This is a strategy for getting quick targeted traffic to your article.  Now, you’re going to have to put in some extra work, outside of the research on the article and writing the article, but it can really pay off.

This is what I call the mini-guerrilla marketing campaign.  What I mean by guerrilla marketing is that you simply go a little crazy and get the link to your article in as many places as possible.  Get that link in front of every targeted eyeball that you can.

I call it mini because you’re only doing this for one article and maybe only for an hour.  Think of it as a power hour where your hair is on fire and you need to submit the link to your article to as many places as possible.

If you have a mailing list, mail them.  If you have a blog, post about it on there.  If you have a Twitter following, tweet about there.  If you have Myspace or Facebook friends, post about it on there.  That is the importance of building up your assets.

You can post about it in any number of different social networking or social bookmarking sites.  You can put a link to it in your signature line and post in various forums.  You can submit it various article directories, of course.

If you are going to put in the work of writing the article, you should go that extra last step and promote your article.  Relying solely on SEO can be the downfall of many article writers.

They don’t get anywhere near the first page of the search engines because they either didn’t take the time to do keyword research, they don’t take the time to use Web 2.0 or they are targeting keywords with too much competition.  With all of this time that some people put into SEO research, they could of written their article and started to promote it already, especially in the really competitive niches. 

There are all kinds of places that you can get traffic from, I’ve listed quite a few in this article, but there are plenty more out there.  When it boils down to it, a lot of times what separates someone who is successful online from someone who isn’t, is it comes down to focused hard work and acting on good information.