Thinking Out of the Box

[thevirus]

I am happy to say I found a new marketing technique for me that has been bringing in the unique visitors. Its article promotion, aka writing articles. To do this you must be at least an average writer which I wasnt when I started. I wrote 5 articles and knowone printed them. But after I got good I got them printed easly. The way to get traffic from your articles is your bylines. Its exactly like your signiture on a forum like mine for example. If it interests the reader they will click it. If you are good at enticing people to click this technique can work great.

Anyways after you write your articles submit them to article anouncement groups at yahoo. if your article is good it should be printed in at least 5 websites, and if these website are high traffic you can get your link there free.

Just thought I would share my new marketing technique thought it may not be new to many other people It is to me.

[Queen Bee]

Thanks for the tip, thevirus. I've heard of similar techniques like this one (For instance, web blogs seem to generate easy traffic), but this is nice to know. Nice to see you again, BTW.

[Hope]

Articles are the best way to get traffic to your website. If a site is listed in an article, it "must be important." Getting an article on a reputable website is golden. If you get an article on cnn.com or msnbc.com you have made it. Dont' forget articles in email newsletters. Don't just buy advertising, get your articles posted.

[whiteRabbit]

I do think that writing articles and getting published is a great way to promote your site, but wouldn't it be rather time-consuming?  If you are running a site that publishes a bunch of articles yourself, then writing articles become a part of your site development.  But if not, it's an extra time you need to spend; it's an extra effort you need to make.  Would you care to make comments on that?

[ponpots]

  Yes article marketing is a very time consuming process. I agree with you "whiteRabbit".



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Keith
Christian Online Shopping Mall -  Christian shopping online store
Grace Church Ministry

[Hope]

Yes it can be time consuming, however, you don't need to write an article once a week or even once a month. If you write a good article about your industry, product or site, and are able to get it on a good site (ex: cnn, cnet, bbc, onion, searchenginewatch.com - Ok, so these are the real big guys) you will get traffic. These types of site archive their articles, so people can find them over and over again. They drive traffic long after the article is published. Granted the traffic goes down after a while. The other good thing is these sites tend to be great for PR (if you care about this).

[Helen]

I wonder where can i post my article after i write it.  Except yahoo announcment group are there some special directories or sites etc? Coud you give some links?

Thanks

Helen

[Hope]

You would need to find sites, newsletters, blogs (yes I said it) and forums that would be interested in your article. Contact the owner of the site and request permission to post the article.

[SensoVision]

Hi Helen! It would be good to see if you post your article on one of our boards dedicated for articles, we have
News ~ Articles ~ Headlines for general news and articles.
Search Engine News and Articles - and this one specially related to SE

[Andy]

This is an interesting topic.

I find it much easier to write material to forums than content for my own websites, because I know it is going to be read almost immediately and provoke some thouights and responses from people.

One issue that should be considered in the posting of content is copyright. So if you post articles or forum posts are you giving away your work?

[SensoVision]

One issue that should be considered in the posting of content is copyright. So if you post articles or forum posts are you giving away your work?

I believe it's not necessarely an issue, as when you post something you probably have signature which lead to your sites and/or claim your rights for this article.

[Dnyarri]

If you're in the US then you retain all original rights to the work regardless. However posting it implies (sometimes expresses) that you are granting them a license to reprint, reproduce, store, archive and basically do whatever they want with it (within reason). But you still hold the original copyright and others, while they can probably link to the content (probably), cannot just copy it over to their own site unless you grant them those rights.