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Article submission

Many website owners use article directories as a way to advertise their site, this can be a great way to get targeted visitors or backlinks pointing back to your webpage plus gain backlinks.

Here is an Article directory.

So what are the good points of using an article directory for your site?

If you’re looking for a free way to advertise your site then submitting articles to an article directory can be a great way to accomplish this. You will have to register with the article directory, confirm the email they send and you can start submitting. As the search engines start to pick up the links back to your site you will start to rank better in the search results. This is good for your business as you will start to get more and more traffic.

As stated above, the more links you have, the more important your site appears to google and the other search engines. It’s a well known fact that a site on the first page in the search results will get much more traffic than a site on the second, third and fourth, therefore it is very important to gain backlinks for your site for free, keyword targeted traffic.

There are so many it can be difficult to decide which article directory to submit your articles to. A general rule is that a directory with higher pagerank is better than one without. Don’t forget though, that your article will not be going on the first page, therefor your article will not automatically gain that pagerank, however it will give the benefit of getting indexed faster than submitting to a lesser pagerank article directory.

A lot of people are also creating links to the articles they have submitted in order to make the links to your main site much better. Linkwheels are a good example of this, you write 8 articles, link them together and also include a link to the site you wish to rank well for. It is important to create these linkwheels correctly as badly made linkwheels will not help your site in any way, because google may treat them as spam. You will not loose ranking due to this, but the links just wonrt be counted by the search engines and be a waste of time.

For high competition keywords you may have to gain several hundred, or even thousands of links to be able to rank well in the search engines. In cases like this you may be better off hireing a freelance writer to be able to keep up the constant demand for articles. There are many freelance forums available, where you can find freelance writers to write your content for you, saving you time and money, compared to writing yourself or paying a company.

Here’s an example of a Freelance writing forum.

Reasons to do Article Marketing

Backlinks This is simply the best way to obtain quality relevent backlinks. You should use a free article directory to post your content. As soon as your article gets approved you will start to see traffic to your article and your site. Read more…