It’s all about those eyeballs

Every internet marketer and blog owner loves traffic. For the internet marketer more traffic can mean more revenue. For the hobby blog owner it means a bigger ego! In either case more traffic is always welcome.

Here are three easy ways to get extra traffic.

First one: – give away something for free

The value of this small exercise can never be underestimated. Have something free available to download. For the receiver of this free gift it’s a warm fussy feeling of getting something without having to pay for it.

Often it is purely the idea of receiving a gift that is important. Many free reports get filed away never to be actually read. So it’s not even the content that is the important part of the transaction. It is the idea of a gift that attracts people. In many instances there are no expectations that the gift will be any good. Which is why eBooks aren’t even opened.

However, having said that, it isn’t advisable to send out a free gift that is total rubbish. You will have some opening it and you don’t want people to write bad reports. In fact what you would like is for the gift to go viral. That is, it is passed on by your readers to others without you having to ask or the reader receiving any reward for his effort.

How do you decide what’s a good give-away?

How do you make up something for free? The easiest and quickest way is to collect some of your good articles and compile them into a collection of essays. How do you know which are the best? See which ones have the highest readership numbers. It’s not what you think that counts, it’s your statistics that are important here.

If you don’t think your content is suitable then write something that could be of interest to readers. See what people are searching for using the Google Zeitgeist Tool, Google Trends and the Google Current Video. Or check which one of your popular articles could be extended into something bigger and better.

If all of that doesn’t appeal then see what is available online that you are allowed to give away for free. There are many topics where free eBooks and reports are there for you to use. In some instances you might end up paying a few dollars for them. They are generally labeled PLR items. The PLR stands for private label rights.

It doesn’t have to be an eBook

Besides eBooks there are other free gift options available to you. If you run a photography blog, then give away some images. If you offer online courses or webinars then select a few that could be suitable as free gifts.

Depending on the field your internet marketing business operates in or your interests for your private blog will determine what you have available to give away. But do so. It is worth the effort.

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3 dead easy ways to get extra traffic – number one

The best way to check for errors in your articles is to get somebody else to proof read them for you. Of course this is not always possible. There might not be anybody suitable available to do this for you.

If you are the only one to take on the quality assurance mantle that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take on the job yourself. You might not see all mistakes as it is often easy to read the same mistake several times without seeing it. But you will pick up most of them.

Besides checking for the obvious errors such as spelling mistakes which you should find easily with the help of your word processing spell check, there are other elements you need to check for.

Read the article and see whether the language flows easily. Have you used different words or do you see instances where you might have used one word too often. You might wish to use a Thesaurus to find different words that mean the same.

Besides spelling and grammar do also check for inconsistencies in your argument. Are you jumping from one point to the next or are you following a discussion through in a logical manner.

A more basic point to check for is whether the actual content makes sense. Are you contradicting yourself, does the discussion flow in a logical way, are your points easy to understand and do they contribute to the value of the article?

Sometimes it is easy to lose your way. This happens especially often if you have been interrupted while writing and find yourself on a different thought path. You might need to split the article into two different ones and in some cases you might even need to start again.

Starting again can be very disheartening. However, it can be that your article is beyond repair and you might find yourself spending a lot more time on repairing it than if you had just trashed it and started from the beginning again.

It’s a little like trying to make a white sauce. If there are too many lumps you might want to just throw the sauce out and start again. Sometimes writing an article is a little like making white sauce!

Do remember though that when you are looking for perfection and it seems to be passing you by that writing articles is a learning process. It is rare that a writer is published on his first attempt, whether as a short article writer or as a novelist.

It will take a fair amount of practice for you to start feeling a little happier about your article writing efforts. Do not give up. As with all new things, it will become much easier with time and you will wonder eventually why you ever thought that learning how to write articles would be such a difficult thing to do.

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How To Write Articles – Check For Errors