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If you’re just starting out in internet marketing and want to learn how you can write articles and use them to drive traffic to your websites then you should read this article. Research has shown that while there are a large number of people who write articles for traffic, not many of them understand how to convert that traffic and make it work. In this article, we will be looking at a few tips that will help you convert your articles better and get better results.

• Make Sure Your Headlines Rock

Your headlines are the very first thing people see. If it doesn’t grab their attention, pique their curiosity and generally want to make them click through to see what you have to say in the article, odds are that your articles will not do well. So, if you don’t have any idea of how to write catchy headlines, you can easily grab a copywriting course or two off the internet.

Courses by Clayton Makepeace and Scientific Advertising
will get you on the right path. If you need a shortcut, simply get a hold of as many magazines as possible and start looking for headlines that catch your attention and use them as templates or swipe files.

• Write fluidly and Conversationally

The average person doesn’t want to read some scientific gobbledygook. They want just the facts and would prefer articles that are written conversationally. Write like you’re talking to them directly. Articles like this tend to convert better and yield far better results. Also, let each subsequent point build on that preceding it. This creates fluidity and order in the mind of the readers, thus leading to a logical conclusion.

• Be Firm in Your Call to Action

Most articles would convert better if the call to action and author’s resource boxes were written properly. The common ones you see are “John Doe is an expert writer/enthusiast. He has written a few dozen articles on XYZ. Visit his website at xyz.com”. This kind of resource box suck!

Instead be more creative with your resource box. For example, a resource box like “Did you know that eating carbs can actually help you lose weight? Click here to find out the secret to cheating your way thin without getting rid of your favorite foods” will do a better job of converting the readers.

So, do these three things and you will get really great results.

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If you are writing articles, then you probably want to establish yourself as an expert and a resource person on the fields you are writing on, or you just want to drive targeted traffic to your website using the cheapest means available. Now writing the articles and submitting them to the article directories is the first step in this line. But it does not stop there if you want to explode your readership. To really have tons of visitors hitting your article and thus, your websites, you need to add just a few modifications and you have server melting traffic in no time.

The first step in this direction is getting to know how many webmasters have your articles pasted on their website all over the web. Note that this will take a bit of your precious time but I can guarantee that the pay off would be huge. Do this for a few articles. If you see the same names popping up time and again, then what you can do is get to talk to them. Most website owners these days have their numbers on their websites and you can call through skype from our desktop. Call them up and tell them you wrote the articles on their website and are really thrilled that they like your articles that much. Then tell them that you would be willing to send them every new article as soon as it gets approved by the article directories you want to have them submitted to. This means they would be one of the first few to have them up on their website even when you have hardly started generating traffic from your own submitted articles.

As much as possible, avoid contacting them via email unless you find there is no other means possible. More often than not, you will find that these webmasters would be willing to take you up on your offer. All you have to ask to them is to leave your author’s byline intact while emailing their lists with you article. So, besides your article getting read on their websites, you’ll also be able to get those who are not willing to visit the website but who check their emails frequently to read the article. Now imagine what that would do for you if you had like a 20 webmasters with lists in the tens of thousands.

The question I am sure you are asking is ‘how is this different from just pasting in the directories and having them find it”. The problem is in the word “find”. These guys hardly have the time to look for articles like that. So, they just get the first few acceptable articles they set their eyes on. Now, if your article is not among the first few, they may not find it. So, sending them the articles will not only assure you that your article will get read, but they also will be sure that they are the first few to have the articles.

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