Your existing articles you've published 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 sites regularly.

Posting your latest articles to the top online article repositories exposes your new articles to a huge 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 premiere 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, go to the best group of directories and submit your articles, taking care to confirm your Author's Resource Box links 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 audience concurrently.

Be sure your new articles contain helpful content - trying to create an article just for it's backlink value is a prevalent blunder, since getting people to your submitted articles is only part of the process. The intent is to get them totally absorbed in your articles' message, show yourself as an authority on the topic, and get them to take action and go to your opt-in form or your blog. That requires both powerful information in your article AND solid, relevant information on the landing page.

One of the reasons that this procedure builds opt-in lists so well is that the person wants knowledge on a topic, reads your article and then sees your link to more tips. Amplify your traffic building from your efforts by offering a bonus report, audio or video on the same point to prospects who sign up. This way the prospect gets what they are after, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.