Monday, April 21, 2008

Article Marketing Made Easy To Help Grow Your Home Based Business!

When you start a home based business, the very first thing you have to do is drive traffic to your website. Only when the traffic starts flowing is when you really start to earn money. There are many ways to drive traffic and one way of advertising your business and products can be accomplished for FREE. Yes, FREE! As an additional incentive, this "free" method can skyrocket your sites and earnings.

Drum roll... Articles. This is one of the easiest methods to promote your home based business in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings, which is why we started our internet business!

So tell me, how does this work? Something free has to be complicated, right? NO!

First step is to write articles that relates to your business and then publish them to "free content" submission websites. It is very easy to do and takes very little time. By doing this you can increase your website traffic and earnings.

I still don't understand how article writing can elevate my traffic and earnings?

When you publish the article on the free content site at the end of the article, it will contain a link to your own website that you want them to visit. After reading your article, people may choose to click on your link. When they visit, they may buy from you. When you expose your article to free content sites, it is also allowing these articles to be available to other webmasters who might publish your article on their site. This will give your website more exposure and thus you earn more money!

If they choose to do so, then your article will provide a link that takes them to your website. And anyone who reads the article on that site can choose to click on the link that will take them to your business website.

As you grow the amount of your submitted articles, and of them are being shown on various websites, then you will increase the amount of times your links are shown. The major search engines are placing a lot of importance on incoming links to websites. This will allow them to analyze the significance of a particular site.

The more incoming links the your website has, the more priority the search engines will attach to it. In the end, this will elevate your website's ranking in the search engine results.

If your site promotes a product or service, then the links that your articles have achieved will mean additional prospects. Even if they only look around, you never know when they will be needing be what you are selling.

When people search the internet, many times they are unsure on what they are really looking for. So, they will continue to surf to website to website and boom, you article shows up, they click on it and then you have made a sale!

Can you see now how articles can increase your sales and how simple it is?

Search engines not only index the websites, they will also index published articles. They also index any article that is written about your own website's topic. So once someone searches for that same topic, the list of results will have your site or may even show the articles that you have written.

Look at it this way. Write your articles and publish them. After that sit back and let them work for you. They will drive traffic to your site and you will reap the rewards with increases sales!

Make sure you are writing about things that people are seeking to learn more about. Be careful of not promoting yourself or your website. People can see straight thru an obvious sales pitch and will not bother to finish reading your article.

If you just write one article and spent the time to make sure it is unique, then imagine what could happen when it is shared between websites. Before long, you article is everywhere and pulls up on a google search. Wow, the traffic will start rolling in then!

Don't get discouraged and think that writing articles is a waste of time. Just envision what it will do for your home based business when you have several of these floating accross the internet and they all point people to your website. You better make sure your local server can handle the traffic!

I would suggest writing a few yourself and you see an increased spike in visitors to your site.

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