A Great way to get more traffic to your website is through Articles.
You can create many specific articles about different things your website may offer.

For Example, if you run a Get Paid To Click(PTC) site, you can create an article on 'How To Earn Money Easily', and another one for Advertisers: 'Get valid page views at a low cost' or anything else you can think of.

When you do SEO(Search Engine Optimization) work, you can only target so many keywords. Articles help you target specific qualities of your website that you want to be targeted, viewed, and it will help you get members who are more determined to help you.

Here I will tell you how you can get an article (which you should usually put them in your main website: "www.getpaidtoclick.com/articles", and have a link to that in your home page) listed in Search Engines in about an hour.

That way potentional members may use a search engine to target keywords that you may not have listed in your META, and still get directed to your site.

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Create an HTML article containing what you want.
It is very important that you use proper tags, including title tags.

Make sure to include the keywords you are trying to target in your title.
You should also look to do the same in the first paragraph of your article. Ocassionally you should bold a few keywords to get them more noticable.

Your article should be pretty decent in size, not too short, and not extremley huge. 1,500 characters or so is a decent number.

Once the Article is written:
You will need to post them in a few user-contributed sites:
http://www.digg.com
http://www.subbmitt.com
http://www.mixx.com
http://www.swik.net
http://www.linksmarker.com
http://foundit.open.ac.uk/
http://shoutwire.com/

These sites will get search engines like Google to notice your article pretty quickly.
In addition, you should put the link to your article in your signature in different forums, this includes This one, or some other ones you may be active in.

I very much suggesst you using Anchor texts to get your keywords out there.
Anchor Texts are texts that you use to replace the domain name in Hyperlinks.

For Example:
Using Anchor Text: Get Paid Forum - Discuss Freebite Sites among other things!
Without Anchor Text: http://www.getpaidforum.com

For most forums, you may use the "Insert Link" button in order to create an Anchor Text Hyperlink.

The process is fairly simple, this busy forum, along with other busy sites that I listed above, will get your articles out there pretty quickly. Just make sure your article includes ways your potential members can navigate to other places and links including your Homepage and a way for them to register to your service.

Not only will this increase your traffic, but a lot of the users you will get from it will usually be interested and dedicated ones, whom you need in order to run a successful GPT!

I have been experimenting with articles quite a bit lately and from what I have read it seems that if you publish an article on article site or forum etc that you should not also publish the same article on your own site as duplicate content is not look on favourably by search engines.

In your experience do you find this to be correct?

Adam

Yes, I've read that exact duplicate content on multiple sites tends to reduce your rank on a few search engines and indices.

I was informed by a programmer at Google
that I have worked with on projects in the
past that the new search engine Alogorythm
based most of its weighting on relevant
quality back links.

Having a well designed site of mostly text links
with an XML site-map that you have submitted
by hand helps the search engine bots spider
your site. Also try submitting individual pages
and don't forget to put a link to a html site-map
in your footer.

Sounds interesting.

looks interesting
Happy Christmas and happy new year to you

The 2ways I like most is by writing good ebooks or articles, then putting your website link into your article, it helps alot espeialy if the article is free and receives alot of downloads. The other way is also by posting on forums, and putting in your sig, especialy i like it when you get paid to post, and you also put it into the sig, it's a nice feeling

Good article, thanks for the post, keep posting

yep.. article writing is my next step!

I feel like an artist! More like a best-selling author who's not famous yet! You do need calm and inspiration to write about stuff! Or structure if you get carried away with content and information!

But thanks for the few links to submit my future articles! Oh boy.. I'm procrastinating!

My advice to procrastinators like myself: fix yourself a time frame! For example: by next Wednesday, I should have 5 articles ready to be published!

Go Go Go!!!

The list of user contributed websites alone make this article worth reading. All the extra info was great as well.

Thanks a lot for sharing.

yup i know article submission is also a good way to enhance traffic to your site

Does anyone have an automatic article submitter which I could get a copy of?

I've seen some of those that can distribute to over 1500 directories instantly.

It work provide better results than submitting to 6.

Just a thought,

Matty