Writing Articles To Generate Tons Of Free Traffic
Author: Nick Angeli
Writing and submitting articles to article banks has been proven to be one of
the most effective of all traffic generating techniques. You may not actually
generate any real traffic for your website in the next few days by learning to
write and submit articles but this technique will serve you very well and it is
worth the effort to learn how to do it and use it to your fullest advantage.
You may think that you have no writing ability at all but you are
probably wrong. You might not be ready to write the 'Great American Novel' but
you can write articles about the topic of your website and about the products
that you are selling. You just need to know the rules for making them effective.
The first and most important few words of your article are in the title
or the headline. The title MUST contain the key words that relate to the topic
of your website and to the products that you sell. This is the first thing that
other website owners or E-zine publishers will look at when they are deciding
whether to reproduce your article on their websites or in the publications
because they know that the key words are what search engines use to determine
the results of searches.
Note: The search engines are the method by
which people find products or information that they are looking for on the
Internet. To find those products or that information, they type key words into
the search boxes of the search engines. For example; they might type in 'fish
bait' or 'fishing lures'. The results that the search engines provide are based
on the key words that the searcher uses.
The other thing about the title
or headline of your article is that it must be attention getting. You can't just
title your article 'Fish Bait'. You have to make your title interesting enough
to entice the reader to keep reading. 'Fish Bait that Works'...that isn't very
good either. How about, 'Fish Bait from Heaven' or The Fish Bait the Fish Can't
Resist'? Either of those titles would entice the person who was looking for
information about fish bait to keep reading.
The second most important
few words in your article are in the first line of the first paragraph. Internet
surfers have a notoriously short attention span and rarely actually read
anything word for word unless it is information that they believe will serve
their needs, solve a problem or make life better in general for them. So...the
title...and the first line are the bait and the hook that you use to entice a
reader to actually read the article. The first line needs to contain the key
words, as well, and it also need to be attention getting. 'The fish were begging
for more of this fish bait after my first cast!' If you were a fisherman, you
would keep reading.
Another thing about writing articles that you plan
to submit to article banks is that they need to be short. Very short! They
should be a maximum of 400 words and closer to 300 would be better. It's easy to
get carried away and suddenly have an article that is 1000 words are more when
you are discussing a subject that you know a lot about and are interested in. If
you start writing and forget to stop, break long wordy articles down and make
three or four articles out of the one long one.
Use short sentences and
short paragraphs. Remember that short attention span that we talked about? Don't
use big words and don't use run-on sentences. Make you article easy to read.
Go easy on the exclamation points, as well. One exclamation point
indicates importance or excitement... a half a dozen are just rude.
Your
resource box at the end of the article is the part that is most important to
you. Other website owners or E-zine publishers who download and reproduce your
article are required to include your resource box. This box needs to contain
your full name, your contact information and, most importantly, a link to your
website. That link is the little thing that is going to help increase
traffic.
About the Author:
Nick Angeli is a professional internet marketer who specializes in teaching others how to be successful with internet marketing. If you want to get in touch with Nick or learn more about network marketing success please visit: MyHomeBizLife.com