Top 7 Article Marketing Websites For Traffic

Article marketing is a very effective way to bring traffic to your website. The benefits are two-fold. You can receive traffic directly from your articles posted on other sites, and you can get a boost in the search engine results for your website also increasing traffic.

Here are the top 7 article marketing websites for traffic.

Ezine Articles

Ezinearticles.com is the number one article directory. It has been around for a very long time and has a lot of great features that has kept it number one on many marketers’ lists. You can submit your well-written articles in dozens of available categories. Ezine Articles has a lot of organic traffic right to their site and often ranks high in the search engines. Plus, your articles can be used on other people’s sites for more traffic.

Ezine Articles allows you to have different pen names. This works well for a variety of different reasons such as if you have different types of marketing to do for different websites or products. Your articles need to be at least 400 words and well-written. Set up a profile so that people can learn more about you and find your website. This is an important step for any article marketing site you use that has such a feature. You can also upgrade to premium membership for more features and benefits.

Go Articles

Goarticles.com is another directory that gets a lot of traffic and use by article marketers. If you want exposure for your business, use this article directory as much as possible. It’s very easy to get a membership started, and the submission process is simple as well. Your articles may also be republished by other sites for added exposure.

Idea Marketers

Ideamarketers.com has a variety of helpful services. Publishing marketing articles is just one of them. They have a wide variety of categories you can choose to publish in. This site also allows you to submit press releases which can be very beneficial to your business.

Article Base

Articlebase.com is free to join and gives you another outlet for basic article submission. It’s very similar to other sites that give you free exposure, more traffic, and credibility to your name. It has a good amount of traffic making it great to add to your article marketing rounds.

Hubpages

Hubpages.com is a little different than the above article directories. When you set up a hub, you do more than submit an article. You can write articles and add pictures, links to products, reviews, and other interactive media. The strength of Hubpages is when you build a lot of hubs and interlink them. You also need to maintain a certain score in order for your links to be do-follow.

Squidoo

Squidoo.com is another site like Hubpages where you create lenses. You can promote your business and earn money directly from your hub. Get involved in the community to improve your lenses and build more traffic.

Infobarrel

Infobarrel.com is a newer site that has become increasingly like Hubpages and Squidoo. Designing your pages is similar, but they are strict about varying the types of articles you write. Gain a lot of exposure through Infobarrel by adding pages frequently. They also have monthly contests where you can win free gift certificates by writing more.

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Opinion: Are you ready for the physical Web?

The Web might not just be a place you visit on your laptop anymore. Wearable computers and ubiquitous sensor networks promise to bring the benefits of connectivity to all aspects of life in the near future.

You are sitting in a park when a small child tugs on your pant leg and warns you not to step on the magical creatures under your bench. Odds are she doesn’t have a vivid imagination; she’s just playing The Hidden Park, an iPhone app.

In this game, kids point an iPhone around the park, and they follow a map that tells them where the magical creatures live. They have to solve riddles and puzzles, and they take pictures along the way — which can serve as “proof” to doubting adults that we are not alone.

Welcome to the early signs of the “physical Web,” where everything in our world is as digital and interconnected as the Web is today. It will change your career and your life, so let’s take a quick tour.

The Webcam Social Shopper lets people turn any webcam into a mirror, so you can find clothes online and hold them up to see how they will look on you.

Electric Foxy takes things a step further, by connecting clothing with technology. The company is experimenting with Ping, a ring that gives you feedback when you exercise, and Move, a line of clothing designed for athletes and dancers to help them understand precisely the movements of their bodies.

Not every innovation will necessarily represent a step forward for society. A Japanese gadget enthusiast hooked up a Kinect (from Microsoft Xbox 360) sensor to a pair of video glasses and created a virtual girlfriend named Hatsune Miku, who follows him around. She’s a pretty good, if somewhat creepy dancer; no word on how good the developer is.

Here’s one thing I’m pretty sure about: Looking through a computer will be dramatically different than looking at a computer. You look at your laptop and smartphone, but when companies start offering smart glasses we will literally look at the world through computers.

When this happens, Hatsune will have lots of competition. Zombies, athletes, movie stars, game tokens, fact sheets, cooking demonstrations, and, yes, advertisements will be everywhere. At this point, we all will have three choices: ignore the changes, dig deeper, or escape the real world.

#1 Ignore the changes

Since my intention is to write about entrepreneurial opportunities arising from technology, this isn’t the option I’d recommend. Sure, you could stick your head in the sand and reject new technologies. But the people likely to do that stopped reading five paragraphs ago.

#2 Dig deeper

The Physical Web will bring humanity closer to the truth than we have ever been before. I don’t mean “the meaning of life” truth. I mean the truth as in, “Is it time to water my garden?” or “How long will it take me to drive from my office to home if I leave right now?”

Nearly everything will have data connected to it, or will become data itself. BigArtMob lets people position art — from graffiti to museum art — onto a map, where people can then access it and it can become the foundation for, say, personalized art tours.

You probably know that smart glasses are nearly here. More than 17 million people have watched Google’s Project Glass video showing how data will be overlaid on nearly everything you see.

This data will make you smarter, which is another reason not to choose option number one. If you do, everyone else could be smarter than you.

Of course, you won’t need to don a pair of smart glasses to benefit from the physical Web. You could instead just connect sensors around your home, yard and office… and then tell your stuff what to tell you.

To get a sense (no pun intended) of what this will be like, stop by IFTTT. Here you can already tell the Web what to tell you. For example, I use IFTTT to send me a text every time the word “snow” is in the forecast in Vermont. Even better interfaces will spring up for sensors.

#3 Escape the real world

Watch for escapism to get a lot more powerful.

I have no inside information whatsoever, but you can bet that one of the first power users of smart glasses will be the porn industry, which is always the first to embrace new tech. “In your face” will take on a whole new meaning.

So if you buy your teenager a pair of smart glasses, you might also want to think about limiting what he or she can do with them.

Game companies will be close behind porn merchants, with new offerings that bring zombies, aliens and monsters into the real world. Players will be able to hunt and “kill” real-life people and animals, as well as imaginary characters that the rest of us don’t see.

I’m not a fan of movies or TV shows in which the viewers get to choose the ending, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see new types of entertainment spring up that allow people to escape far away from everyday life. As I write this, the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset is blowing the doors off its $250,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. The headset will bring gamers inside the game, in a way no device has done before.

And it’s a pretty safe bet that by this time next year even Oculus Rift will seem tame.

So what does this mean for your career and your life? Keep in mind three things as you make decisions about what to buy, where to work, and how to invest your savings. The emerging physical Web will:

1.) Link devices to other devices, plus devices to people and vice versa.

2.) Cause sensors to be built into nearly everything, and they will be connected, too.

3.) Let you tell all this stuff what to do, and what to tell you.

Bruce Kasanoff is a speaker, author and innovation strategist who tracks sensor-driven innovation at Sense of the Future. Kasanoff and co-author Michael Hinshaw teamed up to explore more of the opportunities unearthed by disruptive forces in Smart Customers, Stupid Companies.

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com