Article Marketing is useful for direct qualified traffic to your Website

Best practices SEO Tips by Pieter Gussenhoven

Article marketing has a more direct impact to the traffic that lands on your website than SEO. That is a fact. How many visitors do you get to your website? Hundreds every day? If so, then you must be in the top 10 results on Google for your keyword on at least one of your pages.
The vast majority of people gets nowhere and gives up before giving themselves a chance, simply because they rely on organic search engine listings for traffic. Even their blogs get few visitors - if they get any. If that is you, then there is way out of this, and an easy way to get masses of visitors without having to rely on search engines. Article marketing.

This applies to the following forms of web page:

 Traditional website pages
 Blogs
 Squidoo lenses
 Facebook pages
 Myspace pages
 Any other online page that can be accessed via a URL or web address

If you have a need for visitors to any of these pages that you run or own, then Article Marketing is your answer. You can forget search engine optimization and trying to get your web page seen on other blogs or forums. You should write articles or have them written for you. Website traffic is so easy to get using article marketing.

Many different people use articles in many different ways to promote their products, services, websites, blogs, lenses and WEB2 pages, and from the amount of money that many of them pay me to write literally dozens and dozens of articles, they are doing very well from it.

Their pages are not listed in the top 100 pages on Google for their keywords, let alone the top 10, yet they make masses of money from their sites. Why? Because they get traffic from their articles. How do they get that traffic? Forget the lies and the hype. Here is the truth of the matter.

Readers

People read articles on article directories. If you write an article, or pay to have them written, and then submít them to directories, then they will be read by visitors to these directories. There are read ignorant people that write that nobody reads articles on article directories, but they are talking nonsense. People do read them!!
After publishing articles we get an average of about 150 website referral visits per month, resulting in more online-business. We only submit really worthwhile news facts to sites like PR-web.com:

Adding an XML sitemap will definitely help search engines to crawl your website faster and more effective

Best practices SEO Tips by Pieter Gussenhoven

2. See how powerful a site map can truly be!

Page rank is relative and shared throughout a website by a unique and democratic voting system created by Google. I could spend hours trying to explain how Page rank works, but what it comes down to is having efficient and easy access navigation throughout your site. That is where a site map page comes in. Since every page on the website will be linked directly to the site map, it allows web crawlers (and internet users) to quickly and easily find content.

So, by placing a sitemap file on your website, you enable Google and other search engines to find out what pages are present, which have recently changed and have them spider your website accordingly. Using site maps allow you to inform and direct Google and other search engines like Yahoo and MSN Live Search what content you have available on your Website.

An example:

A site map helps to dig up deep content on websites: It used to take 4 clicks to get to a product page at www.questinc.com. By creating a site map, users and search engines can now access any page on the site with only 2 clicks. The Page rank from these deep pages went from 0 to 2 in about 3 months and the ranking went from virtually not existent to number 1 almost across the board for nearly 2,000 pages on their site!

So, how to add a site map to my website?

4 easy steps to get it done on www.xml-sitemaps.com/

1. Enter your full website URL and some optional parameters in the form;

2. Press 'Start' button and wait until the site is completely crawled (the progress will be indicated);

3. You will see the generated sitemap details page, including number of pages, broken links list, XML file content and link to a compressed sitemap. Download the sitemap file using this link and put it into the "public_html/" folder of your site;

4. Go to your Google Webmaster account and add your sitemap URL. Please check About Sitemaps for more details.

Good luck!