You’ve got a website, now what?

When you first start a new website you have the dilemna all internet markets have - how do you get visitors. It doesn’t matter why you started the website or for what purpose you are going to put it, you need to get into search engines and you need visitors for it to succeed.

Article Marketing - the Free Traffic Booster

One of the easiest ways to get traffic to a new website is through writing and publishing articles to other websites, including article directories and other niche sites. These articles that you write act like a site magnet to the search engines. The link that you include in the article gets your site listed quickly in the search engines - and your site’s future is off to the races.

The Positives of Article Marketing

Article marketing flat out works to get many incoming links to your website. You can get as many as a thousand links or more simply by writing unique content and posting it on article directories and niche sites that are always looking for new content. And, a side benefit of writing and posting articles is that you might get to be known as an authority in your niche.

With the simple step of writing about things you know and submitting this new content to content hungry websites, you can get listed in the most important search engines very fast. And by including the link to your website in the resource box that you can insert with your article, you get many links back to your website. These links all give you the chance to get many visitors.

The Bad About Article Marketing

You have to write original content (or pay someone else to do it.) Writing articles is actually easier than you would think, especially if you are writing about your product or your niche website. As long as you are writing about things you know about, writing a 400-500 word article can be accomplished in as little as twenty minutes.

Of course, you can always pay somebody else to write the article for you, and there are many services on the web now that allow you to get others to do the writing for you - for a suprisingly cheap price.

The other major obstacle is the time it takes to submit your articles to the article directories and niche sites. The problem here is there are thousands of sites that accept articles - to submit to a large share of these sites takes a lot of time.

However, there are article submission services that will place your articles for you. And, you can alway hire freelancers to do that job too.