Short term spikes in traffic to articles and websites are relatively easy to achieve, but if you want long-term steady traffic you need to use a different tactic.
Article writing is hard work and sometimes excellent pieces of work full of useful and interesting content get few readers. You might spend hours writing and only a handful of people see your work.
Most writers already know about social bookmarking and adding their work to search engines but this is often not enough. Have you ever thought about article writing to give long term exposure to you articles?
This sounds totally crazy but building links to your articles, websites, or blogs, will give you long term readers from many different parts of the internet.
It’s a very simple process. You write article for sites that provide free content for ezines and other kinds of website. Your article, which you provide free of charge, is offered to ezine owners all over the internet. In return for permission to publish your article they undertake to include your contact details (if you wish) and a back link to your article, or website.
To make it simple to understand how it works let me explain how it works for me. First of all I write an article for Triond, or for my own website, and then I write articles that link to the same theme. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that these are linking articles with just a few words altered, because they are not. If you do this ezine owners won’t publish your articles, even for free. You need to think about what you have already written and write a couple of similar articles which sound very different but contain linked information.
When you have written these, and it shouldn’t take long because you have already done the research for the main article and it’s fresh in your head, add you article URL to the bottom. Make sure that proof read and spell check carefully.
Write yourself a little bit of blurb all about you and your writing. Keep it to a couple of sentences. This will be your author resource write up (you will need this later).
Next, go to one or two of the free article sites listed here.
Join up to these sites and upload you articles (only use the ones you wrote to link to your main article.) This is where your author resource box comes in. You will need to paste the ‘blurb’ that you wrote about yourself into the box provided after you upload your article.
Each one of these gives you one permanent link to your article/website.
The rest is a matter of mathematics. An ezine owner who may have thousands of readers publishes your article (with your link) and because your article is interesting, they want to click on your link and read more about the subject. Other ezine, blog and site owners want to publish your material and you end up with hundreds of links (hopefully) which are followed by thousands of new readers.
This is not easy. It is time consuming but it provides long term traffic that will continue to come for years. It’s not just a way of getting thousands of hits now and getting no more. If you utilise this method you will benefit in the long term. This will add to your earnings each and every month.
Take one article at a time and do this with it and slowly but surely see your reads increase.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Thank you for the useful advice.
July 12th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I think and type but am feeling my feet on the internet, this article has given me another route to follow, thank you for a very useful article, as I have just learnt to stumble I am going to stumble a valuable piece of advice!
July 12th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Thank you – very useful – am also feeling my feet with stumble…
July 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Thank you for the helpful information!
July 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Very useful advise, thanks a lot. I will try this after I get it all together.
July 13th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Great advise Louie, thanks for sharing this with everyone.
July 13th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Louie-
You ROCK!! I don’t know why I didn’t think of this!
July 16th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Wonderful! Thanks
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Louie, what a great idea. I am going to bookmark this article to find it easily if I need to refer back to it.
Thanks for sharing.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Louie, this is awesome advice. I had never thought of it.
January 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Louie, thanks for putting this together for us. Well written and helpful advice. And that link to the ezines….THANKS!
January 27th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I did work for a natural products site and that is what they used to send traffic to the site: articles written in e-zines.
So companies recognize the value of using these sites.
Once again, great pointers!
February 20th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I needed more of the article submission pages as I could find only two. Nice article and thanks for sharing useful information.