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A Article Board Launches Its New Article Directory
- By Dwayne Garrett
- Published March 4th, 2008
Online business owners are quickly realizing that setting up a new website and generating targeted traffic to their website can be a major headache. It-s a well known fact that without targeted traffic to your website, no online business can survive. With the high cost of generating targeted traffic via PPC advertising, and paying for the high cost of hiring a SEO expert, this may not always produce the best cost effective results.
Dwayne Garrett of AArticleBoard.com has created a article directory software solution to help solve the problem of cost effective targeted traffic. A Article Board is a web based software platform that connects authors and publishers online to come together to write, submit and publish their web content. Web content seekers can easily search the article directory for quality articles to reprint and publish on their websites, or include in their online newsletters for free. This process known by expert marketers, is a known as "Article Marketing". It not only helps website owners to get targeted traffic, but highly qualified traffic, not to mention, its free!
By submitting articles to AArticleBoard.com, authors share information about their respective fields. At the bottom of each article, in what is called the resource box, the author is allowed to write a few sentences about his/her website and to place an active link back to his/her site. Readers of the article who click over to the author’s site form highly targeted traffic.
Dwayne said. "That by submitting articles to article directories, the authors build credibility and help fortify their standing as an expert." He added, "This will help to create valuable back links to the authors website and will result in added targeted exposure". He went on to say that, "Authors who submit their articles will receive an increase in targeted traffic to their websites because the articles will be picked up by online publishers seeking articles for their particular niche websites and newsletters".
Here are some tips that will help you to get the most out of using an online article directory for generating targeted traffic to your websites:
1: Make sure you include your web site link in the resource box of the article as this will prompt the reader to click for more information. This is your MOST important selling tool so make sure you include it on your article submissions.
2: Spelling. Check the spelling 3 times. There is absolutely nothing worse than an article with spelling mistakes. You lose all credibility instantly. That is why I recommend checking spelling 3 times. First, use a spell checker on your computer. Second, scan the article yourself on your computer. Third, print out the article and check again yourself.
3: For many article resource sites they have written rules for how to submit articles. If you do not follow the rules, it is likely that your article will not be submitted. Make sure you read the rules (if any) and follow them.
4: Title. Make sure the title of your article is the ONLY thing in the subject header of your email if submitting articles by email. When I look for articles to include in my own ezine I scan the titles. If the subject heading says "New Article for Posting" or something like that, then I will not even bother reading the article. No matter how good it is!
5: Only submit your article once. A quick way to get into trouble with many article resource site owners is to submit the same article a number of times. It is just not worth it!
There are many things to consider when submitting articles to article resource sites. Follow these 5 tips and you should not have any problems.
About A Article Board: A Article Board is a exciting new article directory that has many powerful features for authors, such as profile management, the ability to add a photo to their profile, view and manage their articles and much more. For publishers, options to reprint articles in either HTML and text formats are available. Also, reprint articles can be syndicated on their websites via RSS feeds with an easy copy and paste function.
Dwayne Garrett of AArticleBoard.com has created a article directory software solution to help solve the problem of cost effective targeted traffic. A Article Board is a web based software platform that connects authors and publishers online to come together to write, submit and publish their web content. Web content seekers can easily search the article directory for quality articles to reprint and publish on their websites, or include in their online newsletters for free. This process known by expert marketers, is a known as "Article Marketing". It not only helps website owners to get targeted traffic, but highly qualified traffic, not to mention, its free!
By submitting articles to AArticleBoard.com, authors share information about their respective fields. At the bottom of each article, in what is called the resource box, the author is allowed to write a few sentences about his/her website and to place an active link back to his/her site. Readers of the article who click over to the author’s site form highly targeted traffic.
Dwayne said. "That by submitting articles to article directories, the authors build credibility and help fortify their standing as an expert." He added, "This will help to create valuable back links to the authors website and will result in added targeted exposure". He went on to say that, "Authors who submit their articles will receive an increase in targeted traffic to their websites because the articles will be picked up by online publishers seeking articles for their particular niche websites and newsletters".
Here are some tips that will help you to get the most out of using an online article directory for generating targeted traffic to your websites:
1: Make sure you include your web site link in the resource box of the article as this will prompt the reader to click for more information. This is your MOST important selling tool so make sure you include it on your article submissions.
2: Spelling. Check the spelling 3 times. There is absolutely nothing worse than an article with spelling mistakes. You lose all credibility instantly. That is why I recommend checking spelling 3 times. First, use a spell checker on your computer. Second, scan the article yourself on your computer. Third, print out the article and check again yourself.
3: For many article resource sites they have written rules for how to submit articles. If you do not follow the rules, it is likely that your article will not be submitted. Make sure you read the rules (if any) and follow them.
4: Title. Make sure the title of your article is the ONLY thing in the subject header of your email if submitting articles by email. When I look for articles to include in my own ezine I scan the titles. If the subject heading says "New Article for Posting" or something like that, then I will not even bother reading the article. No matter how good it is!
5: Only submit your article once. A quick way to get into trouble with many article resource site owners is to submit the same article a number of times. It is just not worth it!
There are many things to consider when submitting articles to article resource sites. Follow these 5 tips and you should not have any problems.
About A Article Board: A Article Board is a exciting new article directory that has many powerful features for authors, such as profile management, the ability to add a photo to their profile, view and manage their articles and much more. For publishers, options to reprint articles in either HTML and text formats are available. Also, reprint articles can be syndicated on their websites via RSS feeds with an easy copy and paste function.
What an article is (and isn’t)
- By Dwayne Garrett
- Published March 2nd, 2008
You have a website. You want traffic. Therefore, you need articles.
If someone says the word "article" to you, you might think of stories in magazines and newspapers. Unless, of course, you’re a serial grammarian, in which case you may picture a series of short words: a, an, the, and so on. In the interests of avoiding confusion (and assuaging the serial grammarians), all references to "articles" in this book should be assumed to mean this:
Article: A relatively short, informative piece of writing that conveys an idea or concept in a useful, interesting and/or entertaining manner.
Now, take a good look at that definition. There are several key words to help you determine what an article is. The word "informative" is perhaps the most important. Good articles let the reader walk away (or click away, as the case may be) knowing something they didn’t know before. People read articles expecting to either learn something or be entertained - preferably both.
What about the term "relatively short"? Articles can vary in length, from a few paragraphs to several pages. The length of an article should depend on the information you’re trying to convey. For example, "How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich" would be relatively shorter than "The Basic Operating Principles of Fission Reactors."
The last part of the definition is to help you understand what an article isn’t. This is a crucial concept for anyone using articles to increase website traffic and sales, and it’s one many webmasters fail to grasp: articles are not advertisements.
No one wants to read a three-page ego-stroke about how great your product or book is, or why dozens of people in your hometown are raving about you. These types of "articles" will not be circulated or read, and can actually decrease your website traffic when word starts spreading that your site is nothing but a bunch of advertising hype.
Though your ultimate goal in generating articles for your website is to increase sales, using articles to spell out your goal in plain English (buy my stuff!) is a good way to make sure you never reach it. Believe it or not, subtlety still has a place in Internet marketing. By providing people with quality articles at no cost to them, you will reach a far greater audience—and convert more visitors to buyers.
If someone says the word "article" to you, you might think of stories in magazines and newspapers. Unless, of course, you’re a serial grammarian, in which case you may picture a series of short words: a, an, the, and so on. In the interests of avoiding confusion (and assuaging the serial grammarians), all references to "articles" in this book should be assumed to mean this:
Article: A relatively short, informative piece of writing that conveys an idea or concept in a useful, interesting and/or entertaining manner.
Now, take a good look at that definition. There are several key words to help you determine what an article is. The word "informative" is perhaps the most important. Good articles let the reader walk away (or click away, as the case may be) knowing something they didn’t know before. People read articles expecting to either learn something or be entertained - preferably both.
What about the term "relatively short"? Articles can vary in length, from a few paragraphs to several pages. The length of an article should depend on the information you’re trying to convey. For example, "How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich" would be relatively shorter than "The Basic Operating Principles of Fission Reactors."
The last part of the definition is to help you understand what an article isn’t. This is a crucial concept for anyone using articles to increase website traffic and sales, and it’s one many webmasters fail to grasp: articles are not advertisements.
No one wants to read a three-page ego-stroke about how great your product or book is, or why dozens of people in your hometown are raving about you. These types of "articles" will not be circulated or read, and can actually decrease your website traffic when word starts spreading that your site is nothing but a bunch of advertising hype.
Though your ultimate goal in generating articles for your website is to increase sales, using articles to spell out your goal in plain English (buy my stuff!) is a good way to make sure you never reach it. Believe it or not, subtlety still has a place in Internet marketing. By providing people with quality articles at no cost to them, you will reach a far greater audience—and convert more visitors to buyers.
