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Below is a question Dr Smiley received and answered. Hope it helps you!
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Is blogging and article marketing the only way to get traffic to my website? What do you think about those companies that charge you (x$ for xclicks) to send people to your site?

There are lots of different ways to get traffic to your website, and blogging and article marketing are just some. Make sure you are optimizing your website for the search engines as well so you can get indexed with the search engines. Make sure you are leaving valuable and helpful comments on forums, and other blogs that are related to your market.

Paying anyone to send visitors to your website is not good! You don’t know for sure the quality of visitors they are sending or whether they are targeted to your market. It is always best to stay away from companies like this, get your traffic yourself.

Some other ways to get traffic is by social media, using places like Twitter, Squidoo, and Facebook these are just a few places to get started.

There is one good place to learn more about how to get traffic to any website - The Faster Traffic Master

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Many are realizing that article marketing is a great way to not only get visitors to their websites, but it also will provide you with a backlink. This is important if you are into SEO (Search Engine Optimization) stuff.

So how does it all work?

It’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Write up a small article about your niche/market. This doesn’t have to be real long, usually most directories will take an article that is around 400 words, and if you are passionate about your niche then it shouldn’t be difficult to do.

The problem most seem to experience is what to write about, this can be a stumbling block. Suggest that you do some research on your niche, discover some problems within that niche you can fix through writing an article. If your niche is a bit broad or big, drill down, find a niche within your niche to write about.

You don’t have to stick with your main niche, you might be surprised how many sub niches there are to a niche.

The power of article marketing doesn’t always come in just writing the article, of course you need to be unique, it needs to be your writing, but the real power is within your resource box. You are allowed, in most cases, to add your website link within your resource box. This will give people a chance to visit your website after they read your article.

If you link a specific keyword to your website then you get added benefit within the search engines. When you link your keywords, and then someone types that keyword into their browser, the chances of your article coming up is high, and once they click on your article, they then can click through to your website, a win-win situation for any marketer.

You don’t have to write thousands of articles, just set yourself a goal when starting out to around 2 articles a week.

Once you are comfortable with this, you can increase how many articles you write.

The other good thing with article marketing, is others are usually allowed to copy your work and use it on their website/blog, but they have to leave the article as is with your resource box intact. Another link for your website!

There is no limit on how many people can copy your article, so just think of the power behind this!

The best way to get started is to just do it. Take a keyword that is around your niche and start writing, you might be surprised just how much you actually do know.