Drive New Traffic And Repeat Visitors To Your Web Site -- And Establish Your Industry Expertise -- With These Great FREE RESOURCES!

If youre like a lot of small e-business owners, finding time to write articles or maintain a monthly newsletter can be extremely difficult and hiring a writer probably isnt in your budget either.

But you know that if you want to

1)       Increase the number of repeat visitors to your web site!

2)       Establish your credibility as an industry expert!

3)       Legitimately contact your customers and subscribers again and again to promote your products and services!

then you need to find a way to provide your visitors with current, quality articles.

But how can you do this without the expense or loss of time that comes with hiring a writer or writing the articles yourself?

Simple! You can

Take advantage of the free articles that are ready and waiting on the web!

Did you know there are web sites that devote themselves to collecting quality, timely articles that you can use on your web site at absolutely no cost?

Its true! Articles are collected from all over the web on almost every topic imaginable -- and compiled at sites like List-Content.com ready for you to use on your web site or in your newsletter.

The only thing you need to do is include the authors name and link at the bottom of the article. (Give credit where credit is due!)

If youre a regular reader of our newsletter, youve probably heard me say this before

People dont come online to buy! they come online to research!

Very rarely do people come online with the attitude, I want to spend, spend, spend! (Sad, but true.)

Instead, they come online to find solutions to problems they have to comparison shop and to learn what their options are.

So if you want to increase your sales on the web, you need to

Stop selling people and start solving their problems.

How do you solve their problems? Simple! Provide them with free articles newsletters eBooks e-zines etc that contain the exact information they are looking for!

By providing your visitors with the exact information they need, you will

1)       Establish your credibility as an industry expert

Answer their questions and solve their problems, and your visitors will begin to see you as an industry expert and trust you. Once they trust you, theyll feel comfortable buying from you!

2)       Increase your traffic by making your web site sticky

People will see your site as a valuable resource instead of some site thats trying to sell them something so theyll come back again and again! And that means even more opportunities to market your product or service to them.

But best of all, you will give yourself

3)       A legitimate reason to contact them over and over again!

Youve established trust. Youve established credibility. And youve developed a relationship with them. Great! Now you have the perfect opportunity and excuse to e-mail them.

You can send them articles that contain valuable information as well as brief plugs for your product or service.

Because your customers and subscribers see you as a source of valuable information not a salesperson theyll be grateful for your tips and advice and

More open to any offers you present them with!

If your web site is set up as a blatant sales brochure, its far more difficult to do this!

So if youre finding yourself short on time, and you dont have the budget to hire a writer, then you may want to take advantage of the free articles on the following web sites

http://www.list-content.com

http://list-resources.com

http://infobot.net

http://www.web-source.net/articles/

http://ezinearticles.com

http://www.ideamarketers.com

http://www.mediapeak.com

http://certificate.net/wwio/index.shtml

But dont limit yourself to these sites!

Obviously, if you want your information to be of value to your visitors, then it must be relevant. So if these sites dont turn up articles related to your industry or niche, then try searching free content or free articles in the search engines.

Youll be stunned at how many sites offer this sort of free content for the taking!

If youre interested in having industry news rotated through your site by an outside source for free then you might want to check out http://w.moreover.com/site/products/webmaster/index.html

For absolutely no cost, theyll automatically update news headlines at your site from 1800 sources. You choose the subject that you want the articles to be about (i.e. stock market, cars, relationships, etc.), and theyll put the articles on your site. And it only takes about 5 minutes to set up.

Of course, I should warn you that there are a couple of disadvantages to using this kind of service

1)       Their logo appears along with the news headlines and Im always cautious about posting links and advertising that will send visitors away from my site.

2)       The articles cant be archived at your site so if one of your visitors comes back to read a particular article a second time, it will be gone. When you write your own articles or use articles from a free content site, the article will be posted at your site as long as you leave it there.

However, with that said, this still may be a great option for some of you.

Important Note: Dont limit yourself to these free content sites when looking for articles.

If you come across an article that would be of value to your visitors, consider contacting the author to request permission to use it. More likely than not, theyll be happy to let you post it on your site or in your newsletter; after all, its great publicity for them!

And dont worry it doesnt matter that you didnt write these articles yourself. Your visitors dont care. What matters to them is that youre providing them with quality information that solves their problems.

Theyll see your site as a valuable resource because thats where they found the exact information they were looking for.

Of course, I highly recommend making an effort to include some of your own articles at your site. This is obviously the best way to prove your expertise and establish your credibility.

When people read your articles, they see you rather than your web site as the resource. So not only do they value the information you give them theyre more likely to carefully consider offers you make them (and more likely to buy)!

However, until you have the time to write the articles yourself or the money to hire a writer the free articles found at such sites as List-Content.com are a great alternative.

Youll get the benefits of providing your visitors with quality information without the hassle and expense!