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Increase Website Traffic by Submitting Articles

By Steve Shaw

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When you start to submit articles for the purpose of link building, getting a higher search engine rank in Google and ultimately driving more traffic to your website, you may start to worry that you're in over your head technically, and wonder if it's really possible that just a 'normal' person with no technical knowledge can build traffic to their website.

I've got good news for you!

Yes, you can.

*Submitting articles is a website traffic building tool that anyone can do.

*Writing articles on your topic of expertise is something that anyone can learn to do.

*The submission process is easy--no need to know HTML or anything like that.

*If you can use a computer, you can submit an article.

Then why do people make article marketing sound so complicated?

Some people are very advanced in their knowledge, and they enjoy targeting keywords, doing stats checks, monitoring their PageRank in Google, and all sorts of technical stuff that might scare you to death.

But if anyone tells you that you absolutely need to do all those technical things from the get go in order to see great results, don't listen!

I've been in this business for years and years, and I can tell you truthfully that the #1 reason why article marketing 'doesn't work' for a person has nothing to do with a lack of technical know-how.

Most people who don't see the results they were hoping for have just not submitted enough articles on an ongoing basis.

Why is consistency so key with article submissions?

The major traffic benefit of article submissions is from SEO and increased search engine ranking. When you can increase your search engine ranking, you can make a long term impact on the amount of traffic that funnels into your site.

You increase your search engine ranking by building links to your site, which is something that article submissions are extremely adept at doing.

Search engines don't recalculate backlinks to your site on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. Usually it will take anywhere from 3-5 months for the fruits of your labor to show up in Google.

The real power of submitting articles comes from generating a MOMENTUM.

Submit 5 articles for one or two months, and you will likely not see the results you were hoping for.

But, submit 5 article every month for a year, and you can see your search engine rankings transformed and your website traffic impacted for the long term.

Whether you consider yourself to be a bit of a SEO or if you're just a 'regular' person who wants the end result of more traffic for your website, I have a few simple tips for you that will radically impact your success level:

=> Develop the habit of consistently submitting article each and every month.

=> Commit to submit articles for an extended period of time.

For my last article marketing campaign, I saw my most drastic results about 12 months into the campaign. I started seeing encouraging results well before that time, but the changes in search engine ranking that occurred in the 12th month were truly astonishing.

I had a keyword that I was targeting for which I was ranked as low as #377 at one time (yikes), but over a year's time my site leapt up the rankings to grab the #1 position!

Is that the sort of transformation you'd like to see with your site?

That kind of result doesn't happen overnight--it took work, but my main marketing tool is article submissions, so what I did is completely doable no matter what your skill level.

All you have to do is write and submit articles consistently over an extended period of time, preferably for the lifetime of your website.

=> Focus on the big picture, rather than on a single article.

Too many times people will have such high hopes for marketing their websites, but they get bogged down by thinking in terms of individual articles. When your submissions are erratic and you struggle just to get one article submitted, you don't give yourself a chance to develop any momentum.

Instead, focus on the number of articles you'd like to submit in a year's time. Think in terms of implementing an article marketing campaign, rather than just submitting one lonely article here and there.

Remember, your power will come from your consistency rather than any technical knowledge. Anyone can do this!

Write articles on the topic of your website, create a monthly writing and submission schedule, be faithful to your plan, and you can increase your website traffic!

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