Your previous articles you've posted on your sites could be building traffic and building e-mail lists for you much faster if you start to submit articles to article directories regularly.

Posting your best articles to the top online article sites exposes your new articles to a large 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 one 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 begin by looking for information, and Internet articles are one of the premiere source of new information. Every day thousands of new articles are published online, through article directories, blogs, Web 2.0 sites and similar sites.

So before posting those new articles to your blog, go to the best group of directories and submit your articles, taking care to make sure your Author's Resource Box leads 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 readership concurrently.

Be sure your new articles are full of useful content - trying to write an article just for it's search engine value is a typical blunder, since getting people to your online articles is only part of the job. The intent is to get them wrapped up in your articles' message, establish yourself as an authority on the topic, and get them to take action and head to your opt-in form or your blog. That needs both powerful information in your article AND solid, related information on the landing page.

One of the reasons that this method builds opt-in lists so fast is that the person wants information on a topic, reads your article and then sees your link to more information. Maximize your traffic building from your articles by offering a bonus report, audio or video on the same point to people who sign up. This way the prospect gets what they want, while you're building traffic and building opt-in lists.