How to Use Article Marketing to Bring Traffic to Your Hubpages

A lot of affiliate marketers use article marketing as a free and easy way to bring traffic to their offers, but even if you don't participate in affiliate marketing, there's no reason you can't use the same methods to bring traffic to your Hubpages. Additionally, since most of the major article directories have great PR and Alexa rankings, this should also help increase your presence in the Google search results, especially if you target your keywords effectively.

Increased traffic at your hubpage will bring with it better hubpage rankings and possibly some more adsense and affiliate earnings too, so take advantage of the opportunity to promote your hubpages with article marketing.

How Do I Do Article Marketing?

Article marketing is pretty easy, especially if you already spend a lot of time writing for your Hubpages and the ideas are flowing. The best thing to do is decide which of your Hubpages are worthy of writing a separate and shorter article about and then sit down and write between 300-400 words. I find this works well if I have several hubpages grouped together, then I have a lot of information to work with and coming up with another 400 words or so to say about it is pretty easy.

Once you come up with your article, then you need to put together your "author's resource box" or profile. It is in that resource box that you can link back to one of your hubpages. If you have a group of hubpages on the same topic, then use the gateway page for that topic for your link. For example, you may have seen the various hubs I've created for each of the tv networks and what shows they are streaming online. Once I had all of those pages created, I then created a page to act as a gateway to the rest of the group, Watch TV Shows Online For Free. So in my article marketing, I'm directing traffic to that page and then hopefully some of those visitors will filter themselves off to my other pages on the same subject.

Some article directories even allow you to add more than one link to your resource box, so in that case I've added a link to another hubpage of mine that is also related to television, 7 Ways TiVo Will Change Your Life. That page is about television too, of course, but it isn't exactly on target for the topic of my article.

Just make sure that when you create your article resource box that the text is punched up enough that readers will be compelled to click on it. Backlinks are great, but traffic is even better!

The first place you should submit your articles is Ezinearticles. They're the biggest and most popular article directory online and Google practically lives on their pages so your article should get indexed quickly. I would also recommend that you submit a completely unique article to Ezinearticles, then once they accept it (it can take several days), go ahead and do a rewrite on that article, changing about 30-35% of its content and then just submit that new article to the rest of the directories.

Here's a list of the top article directory sites that you should consider sending your submissions to. All of them have great Alexa rankings and PR.

That list should keep you busy for awhile and hopefully you'll start reaping the rewards soon with additional traffic and attention to your hubpages and more adsense earnings :)

If you have any other great resources, feel free to add them in the comments box!