Article writing and article marketing today are very effective means of getting traffic to your website. I look at articles that I have written over a year ago and still see traffic being sent to my website from these articles. The key is having an article that is high enough quality for web masters to publish them on their web sites, and for people to read your articles to have enough interest to go to your web site after reading your article. This article goes over the features your article should have that will achieve these results.

1. Your Article Should Provide A Solution Or Answer A Common Question

Your article should provide a solution to a common question or a problem that your target audience has. You can easily research questions that your target audience has by going to places such as yahoo groups or yahoo answers to see what people are discussing and wanting help with. Another great way to find relevant and interesting topics is to search for niche forums within your target market and see what questions people are asking there. This exercise will give you a goldmine of very relevant data that you can use as subject material for your articles that will be valuable to your readers.

2. Your Article Should Leave The Reader Wanting More

Your article should be useful and provide valuable content, but let's face it, you can only do so much in an article, even if it's 750 words or so. You should write your article so that the reader feels like they have received some value, but they are now interested and they would like to know more. I have found that using lists such as ("The Top 5 Things People Can Do To Relieve Stress") and then making it clear to the reader that there are 5 other things they can do that are also just as effective in your article. This tactic is a good way to create further interest in your topic.

3. Your Article Should Give The Reader A Strong Call To Action

Your article should end by giving the reader a strong call to action. This is telling the reader where they should go to get more information (the rest of the stress reduction tips). I find that setting up the call to action in the conclusion and stating it strongly in the resource box is a powerful way to do it. Remember, your article is not a sales letter, so the call to action is really the only place that you have to get the reader to go to your website, sign up for your mailing list, or call you on the phone.

If you are going to set up your call to action in the conclusion, then you should make sure you recap the article, and then just add a sentence or two that brings up a question or similar thought that would cause the reader to want more information. Most English teachers are probably rolling over in their graves right now, but you are writing your article to get more traffic to your website, not to win an essay competition.

A quality article will be published by others more often as well as give your readers the idea that you know what your talking about and they would feel comfortable finding out more about what you would have to say on that particular subject. It is relatively easy to find topics that will be of interest to your target market, as well as structuring your call to action so your article drives visitors to your website in larger numbers. The features listed in the article combined with other featurs, such as how to structure the research box and how to use keywords in your articles help to increase the traffic to your website even further. They are all things that you need to keep in mind when writing your articles to make them even more effective in driving traffic to your website.

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