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How to Increase Traffic with Article Marketing

  You can increase the number of website visitors that come to your site in an easy way. Simply write articles, use your signature file, also known as a byline, to promote a link to your website, then submit the finished product to article distribution sites. Here are helpful tips to increase your own traffic with article marketing.

Three Areas of Article Focus

1. Optimize your articles for people. Get the optimum reach out of website traffic by targeting your article content to a wider range of readers than just your niche audience. This will help your site attract and maintain more website visitors. For example, if your site is about dogs, include articles about non-profit organizations that help dogs and other animals like the Humane Society. And sprinkle in articles about healthcare products for dogs and cats (some pet owners have both animals so you can gain more readers here).

2. Optimize your articles for search engines, too, not just people. Conduct keyword searches and focus your content around these, adding meta tags into the code. Plus use your top keyword phrase in the title, like this: http://yourdomain.com/keyword-phrase.html .


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3. And finally, make your overall content sales-focused, letting your visitors know what to do when they arrive. Do you want them to sign up for your ezine? If so, have a form there and tell them to sign up. You can insert something like this in your article, pointing to the sign up form in the left-hand column:

________________________________________

< -------- Subscribe to blog!
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And include a final paragraph in each article that summarizes what your readers should do. Or use this paragraph information in your byline, so that you have a site link. Write something along these lines, for instance, offering something at no cost to everyone who drops by:

“For more information, visit: http://yourdomain.com/Free-Healthcare-Report and download a complimentary copy of, “12 Tips to Better Healthcare Practices for Your Family.” Contact YourDomain at: (telephone number); or email: you@yourdomain.com.”

Read books about marketing and keep up with the latest Internet marketing techniques so that you can incorporate proven techniques strategies into your articles. Writing off the top of your head may be fun; however, when your writing is better focused, your results will be, too.

Let your readers know what you want them to do. Point the way, encourage them, reward them. Them let your articles so their work.

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