Finding Your Traffic With Articles
ByOne of the biggest keys to success for your online business, products or affiliate sites is finding your traffic. The reason I say finding your traffic is because often times people think that doing nothing will bring great results.
While there are many ways to gain traffic I want to share some easy to use tips today for using articles to find traffic sources. While this technique isn’t new or some earth shattering revelation…. many people are not using this technique.
For this example we are going to assume you’re in the dog drooming niche.
OK, the idea we are going to use here is to get your article viewed by more people. First, if you’re unsure what to write about in your niche you’ll want to do some research.
FIRST: Go to www.ezinearticles.com
#1. Type your keywords in the search bar.
#2. Browse the articles in the database.
Simply click on one of the articles that comes up (or all of them if you’d like) to see how many searches they are getting. If you can find several articles getting a decent amount of article views chances you’ll want to look at what keyword phrases they are using. For instance if your main keywords are Dog Grooming but you see an article for Dog Grooming Kits Online you might want to figure out if they are getting traffic for Dog Grooming Kits instead.
So how do you do that?
Simple. Open up your browser to www.google.com and check. Most of the traffic to articles comes from natural search engine rankings (usually).
Inside Google simply type in "dog grooming". If that doesn’t return any results for an Ezine Article then type in Dog Grooming Kits. If that brings up the keyword results then you know that they are ranking for those keywords.
Next, simply write a similar article (do not copy them or write anything too similar but use similar keywords). I like to write most of my articles at 500 words or more but I’ve found hundreds of barely over 300 words ranking well (like top 5) on Google.
Make sure your resource box has links going back to your site where you want people to either click you affiliate links or adsense banners.
That’s it! Pretty simple and easy.
Let’s look at a couple other things though. I like to give my articles a boost by writing an additional article and pointing it from other article directories to article I want to rank high in Google. I simply write another similar article that and add it to a few other top directories (www.goarticles.com , www.articlealley.com, www.buzzle.com – will do). Inside the resource box from that article I put a link with slightly varied anchor text pointing back to that original ezine article I wrote. This will give you some extra juice in Google.
What I like tyo do is fire up my copy of Niche Research Commando and check that original article I want to compete with (the article we originally found in the search engine "dog grooming kits")
Inside Niche research Commando I just type in the keywords (dog grooming kits) and then start and within as few seconds I’ll be able to see all the backlinks going into that article. This will allow me to decide if I need to promote more links pointing into my article or just a few. If they have no backlinks I’ll usually just put only one article into 3-4 other article directories with a link going back to my article I want to rank for.
It typically doesn’t take long for Google to pick up my article and for it to start climbing the ranks in the search engine.
I’ll probably do a follow up to this post later this week as this is just the surface. in fact, there is so much more you can do here. But, for most people reading this, this is a great start to getting more results from your articles.
Let’s recap what to do.
#1. Search ezinearticles.com for you niche keywords.
#2. Look to see if the articles are getting views.
#3. Find a few getting the most views.
#4. Determine if that article is ranking for the main keywords or some other keywords.
#5. Search Google to determine.
#6. Write a similar article. (includes links to your site in the resource box).
#7. If you own Niche Research Commando fire it up and check for backlinks. (optional)
#8. If article has low backlinks you’ll only need 1-2 articles written.
#9. Write the additional articles and upload them to some high PR article sites (shown above.)
#10. Make sure the article points back to your article that you want to rank. (Vary the anchor text – don’t just use one phrase).
#11. Repeat if you want to do more. ( You should want more 
)
This works great for users of www.nicheblitzkrieg.com and www.megaclassifiedmillions.com as well.
You can do this in any niche and it’s an easy way to generate some more traffic to your site or affiliate sites. Leave you comments, questions or any further ideas below. Already using this technique? Tell us your results.
Thanks for the concise instructions. While I have been writing articles and putting them on EzineArticles for a while, I have not been following through as I should.
I’ve made notes from this great post and I’m off to follow these steps on an article this afternoon.
Carol Smith
Great idea.I have been looking for a way to find what topics are getting the most views in ezinearticles.com. This gives me some good ideas about how to go about this.Thanks a lot for great info.JM.
Carol,
Your welcome.
John,
Anytime.
I’ll also probably do a follow up post later this week for some extra methods that can be done to do even more to build traffic.
Good Day,
I’m A newbey, Do you sugest me to start with your “Niche Blitzkrieg”???
Or do you segest one of your other Software Program’s
Thank you for all the Grate INFO. You have ben sending Me!!!!!
Keep Up the good Work,,,
Thomas Ludwig ~
I really enjoyed your article and would love to try your steps out. I am a newbie and this seems complicated as I need a more simpler a-b-c way of learning the simple basics. Do you know where I can go to get this at a more elementary way? Thanks!
Great post Michael. I never knew that you could get more juice from your articles by adding to your resource box anchor text pointing to your article at ezinearticles. This tip will help me a lot! Thanks so much
Krysti
Michael Brown,
Thanks for the article. I am a newbieeee to this world of internet business. I strongly believe in multiple streams of income and the internet is one stream for me. Your info is to the point and easy to understand. Thanks again and I’ll let you know how this tip turns out for me.
Isabel Negron
Newbie.
Tom,
Yes I always recommend newbies start at Niche Blitzkrieg because the fact you learn so many valuable fundamentals of making money online.
Mike,
Shoot me an email and I’ll be happy to explain it in a bit lighter detail if you need. That goes for anyone else too… if you’re having trouble email me and I’ll help you out.
Krysti,
Yep use everything you can to boost all your articles. Links into any web page will help even outside of your website.
Isabel,
Thanks for the kind words! Look forward to you sharing with us how this works for you.
Hi Am new to affiliate marketing with limited funds right now.Am looking at two of your products,Niche Blitztkrieg and affiliate money rev.Do not know anything about web building, hosting, writing, research,ect.Do any of your two programs have programs in them to help me do these things and also provide hosting,key word search ect.Thanks for your help. PS down loaded your free demo of affiliate money.
Michael,
Thanks for the tips. I found that if you go to the most viewed section for that keyword it gives you a nice head start on finding those ranked articles.
Also more articles on eZine will help the rankings. The one search that I did for the most viewed article on Back Pain had 41 back links to the article and they were all from eZine. I think your method of using other sites is better because your covering more virtual ground. A “Shotgun Pattern” so to speak.
For those of use that are monetarily challenged, you can down load Google’s Tool Bar. On that tool bar there is a widget that that will show a sites Page Rank in a little bar graph. If you hit the down arrow button you’ll see a option for Backward Links. When that is pressed it will take you to a page that will not only tell you how many back links but also where they are from with a link to those sites.
The above method will take a lot more time and provide less information than Niche Research Commando but sometimes you need to take the long road till you can afford an easier route. Money vs Time If you can afford it then do it now. Even Kevin Riley uses it!!!!
Herb,
Yep we do it all. Sites building, seo, link building, keyword research…. etc etc. Go with Niche Blitzkrieg as we are doing a major upgrade to it that all buyers get for free as long as they are in before we do the upgrade. (HINT: you’re going to get all the AMR stuff with it) Got the design team working behind the scenes on it right now. Either way glad to have you on the blog here and inside the program.
Curley John,
Thanks for adding the additional tips. You’re right that is perfect for anyone that doesn’t want to buy NRC or can’t currently afford it. Thanks for sharing that
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Hey Michael,
I agree with this strategy, but I have a question regarding linking from other article directories. The thing is, not all article directories will allow backlinks to other article directories. I’ve had some articles declined because of that. So, are the directories you suggested ok with it?
Quincy,
Most are OK with it. Most never check either. However, Ezine articles would be one that would right out reject it. So it might be best to point article directories to your Ezine article.