Want to know how to maximise the free website traffic you
get out of writing articles for your website?
Here are some great tips you can try.
Read on and leave a comment to let me know what you think.
Free Article Writing Tips to Increase Website
Traffic
By: John Michaels
If you're not doing so already, you may want to consider writing
articles about your website's topic. Writing copyright free articles is a great
way to:
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Establish your credibility and build your reputation and brand
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Establish yourself as an expert in your field
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Increase your exposure on the internet
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Gain laser targeted traffic to your website
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Increase the number of one way links to your website, which should help
your website in the search results.
Writing articles about the topic of your website is
a fantastic way to demonstrate your expertise and credibility and at the same
time allows you to build your reputation and your brand. Submitting your
articles to the various free article sites gives your articles the opportunity
to be picked up by other webmasters for their websites and newsletters. When
your articles get used on these other websites they must be used with the
author bio section un-edited. This means that you can generate one way links to
your website, which in turn leads to greater exposure and better rankings in
the search engines. If the readers of your articles on other sites click
through to your site, you gain targeted traffic.
Some Article Writing Tips
To get the greatest benefit from your article writing endeavors, try to keep
the following article writing tips in mind:
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Try to stay away from turning your article into a sales pitch. Give your
readers credit - they will be able to distinguish a sales pitch right away.
Once they think they're just reading another sales pitch they will quickly
click away from your article. I can just about guarantee that no one will pick
up your sales pitch and use it on their website, unless it's one of your
affiliates.
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Don't include too many hyperlinks within the article body and stick to
only one in the author bio section. Most webmasters will not pick up an
article, no matter how good it is, if there are too many outgoing links. I
would recommend not having any links within the article body but sometimes this
is unavoidable.
Which situation would
you rather have: 1 article with 1 outgoing link to your website that gets
picked up by 1,000 webmasters or 1 article with 10 outgoing links that gets
picked up by 10 webmasters?
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Check, re-check and then check your article again for typos and
grammatical errors. Have someone else proofread it for you before submitting
it. Nothing says amateur more than typos and grammatical errors.
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Write articles that complement the topic of your website. Don't write
about something totally unrelated to your website. Remember, you want to
establish your credibility and expertise. Write about what you know.
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When adding that one link back to your site, make sure to include a
keyword targeted link back to your site. I'm talking specifically about the
words between the anchor tags. For example, this is how you should structure
the link back to your website: <a
href="http://www.yourwebsite.com">keywords go here<a>.
When the search
engine robots come across this link they will index the anchor text and it will
help you with those keywords in the search engines. Do not waste this valuable
link by just having your website address (www.website.com) as the anchor text
unless you have your main keywords in the website address. Try to vary the
keywords a little as well when creating this link. There is speculation that
having too many "uniform" links to a site may hurt you - just
something to keep in mind.
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Do not place a copyright notice at the top of your article. This leads
to confusion and may cause webmasters to stay away from posting your articles
on their website and in their newsletters.
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It may be a good idea to write completely new content for your articles.
Some writers just copy and paste parts of their websites and put them into
articles. This may lead to a "duplicate content" penalty and may end
up hurting your search engine results. I would recommend that you should play
it safe and come up with totally new content for your articles.
How Many Articles Should I Write?
The number of articles that you will have to
write really depends on how good your competitors are. If you're competing
against many highly optimized websites, then you may have your work cut out for
you. On the other hand, if you notice that your competitors are not all that
great at the SEO thing, your road to article writing will be much shorter. Any
way you look at it, writing articles can bring too many benefits that are yours
for the taking.
Author Bio
John Michaels is a
part-time editor for ArticleGeek.com. John has developed many websites over the
years in many different business areas. He is a professional web
developer/designer/architect. ArticleGeek is a free website
content resource for publishers and webmasters and a place
where authors may submit articles for FREE!
Article Source: http://www.ArticleGeek.com - Free Website Content
Source: John
Michaels
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