Step #1:  Make sure that you follow the “rules” so that you get your articles listed.  Whether you are submitting your articles online to the article directory sites, or offline through other methods, we all have to follow a few simple “rules” so that are articles will be accepted and published.  One of these rules is to never to your article into a sales pitch.  Another is to never place affiliate links within your articles.  These are sure ways of having your articles rejected.

Step #2:  Get your reader to the end of the article.  Some article marketers are really great at writing and they can create lengthy articles with great content.  Unfortunately, the longer the article, the smaller the chances of someone finishing your article.  Create each article so that it can get the highest number of readers finishing the entire thing.  This is a crucial step to follow for step three.

Step #3:  Finally mention your website and/or services.  At the end of your articles, most of the time you are able to place information about yourself along with your website.  This is done in the “about the author” box.  This is the box where you finally have the chance to make a small pitch.  Make a compelling offer that is going to get the reader to visit your website.  Maybe give them a free eBook or other free information for visiting.

Step #4:  Create your website so that it sells.  If you have made a compelling offer for your visitors, like a free mini course or eBook, make sure that you deliver that free information somewhere on the landing page.  You will want to capture their name and email address in exchange for the free information that you are providing, so make sure to set up your website so that you can capture that information for your email marketing.  After your prospect signs up for the free information, get them to continue reading your web page.  You will want to set up this landing page so that it turns into a sales letter for one of your products or services.  If they don’t decide to buy today, the great thing is that you will have captured their name and email address so that you can send them more free information and occasionally remind them of the product or service that you sell. 

Step #5:  Track your visitors to see if your process is working.  When this entire process is used correctly, you should accomplish the goals of:  sending your article readers to your website, capturing their email addresses, and then making sales.  If for some reason people aren’t visiting your website, fix things so that it will only make logical sense for people to visit your site after reading your article.  And if you are having troubles capturing email addresses, fix things on your website so that a larger number of your visitors give you their contact information.  And of course, if you aren’t making sales, fix your sales letter or figure out why your visitors aren’t buying.  Once you pinpoint problems and fine tune the process, your website can get to the point where your article marketing becomes a constant flow of visitors and sales on your website. 

Daniel Pereira

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Here’s the deal, let’s say that I have 50 pre-written articles that I have spent weeks working on.  And let’s even say that they are all top quality articles.  Now, the question is, if I use my article submitter to send all 50 of these articles to hundreds of article directory sites, then what kind of traffic is that going to get me?  Well, I personally have never done this, but the most probably answer is that you will get TONS LESS traffic than you are planning on.  Why?  Well, when your article is submitted to the quality article directory sites, your article is actually reviewed before it is put into their system.  Now, if within a couple of days, you blast 50 articles to a quality article directory site, the people reviewing those articles are going to notice, rightfully assume that you have just blasted them with a bunch of poor content, and then will reject many if not all 50 of your articles.  At the end of the day, your 50 articles have only survived on sites that don’t normally review your articles, which are normally sites that don’t get you very much exposure.

What you really want with your article marketing is to be able to send the quality article directory sites a couple of great articles with super-charged content.  You will then start to gain the trust of the quality article directory sites and some of them may even start to look forward to your article submissions.  When you get an article directory site to get excited about each article that you submit, then guess what they are doing with your article?  They are distributing your article to other sites and giving you the exposure that you have worked for. 

There is a site that I use that has really helped me to understand this whole concept of quality versus quantity.  It is a website that has been a pioneer in the article submission industry.  That website is the Submit Your Article website.  They provide an excellent service by helping you truly get maximum exposure with each article.  And they are smart too.  They ONLY let you submit 8 articles per month through their service.  They truly know that when it comes to article marketing, quantity can kill you and quality is king. 

Along with the Submit Your Article website, there are a few other excellent resources that I use in order to maximize my exposure with each article.  Article marketing and other free traffic techniques that I use have done wonders for my businesses.  And on many sites I don’t even have to pay for any Adwords advertising!

Daniel Pereira

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One of the best free advertising options that are available to you is writing articles. Now, for some businesses, you may think that this will be hard for you to do. I want to give you an example of what I have done for one of my retail websites. I own a website where I sell belts, purses, wallets, etc. If you had a website just like this, what kind of articles could you write in order to get free traffic? At first, some people may think there would be nothing that you could write in order to generate free traffic to a retail site such as this. But the real answer is that you can easily take each one of your products and write a simple “review” of each product. For example: maybe you have a new novelty alarm clock that you sell on your website. Maybe it’s one of those clocks that help you get out of bed easier. You can easily write a review about how this alarm clock works and how it has helped people. When people read your article, they will learn about the product and then be left with an option to where they should buy that product (you will include your website at the end of the article in the “About the Author” box). Once you have done this with one of your products, then you do it with the rest of your products. Even if you don’t think that some of your reviews are “that great,” if you are selling a product, then a lot of the time people want to read what other people have to say about that product.

Now, if your website is an informational website, then of course, writing “how to” articles and informative articles relevant to your website will be the easiest thing possible. I just gave the example of a retail website because many people don’t know that it is possible to generate a good amount of free traffic to retail websites.

Another great method of generating traffic for free to any website is buy creating videos. If you are doing articles and making videos, why not just take all of your articles and turn each one into a few short videos? If you haven’t noticed, video sharing sites are becoming more popular every day. Now, when it comes to creating articles and videos for free website traffic, there are many people that don’t know how to maximize their exposure with each article and video. My friend Dan Dimit and I have put together tons of free materials that allow you to learn the correct ways of getting free traffic using aticle marketing, videos, and tons of other effective techniques. If you haven’t signed up for your free info, then you can do so now to the left of this blog post.

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Believe it or not, many article directory sites are almost always going to reject your article if it looks like you are trying to sell something. Now, since I mentioned selling, you probably know that since I took the time to write this article that I probably have a few things that I could sell you. Well, let’s just say that you are probably right. The good thing for me is that you are now deep into the second paragraph of this article and you have no idea what my product may be IF I did have something to offer you. That’s a good sign! In the majority of cases the article directory sites are going to applaud me for not making my article a “sales pitch.” As long as the next few paragraphs that I share with you are good content, then there is a high chance that this article will be accepted by the highest number of article directory sites. (Psssst. I know your reading this on my blog, I post all of my articles to my blog as well)

What you want to do is craft your article so that you hit hard on the topic without using any “fluff.” These sites aren’t necessarily looking for a 3 page article that tells an irrelevant 2 page story and then spends 1 page discussing the article topic. What the sites are looking for is that you discuss the topic of your article title without filing the article with links to your web pages. There is a box for the authors that is especially designed for creating an offer for your readers. That box is the “About the Author” or the “Resource” box. Limit your “advertising” to this box and the article directory sites will thank you for it.

So, what exactly is the best length for your article submission? Well, to be honest with you, in my experience if you DO create a short half-page article (around 600 words), and you make it interesting and hit hard on the article title, then the article directory sites aren’t going to care if your article hasn’t reached the 2 page mark. Keeping this in mind, if you are limiting your own personal advertising to the “About the Author” box like you should, and if you do write a killer half page articles then they will: 1. Take less time to write (40 minutes max for many authors) 2. Still get accepted by many of the article directory sites 3. Get read faster (since it’s shorter) which means that people will see your “offer” in the “About the Author” box even faster. This means that you have greater chances of accomplishing your goal of writing your article so that it gets free traffic to your websites.

Good luck with your articles and just do everyone a favor and don’t waste your time writing a bunch of articles that are actually just sales pitches. Here is an example of my “About the Author” box for the article directory site:

Daniel Pereira is an expert at driving free traffic to your website. For 2 free eBooks, free weekly conference calls, and a free mini course, just head on over to http://www.TheFreeTrafficFormula.com . You can also visit “The Free Traffic Blog” at http://www.TheFreeTrafficFormula.com/blog

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Now, since the click through to the website is what you really want, you are going to want to just follow a couple of simple steps each time you write your articles. You will want to follow these steps and not add much to them, and the reason why is because the longer your article gets, the less likely people are going to read the whole thing and the less likely they will even see the link to your website and your offer in the “About the Author” box.

So here are those two necessary steps you should take in your article. Follow these two steps, keep the article short, and you will probably get the reader to click through to your site.

Step one: Without using any “fluff,” as fast as you can, give them solid information based on the topic of the article. If they clicked on your article in order to learn something, teach it to them fast. That’s what they wanted, so just give it to them already! There really is no need to write a 3 page essay on a topic that you can cover in half a page. If the content you are providing is good solid material, without making any sales pitches, then your article will be accepted by the article directory sites in the majority of cases. An article around 600 words in length is good length.

Step two: Provide the reader with a free offer that gives them even more information on the same topic (but do it in the “About the Author” box!) Since you are going to keep your article short but informative, your readers will more than likely take you up on your offer of more free information. Just don’t make your article too short. I doubt many 1 paragraph articles are accepted by the article directory sites. If you hit hard on your topic and the article ends up only being 3/4ths of a page long, then you are probably still good to go. The article directory sites what you to use the “About the Author” box in order to share your “offer” with everyone. If you write a good, short article, then provide a great offer in the “About the Author” box, then you will get your free traffic (which was probably the main goal of your article anyway). Just look at this great example of an “About the Author” box…

Daniel Pereira has created an amazing resource in order to help you learn some of the best techniques for driving free traffic to your website. Get 2 free eBooks, free weekly conference calls and a free mini course by visiting him at http://www.TheFreeTrafficFormula.com

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Now, for those of you that enjoy the feeling of paying thousands in advertising each month for your website, I would suggest not reading any further.  This is because I just might convince you that you can get a whole lot of free traffic to your website, just by having a few articles written each week.  In fact, if you have anyone in your company that has only just passed high school English, then I am sure that you can have them write some pretty nice articles for your company. 

Now, here’s the exciting part.  Since we are in the information age, there are very easy ways for each one of your articles to get maximum exposure.  In fact, for my article marketing, I send each article to hundreds of different websites.  Some of these websites may have not give my articles the exposure they deserve, (Come on guys!  I spent about 20 minutes of my time writing these things) but regardless of this fact, other websites will give my articles great exposure.  As a result, I get varying amounts of free traffic with each article that I submit, but even the minimal exposure is worth it!  This is because I do the work once and I get the free traffic for months and years to come. 

Now, the big question is:  How do I easily submit one article to hundreds of different sites?  Well, there are a number of different tools out there that you can experiment with.  Some of these tools will be free, and others are paid but automate a large portion of the process for you.   Most serious article marketers will use the paid services, and one of my favorites is the service from www.ArticleMarketer.com. 

Now matter if you use a free service, submit articles manually, or use one of the paid services.  The most important thing for your article marketing is to just do it.  There is some real power behind submitting these articles once and then enjoying the free traffic for years to come.    

Daniel Pereira

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What I am going to discuss in this article are 2 simple ways that you can obtain first place search engine rankings for many keywords across the web.  These two simple ways are by first: creating videos, and by second:  creating articles.  But you have to do it the right way…

What you are ultimately looking for when you create any article or video is keyword domination.  With this specific article, I have done a bit of research and I came to the conclusion that it may be a little difficult, but with this article I chose a specific keyword phrase that I wanted to dominate.  That keyword phrase is “Google Traffic For Free.”  Chances are that if you are reading this article, you found it because I have in at least a small way accomplished my goal.  You may not have typed in the exact words “Google Traffic For Free,”  but you may have typed in a similar phrase and therefore found my article. 

After I pick my keyword phrase that I want to dominate, I then need to take additional steps in order to find my article or video at the top of the search engine rankings.  One of the things I need to do is use a keyword help tool in order to create my tags for my article or video.  What I am really looking for when I do this are keyword phrases that are very similar to my “target” keyword phrase.  In the case of this article, I did a little bit of research and decided to use 6 keyword phrases as my tags, the first one is my target keyword phrase and then the other five are very similar.  Here are the other 5 tags that I decided to use with this article:  increase traffic for free, get traffic for free, website traffic for free, web traffic for free, free website traffic.

So, after I have my 6 tags, what I then need to do is chose a keyword rich article title.  In this case I think I did a pretty good job.  I was able to use the each of the keywords Google, Traffic and Free in the article title twice!  And the great thing was that the title still flowed well.  When you make the title, it can’t just be a bunch of rubbish.  It needs to be keyword rich and then still make sense and make for an interesting article title.

I use this method every time I make an article or a video to submit.  There are hundreds of websites that I submit each article to and about 40 sites that I submit each video to.  As a result, each article and video gets great exposure across the web for lots of free traffic, many of it coming from Google. 

Daniel Pereira

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O.K., so another free traffic technique that I dislike is methods where you earn “click credits” to your website by either purchasing them or visiting other people’s websites as a part of a “let’s all click on each other’s websites community” so that we all get free visitors.  I have seen sites that promote this type of “community” and I have even seen them advertise that the traffic is “targeted.”  They are lying.  Don’t believe them.  How could that traffic in any way be targeted?  It just doesn’t make sense.  Everyone joins that type of website for one reason:  in order to try to get free targeted traffic to their OWN website.  Just don’t fall for the hype.  With most all websites, this type of traffic ain’t gonna work for ya!

Now for some really effective ways for getting real targeted traffic to your websites:

#1:  Taking advantage of the growing popularity in video sharing sites.

This method is really hot right now.  Why?  Because it really works!  I personally have been able to enjoy the massive amounts of free traffic that this method can bring.  Also, there is software available across the web that will submit your videos to multiple sites all at once.  Imagine:  You make one video, but then send that same video to 40 different websites.  Now, if you have created a decent video with a good title, then you are probably going to get at least a couple hundred video views per month on many of those video sharing sites.  200 views times 40 different websites is 8,000 exposures for your website per month!  And that is just what one decent video can do for you.  Imagine if you created just 5, two-minute videos each week!

#2:   Creating viral methods for obtaining website visitors

It just makes sense.  If you have a website with great information that leaves each visitor wanting more, then each visitor is likely to tell other internet users about your website.  Even if what you may offer just a weekly newsletter or a simple eCourse, if that content is really good, then people will tell their friends to check it out.  So, create what I call “viral content” for your website and you will get a whole lot of word of mouth marketing for your businesses.

There are many other viral methods for obtaining free website visitors.  A personal favorite of mine is creating a viral eBook.  On a couple of my websites, I provide (for free) certain eBooks to my visitors.  I allow these visitors to share this eBook or sell it to others at a profit.  I take extra time in order to assure that I am giving them an eBook that provides real value instead of just a “pass-along” book with a bunch of my affiliate links embedded in it.  One of the best examples that I have seen of a great quality viral eBook is Yanik Silver’s “Million Dollar Emails” book.  It contains hundreds of pages of quality information on email marketing.  It is a book that tons of people WANT to give away as a free bonus on their websites. 

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#3:  Writing articles

If you do things the right way, writing articles will get you a flood of free traffic to your websites.  Here is an example of a correct way:  In any article of mine that goes on the article directory sites, notice that I haven’t embedded a bunch of my affiliate links.  Notice how I haven’t tried to sell you on any of my products.  Notice how I am actually addressing the article title and giving you the answers that you wanted. 

If you write articles and actually provide people with good content, then your articles will get read and also will be accepted in the majority of cases by the article directory sites.  Remember that these article directory sites provide a special area for authors to tell more about themselves and their websites.  It is called the “About the Author” box.  I have provided an example below…

In my about the author box, I might say:

“Hello, my name is Daniel Pereira and I created this article to help people drive more free traffic for their online businesses.  Get free eBooks, conference calls, and a free mini course, all designed for driving free traffic to your websites.  All you need to do is just visit me today at www.TheFreeTrafficFormula.com. “

See how this works, it’s easy!

Daniel Pereira

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Now for some really effective ways for getting real targeted traffic to your websites:

#1:  Taking advantage of the growing popularity in video sharing sites.

This method is really hot right now.  Why?  Because it really works!  I personally have been able to enjoy the massive amounts of free traffic that this method can bring.  Also, there is software available across the web that will submit your videos to multiple sites all at once.  Imagine:  You make one video, but then send that same video to 40 different websites.  Now, if you have created a decent video with a good title, then you are probably going to get at least a couple hundred video views per month on many of those video sharing sites.  200 views times 40 different websites is 8,000 exposures for your website per month!  And that is just what one decent video can do for you.  Imagine if you created just 5, two-minute videos each week!

#2:   Creating viral methods for obtaining website visitors

It just makes sense.  If you have a website with great information that leaves each visitor wanting more, then each visitor is likely to tell other internet users about your website.  Even if what you may offer is just a weekly newsletter or a simple eCourse, if that content is really good, then people will tell their friends to check it out.  So, create what I call “viral content” for your website and you will get a whole lot of word of mouth marketing for your businesses.

There are many other viral methods for obtaining free website visitors.  A personal favorite of mine is creating a viral eBook.  On a couple of my websites, I provide (for free) certain eBooks to my visitors.  I think allow these visitors to share this eBook or sell it to others at a profit.  I take extra time in order to assure that I am giving them an eBook that provides real value instead of just a “pass-along” book with a bunch of my affiliate links embedded in it.  One of the best examples that I have seen of a great quality viral eBook is Yanik Silver’s “Million Dollar Emails” book.  It contains hundreds of pages of quality information on email marketing.  It is a book that tons of people WANT to give away as a free bonus on their websites. 

#3:  Writing articles

If you do things the right way, writing articles will get you a flood of free traffic to your websites.  Here is an example of a correct way:  In this article, notice that I haven’t embedded a bunch of my affiliate links.  Notice how I haven’t tried to sell you on any of my products.  Notice how I am actually addressing the article title and giving you the answers that you wanted. 

If you write articles and actually provide people with good content, then your articles will get read and also will be accepted in the majority of cases by the article directory sites.  Remember that these article directory sites provide a special area for authors to tell more about themselves and their websites.  It is called the “About the Author” box.  I have provided an example below…

Daniel Pereira and Dan Dimit are experts at driving free traffic for your online businesses.  Get free eBooks, conference calls, and free software, all designed for driving free traffic to your websites (a $197 value).  Just visit them at www.TheFreeTrafficFormula.com.

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