I’m constantly seeing article marketing being touted as one of the best free ways to increase traffic to your web site. But does it really work? And how fast?
I decided to try it out. I took a web site I put up a while ago but never did anything with. It was only getting 2 or 3 visitors a week. My plan is to write a dozen articles, submit them to a dozen article directories and see what happens.
So far I’ve written one article and submitted it to 12 article directories. Some directories have to approve your article before it gets posted so I wanted to wait to see if it would get accepted since I’ve never done this before and I was expecting it to be harder than it really is.
I was quite surprised at the results so far. Remember, I started with a web site that was only getting 2 or 3 visitors a week. Five days after submitting only one article I was getting an average of 7 visitors a day. That’s almost 50 a week!
I was also amazed at where the traffic was coming from. Besides the U.S. and Canada, I’m getting traffic from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, U.K., Bahamas, Korea, Dubai, Philippines, Italy, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Germany, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland and Poland.
I can’t wait to see what will happen after I submit 11 more articles! I’ll report on this again after I finish this little test.
Want my list of article directories that I personally use? Just fill in the form below and I’ll email it to you.
By the way, in case you’re interested, here’s the website I’m sending all this free traffic to: cruisevacations.vocalpointmedia.com
'Til next time,Vinny (Your Web Guy)
VocalPointMedia.com
4 comments
TheBestSpinner says:
January 29, 2010 at 10:15 pm (UTC -4 )
Can anybody help me? I would like to sign up for the rss feed for this website, but not sure exactly what to do. I really like the information presented here. Thank You to anyone…
Vin says:
February 1, 2010 at 6:33 pm (UTC -4 )
In the right column, right below My Favorite Blogs, click on Subscribe via RSS.
Daniel Millions says:
February 8, 2010 at 11:53 pm (UTC -4 )
SEO is not as easy as 123. You need to diversify your link building techniques. Article marketing, web 2.0, directories and blog comments are just a few. Don’t put all your eggs or links in one basket. If you do you’re asking for a penality.
Vincenzo Walsworth says:
February 11, 2010 at 5:58 pm (UTC -4 )
The full post can be found here?