by:
Tom Smith
You detected
writing articles is a great way to driving traffic to your site. So you have written several articles and announce them to dozens of article sites. Then you sit back and wait for the avalanche of traffic. And wait. Nothing is happening. What’s the deal?
The deal is depending on where
your article gets republished your links may not be “live”. Writing articles and posting them is a great way to driving traffic to your site. Search engines love it and if done right it wish help driving new visitors to your site and get you listed higher in the search engines. The problem comes once
article writers and authors and publishers don’t all follow the same rules. The main problems are:
1. Innovational article not formatted correctly
2. Article traced and glued into new webpage without links
3. New publisher doesn’t do links live
Lets start with #1 “Original article not formatted correctly”. Not all article sites are the same. On several sites you can just put in plain text and it wish format it correctly, paragraphs wish be correct and it wish recognize http://www.yoursite.com as a live link. Several sites you may need to format it all in html. Sometimes the easiest way to do that is type your article in a web design program such as “Dreamweaver” and then view the source and copy and paste the code. If you don’t have access to such a program then you should discover a few basic hypertext mark-up language tags:
View the source of this page to see the hypertext mark-up language tags.
This is a “break” tag, The break tag is used once
you want to end a line, but don't want to start a new paragraph. The break tag forces a line break where
you place it, a really common tag and one that is recognized by most all article sites.
Bold thing
you want in bold should go between these tags
italic thing
you want in italic should go between these tags
http://www.yoursite.com--some sites wish recognize this as a live link. Galore wish not! This is where
you are going to lose your links! If your article is traced and glued into another web page or ezine your link wish not be clickable. Person who actually wants to go to your webpage can copy and paste it into their browser but it is alot easier if person can just click on it! If it is not a clickable live link search engines wish not follow it not matter how galore times it is republished. Imangine your article being reprinted 1000 times, a potential of 1000 back links to your site but without it being a clickable link you won’t reap the benefits of those 1000 links. Your links to your sites should always be formatted this way:
If you follow the correct hypertext mark-up language formating for links your website links wish always be clickable. To discover more just about hypertext mark-up language tags search google for "html tags"
2. Article traced and glued into new webpage without links. Your article may be right formatted on the article site you announce to but once
it is traced and glued into a new webpage or ezine it may lose several of it’s formatting. Several of the better sites have a select of “ezine ready”, this wish display your article in the correct hypertext mark-up language format which does it easier to copy and paste.
3. New publisher doesn’t do links live. All article sites have a policy that clearly states “you are free to republish the article as long as the links and author bio stays with the article” Several don’t realize your links are no longer live or don’t cognize to do them live. Others leave them off all together or don’t do them live on purpose. Not more you can do except write to the website owner and request they do them live. Several wish comply, several won’t. Chalk it up to the cost of doing business. For everysite that doesn’t do your links live, 10 will.
Support publishing! Writing articles and posting them across the computer network is still a great way to driving traffic to your site. Content is king and website owners, and ezine publishers are hungry for fresh new innovational content.
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TJ Smith is the creative force behind several websites including Article Boy article submission site and content archive and The Blogger Nation Web log Directory
