signature file after your name.


The best advertising you can get is to pre-qualified targeted lists of like-minded people, especially people with money in hand. While these are rare and even harder to identify, an amazing resource can be found here -

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==> Tactic #3: Google AdWords

You can start promoting any affiliate program in less than 15 minutes with pay-per-click advertising, especially Goolge AdWords.

Since Jan 6th 2005, there had been some changes to Google's policies regarding advertising of affiliate products on Google AdWords. Without going into boring details, you can still advertise affiliate programs by using landing pages customized to the affiliate program you're promoting.

As I've provided in detail exactly how you can use Google AdWords in "Striking Affiliate Gold", I won't repeat it again. You can download a copy of the manual at-

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==> Tactic #4: Article Marketing

This is one tactic you got to get started on because it works. I've made tons of affiliate sales purely from articles. In fact, one of my articles generated over 25 affiliate sales in a little over 3 days on autopilot.

The key to successful article writing is to provide real information and tips. Make sure it doesn't sound like an outright sales pitch. Any recommendations you make should be added value to the article. The recommendation should not be its main purpose.

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==> Tactic #5: Leverage On Your Existing Web Pages

There're 3 main ways to go about doing this...

One is to simply promote your affiliate programs on highly trafficked and relevant pages of your website. Check your website statistics to see which pages visitors view the most. These are great target areas for your promotions, especially if they are relevant to the affiliate product in question.

Two, recommend affiliate products on your thank you pages. After a visitor has made a purchase from you or sign up for your ezine, all you've to do is add in a short recommendation of an affiliate product prominently on the thank you page.

Third, use your custom error (404) pages as affiliate marketing tools. This is the page that shows up when visitors enter a wrong URL or extension, there's no point in wasting this space so why not use it to promote an affiliate product?


==> Tactic #6: Capture Exit Traffic On Demand

You can quickly make extra affiliate sales just by using an exit window or pop up window to promote your affiliate programs.

While there're popup killers out there, you'll be surprised just how many
percent of people actually install them - I don't.

Fact is, pop ups, especially exit pop ups still produce good results. Stick with one tasteful pop-up targeted to your visitors and you’ll see great results.

==> Tactic #7: Other Quick And Simple Tips

Recommend affiliate products in your 'thank you emails'.

This is a no-brainer, whether you’re saying thanks for joining your ezine or for buying a product, always give your email recipients an affiliate recommendation for a targeted product you've personally found useful.

You can also create autoresponder courses on topics related to the affiliate program you're promoting as a form of follow-up preselling.

That's it for now and I hope this article has been useful. If you're interested, you can read the FULL article at-http://www.ewenchia.com/affiliate.html

Go and profit from your affiliate programs with confidence!

Ewen Chia is an expert at creating cash windfalls online and has been called “The Super Affiliates’ Super Affiliate” for his extraordinary expertise as an affiliate marketer. You can discover his secrets at-

http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com

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