Article marketing can be used to generate traffic to your own blog. When you start with article marketing you will discover that it is extremely competitive with many network marketers trying to market online.

How to attract blog visitors?

Use these 10 tips to generate traffic to your blog:

1. Ensure your content is all over the internet. All the content should link back to your blog.Promote your content in promotion videos and promotion e-books.
2. Focus on article writing and to submit good and original content. Study good copywriters and become one yourself (a good copywriter!)
3. Submit unique and valuable content consistently over a period of time and you will be noticed resulting in visitors to your blog.
4. Start today and build up your copywriting skills from article to article, learning as you do.Do not wait until you have become the perfect copywriter. It takes time to become a respectable copywriter.
5. Use as many tools as possible to save you time and keep you focusing on article writing. With internet marketing time is money. If there is a tool that can save you a day in doing something consider getting it.
6. Create variations on your unique content and use tools to help you to do it.
7. Use these variation articles as promotion articles to promote your original content on your blog.
8. Do submission of the variations on your articles to article directories. Use an automatic article submitter tool to save you time.
9. Create interest to visit your blog by actively promoting your good and beneficial content in as many places as possible.
10. Make videos promoting the articles on your blog and submit these videos to video sharing networks. Use tools to assist you to submit these videos to as many networks as possible.

Avoid these 5 mistakes

Take note of these five tips if you want to generate traffic to your blog:

1. Never point all your traffic to only one site. You must have a blog AND a lead capture page.
2. All your articles submitted to article directories should always point back to your blog.
3. There should always be an opportunity to get the reader of your blog to opt-in to your list.This is where you convert your readers to leads.
4. Avoid submitting similar content to hundreds of article directories. If you want your articles to be viewed as unique by Google, create variations on your articles.
5. Avoid thinking that submission of one or two articles to a few article directories will be sufficient to create traffic to your blog. Massive action is required if you want to attract enough visitors to generate leads from.

Following these techniques consistently over a time will result in a slow increase and sudden explosion of blog traffic. Consistency is key.

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Melanie Kok is a Lead Generation Coach and a Online Marketing Strategist. These 10 best article marketing tips is available on Melanie Kok's Blog. A step by step blueprint of how to generate 20000 visitors to your blog within 8 weeks is available for free.