Using Articles To Increase Targeted Traffic Or Create E-Zine Lists!

Your previous articles you've created for your blogs could be building traffic or building e-mail lists for you a lot faster if you start to submit articles to article directories regularly.

Distributing your latest articles to the top online article sites exposes your new articles to a large potential audience, both at the article directories and on other people's sites if they use your interesting articles as content. Popular articles can be some of the biggest sources of targeted traffic, thus helping you build opt-in lists and build targeted traffic.

And really, this article marketing strategy only makes sense. Most people start out looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the premiere source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are published online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and the like.

So before adding those new articles to your blog, click over to the best 2 or 3 directories and submit your articles, being careful to confirm your Author's Resource Box links back to your blog and squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's targeted at building your opt-in list and your blog audience at the same time.

Ensure your new articles are full of valuable content - trying to write an article just for it's search engine value is a typical mistake, since getting people to your submitted articles is only half the process. The intent is to get them engrossed in your articles' content, establish yourself as an authority on the topic, and motivate them to take action and head to your opt-in form or your blog. That requires both powerful information in your article AND solid, related information on your landing page.

One of the reasons that this method builds opt-in lists so well is that the prospect is looking for knowledge on a subject, sees your article and then sees your link to additional information. Boost your traffic generation from your articles by giving a bonus report, audio or video on the same topic to those who sign up. This way the candidate gets what they are after, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.