Promoting Your New Website
When you first start a new website you have the dilemna all internet markets have – how do you get visitors. It doesn’t matter why you started the website or for what purpose you are going to put it, you need to get into search engines and you need visitors for it to succeed.
Cheap and Easy – Article Marketing Works
Of course there are a lot of ways to get visitors to your website, from advertising to trading links with other sites to getting your link into established link directories. All of these have their merits, but one of the easiest and least costly alternative is article marketing.
The Positives of Article Marketing
Article marketing flat out works to get many incoming links to your website. You can get as many as a thousand links or more simply by writing unique content and posting it on article directories and niche sites that are always looking for new content. And, a side benefit of writing and posting articles is that you might get to be known as an authority in your niche.
Article marketing can be considered a hidden source of traffic – you don’t have to advertise for traffic. Submitting articles can get your site listed in search engines quickly. The content you create causes search engines to index your page, including the link that you include in your “about” or “resource” box at the bottom of the article. The search engines follow that link and find your site – exactly what you are looking for.
The Bad About Article Marketing
Despite all the positive aspects of article marketing, of course there are some negative parts to the process as well. The biggest obstacle to succefull article marketing is that somehow the articles need to get written.
If you really don’t want to do the writing yourself, there are a number of sources where you can hire others to do the writing for you.
You have to submit the articles to other niche sites and article directories (or pay someone else to do it.) Submitting articles one at a time can be time consuming. Finding all the right places to submit articles can take some time also.
However, there are article submission services that will place your articles for you. And, you can alway hire freelancers to do that job too.