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Traffic is a major issue when designing a website but its not the only thing that should be factored in when designing a website.
There are different kinds of traffic one can attain to ones website.
There is the short term traffic. These are people that arrive at your site,maybe stay for a few minutes,without putting your sites in there favorite places,and leave. Now,with long term traffic,meaning people have a real interest in the content of your site,have favorite placed your site,and are frequent repeat visitors to your website,you,the webmaster,now have a way of building up a following of people who are truly interested in the content of your website.

There are a number of ways to get traffic to a website,both paid and free.
One free way is to write an article. Pick any topic that interests you and write about it. Make the article word count anywhere from 350-500 words.

Most article directories require 500 or more words,some 350 words.
At the end of your article,you have what is known as a resource box.
Here you write about you,the author,in the third person,a short bio and at the end your entitled to leave a link to a website of your choosing.

If by chance,you are not gifted in the area of writing,there are many paid services that will write an article for you. One such place is elance.com. Here you can find what are called "Ghost Writers". These are writers who write the article for you and give you the copyright and all other rights to the article to do with it as you see fit.


Here is where it gets interesting. There are virtually thousands of article directories to submit your articles to.
If your article stands out,there is a chance that it can be picked up for distribution by publishers of ezines and email newsletters.
Your article has the chance to be seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
The major article directories like:
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.articles-hub.com

Have a high google page rank index. This means that submitting your articles to those directories,gives you a very good chance to get your articles seen by people doing a search for the keywords or keyword phrases you have chosen for your article.

Here is the address of the top 200 article directories:
http://www.submitinme.com/article-directory-list.asp

Keep in mind,the major search engines like google,yahoo and msn,refrain from duplicate content.
Meaning if you submit an article to all of the 200 directories above,in all likelyhood,you will not attain good organic search engine results.

The proper way to submit an article is the process known as "Article Leveraging".
You submit your original article to approximately ten article directories.
The next step is to edit your original article by adding a few paragraphs of new content.
You then submit this new version of your article to another ten article directories.
Repeat the process until you have submitted to all the article directories on your list.
When you leverage your articles,you are assured of not being penalized for duplicate content.
Writing and submitting articles are a great way to get long term traffic to your website.
You can learn about more ways of getting free traffic to your websites at:
http://www.willies-wholesale-warehouse.com/5traffictactics.htm
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