Own Your Own Article Directory

"Article Marketing is a win-win practice for every business owner."

One question I hear (often) from new website owners is "How do I get search engine traffic?" Most online marketers know that the key to gaining increasing traffic from the search engines is a direct result of having lots of incoming links from germane websites - more effectively one way links. But how to get those choice one way links?

• You can submit your site by hand to umpteen different internet directories and compete side by site with everyone else in your category for clicks.
• You can ask every single person you know that owns a website to list your link on their site.
• You can take a chance and purchase listings, buy links.

Or you can write or buy an informative article, distribute it well and watch for all of those one way links to increase exponentially and I mean fast!

Online, degrees and education don't mean as much as the information you can prove you have. The way you prove your knowledge online is by supplying your website, whether it's a sales website or networking, with great, original, valuable content.

This is great news for anyone who writes well. Despite its promotion as a great image-based medium, the Internet is primarily a text-based medium. It delivers pictures, music, and video very well indeed, but most information today is contained in text, and the search engines that catalog your website deal in text as well (even the image-based search engines focus on the titles and descriptive text you assign to your pictures and video).

Websites generate sales. That's the whole reason they exist for many people. And mailing lists also generate sales. Targeted mailing lists, especially, are valuable; the audience they are directed at have been identified as interested in a niche item, and are likely to have a higher per-piece sale ratio than an audience on a list generated from the phone book.

Did you know you could leverage the power of the targeted mailing list for your website sales? It's not spam; you will be asking people to express interest in you mailing them things before you send them anything. And it's a great way to get a list of people you can advertise to as well.