Increase Website Traffic For Free – Part 1

Have you found the formula for driving traffic to your site or internet business? 

Well the number one problem I see with most people’s strategy is that they focus way too much on one method and that is SEO.  Sure SEO can be a great targeted traffic booster for your site, but why waste all your time on one method that you may never succeed at… especially in the short term?

There are a variety of innovative ways to drive traffic to your site.  This will be a 5 part series on innovative ways to drive traffic to your site. 

In this post, I will focus on free article submission and a great automated way to submit articles to the article directories on auto pilot without every worry about duplicate content penalties again.  The sole goal of this method is to drive traffic to your website.  The second goal of this method is to get links back to your website from the article directories which will help your SEO efforts.

First let me highlight some of the top article directories or places to submit your articles on the web.  Here is a list for you to get started with:

http://www.ezinearticles.com/
http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.searchwarp.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.articledashboard.com/
http://searchwarp.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.isnare.com/
http://www.buzzle.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/
http://www.americanchronicle.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.articlealley.com/
http://www.searchguild.com/
http://www.articlesphere.com/
http://www.articlesfactory.com/
http://www.contentdesk.com/
http://www.articlecube.com/
http://www.articlebiz.com/
http://www.articlebunch.com/
http://www.webs-best-directory.com/
http://www.easyarticles.com/
http://www.articlecity.com/

When writing your articles it is important you do not focus on writing perfection.  Write good articles, but also focus on speed.  It should take you about 30 minutes per article once you get the hang of it. 

Secondly in the author’s resource box you want to personally brand yourself and your website with a catchy marketing message and leave a link back to your site so anyone could easily click and get to your website. 

It is important with article submission to keep your titles as catchy as possible because this is what makes 90% of the people click to view your article in the first place.

In addition, be sure to forget what your English teacher taught you and keep your paragraphs as short as possible.  The reason for this is that if someone opens your article and it has big long paragraphs it will look threatening and they will not read your article.

Don’t ignore keyword research when constructing your article.  Select keyword that are not highly competitive and will give you a fair shot at just raking in the search results on the article directories page rank juice.

When submitting your article it is important to remember that each article should be unique for each article directory.  If not then your article will get caught up in the duplicate content filters of Google and only 1 will count.  This will significantly decrease the amount of traffic you can gain from this method.

If you are looking for complete automation in your article submission including eliminating duplicate content, I personally use Article Post Robot. Article Post Robot allows you to automatically submit your articles to hundreds of article directories with the push of 1 button and also reduce duplicate content at the same time.

To use Article Post Robot you simply write 1 article.  You then take this article and simply rewrite it 2 more times and make it different each time.  This will give you 3 unique articles on the same topic.  Normally each of the 3 articles has about 6 to 10 paragraphs, and all paragraphs should stand on their own independently.

Next in Article Post Robot you select to automatically submit your article and allow Article Post Robot to take your 3 articles and compose new articles out of them.  The software simply picks paragraphs from each article and makes new articles for you on the fly. 

It also submits each new article to 1 article directory.  By the end of the submission you will have hundreds of unique articles in hundreds of directories. 

If you write 3 articles and have 8 paragraphs Article Post Robot can generate 512 fairly unique articles (8 X 8 X 8 ) for you.  If you write more paragraphs in each article your results and number of unique articles will increase. 

Believe me if done correctly, Article Post Robot totally automates your article submission with unique enough content to pass the Google duplicate content filter. 

This provides you massive opportunity to drive traffic to your site while also giving you hundreds of links back to your site for SEO. 

I hate to use the old saying, but with Article Post Robot you kill two birds with one stone with very little work.

In the end, whether manual or automated, article submission should be a key part of your websites traffic strategy.

Tags: article marketing, article post robot, duplicate content, Internet Business, Website Traffic