Can A Self-referencing Article Be Used To Generate Web Site Traffic?

There are all kinds of methods used to generate web traffic. One very good traffic generator is article marketing.

The way it works is that you first determine what you want search engines to find, look for the good keywords about the subject, and then write an article that revolves around a your keyword or keyword phrase, post it strategically on the web, and allow the search engines to it. Usually authors include a resource box at the end of the article that contains a link back to the website that you are marketing.

Places that you can post your article include your own blog, and articles directory that is on your website, commercial article directories such as http://goarticle.com, or http://ezinearticles.com. You can also post articles on some web 2.0 pages (like Squidoo), etc.

Additionally, you can offer to let your readers publish the articles in their newsletters or on their websites. It may seem that the publication in the newsletter would not really help you. However, you must realize, that many publishers post archives of their newsletters on their websites.

The reason that they will republish your articles, is because they need or want to provide content to bring their websites to life. So the better your articles, the more likely it is that at least some marketers will take your article and publish it giving you credit, of course, and if you set your article up right, you'll also get a link back to your website.

The idea is that you can generate web site traffic that appears in the organic areas of search engines. The organic areas of search engines comprise the most direct matches to your query. They are what the person asking the question looks at first. The person making the query may also look at the pay per click ads along the right side of many search engines, for these may also be relevant to the query.

Thus, it can be seen that both the organic and pay per click matches can be used to generate traffic to your website. The main difference is that with organic matches you don't pay even a penny, whereas with pay per click items, you pay every time somebody clicks your ad.

You can, of course, use software to help you create your articles or to help you generate traffic in other ways. For example, the way I am creating this very article is by dictating it using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which is so good, that I barely need to touch the keyboard at all.

While I'm a pretty fast typist, I can go nearly three times faster simply by dictating what I want to communicate. The software converts it into text right before my eyes. Even with the corrections, I go faster by dictation than I do with the keyboard.

I also use keyword research software to figure out what keywords and keyword phrases I should be using to generate web site traffic. It's not always simple, but sometimes it's unbelievably simple. And for me, dictating the words while looking at the keywords gives me a lot of confidence as I create my articles.

I've touched on a number of different ideas in this article. I also included a number of different keyword phrases in the same article. So the question that I have, because this is something of an experiment, is whether or not the search engines, as well as my visitors, will find articles like this useful.

After all, it is the utility of an article that makes it worthwhile, at least to this writer.