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A common question we normally get is “eh, so I just created a spanking new website, spent thousands to beautify my website, made it look cool/professional, etc, eerrrm.. now do what-leh? How to get traffic ar?”

Answer: Many, many ways. Traffic generation techniques are divided into basic, intermediate, advanced, super advanced and “only-nerd-can-understand” advanced.

Allow me to first share with you the basic, complete “anyone also can do” dummy method… article marketing.

There is no easier way to get improved search engine placement, more relevant one-way links and tons of qualified traffic to your site than by providing website owners with the content they need to attract more visitors.

The process is simple:

- You submit articles on your topic of choice, and categorize them among the hundreds of categories available.

- Your articles are distributed to thousands of editors and publishers who are hungry for good, solid content for their newsletters, content sites and e-zines.

- They eagerly scoop up and publish your articles. They also publish the links to your site.

- Having lots of links boosts your PageRank and your position in search results pages, paving the way for increased traffic.

It’s a beautiful thing, and it’s a really effective way to build your online exposure.

Article marketing is extremely effective because it’s highly targeted. Only relevant sites and newsletters will publish your articles so you’re sure to reach an interested audience. And our “Diamond Assurance™” review means that your articles will meet each publisher’s guidelines.

Reaching a targeted audience pre-sells your visitors. Pre-selling happens when potential customers warm up to you by reading your articles. By the time they click through to your site they feel like they already know you. They’ll start thinking of you as an expert in your field.

People like experts.

They trust experts.

Most important of all.. they buy from experts.

Plus, you’ll have links galore.

Having links popping up all over the Web is the stuff Internet marketers dream of. Top-ranking sites consistently use article marketing to put their links in front of the right people. How do we know this strategy works?

We use it ourselves

Search engine bigwigs - Google, Yahoo, etc, etc etc - they like lots of links on relevant sites. They eat ‘em up.

Effective article marketing utilizes Yahoogle-icious™ distribution practices. When you join Article Marketer, you gain ”tools” to help you send links around the Web and across the globe.

Google rubs its tummy and asks for more.

Did I also mention, your SERP position will rise, too.Type a search term into Google, hit “search” and what pops back is a SERP, or search engine results page.

Ideally, you want to be in one of the first 10 positions on the SERP. The site that’s listed at the top of that page is today’s marketing winner for that particular search term. Submit with Article Marketer and you could be that winner.

Reaching the top 10 on the SERP is the Internet equivalent of having your site up in lights.

No seriously, jokes aside, it really works. it’s one of the best way to get started… do check it out and subscribe for it, you won’t be dissapointed.

And yes, you can thank me later.

Just click on the link below to subscribe:

ArticleMarketer

All the best, now get your ass out there and make some nice $$ already!

Let’s talk a little about copywriting right now for a sec, shall we?

First off, feel free to swipe this pre-head off if you’d like:

Have you ever wondered: Isn’t there more to life than this?…

(Use it if you’re in the appropriate niche, k?)

It makes a good opening statement..

As has been mentioned several times in this blog, time really is of super importance these days, and it has always been a challenge to race against time as we’re always bogged down with a thousand and one things to get handled, day in day out, so whatever that helps to get the job done but with the least amount of time is ALWAYS most welcome.

WIthin your marketing pieces and in any form of communication pieces you send out to your potential customers (whoever they may be), getting the RIGHT (most converting words, phrases and emo button pushers) can be an extremely time-consuming task, hence the importance for us to start working a little faster within this dept…

One of the ways we do it is this:

Whatever your chosen niche, look for the top 7-10 similar related sites, run through all of them thoroughly, look at how they phrase their pieces, swipe off the most catchy lines/pitches, etc and paste onto your word doc and start working from there…

Stop bothering too much on how wierd it is for the moment, just cut out the best stuff, put it all in, and when it’s done, that’s when you start refining it.

It works waaaaay faster that way, and most importantly it helps get one part of your job done as quickly as possible and you can get it out to the world faster to start testing for results (don’t underestimate the power of testing, I used to do the same, but I’ve quickly learnt never to assume but to try everything before jumping to conclusions).

You’ll be surprised by how BIG a difference a simple tweak can make within your end-desired results.

Ok, break time’s over, back to work… all the best!

Jay..

Something B-I-G happened in the online marketplace this morning and you need to know about it…

Google has done something they say they’d never do, and it probably spells the “end” (or is it?) for services like Wordtracker (we wouldn’t want to be in their shoes now, would we? *gulp*).

Here’s the summary…

If you’ve ever used Google Adwords you’ll know they always represented search volume for a keyword by a rating out of 5.

What this means is that instead of just showing you those “green bars” - which only gave you an idea of relative search volume - you now get to see search numbers based on Google’s database.

Whatever your reason to search keywords - AdWords PPC, SEO, article marketing, blog marketing - getting real Google search counts for those keywords is a definite welcome development.

In fact, the only people who probably don’t think this is great news are the people who have developed fee-based keyword search tools (like *ahem* *ahem*). Because now, at long last, we can get up-to-the-minute search volume information from Google itself, and for free. (hooray!!)

Many of us often wondered about the purpose of Google’s keyword tool, since it didn’t actually show real numbers. Yes, it was useful for knowing whether a given search term would get a little or a lot of traffic, especially when compared to related search terms., but that was just about it, pretty much useless (sure of course now can say-lah ekeke)

This morning they scrapped that, and started showing ACTUAL SEARCH VOLUME for keywords.

Now Wordtracker keyword volumes have always been accused of being wildly inaccurate because they make predictions from only 2-3% of actual search activity.

So now that Google has made a change, more accurate search volume is finally available.

Go try it out here, enter a keyword and you’ll see Google’s estimate of actual search volume - and this is great news for us marketers!

Check it out:

Google Keyword Suggestion Tool <– (Why we LOVE them now)

How does this affect your keyword and market research?

Because now you can be absolutely sure of the size of a niche because there’s no more need to make wild guesses about search volume

In case you don’t understand Engrish, this is goooood