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Why You Should Be Syndicating Your Articles
Most webmasters know that providing entertaining and informative
content on their website is a good way to generate traffic and
keep that traffic coming back for more. One of the easiest ways
to do this is by including articles that educate people about
the topic or topics that your site covers.
For example: If you have a site that deals with pet products,
your customers would likely benefit from and enjoy reading
articles about pet training, pet nutrition and pet behavior. And
not only will your articles be beneficial to your current
customers, they may also attract more and more visitors to your
website.
You see, everyday millions upon millions of people are surfing
the web looking for answers. They find the answers to their
questions by typing in certain keywords on search engines. The
engines then point them to sites and articles that provide the
information that they are looking for. If you have the
information they need and if your site ranks high enough on the
search engines, they could be directed to your site. But if you
don't rank high enough, they may never even make it to your site
even if you have the best information on the topic.
Why? Search engines like Google rank websites according to
numerous factors. Some of those factors include content and how
often it is updated and how often new content is added to it,
but the main thing that search engines look for are links.
Simply said, the more links that you have pointing to your
website, the more popular it is in Google's eyes and the better
ranking it gets on search results.
You can add links in a variety of ways. You can manually go and
add your URL to other site's link pages or you can pay a fee and
have an automated system link you to thousands of websites in
the blink of an eye. One problem with these types of links,
though, is that your link is listed on a page with hundreds of
other links. Nobody is going to find your site this way. I mean,
how many people actually look at those link pages anyway? And
these types of links don't account for much in the eyes of
search engines either.
The best way that you can link to other sites is by giving them
something beneficial to their customers, something that will
attract customers and something that will contain a link back
to
your site like an article. Look at it this way, your pet product
website might not rank that high on search engines, but what if
you could find a site that ranks in the top 10 that deals with
dog breeds. You could provide this website with articles on pet
products that contain a link back to your site. Not only are you
gaining customers one at a time, but you are also improving your
ranking with Google with each link that you add.
Letting other people use your articles on their website is
called article syndication. Article syndication has many
benefits including product awareness, attracting visitors to
your site and increasing your page rank on search engines such
as Google.
· Product Awareness - Say there is someone out there who is
really interested in home security and home security products.
You just happen to have a site that sells home security systems.
Now, each time that this person goes online to learn more about
what's new in home security, he is directed to articles
distributed by your company. While he may have never clicked
onto your site, he will still remember your name and the more
that he sees your name connected with home security products,
the more likely he will be to view you as a home security
authority. Not only will this person likely purchase home
security products from your site, he will probably tell his
friends about you also.
· Attracting Visitors - When you catch someone's eye with an
informative article, they may want to see what else you know on
the subject. By providing a link to your site in your articles,
you can give people a way to search your site for other answers
and articles.
· Increasing Rank - As mentioned earlier, the amount of links
that you have pointing to your site increases your rank on
search engines. The more articles that you syndicate equal more
links pointing to your site.
As you can see, there are many benefits to syndicating your
articles. So, instead of asking yourself why you should
syndicate, you should ask yourself why you're not syndicated
yet.
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