Here's something I hear each week from novice article marketers:

"I've posted some articles to the directories and I'm still not getting any traffic. What am I doing wrong?"

Well, the first thing we have to do is define what "some" means. In my experience some usually means less than ten. And ten is just not enough.

I hear this so often. People think just few articles will do the trick, and it just won't.

Hitting "critical mass"

Here's what I mean by hitting critical mass. There comes a point where you have enough articles on the web that the traffic begins to flow.

For me I hit critical mass at 25 articles on EzineArticles.com. At that point the traffic changed from a trickle to a stream flowing into my websites and newsletters.

I don't know what your critical mass will be. Here is what I do know: you need to keep posting until you hit your own critical mass, whatever number that may be.

And, once you hit critical mass, you can stop writing.

NOT!

I hope you did not fall for that last line for even a second!

Once you hit critical mass, keep on writing. I hit critical mass at 25 articles, and if this article is accepted, I'll be at 432, and my goal is 1,000 by the end of the year.

So my big tip for you is to write away, right away!

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