Artlcle Directories - More Web Site Traffic

A great way to get yet more traffic to your website is by using Article Directories.  The method is really quite simple, you submit an article to a website, and at the bottom of the page you list your contact details including a link back to your website.

People visiting the Article Directory website article read your article and if you’ve done your job well will click through to your website to get more information. The end result? More Web Site Traffic For You!

Now it gets better, of course as you can imagine with a wealth of information on the website, Article Directories are soon favourites with the search engines who visit them frequently and index their content, meaning people who don’t even frequent the Article Directory website in question will find your article in the search engines.  And the fact that your article is in the search engines propels you website further up in search engine rankings.

But there’s still more!  Article Directories are often frequented by webmasters looking for content for their website.  The directories allow them to copy this information onto their websites, so long as it’s kept in it’s original format, and you guess it, this includes your details and link to your website.

So now, not only do visitors to the Article Directories have access to the article you wrote, but the search engines do as well, and so do all the customers of the Webmaster who just placed your article on his web page.

So you get it three ways!  How cool is that (well technically it may end up four ways when the search engines index the webmasters website, but then we start having issues with duplicate content which we explore below).

What is particulary good with these principles, is you get cheap web site traffic, and lot's of it!

Hopefully you are starting to get an idea of the power of article directories, not only do you get traffic from the article directory site itself, but it’s likely your website will be elevated higher up in the search engines, because more people are linking to you!

The article really doesn’t need to be that long either, probably 350-400 words is long enough.  Make sure you use your keyword phrases in the articles and pay particular attention to your link text and mix this up so it’s not the same.

e.g. <a href=”http://overwhelmingtraffic.com”>web traffic tips</a>
<a href=”http://overwhelmingtraffic.com”>more website visitors</a>

Get the idea?  You don’t need a different phrase for each and every link but do take the time to mix them up so you are not just using the same anchor text for all article, it’s important so that the search engines don’t think you are trying to manipulate the search engine rankings (which they are more likely to think if you are using the exact same anchor text in all of your links).

Now one thing you don’t want to do is upload the exact same content to all article directories, because this creates duplicate content which is a real no-no and has the effect of reducing the importance of your website in the search engines eyes.  The flow on effect of this is that you site will be listed further down in the search engine results (higher is good, lower is bad) and it will be harder for people to find you website using your keywords in the search engines.

Search engines these days crave unique relevant content and you will be “marked down” in importance if you just upload the same article unchanged to all the article directories. 

With that said, you probably don’t want to completely re-write a new article from scratch each time you upload either, right?

Is there a way we can get around this?  Well many experts discuss the differences in an articles contents and the general consensus is that if you change 30% of an article, it will no longer be considered duplicate content.    In other words if you can change 30% of an article it will be considered a new article by the search engines, and not a duplicate of an existing one you have submitted elsewhere.

The aim of this product is to allow you to easily create new versions of articles from existing ones.  Now don’t think that it will write the articles for you, after all if you have ever seen some of the content produced by some of these automated article generators you will know what I mean when I say they are pretty bad!  Writing articles is something you really need to do yourself (or outsource) as opposed to trying to get a computer to write text for you.  However using a product like Content Compose will take a lot of the fiddly work out of changing content for submission to multiple Article directory sites.

Content Composer actually allows you to have multiple parts of an article and it will then join random parts of the article together leaving you with a unique article.  The more unique parts of the article you re-write the more unique articles you can get.

For example you could re-write (say) 3 different beginnings of an article, and 3 different endings, and leave the body the same.  You could then get Content Composer to create a unique article and it would randomly grab one of the beginnings, the body, and a random ending.

The above is a very simplistic overview of what it does, I suggest you head over to the website and watch some of the videos, it really is a great product.

Also check out one of his related products (Article Announcer) which is fully compatible with Content Composer.  This product will actually upload your Content Composer articles to the article directories! 

I used this very product when I uploaded my articles to the Article directory.  I particularly liked the fact that in Article Announcer I could open up a saved Content Composer article and then submit it easily.  Magic stuff!

Take a look at Content Composer (and for that matter Article Announcer) you will find it to be of immense value for Article directory use.

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