Once your website is up and running, you need a valid plan of action to get the site on the radar. It does not really matter if its an affiliate site, an ecommerce site, or a niche blog written by you. All of them go nowhere without traffic, whether you are looking to make money or not. While there are multitudes of tools that can assist with this, the fact is search engines are still the single largest source of free traffic to your site. One of the best ways to move up your ranking in the seach engines is through writing articles and posting them to many article directories.
To get decent results, you will need to create 20 to 40 unique and different articles about your niche. You want to cover all angles of your sites niche, and make sure you cover the top 5 to 7 keywords in your particular area. Do not try to get ranked on too many at one time, you need to focus your energy and article writing on a specific set until you start seeing visible results, then move on to a few others. Once you have your niche articles written, you will need to have a tool to help you spin the content.
For those of you new to SEO and website ranking stuff, spinning simply means that you have several variations of the same content so that you do not post 200 copies of the exact same text all over the web. So for example, your sentence might be "The dog is brown". If you wanted to change this around, you could also say almost the same thing with "The dog has black fur". So its basically the same end image, but using different words. The reason for this is most of the search engines will impose a duplicate content penalty at some point, this is to keep someone from posting 10,000 copies of the same thing all at once all over the web to get links - essentially gaming the system. The cutoff area is not really stated by the search engines, its a gray area. In general, even with spinning, I try to never post more than 20 identical copies of the same article to sites on the web.
One great tool for distributing your articles and spinning the content is My Article Network. You have the ability to post to over 10,000 blogs, covering thousands of different locations and IP addresses. The publishing of your article is totally automated once added and the simple spin tools are used to add additional relevant content. Best of all, if you have a site in need of additional content, its 100% free to use. This is probably the best tool I have ever seen for article marketing, and the ease of use is incredible.
