February 14, 2010
Producing Articles To Build Targeted Traffic As Well As Attract E-Course Lists!
Your current articles you've posted on your sites could be building traffic plus building e-mail lists for you a lot faster if you begin to submit articles to article sites regularly.
Posting your best articles to the top online article repositories exposes your new articles to a enormous potential audience, both at the article directories and on other people's pages if they use your interesting articles as content. Popular articles can be some of the best sources of targeted traffic, thus helping you build opt-in lists and build targeted traffic.
And really, this article marketing strategy only makes sense. Most people come online looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the first source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are published online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and the like.
So before publishing those new articles to your blog, head over to the most important 2 or 3 directories and post your articles, being careful to be certain your Author's Resource Box points back to your blog or squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's targeted at building your opt-in list and your blog audience simultaneously.
Ensure your new articles contain useful content - attempting to write an article just for it's search engine value is a common problem, since getting prospects to your submitted articles is only part of the job. The real trick is to get them engaged in your articles' content, establish yourself as an expert on the topic, and motivate them to take action and head to your opt-in form or your blog. That needs both powerful information in your article AND solid, relevant info on the landing page.
One of the reasons that this strategy builds opt-in lists so fast is that the prospect wants knowledge on a topic, reads your article and then sees your link to more details. Magnify your traffic building from your efforts by giving a free report, audio or video on a related issue to prospects who sign up. This way the prospect gets what they are looking for, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.

