WordPress Made EAsy

Today we will start with the first of the items you can do to help generate backlinks and traffic to your blog – submitting articles. This is because we met the 5 comment rule and that will apply here too.

Submitting articles can be a very effective way to add backlinks. When people use your article they are required to keep your signature links. That is where you can add a targeted anchor text link to your blog.

Lets first talk about using articles generally. There are a number of sites like Ezine Articles, Article Base, et al that allow you to submit articles for others to use. They usually have requirements and this does need to be a content piece not a sales piece or most of the better sites will not accept your article. Always supply quality content whether you write it yourself or outsource it.

This gives you a chance to showcase your expertise and the key for you is that you do get to use the signature file for promotion not the actual article.

Now here are two ways that you can use that signature box. The first and most effective way is the two part article. This is a technique I learned from John Taylor in forums and repeated in his report Article Profit Formula which is a great guide for the price on using articles profitably.

John is a big proponent of the 2 part article. He submits part 1 to the directories and posts part 2 on this blog. He uses the signature file to send article readers to his blog for “the rest of the story”.

Example:

Article was titled “5 ways to grow better roses“

John Smith has been an avid rose grower and writes regularly about tips and tricks for growing better roses. Check out “7 more ways to grow better roses.”

Hyperlink the title to the appropriate blog post with 7 more tips.

The other way is to just use the signature file to send people to your blog with a link using the proper anchor text you want for your backlink.

Example:

Article was titled “5 ways to grow better roses“

John Smith has been an avid rose grower and writes regularly about tips and tricks for growing better roses. Check out his Growing Better Roses blog for more tips on growing roses.

Hyperlink the “growing roses” to a specific article on that topic.

Either of these techniques will both send new readers to your blog directly and create targeted backlinks from every site you submit it to and everyone that uses the article for content on their blog or newsletter.

Submit a couple articles a month and you will be amazed at the traffic and backlinks you can generate if you have good quality content in your articles and on your blog.

Remember that I need 5 comments to continue the series.

Mike Paetzold

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