Article Marketing – 3 Simple Steps to Find Targeted Profitable Traffic in Minutes

If you are struggling to find targeted traffic for your blog or website, then this article will help you do the proper research and testing to rake in tons of targeted traffic to your site.  Let’s be honest here, the only way to see success online is getting people to read your blog or website.  How else can you gain readership, followers, and their trust?  By building a following you will be able to make money off your website either by selling products or through advertising.  First we need to determine what to write, then the keywords we need to target, and a headline that pops out.

Article Research

We need to determine what to write about and which keywords to target.  What niche is your website in?  For example it could be dating, gardening, blogging, cars, etc?  Now think of a topic in that niche that can help people.  Making a bulleted list with a how to guide is great for getting attention and traffic to your site.  For example, “5 Tips for Buying a New Car for Thousands Less than Sticker”.  That is a great headline that stands out but also tells the reader that they are going to get the information they need quickly.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is also important.  We can use the free Google keyword tool to look up relevant keywords that have low competition but have decent traffic.  The search volume can be lower than 1000 because we want articles to rank naturally in Google.  Think about this, if you find 5 keywords that have between 200 and 500 searches a month each, then you can write 5 articles targeting these keywords.  Since the competition is so low your articles will rank naturally in Google if you post them to high page rank websites like EzineArticles, Goarticles, or Your-Answers.com.  You must make sure that the keyword fits in your headline.  Then you will be able to get on the first page and start seeing traffic flow to your articles.

Headlines That Grab Attention

Determining a great headline is the hardest part of article marketing.  You need to think of a headline that is interesting and will get a user’s attention.  For example, which of these headlines sound better?  “How to meet women online” or “3 Simple Tips to Meet Hot Women Online”, the second one is clearly the better of the two titles.  If you had the choice to click on one of the two you would surely click on the second.

Now we need to perform split testing.  Split testing is where we test an article with different headlines to determine which ones get monster traffic.  It is best to use an auto approve directory like Goarticles for testing.  Publish your article then wait a couple days and see how many views you get.  If you don’t get many views then delete the article and try again.  Keep doing this till you start getting a bunch of traffic coming to one of your articles.  Once you figure it out then you will be able to rinse and repeat for monster traffic.

What if I told you other authors have already done the work for you?  Well good news, many authors have figured out headlines that grab killer traffic.  How do we find these articles?  We can use a search code in Google to view articles on EzineArticles that have high amounts of views then compare article headlines.  

Here is the code,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "viewed 2000..199999" "Submitted On: * *, 2011" "Word Count: 500..1000"

This will search all articles in the dating niche and show all the articles published in 2011 that have been viewed over 2000 times.  Begin analyzing the articles and you will begin to figure out how to write similar attention grabbing headlines.  Don’t just copy someone else’s headline; write your own using what you have learned from other authors.

This is a proven method that will bring in traffic.  If you truly want your blog to grow then start writing articles that will bring you monster traffic to your site.  Get the sales and conversions you have been dreaming of.

Building Niche Sites

Building your first niche website is your first step to building a passive income. There are too many niches, sub niches, and micro niches out there to name them all so there are many opportunities for you to make money online.

Finding A Niche

First step is to find a niche that you can start building a website in. Is there a niche that you are passionate about already? Consider yourself an expert at something? Maybe it's car repair, home remodeling, brewing your own beer, etc.. Find something that you enjoy writing and talking about so that way you don't find yourself burned out down the road. If you want to be successful at making money online you have to start out enjoying what you're writing about. You wouldn't want to write about cooking food when you hate cooking.

Finding A Domain

Once you have found the niche you want to build a website about, you will need to do some proper keyword research. You will need to find a keyword that receives some good traffic in the niche that you are targeting. I would recommend using SEO Book's keyword tool or Google Keyword tool to find keywords that receive good traffic every month. The reason why you are looking for a good keyword in your niche is so you can find a keyword that you can match up with your domain name. If you want to rank in Google for a keyword that receives a ton of traffic then you need to target that keyword by buying a website domain name that has the keyword in it.

Exact match keyword domains are the best for search engine optimization and are easy to rank for. If you want to write about the dating niche and a high traffic keyword might be "Pickup Lines for Women" then you would want to buy a website domain like, pickuplinesforwomen.com or bestpickuplinesforwomen.com. This will give you an easier time ranking in Google for that keyword compared to websites that do not have the keyword in their domain name.

I buy my domains through Godaddy.com, I recommend searching for an online coupon if possible, then I transfer the domain to my bluehost web hosting account. Blue Host is a great hosting site that is fast and is super easy to install WordPress from. Install WordPress then start writing up some useful content on your site. After you are finished with the content you will need to get your site indexed by Google, I recommend Bulk Ping's fast index tool. This tool will get your website indexed within 30 minutes.

Monetization

Once you have the site built you will need to monetize it. The easiest monetization method is signing up for Google Adsense. For the quickest adsense approval method I recommend creating a blogger account and setting up a fake blog with some content. Then apply for adsense from within that account. You can typically get your account approved within a couple days. It's much easier to use a blogger site to get approved compared to a private domain. Once approved put some ads on your site so you can start having some income coming in.

Also, look for affiliate offers you can promote. Head over to clickbank.com and sign up for an account. Look at the marketplace for products that are in your niche that you can promote. Post clickbank ads or write reviews for these products.

Ranking in the SERPs

Next is ranking in Google to build some organic traffic to your website. Remember that keyword you were targeting? We want to build backlinks to your site using that keyword. We can target that keyword by creating hyperlinks with the anchor text of our keyword on other websites. This gives your site credit within Google when it calculates keyword rankings for a given keyword. You can do this by writing articles and submitting them to article directories or by commenting on blogs in your niche.

If you want to read up more on article marketing and other methods of traffic generation check out two of my previous posts on the subject,

Make Money with Article Marketing

8 Tips To Generate Massive Sticky Blog Traffic

Profit?

Once the traffic comes rolling in then that when you make your profits. Once a niche site is profitable you can either sell it or let it build passive income. If you go the passive income route you will want to quit working on the site when it becomes profitable then move on to building another site in another niche. This is a rinse and repeat method that can create multiple streams of income over and over again.

Finding a Niche to Start Your First Website

The first thing any internet marketer has to decide on is which niche to target? There is so many primary niches, sub niches, micro niches to pick from it can be difficult to land on one. If you are going to create a blog then I highly recommend selecting a topic that you are passionate about. It will make it much easier to start building content and you will actually enjoy what you are writing about.

I was passionate about a video game that I played frequently so I created a blog about it. That was my very first website and I was able to easily write tons of content for the site. So think about things that you are passionate about that you could consider yourself an expert at. Maybe you can train dogs, modify cars, catch monster fish, an expert hunter, or creative artist/crafter. I could name these all days but I think you get the idea.

The next thing to think about is, should I run a blog in a sub or micro niche? This is a prime example of less competition, compared to making a general site about dog training you could make a blog that talks about a specific breed, like Labrador Retriever Training. You could apply this to any niche. There are many great adsense sites that run in micro niches where there is good traffic but are very easy to rank high in Google. Some of the biggest mistakes people make when they try to make money online is jumping into a highly competitive niche or focusing on keywords that are just to competitive.

You might be thinking about how you can monetize your niche, well good news, there is products in EVERY niche. Even if you can't find products you don't like, you can always use Google Ad-sense or sell your own ads once you have sustained traffic. The easiest affiliate program to become a member of is clickbank but I'd also recommend commission junction. Either one will most likely have many products in the niche you are promoting.

Lastly, check other blogs in your niche. See what kind of success they are having, how many RSS subscribers, twitter followers, or facebook fans they have. That is a great indicator of what kind of success you may be able to pull in the same niche.