Getting Web Traffic - A Seven-Step Approach to Using Articles For Getting Traffic to Your Website

So you have a shiny new website. And nobody's coming by for a visit. How discouraging. But don't give up. Read on for an easy step-by-step technique for getting the web traffic you've been hoping for.

What is it? Writing articles and publishing them. It's the best and most durable source of traffic.

Now before you start getting intimidated, let me assure you that if you were capable of getting a website running -- even if someone else took care of the technical stuff -- you CAN write articles. Essentially, if you can talk, you can write. Here's how it works.

1) You write an article -- or preferably a group of articles -- on the same subject your website is on. Make your article informative so that people find your information valuable and will want to read more.

2) Publish your articles. Now here's the beauty of this technique. Do you know how hard it can be to get your writing published in the offline world? Well, here, on the internet, there are scores of article directories who will be delighted to publish your article -- just as long as it's well-written and offers useful information. And yours does, right?

3) Pick the biggest one first: Go to EzineArticles and sign up for an account. Even if you won't publish your articles anywhere else, the kind of traffic that EzineArticles has is going to be able to get for your article will make you quite happy.

4) Submit your article -- and make sure you follow the instructions very carefully.

5) Write up a resource box, where you offer your readers something of value -- some more articles, maybe a free ebook or report -- to lure them to your website (or your "squeeze page," a topic for an upcoming article). That resource box goes at the end of your article. Your article must be completely informative. In the resource box, you get to sell yourself -- or your website. Then, just wait for your article to appear.

6) And there you have it: visitors to your website. And what's best, if your article is really interesting, chances are that others will re-publish it too -- along with your resource box. And that will lead to even more visitors. In fact, if you're lucky, your article can go viral as it is passed around more and more.

7) Wash, rinse, repeat. One article won't bring a whole lot of traffic. You'll need lots of them if you want to really see a difference. So once you've written the first one, just write more articles, and publish them too. Get into a routine where you write one a day -- or at least one a week -- and watch your website's visitor numbers rise. After a while, you'll wonder why you ever thought getting web traffic was so hard.

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