| It's well known that article directory | | | | able to use these web sites to drive traffic |
| submissions are a great way to promote your | | | | to your web site up a notch or two. |
| site. But most people aren't taking full | | | | |
| advantage of this powerful promotional | | | | 3. Another often overlooked way to promote |
| strategy. One of the best ways to use | | | | your site and increase traffic, is to look at |
| articles to increase traffic to your site and | | | | your statistics and find out what keywords |
| move your page rank up is to fully optimize | | | | are being used the most to find your site. |
| them. Below are some tips that I use to | | | | Research these keywords and find out where |
| achieve success online when writing articles. | | | | you rank in the search engines for them. If |
| | | | you are not in the top 10 results then write |
| 1. Don't just write an article and send it | | | | another article about the topic. To optimize |
| out blindly and hope that you will gain good | | | | your article even further, try creating your |
| results from it. Would you take out a | | | | own keyword anchor text links in the resource |
| shotgun, close your eyes and hope that one of | | | | box that back link to the page that you want |
| the pellets hits something worthwhile during | | | | to show up in the results. |
| hunting season? | | | | |
| | | | For example, if you have a web site called |
| Watch your articles. Monitoring what happens | | | | "yoursite.com" and your keyword is 'baby |
| with them, you may notice that some topics | | | | skirt', you can create your resource box as |
| seem more popular than others. This is useful | | | | "yoursite.com/babyskirt". This will be |
| information. Once you know what people like, | | | | beneficial because of the increased incoming |
| write more articles on that topic. | | | | links to the page will give it a higher |
| | | | ranking and potentially put your article in |
| 2. Track the content web sites that give you | | | | the top 10 for that term, leading to even |
| the most traffic, you can do this by logging | | | | more traffic to your site. |
| into your web site control panel and check | | | | |
| which URLs are sending the most traffic | | | | Web site tracking is one of the most |
| through your articles. | | | | important components for monitoring your web |
| | | | site. Ultimately, by using tracking to your |
| Take notes of the top 5-8 directories. Keep | | | | advantage, you can make your site a success. |
| it in mind to send in good quality, | | | | The same applies to article marketing. |
| informative articles to them on a regular | | | | Optimize your articles and you will benefit |
| basis for publishing. That way you should be | | | | from the results greatly. |