Super Search Engine Marketing

Submitting articles to article directories can get you a lot of targeted traffic, there are many online resources that you can use to increase the traffic to your site. Here are a few of them that I have found to be effective and how to use it.

Yahoo Answers

This is the place where people get answers to questions.   If you find a question related to your niche, post a useful but incomplete answer. This entices the readers to follow your link to your website or blog for the full scoop.  The other thing you can do is go in and create a niche question.  Then find the answer and close the question.  There are many ways to use Yahoo Answers to get links and some traffic.

DIGG.com

This site is ranked number 124 in Alexa as of this writing. Which means it has a lot of traffic. Digg is a Social Bookmarking site.   If you post a article and it lands on the first page of DIGG, your server can crash from the tidal wave of traffic.  Problem is how do you get enough people to digg your article.  Again you can if you work it right create DIGGs to your article, site or what ever with either software or by creating a number of accounts.  Be careful how you use DIGG cause they are very watchful of spam attempts.

Squidoo.com

Having your article on the first page of Squidoo has two positive effects. You get lots of traffic.  You also can get plenty of Google Love from them as well.  Essentially Squidoo Lenses are nothing but information pages that users create.  Create some with your keywords and then a lense with information along with links to your site and you can increase your sites presence on the net.  For my coffee site I currently have 5 lenses pointing at it and all of them show up as backlinks in Google Webmaster.  A powerful source of link juice.

WordPress.com
Blogger.com

Both WordPress.com and Blogger.com have been around for a long time. Both sites receive a lot of visitors each day and thus it makes sense to post some useful there.  Just make sure your profile in WordPress.com contain a link back to your site and bingo you have link juice coming from two powerful domains.

Myspace.com

Facebook.com

Twitter.com

These are three of the largest social networking sites online. Even you just focus your attention on one of them, you can get tons of link juice to your site. Make sure to set up a good profile that links back to your site. Users of MySpace and Facebooks frown upon promotional materials and so post only useful content and let your profile do the work of driving them to your site.  In some of them you can create groups, use your key words and make groups and let others join as well.  Twitter is a different beast.  You get a profile where you can put a link and if your careful you can put in other links as well.  Twitter will ban your account for two many links so always nice to re-tweet things and send out lots of non-sense posts to cover your links.

Traffic exchanges

Few traffic exchange online are really worth the effort actually. But there are still a few that works very well. One of them is of course TrafficSwarm. I have not used this yet, but have heard good things about getting your site put into a part of an article.

Hubpages

This is another site that hosts a lot of useful content. Much like Squidoo if you get into the top pages you get serious link juice and traffic to your site.

Ezine publishers

Thre are many ezine publishers that are looking for good and unique content. All you need to do is search ‘ezine directory’ in Google and you can find many sites that list the ezine publishers looking for content.   Put in unique content about your niche and you can get a link or two in as a resource. Just make sure you submit unique content.