Build traffic with articles
Sorry about the slightly late post everyone, I’ve had a bit of a hectic day as I’m preparing for going away on my easter holiday (don’t worry, I will still post thoughts and tidbits here 
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If you have a site where your content is mainly written things, like a blog, then using article directories to drive traffic to your site might be something to consider. Article marketing works for any kind of site though but with blogs and similar, you have the opportunity to give the readers a ”sample” of your real site. And giving people a taste before they get the main dish is always good, in my humble opinion.
An article directory is a site that let people submit their own articles to be listed on the directory. Other people are then allowed to use these articles to reprint on their site or in their e-zines as long as the articles are kept intact along with the authors bio-box.
If you are a blogger and you do write your own content (which you should), with just a few changes to each of your posts you could turn them into actual articles and get them listed on some article directories. You should change the articles so that they are not exactly like your post on the blog or site since search engines try to avoid duplicate content to some extent.
The reason you want to submit your content on article directories is because a lot of them are quite big and the articles listed there will get good Google listings. Most of the article directories lets the author include a bio box at the bottom where you will link back to your own site.
This link back will give you visitors from the article directories, it will give you backlinks to your site, so that the search engines see that your site is more popular. It might also result in e-zines and other sites re-printing your article which leads to more traffic back and more backlinks.
For me this is a logical thing to do since the changes you have to make to the content you have already written will not be too big and you will get your content read by a lot more people. If the people like what you write, they will most likely visit your site and bookmark or subscribe to it.
