Website Traffic From Articles

Just a quick one today. But I thought it was important for anybody who might be looking to build traffic to a website and was considering using Article Marketer.

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Who Says Articles Don’t Drive Traffic To Your Website?

Whoever it was that said articles don’t work in driving traffic to a website was talking out their hat. I wrote and submitted just one article to promote my eBay website just two days ago and already it is sending a steady flow of visitors to the site. Admittedly it’s not exactly mega traffic yet, but it is very early days and only a single article – the best results are obtained by submitting multiple articles all promoting the same site.

There are some things you need to get right in your articles if you want to see results though, and I wrote about that in a previous post called; Why Articles Fail To Deliver Traffic To Your Website. So if you’re not sure then click the link and read that post before you get started.

And don’t forget that it’s all about quantity – the more your articles are distributed around the web then the more backlinks your site has, giving it a higher Google page rank and of course a higher chance that somebody will click through to your website.

I also wrote in The Secret Gold Hidden In Articles about the best way of submitting to multiple article directories. I still think Article Marketer is a fantastic time and labour saving tool - the benefits are obvious for anybody who wants to concentrate on growing their business without wasting time on promotion.

Anyway, articles do deliver traffic to a website and even more so if you take a little time to get the process right. Obviously the person who said they don’t wasn’t doing it properly!

Poor eBay Feedback Destroys Sales

Unfortunately it is true; poor eBay feedback can leave many newbies wondering just what all the fuss is about. How come so many people are raving about making money with eBay, when I can't even give my stuff away? they might ask:

The fact is that without a healthy feedback score, many prospective buyers simply will not trust you as a seller. Of course, the easiest way to build up your reputation as a reliable eBayer is to buy some items first. But what if you want to sell your items to raise some desperately needed cash, and really can't afford to buy at the moment?

Well there is a cheaper way around it; a way you can get ebay feedback fast, but it is perhaps not entirely ethical and I think it may leave the eBay feedback system open to abuse. I suppose nothing is foolproof and it has to be said that the vast majority of eBayers are reliable honest people in my experience. However, I do wonder why the powers at eBay haven't cracked down on this apparent loophole?

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Do You Make Money With eBay?

It's been a busy couple of weeks for me getting my new website up and running. I code everything by hand with notepad and it's not the fastest way to create a new site, but I just don't like the output from WYSIWYG HTML editors.

Because I've been so involved with the new site I'm afraid I've neglected a few other things recently (including this blog), but things should get back to normal now so you can expect more regular post here - that's if you're interested ;o)

Oh yes, I expect you are wondering what the new site is about? Well, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise to learn that my obsession with eBay has again borne fruit. The site is based on an eBook I wrote featuring tips and tricks for eBay sellers and is called Easy Profits With eBay.

Actually, I've had the domain name for quite a while and it wasn't really working for me, but now I'm happy to put it to good use. Check it out at www.easyprofits.co.uk

Multi-tasking?

How are you at coping with more than one thing at a time? I ask this because I have been very busy of late; I have several live websites to maintain and a new one in development - not to mention that I am also working on a new idea for a digital product (details coming soon).

I guess with all of this going on it is natural for some areas to be neglected slightly. So if you are wondering why I haven’t posted here more often; now you know.

All this thought of multi-tasking reminds me of when a friend was debating the issue of whether women were better at it than men: “I can drink my beer, smoke a cigarette, watch football on the TV, and still admire the barmaid!” he quipped.

That answers that one then…

Develop Keyword Content With Care

Every book, manual or article I have read on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) goes into great detail about the importance of keywords and how search engines analyse a web page for them. Not so very long ago it was a simple matter of getting your page meta-tags right to please the search engines, but nowadays things are a bit more complicated.

I’ve read about how vital it is to put your keywords in urls, page titles, headings, outbound links, internal links, alt image descriptions, bold text, italic text, etc etc etc. There needs to be enough keyword weight on the page, but not too much or you run the risk of overcooking the page and being penalised by search engines for keyword spamming, and so on, and so on.

Keyword usage and density can often become the be all and end all for webmasters trying to navigate the tricky river of SEO and find a route to the kingdom of website heaven – possibly even to the detriment of the actual users of the site. In fact, the worst case scenario is a website that hasn’t been built for human readers at all, but is merely the latest all powerful technique of the unscrupulous Internet Marketer, seeking clicks on the page to generate advertising revenue. The site offers no value, except for a paid link to a site that may be what the reader was looking for in the first place.

With this never ending battle for supremacy in the search engine rankings it is easy to get bogged down by SEO and lose track of the basic reason we are focusing our attention on keywords in the first place. The reason is of course that we are anticipating the words people will use to find our website using a search engine. Smart website developers will painstakingly research the ‘right’ keywords long before designing the pages; usually with the help of tools such as wordtracker to aid the process.

Nowadays the search engine algorithm is so powerful that it can instantly recognise many of the ploys used by keyword spammers and unscrupulous Internet Marketers and automatically pass over these spam sites in favour of another more worthy and content-rich offering. So be careful of using techniques that may have worked very well a year or two ago, because you just might be penalised because of them. Of course, it would be foolish to overlook the importance of keywords when developing a website; but use some common sense and make them a part of the content – not the content itself.