Actually thats a good point, the direct traffic, is almost nothing, but as i said i still do write artciles, becasue there are some many non-direct alternatives that articels give you.
1.credibility, if you write articles then your educated on the subject.
2.a gateway for a lot of traffic. If you can write a controversal article on any sunject, and then get the article passed around you can get a lot of links and a lot of traffic. i konw one article with the head line "mothers are worth $132000" a year got enormus traffic within just a few days.
actaully heres a link for writing "link baiting" articles which encourage people to link to you.
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