How To Get More Traffic For Your Articles

Besides submitting your articles to article directories, in order to get
even more traffic, you should also optimize your submitted article to get
traffic from search engines.

This is particular so for new websites. Most of the more popular article
directories are pretty well search engine optimized. By submitting a article
with a keyword phrase that has low competition related to your website, the
chances of the article showing up in search engines is greater.

You might be thinking I can also do it with my own website, why put my
article that is well optimized on someone's else website?
The reason for that is because larger and more popular article directories
has been around for a while and the same article has more 'weight' in the
search engines if it is placed on their site than yours.

I have tested this and some articles I've have written for article
directories can rank in #1 or #2 position out of 10,000 competing webpages
whereas the same article on my own site is not even on the lst page of
search engine results. I'm not sure why but Google, Yahoo and MSN seems to
like certain article directories more than others.

Of course, your keyword phrase that you use in your articles must have some
search traffic and have low competition count.
As a general rule, look for keywords in your niche that have at least a few
hundred searches and less than 5000 competing webpages.

Here are a few tips on how to optimize your article

1) Put the keyword phrase in the title

Number one rule in SEO is to fit your keyword phrase into your title of the
article.

2) Insert keyword phrase in the body content

Usually for a 400 word article, I only insert the keyword phrase twice, once
in the beginning of the first paragraph and at the last line of the last
paragraph. It's important not to overdo it to the point the article doesn't
make sense since you want the reader to read your article and then click
through to your website in the author's bio box.

That's it, simple onpage seo anyone can do to attract more traffic to your
submitted articles. It may take more time to optimize your article, find the
keyword phrase to use etc but it can proof more worthwhile since you only
need to do it once correctly and get unlimited traffic from that article for
years.

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