Your previous articles you've created for 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 best online article sites 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 content. 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 first 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 publishing those new articles to your blog, go to the top few directories and add your articles, taking care to ensure the Author's Resource Box links back to your blog or squeeze page so that you're building targeted traffic that's targeted at building your opt-in list and your blog audience simultaneously.

Be sure your new articles contain helpful content - trying to create an article just for it's backlink value is a typical error, since getting people to your online articles is only part of the process. The real trick is to get them engrossed in your articles' content, show yourself as an authority on the topic, and get 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, related info on the landing page.

One of the reasons that this model builds opt-in lists so fast is that the person is looking for tips on a topic, reads your article and then sees your link to more details. Build your traffic building from your efforts by giving a bonus report, audio or video on the same subject to those who sign up. This way the candidate gets what they need, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.