As website owners or Internet Marketers, we are always on the lookout for the best, effective yet non-expensive way of promoting our business/websites. However, the best online promotion tactic may not be the most expensive of all. Here’s why.
Having a website on the Internet without any traffic is just as good as a dead duck lying on the road. Traffic is our passion. The more traffic that we get, the more probability for increased sales/ conversion to your opt-in lists.
The problem with the online promotion is that the more traffic that you want to get the more time and money that you should be willing to spend. Think of pay-per-click war, search engine optimization or even banner advertising, which of these online site promotion tactics, you or beginners out there, are willing to commit to get long term and constant free traffic to your website?
The only best solution for this matter has always been article writing and submitting them to online article directory(s) or article submissions services. Sure this may cost a little bit of time and money to you, but at the end of the day the results you’ll get are simply better than all other online marketing tactics that you’ve heard of.
Here are the top 5 reasons why you should write articles and submit your free reprint articles to article content directory(s).
Increase link popularity
Link popularity of your website simply means the number of external websites which are pointing to yours. Higher number of websites linking to you will make the search engines, such as Google, to look at your website as the authoritative content for your niche market. Eventually, your website will have better chance of ranking up higher in the search engines.
Sure, you can fire up your reciprocal link exchange campaign to request backlinks from other website owners, but in reality this will never work out as effective as you would expect to be. How article writing may help you to increase link popularity of your website is by way of putting your short little “About the author” bio of yourself and the url of your website at the bottom of the article. After submitting to articles directories, once approved, you’ll instantaneously gain increased of websites (article directories) pointing to your website through the url in your bio.
Bring in Tons Of Traffics
Having multiple article directories pointing to your website is one thing. Imagine if your article is interesting enough to be picked up by a webmaster who probably has hundreds of thousands of mailing list subscribers, your article will not only end up getting posted on the website for surfers to view, but also to the mailing list as well. Fact is, you can possible have tons and tons of potential readers of your article and could bring in free traffic to your website just by having your article picked up by only one webmaster with huge subscribers list.
Increase Your Reputation and Web Presence
Let’s face it. The Internet has definitely revolutionized our way of communication and lifestyle. But it has certainly brought in lots of potential competitors, spammers and nonsense jokers who simply brag about just how good their products/ services are. Your article writing is simple your only way to brand yourself as an expert and increase your reputation as well as your web presence.
The hardest part about doing business on the Internet is simply to gain trust from your prospects or customers. The more great and informative articles you write, the better you are in positioning yourself as an authoritative expert in your field.
Get Indexed In Search Engines Faster
Pagerank is the Google technology to rank just how good or authoritative a website is. The higher the ranking, the better the website is and the more frequent their spiders will visit their websites. If your any of your articles got featured on their website, you’ll definitely get to lure the search engine spiders to index your website much faster. But remember though, you should remember to put in your website links at the bottom of the article.
Free Advertisement
Nothing beats the satisfaction of having your advertisement read by hundreds or even thousands of potential prospects, for free. You can always opt to but text links from highly-visited websites, but expect to pay around USD100-150 dollars worth of your pocket money every month.
The beauty of writing articles and submitting article to free article directory(s) is that you could write a little promotion through the “Author’s Resouces” or “About the Author” area at the bottom of the article. If you are launching a new book or doing a site promotion for your new websites, this is the best and free method to use.
Article writing and distributing to online article directory(s) should always be in your traffic toolbox. It’s a darn smart marketing, simple yet effective way of boosting the traffic to your website. Best of all, it helps you to generate the most important traffic there is: targeted traffic!
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Our site is different. We go about life doing things in ways
that you don’t learn about at Harvard. The following examples of
recent happenings at Highland Hill Farm.
Our site security is important to us. Both internet and at our
main nursery. When my 84 year old father said he wanted to help
I had to let him help. So since people had been coming to the
nursery fields late at night and dumping trash, he said he would
sit in our lot and catch someone. After a few nights he called
me at 4 am. There was a truck. So I called 911 and went over in
my , well you know, and took my shot gun I was ready for bear.
Turns out it was the trash truck. Sometimes site security works
and sometimes it does not.
I think my father wants to get lucky. The other month I was
called by the police and told that there was someone stuck in
one of our fields. It was a late Sat. night. I went out to look
for the car as the police told me that a tow truck had been
called and the driver refused to enter my property without the
police because he suspected foul play. After searching I found
two girls and a guy, I was never that lucky, stuck in the mud of
one of our fields where we had just dug some arborvitae. Boy did
the fire company luck out when I refused to allow them to tow
out the car until they made a “Donation” to the Plumstead Fire
Company. I figured $2500 was reasonable. They also agreed.
This is a copy of my most recent email newsletter. This was an
overwhelming success.
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January 2006
The Early Bird Gets the Worm—Don’t Delay Free Tree Day Jan.
28th is a Free Higan Weeping Cherry Tree Day
Greetings! January 28, 2006 is free Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Day…..All members of our email club can receive a free Higan
Weeping Cherry when you bring your pickup to our 5275 West Swamp
Rd. Fountainville Pa. location. These trees are 10-12′ tall and
in 24″ baskets. These trees must be picked up on the 28th,
before 5pm. sorry, no rain checks. There is a limit of one per
family and you must have been a member on or before January 27,
2006 of our email club.
Sincerely,
Bill Hirst Free Tree Day Jan. 28th, 2006 is Free Tree Day
5275 W. Swamp Rd. Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923
January 28, 2006 8:00AM-5:00PM Reasons to Come to this Event We
are selling 150 acres of our nursery and we must liquidate many
trees and plants. Some of of plants are in quantities that would
supply us for many years of sales. But we can’t move that number
of trees. Thus they will be either sold at a discount,
destroyed, or given away. I like the last option. Thus if you
bring your pickup to the farm today, Saturday the 28th, we will
give away 1 free Higan Weeping cherry to each email newsletter
subscriber to Highland Hill Farm that picks up the tree by 5PM.
Sorry you must be have be signed up by Jan. 27th, to qualify.
There are no rain checks. These trees are in 24 and 28 inch
baskets and are app. 10-14′ tall. We will help load them in your
pickup.
We have a total of 75 trees ready to give away while the supply
lasts. All other trees and plants are 20% off today.
Driving Directions to the Farm Highland Hill Farm 5275 W. Swamp
Rd. Rt. 313 Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923 myhirst@yahoo.com
http://www.seedlingsrus.com We will have other free tree
offerings each month. So keep in touch.
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Within 15 minutes of this email being sent people started to
arrive to make selections. We would have had no customers on
this day. Yet we sold enough other stock to make this offering
possible. We gave away 52 trees and this was even covered by the
press showing up and giving us exposure in local papers.
With the internet we have found that almost anything is possible and there are many ways to earn some extra cash by writing. Traffic and links are something that is easily obtainable with writing articles but being paid to write is something also obtainable. However getting started and where to look is a different matter altogether.
One of the ways to get paid writing is to become a ghostwriter. You would work closely with the client and they will let you know what they need and you would write it. They will look it over and you make some changes if any and get paid. However, I must say that if you aren’t good at writing then this is not for you.
You can also find college kids who need term papers typed up and charge a fee to do it for them. You calculate the time and if you want a set fee or hourly and charge accordingly.
Other places pay for articles and stories such as tech sites. If you can put together a pc with a blindfold and one arm tied behind your back, then write an article on it. Break it up into pieces since it would probably be very long. Write about installing a hard drive or setting up a webcam. If you have skills in something that would help others you will be surprised at how many places would like to hear from you.
One new place I have found is writingup. You write a blog and you can get paid for doing it. You try to write at least two times daily and keep up with it. You won’t get rich overnight but in time you can watch your revenue grow as you discuss everything from the whether to something on the news that bothered you.
Whatever you do just remember that being a freelance writer is not a walk in the park. You have to commit to it like anything else in life and the hardest part will be finding places that will hire you. But if your a writer or attempting to become one, keep trying because it can be worth it.
Written by Marsha James
Writing Up
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A healthy measure of confidence is vital to your growth and success as a writer. If you feel that you need more confidence, start working on developing your confidence NOW. Without a reasonable measure of confidence, you won’t even attempt writing assignments which are well within your capabilities.
Being confident means trusting yourself. I tell my copywriting students: “If you can write a letter that people can read and understand, you can write copy”. Not only can you write copy, you can write just about anything you can set your mind to. If you’re a writer, you can write magazine articles, novels or nonfiction books — because they’re just changes of form. When you’ve become a confident writer, picking up a new set of writing skills takes no time at all.
Want to become more confident? Try these five ways —
=> One: Write a lot
Develop a writing practice. You can only become comfortable with the act of writing by writing — a lot. When you write each day, you become comfortable putting words on the page, and doing it day after day, after day.
The only way to do this is to do it. It’s the same with any skill — use it, or lose it. Sports people know this. So do pianists, ballet dancers and artists. You must *practise*.
*Practise* means writing just for the sake of writing. Your practice work is not-for-publication writing. Many writers have problems with this, feeling that they’re wasting time. You’re not, any more than a ballet dancer wastes time as she practises for hours each day to stay limber. You must practise to keep the “writing” connections active between your left and right brain. If I don’t do any practice writing for a day, I can feel it — my writing flows less well, and it takes me twice as long as it should to write an article or a chapter in my novel. A famous concert pianist said that if he didn’t practise for two days he noticed, if he didn’t practise for three days the audience noticed.
Here’s a challenge: write a thousand words a day for the next 14 days. Just write a thousand words a day in your journal. At the start of your 14-day stint, take a measure of your writing confidence on a scale of one to ten. One indicates low confidence, ten is highly confident. At the end of 14 days, measure your confidence again. At the end of the 14 days you will find that your confidence has at least doubled.
When you write every day, you train your mind. If you don’t write every day, your mind becomes flabby. It doesn’t matter what you write, just write.
=> Two: Share your writing
Sharing your writing takes courage. However, unless you’re prepared to share your writing, you can’t become a confident writer. Writers write to be read, after all.
How do you do this?
You can:
* join a writers’ group;
* offer your writing for sale; or
* create a blog (Web log).
When you begin to share your writing, you’ll be nervous. After several months, your nervousness will fade. After a year or two, you won’t remember that you were ever nervous.
=> Three: Read
Writing is part of modern culture, and writing changes over time. A novel written a hundred years ago is very different from a modern novel. Writing for the Web is different from writing for print. All magazines, whether they’re for a general or a trade audience, have a different voice. You’ll become aware of the voice of a publication by reading it. Similarly, your voice when you write a genre novel will be different from your voice for a mainstream novel.
You need to read enough to assimilate much of this type of information subconsciously. Read anything and everything. What you read isn’t as important as the act of reading.
=> Four: Trust yourself
When you write every day, and combine this with reading, you will become aware of what you’d like to write. You’ll read something and think: “I could write that!” Many novelists start off reading a particular genre — romance, mystery, fantasy— and get an “Aha!” moment like this.
Trust yourself. If you think you can, you can. However, this doesn’t mean that it will be effortless. You’ll need to develop craft. Give yourself plenty of time to learn, and enjoy the learning process.
Trusting yourself is vital to the learning. If you think you could write a romance novel, you can. You may need to write five novels before you sell the first one, however. Take heart. Once you’ve sold the first one you’ll be able to tweak the others and sell them too.
=> Five: Befriend your anxiety
If you develop a writing practice, where you write every day just because you’re a writer, you’ll have less writing anxiety.
That said, writing anxiety is common. It’s a form of performance anxiety. Actors get stage fright, writers get page fright. 
Expect to become anxious. Then realize that it’s just something that happens and carry on writing anyway. Some researchers feel that the anxiety occurs because your brain is switching gears, from beta consciousness to alpha. If you wish, you can time your anxiety. From the time you start a writing session on a specific piece of work, you’ll notice that your anxiety never lasts for longer than 11 minutes. This tends to bear out the beta to alpha switching theory.
You CAN become a confident writer. Start by writing more. The more you write, the more you will grow as a writer. The five easy ways above will increase your confidence — that’s guaranteed. And with unlimited confidence in yourself as a writer, you can achieve any writing goals you choose to set for yourself.
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