Optimize Your Article - The Forgotten Strategy

It's well known that article directory submissions areyour web site up a notch or two.
a great way to promote your site. But most people3. Another often overlooked way to promote your
aren't taking full advantage of this powerfulsite and increase traffic, is to look at your statistics
promotional strategy. One of the best ways to useand find out what keywords are being used the
articles to increase traffic to your site and movemost to find your site. Research these keywords and
your page rank up is to fully optimize them. Belowfind out where you rank in the search engines for
are some tips that I use to achieve success onlinethem. If you are not in the top 10 results then write
when writing articles.another article about the topic. To optimize your
1. Don't just write an article and send it out blindlyarticle even further, try creating your own keyword
and hope that you will gain good results from it.anchor text links in the resource box that back link to
Would you take out a shotgun, close your eyes andthe page that you want to show up in the results.
hope that one of the pellets hits somethingFor example, if you have a web site called
worthwhile during hunting season?"yoursite.com" and your keyword is 'baby skirt', you
Watch your articles. Monitoring what happens withcan create your resource box as "yoursite.com
them, you may notice that some topics seem morebabyskirt". This will be beneficial because of the
popular than others. This is useful information. Onceincreased incoming links to the page will give it a
you know what people like, write more articles onhigher ranking and potentially put your article in the
that topic.top 10 for that term, leading to even more traffic to
2. Track the content web sites that give you theyour site.
most traffic, you can do this by logging into yourWeb site tracking is one of the most important
web site control panel and check which URLs arecomponents for monitoring your web site. Ultimately,
sending the most traffic through your articles.by using tracking to your advantage, you can make
Take notes of the top 5-8 directories. Keep it in mindyour site a success. The same applies to article
to send in good quality, informative articles to themmarketing. Optimize your articles and you will benefit
on a regular basis for publishing. That way you shouldfrom the results greatly.
be able to use these web sites to drive traffic to