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Traffic Secrets for Beginners
Author: ©Steve Sant

Today I will be talking about how article marketing is an effective weapon in your arsenal to drive targeted traffic to your site.

As you know people are more likely to listen to someone that they consider to be an expert. Why can't that expert be you? If you know enough about a topic to build a business around it, you are an expert.All it takes is a little marketing to convince others that you are an expert.

One method of establishing yourself as an expert and gaining some exposure for yourself and your business is to write articles for ezines and article publishers. You write an article relating to your business, and then post it to one of the online publishing services. When people read your article, they see your name, and assume you know what you are talking about. The more different places you can get your name and the name of your business, the better that chances are that people will begin to remember you. Over time with multiple exposures you begin to build brand recognition.

There are two different ways online article publishers let you get your name out. Some sites, like ezine articles, let you put a short 1-2 sentence "About the Author" section at the end of your article. You get the opportunity to put together a brief statement about yourself and your business, and a link back to your site.

Meanwhile sites like Associated Content and Helium will have a content producer's page that will allow you the room to write quite a bit more. You can talk about yourself, your business, and why the reader should believe what you say. You can also include multiple links that will lead the reader into your site.

When readers click on the link to come to your site they are what marketers refer to as "pre-qualified". They chose to be there based on the information they read. They were not tricked into visiting your site, and they were not pressured to go there by spam emails. They are there by choice, and that makes them more receptive to your message, and increases the probability that they will purchase your products or services.

Beside the traffic that comes to your site directly from your article, if the article is really good it may end up on one of the social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, or Delicious. If your article gets ranked in one of these sites, it can bring a lot of visitors to your site in a very short period of time. That burst of visitors might last for only a day or two, but it could also linger in the top rankings for days or weeks.

Another side benefit of writing articles is that they can provide a small amount of residual income to you. Many of these sites offer revenue sharing that will give you a small portion of the advertising that the article generates. The amount you get per article usually is not very much, but enough articles over time can add up.

As you can see article marketing is a great way to drive targeted traffic. To learn about more ways how to drive targeted traffic to your site check out my ebook Traffic Secrets for Beginners at:

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Look out for tomorrow's tip, I will be talking about how providing free content for other blogs/websites is another excellent way to drive traffic.

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What Multi-Purpose Blog Content Really Is
Author: ©Frank Breinling

Writing for your blog can be a part-time or full-time job. Whether you are paying a professional blog writer or writing the content yourself you want to make sure you get the most out of the resources you have devoted to your blog.

Multi-purposing your blog content is a good way to maximize the value of your efforts. You may not think about blog content as something that can be multi-purposed but it certainly can and likely should be.

Adding Content to Your Blog
The first thing you want to do is add the newly written content to your blog. Google, Yahoo and the other search engines typically give the most value to the first place content is added. You want the most value to be your blog so make sure you post your content there first.

Once you have added the content to your blog you want to wait to confirm it has been indexed by Google, Yahoo and Bing. You do this by doing a search for the title of your blog and seeing if your blog comes up in the search results.

If your blog posting has been indexed you can distribute the posting in other ways including on article distribution websites, social bookmarking sites, social media sites and your own e-mail marketing database.

Content Distribution
Before you begin distributing the content you may want to consider making some simple changes to the content so it is not identical to the content on your blog. You should also consider getting your newly added content licensed with Creative Commons in order to protect yourself from duplicate content issues.

The most important places to distribute your blog content is on social media sites like Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Stumble Upon and article distribution sites like Ezine Articles.

Consider Derivative Works
Using derivative works can eliminate any concerns of having content identical to content that will appear on other web pages. If you distribute derivative versions of your content you eliminate any duplicate content concerns.

Derivative works are similar but not identical to the original content created for your blog. You can change the introductory paragraph, concluding paragraph and some words in each sentence and distribute it without any concern about duplicate content.

Go ahead and multipurpose your blog content. If you do it properly you can make sure you are getting maximum value out of your blog resources.

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