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Reap Traffic from Article Directories

You may have seen them online: vast databases that hold thousands of different articles written by experts and not-so-expert individuals on every imaginable topic from lion droppings to screws on nuclear submarines.

And what seems like the best deal of all: they’re free for the taking. All you have to do is run a small blurb (called a resource box) at the bottom identifying the writer, with perhaps a short bio, and a link back to the writer’s website.

You may even have decided to download an article that particularly took your interest, faithfully complying with the wishes of the article directory as you pointed back to the writer’s web site.

And you may have noticed no real difference in your own website traffic, or maybe even have reaped some compliments on your discernment at having downloaded and shared with your customers such a fine article. But don’t pat yourself on the back yet.

Though you didn’t notice a difference in your web traffic, there’s a fair chance that at least some of the readers of this article noticed that link and clicked on it, and if the author is selling a product similar to yours, another fair to middling chance that they chose to purchase items from him instead of you simply because that’s the last place where they landed.

One or two customers from your site – that may not seem like too much. But if you look at the math, that could pay for two or three good articles on your site by other talented writers.

For the lucky author of the article you put on your site, that means that they got at least a sale or two out of the article they wrote. If several other people did the same thing you did, they may have gotten more sales, making that article they wrote and posted for free very lucrative indeed.

Before getting annoyed at this person for poaching your customers, unbeknownst to you, consider this: you can do the same thing.

Posting Articles to Article Directories

Whether you write your own articles or purchase them from writers and article brokers like www.YourOwnArticles.com, you can get articles up with your own resource box, with your link to your page and your bio. It’s simple.

You put together an article you think other webmasters that sell something similar or identical to what you sell would be interested in placing on their websites. You can write it, commission it, or just purchase pre-composed articles from an article broker.

Then you go out to the article directory you like. Register as an article contributor, and post your article online.

That’s it. Or almost it.

Making Sure You Get Yours

Although article directories are supposed to ensure that anyone using your article also gives you credit for the work you’ve done, when you’re working with thousands of articles it’s impossible to do this perfectly.

Your best bet is to do a periodic Google search for your articles to ensure you know where they’re posted, and also that they are properly credited to you.

To do this, select a unique phrase of about five or six words from the middle of your article. Copy the phrase into the Google search bar, putting quotes around it, and then search. Any site that comes up from this search should be one that is hosting your article.

Double check each one and ensure that they are properly crediting you. If they’re not, report them to the article directory webmaster, and politely email the transgressors yourself to ask them to credit you or remove the article from their site.

If they don’t comply, you can also try reporting them to Google.

The most that will probably happen is that they’ll be blacklisted from the Google search engine, and the article directory will yank their privilege of using articles from the site.

It’s notoriously hard to catch criminals online, and for the crime of plagiarism you’re not likely to get much satisfaction. But at least you’ll know who to watch for in the future.

You’ll also have surveyed the sites that are legitimately using your articles, which is important to know. Even if someone’s copying your information and using it without your information, chances are good that you’re getting some good traffic directed to your site from everyone else.

The quality of the traffic, not the fact that some people will steal your information, should determine whether you continue using article directories.

Here For Your Success

Cody Moya

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cody Moya writes about Article Marketing in his free 50 parts course on Article Marketing. You can sign up for his free Article Marketing Course and get additional information at his website: http://www.articlemarketingcourse.com

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