Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Using Good Content To Promote Your Blog

By David McCammon

Using Articles On Your Website

As soon as you have several articles, whether you write them yourself or have them written by a professional, you are ready to use them online to get seen by visitors. The first place to do this is on your own website.

There are several ways you can use articles on your website to attract and keep visitors. In this article, we'll discuss the benefits of using your articles on your website, what they'll do for your website traffic, and how to place them for the best results.

Content Is King

As far as the internet marketing world is concerned, content is king. By giving your visitors a number of articles to read and even redistribute is an excellent way to improve your website rank. get more visitors and make more money.

Content versus pages: Guess which one is more important?

Quality articles provide quality content for your site. You could have many many website pages without good quality content and not increase your search engine traffic at all.

You have probably heard about the importance of confusing things like metatags and metadescriptions. These are part of your website's coding; this is text that doesn't appear on your screen when your site is being viewed. However, these tags don't matter as much now as they used to.

Search engine spiders-those little programs that crawl the web indexing every page they find-no longer pay much attention to metatags. More importance is given to a website's content than anything else. This is where your hard work or your investment in professionally written articles pays off. The more quality content you have catalogued on your website, the higher your search engine ranking will climb.

Your website won't shoot to Google's top ten the minute you put up your new articles. Search engines take time because of the vast amount of information available on the web. However, the sooner you get started, the sooner you will start to see results for your website. Once the information is catalogued, you can remain high in the results ranking as long as you keep updating your website with fresh content.

Sometimes content is not enough. Building trust with your customers Some webmasters post a flurry of content to their websites, and then sit back and wonder why the business isn't pouring in. The reason, in a word, is trust.

In order to be a successful Internet marketer, you must build trust. Providing free, high quality information for customers is a step in the right direction, but it is not the be-all and end-all of marketing. The average consumer must be exposed to your business three to seven times before they'll consider making a purchase.

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