This is one of the most incredible discoveries I have made in my first few months online. I discovered that article generated traffic is some of the most responsive traffic I receive.
Now, I almost exclusively use articles to drive traffic to my web pages, and generally send that traffic to squeeze pages so that I can gain subscribers first, and build a list, then begin to promote my various ebooks which I have written.
So how do you use articles to send traffic to your squeeze page$%:
1) You must have a squeeze page on your web site. I prefer to use my index page for my squeeze page, basically guaranteeing that if someone gets to my web site, they have to get on my list before buying anything from me. That way I have repeated opportunities to sell my visitors, rather than just the one that occurs when they visit my web site.
2) Write articles that are in line with the topic of your email campaign and promotion focus. Add a link to the end of your articles which gives some incentive to click through to your web site, and become a list member.
3) Send your articles to the biggest article directories on the web. The ones with the highest search engine rankings, I have found, will generally be the best for sending traffic your way.
This method takes a little longer to get traffic, because it takes a few days for the search engines to index your articles, but it is well worth the wait and the effort it takes to write the articles. Article writing is truly one of the virtually untapped resources on the web for list building!