When you are trying to make money from Internet Marketing and selling something on your own site, the name of the game is to get traffic to your site. There are ways to pay to get traffic and there are free ways to get traffic. One of the best free ways to get traffic is by writing articles. Here's how to get traffic from writing articles.
The first step to writing an article is to pick a keyword phrase to target. You want it to be a phrase that's searched a lot. So you need to go to a free keyword tracker on the Internet and type in a keyword phrase. The keyword tracker will then tell you how often that phrase is searched for and it will also tell you related keyword phrases and how often they are searched for.
Choose your keyword phrase and then put that in the title of the article. For example, if you are writing an article in the weight loss niche, you might decide to target the phrase "start losing weight today". So you might decide to title your article, "How to Start Losing Weight Today".Then you would write the article on that topic. You would also want to include the keyword phrase once in the introduction paragraph, at least once in the body of the article, and once in the conclusion. You don't want to include it too much.
While writing the article, use the introductory paragraph to tell the reader what you are about to tell them (preview the article). In the body of the article tell them what you need to tell them. Then in the conclusion of the article, tell the reader what you just told them (summarize the article).
You then want to submit your article to one of the many article submission sites on the Internet. The best one is Ezinearticles.com. Cut and paste your article onto the site and then put a call to action with a link to your site in the signature box. For example, you might write something like, "Want to start losing weight before you sleep tonight? Just click here (insert link)."
Once you submit the article and the article becomes live on the site, then you want to visit the social bookmarking sites and bookmark your article on all of them. This will help your article rate better with the search engines and it will also get you traffic from each of the social bookmarking sites.
That's how to get traffic from writing articles. It's a process that doesn't take a lot of time and will produce great results for you.
