Some Myths and Some Truths about Getting Website Traffic.

By Donnie Boots

How to you get traffic to your website? Some purists will say that all you need to do is write good content and the visitors and backlinks will follow. To a large degree this is correct, but your website will never perform well as an island. There’s a lot of debate about how to get website traffic in an effective manner. You need some way to get people to notice your site. You cannot just rely on the “kindness of strangers” who might recommend your site to other people.

There are many people who state that article marketing is one of the best long-term ways to get traffic to your sites, but there are a lot of myths behind what a lot of people are saying about article marketing.

There is a limit to how much referral traffic you’re going to get from articles you submitted for publication on sites not your own. That is because the majority of traffic that comes to most webmasters’ sites come from the search engines.

An article that is “spun” so as to appear to be unique in the search engines’ eyes does a good job of seeming unique and getting indexed, but conversion rates are lost in the process. After all if good content is what’s needed to make sales and convert visitors into buyers, then what good is there to creating duplicate copies of articles or even rewritten articles that sound somewhat readable but do an inferior job of converting the readers into buyers?

If you read a review on Unique Article Wizard you’ll see that many people that are using the service are making a few sales from each article submitted and syndicated. However, if these services are getting your articles syndicated on hundreds and even thousands of sites and you only made a couple of sales, what’s that tell you about the effectiveness of your article submitted to 1192 sites?

It makes sense to go and focus on getting more search engines traffic, not just referral traffic from article marketing. The majority of your website traffic most likely comes from natural searches from the search engines, and you can look at your site statistics right now and you’ll see this is true almost all the time.

These are the facts that many people don’t seem to want to accept but they’re true. You can verify this truth by checking your cpanel statistics. Look to see where the most of your traffic comes from. That is why I say article marketing and syndication is good for making sales, it’s primary purpose seems to be as a method for generating backlinks to help increase your rankings in the SERPs.

Is there a way to increase your website traffic without having to write and spin dozens or hundreds of articles? Yes, there are services like that Backlink solutions will merely build links back to your site is an effective manner that saves you time and doesn’t require that you write a whole slew of 250-word or 300-word articles. - 23596

About the Author:

Donnie Boots is a writer for the Internet and specializes in article marketing. One special resource is My Article Network. Find out how Boots uses Linkvana to build backlinks and generate traffic.