Article Traffic
By Sean Mize

Article traffic is my most effective method of developing genuinely good quality subscribers to my opt in email list. Article traffic of course is the method of driving traffic to your web site via the writing of articles, including a link to your squeeze page, and submitting those articles to the biggest article directories online in such a way that your web page goes to the top of the rankings in the search engines.

Why is article traffic so effective for me? I think the biggest reason that article traffic is so effective for me is that article traffic is highly targeted traffic.

Think about this. Some would say that natural search engine traffic is very high quality traffic. Actually, I agree. But what if you had a traffic source that is 33 times higher quality than natural search engine results?

In a big way, article traffic is, and here is why: when you write articles and submit them to the highest ranked article directories online, for well-targeted keywords, they can rush to the top of the search engine rankings. Many of my articles on ezinearticles.com occupy the #1 through #10 spots in the search engines, just because of the ranking power of that article directory.

Now, when your average surfer clicks through and reads that article, only an estimated 3% of the people who read it will be interested enough to click through to my web site. That means that I have eliminated just about all the tire-kickers – these people really want to learn more from me.

Article traffic is my strongest form of traffic generation, and I intend to continue using and improving my methods of generating article traffic for a long time to come.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide‘

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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.

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Want Higher Adsense Earnings? Then Optimize Site Navigation
By Bas De Baar

Webmasters know that Adsense generates a sizeable source of additional advertising income. That’s why they’re using it to go after the “high paying keywords.” They’ve bought the lists that tell them what these keywords are and they’ve used various other methods of identifying them. And yet, after putting up these “high paying” pages on their websites, the advertising money they expected to see isn’t rolling in. What’s wrong?

Well, having those pages is one thing. But driving visitors to those pages is an entirely different thing and is often what’s lacking. To get visitors to your high paying keyword pages, you’ve got to optimize site navigation.

Take a moment to think about how visitors use your website. After landing on a certain page, they’ll often click to another page that sounds interesting. They get there by way of the other links that appear on the page they landed on. How you enable visitors to move about your website is what is meant by the term, “Site Navigation.”

A typical website has a menu of links on each page. The wording on these links is what grabs a visitor’s attention and gets them to click on one of the links that will take them to another page of your website. Links labeled “Free Resources” or “Download ebooks” are generally good attention-grabbers.

This same site navigation logic applies to driving traffic to your high paying pages. I have some pages on my website that get a lot of traffic from search engines, but the earnings on these pages are very low. I use cleverly-labeled links to get visitors off these pages and onto my higher earning pages. It’s a great and inexpensive way to turn cheap clicks into real dollars.

Ready, Set, Test

Before you begin testing, you’ve got to have two things: something to track and compare; and some high earning pages you want to funnel your site traffic to. For fast results, select a few of your highly visited pages.

Next think of ways to get visitors viewing a particular page to click on a link to one of your high earning pages. That’ll help you come up with a catchy description for the link. And remember, you can use graphics to grab your visitors’ attention. Be creative!

And remember, it’s all about location, location, location. Once you’ve come up with the attention-grabbing description, you’ve got to identify the perfect spot on your page for positioning the descriptive link to your high paying page.

Spend some time visiting other websites to see how they’re maximizing site navigation. For example, using a “Hot Pages” list or a “Most Read Articles” list are common menu selections.

Then let the testing begin. Try putting different text on different pages. That way you’ll get a feel for what works and what doesn’t. Mix things up a bit – put links on the top of the page and the bottom.

It’s now all a matter of testing and tracking, and testing and tracking until you find the site navigation setup that works best!

Bas de Baar is the author of the e-book “Analyzing Adsense For Niche Websites.” To learn how you can increase online profits by testing and analyzing, go to http://www.AffiliatePotion.com.

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