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.
Very true! Makes a change to see sonemoe spell it out like that.