When your website ranks high in the search engines, you get a stream of visitors who want to read, buy or interact with your website. Getting that high first page ranking in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN is extremely difficult and time consuming, not to mention expensive. Search engines pay close attention to how many and how good links point to your website.
Traditionally, webmasters have sent out link requests asking for a link exchange. However, this is becoming increasingly ineffective as email addresses are spammed by automated robots. Experienced internet marketers are now taking advantage of the opportunity to submit articles. Here's how it works.
The webmaster writes an article about the topic of his website and adds a backlink to his website. He then submits this article to various article directories. Some of these article directories in turn list this article and its backlink and distribute it to all their members. Some even forward the article to other article sites. However, this can take a lot of time manually.
There are lots of articles to copy and paste, you have to log in and out of websites, and it can be a pain. In the last 6 months, new products have come onto the market that take the tedious work out of submitting articles. These products semi-automatically go to the relevant websites and submit your item by logging in for you and filling in the forms with your item. This can be a great time saver. Finally, there are new services that will submit your items to other major directories for free. They advertise on your article page on their website.
This is a win-win situation. The author of the article gets valuable backlinks to their website or their content is read by many people, the large article directory gets the additional content and advertising revenue, so everyone is happy. We recommend article writing for marketing your website. It may take a little time, but with the services described here, it doesn't have to be as painful as it used to be.