How to Use Article Directories To Increase Your Website Traffic

The Internet holds a vast amount of data with most of it being stored in text form. Whenever search engines crawl the web in search of good sites with quality content, the only thing that matters on them is text. If your page is lacking in text, the it's likely that your page will not rank very well. Likewise if your page has alot of text, but it's not put together well, you'll probably rank poorly as well.

Enter private label articles. PLA's are bundles of articles which consist of broad categories that are available for purchase in bulk from someone who brokers articles. Usually there is a choice between buying a monthly subscription whereby large groups of these articles are emailed to you or or you are sent a link where you can download them. Single purchases of groups of articles can also be made.

Most of the time, the articles are already optmized for the search engines using keywords that have been arranged properly, with correct grammar as well as spelling and a reasonable generic focus. The best thing is that they belong to you to do with as you want. You will have purchased all of the rights to the use of the article, and you can change it in whatever way you want to. You can add or remove content and you are able to put your name to it as the author if you want to.

After you have picked the most appropriate keywords for your web site and your method of sales, you are able to put spread private label articles on your website. By using the optimized keywords in the right places, your rank on the major search engines should start to climb.

How About Using Free Articles?

No doubt you've seen article directories where you are allowed to download as many articles for your use as you would like- all that is required is that you keep the author's resource box intact. Also contained in the resource box is a link to the author's website that you are not permitted to change.

These articles are free for your use, atleast monetarily, but they will cost you in other ways. You may lose prestige, sales and customers. Just a couple of these articles, especially if you use articles from subject matter experts everything should be alright. If you pack your site with nothing but free articles, you are sending the wrong message. Particularly you are sending the message to your customers that you aren't very knowledgeable in the subject to write your own articles.

Besides, you are giving everyone who stops by your website a quick way out and onto your competitor's site. All they have to do is click the link in the author's resource box. If the article is good enough to capture your attention, most likely it will keep your customer's attention enough so that they will search specifically for that author.

The resource boxes can steal your sales as well as your customers. You aren't even aware of when it is happening.

Other Ways Of Improving Your Search Rankings

The article directory method coupled with private label articles can increase your ranking in the search engines. This is the method that other people use. Most articles that are submitted to article directories are accepted as long as they are written with some degree of competency by persons who have adhered to the article directories' terms of use. You can give your own private label articles, written under your name along with your resource box, to the article directories as well.

Firstly, this sets up yet another link to your website from the article directories. Each time your website is linked to, your ranking rises just a little bit more. This works especially well if your link contains your keywords, also. Because you are able to setup the resource box as you want to, you are able to make sure that the keywords use are the ones that you want to use.

By: James Conner
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