Article Treasure Cove

This article looks at generating traffic for your home-based business website through article marketing to acquire quality back links.

Through one of forums I subscribe to, I read in amusement when one of the participants wrote that he had outsourced a directory submission project out and the just overnight, he found out that he couldn’t cope with the amount of order he received. He further reported he had an increase of ten fold in his home-based business!

I went ahead to contact the said person to avail the name of the submission service which he had used in the process.

Personally, I won a number of home-based business websites with small steady flow of income. There is, among others, a website that offers cruise ship vacations and it generated on average, between $4-$5 a day through advertising. I further went on to decide to use the particular site for my Internet Marketing experiment. I wanted to see if article marketing would work for one of my home-based business websites.

Learning About e-Marketing For Your Home-based Business Website The Hard Way
I cannot seem to recall the name of the directory submission service but it was definitely very affordable. The service actually included article writing and it was very affordable too!

I used his service to submit my Internet home-based business website to 1,000 odd directories. I also used his service to write an article and further asked him to submit to 500 odd article directories. The article quality in itself was average and I had to rewrite it and used his service to resubmit it.

After that, I sat back and anticipated my increase in traffic to my home-based business website. Months went by and still nothing happened.

If You Want It Done Right, Do It Yourself
Still, I had to admit I had never heard of article directories or article marketing back then. I did some research and found it to have possibilities. I even noticed that the articles did indeed show up in Google SERP’s. In addition, many of the articles also appeared to be written by the same service provider which I had used. They were full of his trademark – grammar and spelling mistakes; the obvious signs of English not being the first language.

Hence, that further led me to write an article regarding cruise ship vacations and proceeded to search for the article directories which I could submit to. I utilized an online traffic estimator to gauge the amount of additional traffic I would be able to generate for my home-based business website. I submitted to the top 35 directories with the single article to begin with.

Writing And Submitting Articles To The Directories
Next, I went on to submit articles for several of my Home Business websites. I realized that 35 directories was too much for me to cope and hence, reduced it to 10.

Natural Looking Links For Your Internet Home-based Business Website Are What The Search Engines Like
Articles take as little as within several hours upon submission on several directories to be indexed while others may take up to weeks or even months. I personally favor the ones that take weeks to be approved as it will tend to look more natural to Google.

For instance, if you were to get 500 or more links to your home-based business website a day, Google will look at it at less valuable. I would also recommend changing the anchor text of your links in the author’s box for each of the directory you submit to. It will tend to look more natural and you will be able to manipulate the keyword phrases.

Another benefit you are able to derive from article marketing is deep linking. You will be able to link to your home-based business website pages other than your home page and therefore, increasing the weight of those pages in the search engines’ point of view.

First A Web Page, Then An Article For Your Home-based Business Website
Personally, I would go about in writing an article before proceeding to make it a webpage for one of my home-based business website. Once they are indexed by Google, I will go on to submit it to article directories. It will take up to several weeks for these articles to show on on the search results and when they do, they will be of a higher ranking compared to the same article that is on my home-based business website.

This has led me to further believe that there are at least a handful of article directories that are weighed heavily by Google and other major search engines. My research also revealed a continuous flow of traffic to the home-based business website which I foresee will go on for an indefinite period.

The amount of traffic you will be able to generate for your Internet home-based business website largely depends on the quality of your article content and the quantity of articles you have published as well as submitted. I myself have published and submitted an approximate 100 articles over the last year or so. It will most definitely create more of an impact compared to several dozens of articles.

Original Content For Your Home-based Business Website
In addition to the earlier mention benefits, your Internet home-based business website will also be able to benefit from having quality original content with every article you have. After hundreds of pages of articles on your home-based business website, search engines are bound to notice you.

Through my personal observation, I have also come to the conclusion that the same article performs differently on different directories. There are niche directories which can narrow down on specific niches such as cooking, green environment and the likes whereby you will have to submit what editors are looking for specifically or they will never get approved.

Utilize Anchor Text On The Links To Link Back To Your Home-based Business Website
Through the utilization of keyword phrases in anchor text, I have succeeded in dramatically increasing my ranking. It might take up to some time (one year in my case) but search engines are constantly keeping an eye on these one-way links and in the long run, it all pays!

Article marketing is definitely worth considering provided you are willing to make an effort to produce a lot of quality articles. I would recommend articles of between 500-900 words. Do ensure you follow the stipulated guidelines of each directory.
Google Webmaster Tools will allow you to view all the links to your home-based business website pages including the links from article directories. You will also see that they will show up with a high ranking in the search result pages. The next time you conduct a search, take note of the number of article directories that are mixed in the process.

I find it amusing that certain article directories get indexed in Google within several hours of submission and therefore, I conclude that they must be highly respected.

My server logs reveal that I am able to generate traffic to my home-based business website on a daily basis. I am now able to say without doubt that article marketing does generate free organic search engine traffic, increases search engine rankings and gives me valuable back links.

Constantly modify your anchor text to be able to get some deep linking to your Internet home-based business website pages. Focus on writing content on your articles for humans. The higher the quality of your article, the more traffic you will be able to generate.

There is no better way to learn than taking matters into your own hands. Choose your article directories well and you will be on your way to a continuous traffic generation process for your home-based business website.

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