Your previous articles you've posted on your sites could be building traffic plus building e-mail lists for you a lot quicker if you begin to submit articles to article directories regularly.

Submitting your best articles to the top online article directories exposes your new articles to a large potential audience, both at the article directories and on other people's blogs if they use your interesting articles as posts. Popular articles can be some of the biggest sources of targeted traffic, thus helping you build opt-in lists and build targeted traffic.

And really, this article marketing strategy only makes sense. Most people come online looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the best source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are published online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and similar sites.

So before adding those new articles to your blog, go to the top few directories and add your articles, taking care to ensure your Author's Resource Box points back to your blog and squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's targeted at building your opt-in list and your blog readership simultaneously.

Be sure your new articles contain high-value content - attempting to write an article just for it's backlink value is a typical error, since getting prospects to your online articles is only part of the process. The intent is to get them wrapped up in your articles' content, show yourself as an expert on the topic, and motivate them to take action and click through to your opt-in form or your blog. That needs both valuable information in your article AND solid, relevant information on your landing page.

One of the reasons that this method builds opt-in lists so easily is that the person is looking for facts on a topic, reads your article and then sees your link to additional information. Increase your traffic building from your articles by offering a bonus report, audio or video on the same question to prospects who sign up. This way the candidate gets what they are looking for, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.