How To Build Free Long Term Targeted Traffic That Builds And Builds
By Gerald Greene

You can use a long term technique for website promotion that keeps the search engines happy and helps you to build a major niche for yourself on the Internet. Using this technique works especially well for travel sites and find cheap flights sites but is effective for any tightly themed website.

In my last article on website promotion for travel sites I stated that the promotion of rich content themed websites by using travel articles [ website promotion ] is the most cost effective way of promoting your website.

I use travel sites as a good example of this technique as travel offers an incredible number of niches that one can work with and in addition the travel industry gets a tremendous number of searches every day from all over the world. Besides, I like to travel.)

I stand by the statement and here's why.

There are three primary online ways to promote websites in the hope of making a profit from your online business. The first is search engine optimization ( SEO ). The second is by using pay per click ( PPC ) search engines. And the third is by constructing themed content websites then promoting those sites by writing and promoting articles that you distribute over the Internet.

For the average web entrepreneur SEO is just too difficult to master. Even the Gurus who think they have mastered SEO can run into difficulties when the search engines change their algorithms in an effort to better match up what people are searching for with the landing pages they are directed to by the search results.

The algorithms also frequently change if the search engines decide that too many folks are using what they consider to be deceptive practices in an effort to get better page ranking and placement on the results pages.
In my opinion, you are far better off to just keep building solid rich content websites and leave the website promotion by SEO stuff to those who enjoy the challenge of working with ever changing algorithms.

At it's best SEO is a game that is part art, part science, and part luck. At times it will work to your advantage --- for awhile. I just don't think it is a great way to build your long term web business.

The use of PPC search engines just isn't as cost effective as it used to be. This also include Google Adwords. Not that you can't devise ad campaigns that will generate a ton of traffic. You can.

However, as larger players with deep pockets and sometimes with little Internet savvy have entered the Internet advertising world the cost you pay for your keywords goes up and up. You had better know what you are doing in the PPC world or you will cost yourself a lot of money in a big hurry.

Google is an especially interesting case in how the "Google Dance" can destroy your web traffic and business overnight. Google is a top notch search engine, no doubt about it. And they are constantly working to become better. Nothing wrong with that either.

But Google has the engineering and IT firepower to be constantly changing their algorithms. Many a webmaster has gotten out of bed one not so fine morning to find that his top ten search engine results pages for all of his important keywords have suddenly dropped completely out of sight. Welcome to the Google Dance.

Recently Google has decided to require that landing pages meet certain quality standards. This is somehow built into their algorithms. If Google decides that your landing pages, which might be getting great conversions, are not exactly what they are looking for the cost of your keywords may just skyrocket to the point that you can no longer afford them.

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You can delete the keywords or you have to try to "optimize" your pages to bring the cost per keyword back into an affordable range. Good luck.

There is another serious problem by using PPC search engine traffic to build your business. When you stop advertising, guess what? Your traffic stops. Immediately. There is no residual long term benefit.
Website Promotion by Writing Articles

This brings us to what is in my opinion the very best way to build traffic and a long term viable profitable business on the Internet. You do need some skills and writing ability or the means to put together good content. Nothing good on the net ever comes too easily or for free.

However, if you can follow a few not too hard steps you stand a very good chance of building a solid long tem business.

One

You must have content rich websites that are all about one theme per domain. The theme ideally will be something you know a good bit about so that you can write the copy in your own words and demonstrate to your visitors that you are an expert, or at least someone who has a good bit of knowledge about your subject and has information to share that is worth reading.

Travel sites are especially good for website promotion in that there are just so many places you can travel to and give your own detailed information about your experiences and the lay of the land.

Two

Once your website is up and running, and has at least 20 tightly related themed pages, start writing articles that relate to your website theme. These articles should not be blatant ads, that won't work at all. Rather they should be informative and present useful information in a direct friendly style that will be welcomed by your soon to be website visitors.

At the end of your article include a short bio box that includes a link back to your website. The reason for this will soon become obvious.

Three

Now for the exciting part.

Once each article is in good shape ( correctly formated, no spelling errors, good grammar ) sign up with an article distribution service. This is an Internet service that supplies content to web publishers and who are always looking for new authors and content to distribute.

You can run a search to find these article distribution companies. Try (without the quotes) "article distribution" , and "article directory". You can also check out the following professional article distribution services.

Idea Marketers http://www.ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm

Article City http://www.articlecity.com/article_submission.shtml

Ezine Articles http://ezinearticles.com/submit/

After signing up for the service read and carefully follow their instructions and you will soon be good to go. Your well written articles will start appearing all over the net and stand a good chance of high search engine placement ( for free) in the search engines as well. You will be receiving a ton of website promotion for very modest, if any cost, other then the time involved.
Why Article Writing and Distribution Works Well

There are several reasons why article writing and article distribution will give you a big website promotion boost.

One

As soon as you post your article to the article distribution site you get a one way link back to your website from a high quality website that will usually have at least a PR of 5. By posting at several article distribution services you will receive a number of these high quality links. That will help your own page rank a bit.

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When you post your articles you should make sure that your bio includes a link back to your website. When you post you agree that your article may be used by other webmasters as content for their own sites. Thus if you have written a highly informative article in a popular category you may over time have one way links back to your site from a large number of high quality high traffic websites. This can produce a flow of a lot of lasting free traffic to your website.

Three

The search engines love the high quality article distribution sites as they contain directories of just what rhe search engines are looking for; good quality content. The search engines will visit the article distribution sites frequently as new material is posted everyday. This means that your own site will likely be indexed quickly.

Therefore, there is a good chance that the page your article is posted on will be indexed right away by the search engines. Now you have a search engine listing that has a good chance of being a top twenty one if you have written a good quality article that is content and key word rich without over stuffing the key words.

Mind you quality is still the key to long term success. There is no escaping that fact. But the standards are not so high that with some effort on your part you can't do it. Website promotion by writing and posting articles to article directories is a technique that can give you long term traffic that is highly interested in your nitche theme material.

I believe that article writing and submission to article directores truly gives you the best return for the time and modest amount of money that you may spend to build a large number of targeted traffic links and traffic to your website. Once the links are in place they will likely remain in place for a long time, giving you a continuing flow of traffic.