Website Traffic from Articles You Publish
By Armand Melanson 
© lessworkmoremoney.com  .

One of the cheapest ways to drive traffic to your site is via articles you submit to other newsletter publishers.

It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just some helpful info about something related to what you are selling at your site. The more articles you can have published, them more
traffic you get for free.

When writing your articles, you need to format them to less than 65 chars per line or the article may look screwy in some email programs. You can do this using windows Notepad. Just type random letter 65 times at the top of your doc, then start your article. When you reach the end of the line you created at the top, then hit enter to start a new line.

ashdjfkslkkajskdleorit>65 characters wide<wueiflsmclajskckslfkdls 

Or you can use a text editor that you can set the line length for: http://www.notetab.com  is great & FREE - I highly recommend it.

Viral marketing is marketing that reproduces itself (like a virus). With articles, you can include a blurb in the footer
called a resource box. This is where you tell the reader who you are & how to get in touch with you (website URL). See the resource box at the end of this article for a sample.

You can also say that the article is republishable. That's where the viral part comes in. If 1 of every 100 readers decides to republish, then your article starts to make its way around the Net for free & points everyone back to your site.

That's why so many people develop free eBooks - for the free traffic that comes from them being republished on other people's sites.

So once you have an article you then need to get it published. Here's what you do: you find ezines & newsletters that cater to the audience you are targeting. Then you contact the publisher via email & send him your article.

The best way to organize this is by finding all the ezines that target your audience. Here are great resources for finding ezines to submit to:

http://e-zinedirectory.com/ 
http://www.bestezines.com/ezines/master.shtml 
http://www.ezinehub.com/ 
http://www.freezineweb.com/ 

Here are some sites that provide articles for ezine publishers -you submit to them & your article can end up in several ezines:

http://certificate.net/wwio/ideas.shtml 
http://www.ezinearticles.com/add_url.html 

Once you have your list of publishers, you can email them twice a month with new articles for publishing. If you are going to email many at once, use the BCC field so that they don't know you are emailing more than one (considered bad netiquette).

Oh yeah, republish this article if you want <wink, wink, nudge, nudge> :-)

Armand Melanson
Less Work More Money
Publisher
Ultimate E-Marketing & Dropshippers Guide
web: www.lessworkmoremoney.com 
email: armand@lessworkmoremoney.com 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Armand Melanson is an Internet marketing consultant & author. For free marketing tips & articles, visit him at www.lessworkmoremoney.com  
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