Six Ways to Generate Traffic for Your Articles

Once your article is accepted by InfoBarrel, you only need to sit back and watch the Google adsense profit as the online income floods in, right? Wrong! Getting the article approved is only half the battle. The next step is to share all your wisdom with the rest of the world. After all, wouldn’t the world be a far better place if every person on-line could read your piece and recognize your brilliance? If you follow these tips, you will increase your readership.

If you speak with an experienced author, they will say that they are earning somewhere between $0.50 and $2.00 every month per article. It’s a numbers game and it is important that you have an understanding of the very direct link between people reading your article and AdSense revenue. In all honesty, you can expect to generate somewhere around $18.00 for each 1,000 views from AdSense. That’s all. If you hear that an article pulled in $1.00 in revenue, you can do the calculations backward and know that the article probably had around 55 page-views. That is a respectable number for somebody who has a) not researched their keyword phrases (subject of a future post), b) not taken into consideration Search Engine Optimization in the article summary box (subject of a future article), c) not independently promoted their articles/posts and d) not tried to further monetize their articles with online affiliate leads (subject of a future post).

Simply speaking, to generate income in this space, you have to generate traffic to your article.

Whenever I receive the notification that my article has been published, I follow these five steps to generate web-site visitors:

1. Update your previously published articles with a view toward building links to your newest article – this has to be organic and cannot appear as though you are crow-barring in backlinks for the sake of it. If done effectively, it will help a reader to remain inside your various content, which raises the likelihood they will discover something they really like/recommend to others. For instance, in my article on Classic Bollywood movies (which I wrote because keyword had good search volume), I had a line that said Bollywood stars were India’s version of Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp. When I wrote that sentence, I had intended to write subsequent articles on these two actors. When these subsequent articles were approved, I inserted backlinks into the original Bollywood piece.

2. Submit your piece to InfoBarrel for consideration to be a feature article. So far, I have had fifteen features and can confirm this generates increased volume. You can submit to more than one category.

3. Create a regular auto-tweet for your new article using a product such as TweetAdder or HootSuite. If possible, include the twitter handles of famous people who might be interested and retweet your article. This happened to me once – I wrote a piece about Howard Stern and his re-tweet generated almost 10,000 views within 24 hours.

4. Update your Google AdSense account with the link to the new article. This will help you monitor the revenue being produced for each article. After a while, you will notice certain article types out-punch their weight when it comes to revenue, while ones you thought would be slam-dunks fall flat. This is important in your evolution as an author. Within Google Adsense, go to ‘My Ads’, and then ‘URL Channels’.

5. Post the article on various Web 2.0 properties (StumbleUpon, Facebook, Pintrest, etc) to give it a chance of going viral.

With those 5 steps, you should be able to generate some additional traffic for your article.