Articles Build Blog Readership
By Wayne Hurlbert
Writing internet articles is a powerful way
to add visitor traffic to your blog.
Articles provide tremendous personal and professional benefits
as well.
Articles are in demand all over the internet.
Many traditional websites want them for additional content,
and will seek out the services of a good writer.
If you know your subject matter, you will have
no shortage of takers for your writing efforts.
All you have to do is be on topic. In fact,
if you want to write articles on almost any subject under the
rainbow, all you have to do is contact several of the webmasters
in your topic area. They will gladly place your articles prominently
on their websites.
The great thing about the articles, is they
are usually on subjects, that you write about all the time anyway.
You don't need to do extra research, as you already have the
knowledge required to a great job, right at your fingertips.
When a website owner publishes your article
on the website, be certain to get a live link back to your site.
Most website owners will be more than happy to have you provide
a brief biography of you, a photograph of your smiling face,
and information about your blog and your business.
As you place a number of articles on several
websites, you will accomplish more than one goal.
You will obviously receive a few more visitors
to your blog, as a result of your incoming link. The extra traffic
will be from people who are already interested in your blog's
subject matter.
You will establish yourself as an expert in
your field, and other people will call upon your ideas and information.
The recognition of others, who are interested in the same topics
and site themes as yourself, could lead to some paying business
in other ways.
The writing credits help to build a writing
portfolio, that will serve you well, in the employment market.
A series of published articles provides added power to your
resume. In a highly competitive job market, the publication
history could tip the balance in your favour.
You can also land freelance writing jobs on
traditional websites. The ability to write interesting copy,
on any topic, is a skill that is constantly in high demand.
Copywriting for sales and marketing, in particular,
have an almost unlimited market. Every internet e-commerce website
owner, or at least all of the ones that I know, want to increase
their overall sales and profits.
If you can write sales and marketing copy, that
will increase their sales numbers, you will never be short of
writing assignments. You might even have to raise your writing
fees.
Your blog will move higher in the search engine
rankings. Google in particular, values theme and topic related
incoming links. MSN Search and Yahoo also give high marks to
incoming links, but to a slightly lesser degree than Google.
In any case, your blog will move higher in the
search rankings for your most important keywords, as a result
of those links. The end result of higher search engine placement
is more visitor traffic for your blog.
Writing articles helps your blog in more ways
than one.
It's time to add article writing and sales copywriting
to your list of accomplishments.
Your business and your blog will benefit greatly.
About the Author: Wayne
Hurlbert provides insigtful information about marketing, promotions,
search engine optimization and public relations for websites
and business blogs on the popular Blog
Business World.
