Free articles can be accessed via websites called article directories. Web site promoters post articles using them as a promotional tool. Internet articles by convention have a resource box located at the bottom of the article, detailing who wrote the article and where to get more information. This is your vital link from the reader – prospect to your website.
All being well the traffic (from people clicking on your article link for more information) is converted to sales and longer term opt-ins. The rub off benefit of having your name in print (everywhere) is that you are considered an expert in your chosen field. Those who baulk at writing themselves can employ a writer to do the job for them. The cost is well under ten dollar’s per article. Quality counts so write well or be tough on your writer!
Let’s take a real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice profit at least once.
Furthermore, since you have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting of off the traffic that they get to their website.
To assist in generation of the maximum number of prospects to your website, submit a couple of articles to each article directory web site. There are more article directories out there than I can include here suffice to say choose directories to concentrate on your key words (subject of your articles).
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