Free Traffic Blog

Man I am so sick and tired of hearing about “bum marketing” and all these lies that “all you have to do is submit a bunch of articles about your niche with your link and you’ll start making sales…” Do sales happen from traffic that articles bring? Yes, I’m not saying people won’t buy anything if they came to your site via an article. What I am contesting, however, is the idea that it will bring thousands of targeted visitors desperate to buy from your website.

Just to get one thing clear, I think any traffic from articles is just a bonus. I write articles purely to get more keyword-rich backlinks to my site, which is why I use Article Marketer to submit and distribute my articles. I’m interested in speed and quantity. Quality happens when the article is written, so that’s not the issue here.

Everybody knows that the author box is where you stick an ad for the site you’re promoting right? And according to outdated marketing methods, these articles will bring you lots of free traffic. That’s not really the case, but here are a few tips to get a lot MORE out of your article marketing.

#1) Make the title of your article match almost exactly a commonly searched long-tail phrase.

Not really black hat, but it changes the motive behind your “creative writing”. Use a keyword tool like WordTracker to find a really long keyword phrase and then make that keyword phrase the title of your article. You may just take the #1 spot once you get your article into ezinearticles.com

#2) This is the big one. Put the conclusion of your article inside the author’s box, not the body of the article.

Have you ever noticed that there’s no seperation between the author’s box and the article body when you article appears on ezinearticles.com ? Take advantage of that. Make your conclusion a really short paragraph of it’s own, and include a keyword text link there, making it look like you are linking to an authority site that isn’t yours.

Be sure to include a second paragraph with links as your “author’s box” though so the paragraph with the keyword link looks like EzineArticles approved your link to an “authority” site. You’ll get way more visitors that way because people won’t see your link as an advertisement!

Happy New Year to everybody out there! I wish you all prosperity, health, wealth, and happiness!

-Tyler Ellison

So I was having some serious issues with my last hosting provider.  Ipowerweb is not officially blacklisted as far as I’m concerned.  I’d been having problems with them for a long time and their support is friendly and does their best but my issue is with their actual servers, not the service.  I think their machines are overextended and they have no business selling more hosting because things on my site seemed to work one day and the next day they wouldn’t.

I’m OK with starting over though. This will be a fresh start for my blog for 2008.  I have some big plans for the coming year.

1. No more scraped articles.  I’d been using this blog to simply post articles I got from other places - articles that were GOOD, not automatically posted or anything like that. I won’t do that anymore, however. From now on, this blog will only have 100% original stuff from me.

2. I won’t be posting tons of ads to programs like I was before. I was experimenting with stuff and didn’t really give this blog the attention it deserves. I plan to make this a resource worth bookmarking.

3. More videos. Video blogging is the wave of the future, and I’ve decided to embrace it. There will definitely be more videos on this blog. All will be hand picked for quality so only the best stuff will show up here.

So with that being said, I’ll go back to work to customizing this bad boy.