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

Submitting your best articles to the top online article repositories exposes your new articles to a large potential audience, both at the article directories and on other people's sites if they use your interesting articles as posts. Popular articles can be some of the best 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 start out looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the best source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are added online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and the like.

So before posting those new articles to your blog, click over to the top group of directories and post your articles, being careful to be sure the Author's Resource Box leads back to your blog or squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's aimed at building your opt-in list and your blog readership simultaneously.

Ensure your new articles are full of valuable content - attempting to write an article just for it's backlink value is a basic blunder, since getting prospects to your submitted articles is only half the job. The intent is to get them swept up in your articles' content, establish yourself as an authority on the topic, and motivate them to take action and go to your opt-in form or your blog. That requires both powerful information in your article AND solid, related material on the landing page.

One of the reasons that this model 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 generation from your articles by offering a bonus report, audio or video on the same problem to people who sign up. This way the recruit gets what they desire, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.