Your Own Article Directory: The road to easy money?
Author: Craig Ritsema
What or where is the road to easy money?
Maybe you have a rich uncle? Or maybe you know the winning numbers to the
lottery? However, if you’re thinking an Article Directory is the way to go, you
may be disappointed.
Why isn’t an Article directory the path to success?
With the search engines, content is “king” so more content should increase the
chances of our website being included in the search engine results - Right?
Traditionally, making money from an Article Directory required that advertising
of some sort, like Google’s AdSense, be added to each article’s page. Users
would find the article via the search engines, read the article, and then click
on the advertising link. The result is money earned from the user clicking on
the ad. If we published more articles, then more people would click and we
would make MORE money. Get the idea?
This normally would be sound thinking; however the thing about search engines
that it is easy to forget is that they have very few slots open at the top of
their search results. Getting to the top is not easy anymore, especially if
you’re working in a competitive subject area. The amount of content on the
internet continues to grow daily.
So what good then is an Article Directory?
I’d suggest that an Article Directory is one piece of developing a website
worth visiting and “worthy” of the top search engine results. You need to have
GOOD PRODUCTS and SERVICES to make any money. However, if you want your site to
be around very long you also need information to keep your visitors.
For example: When I first started looking into establishing a home business, I
knew almost nothing about one - other than the fact that there were a lot of
scams and I needed to be careful before pulling out the credit card.
I did some research, and then finally selected a company that had been around
for a while with products to sell along with an opportunity. My sponsor had his
own website and one of the first things I did after signing up was to look thru
his site for more information. I went thru various pages of his site reading
everything I could and also clicking on… guess what… AdSense ads. (Google and
their advertiser’s would probably have been happy as well as I was a “targeted
clicker”).
The point of this example is that there are many WAYS TO MAKE MONEY on the
internet – MAKE USE OF ALL OF THEM.
An article directory may very well help draw people to your site thru the
search engines, depending on the content of the articles and many other
factors. However, like many other site owners you may need to use multiple
techniques to get visitors to your site. Along the same line of thinking you
may need multiple ways of making money. Once you get visitors to your site you
need to keep them there and keep them coming back for more and then to either
spend money or generate money via advertising clicks.
Today, with online marketing there may no longer be any one “easy road” to
success, but there are still lots of different techniques which together all
contribute to success.
Your own article directory is one way to be successful.
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