• By Michael Hehn
• Published 05/17/2008
• Article Writing

The most effective and cost efficient way to get visitors to your website is by the use of article marketing. Articles not only contain useful information or content on a particular subject but they also contain the url or hyperlink to the site of your choice. It is a simple matter to submit your article to these places which should, wherever possible, be popular websites; it doesn’t take to long before the visitors begin to arrive at your site. Acceptance of content at sites like this is a little like a thumbs up to you as well and can be of great benefit; by improving your standing, you will by default, also improve the level of trust people have for you. Article marketing carried out this way (i.e. more than once) will get people to look upon you as an author whose work they will seek out because the content is good. Convincing people of your knowledge in certain areas ensures they will always trust what you write. Although it can take a while, this traffic from people that trust you will help your own search engine ranking; the benefit of this is there will be an increase in people that find you through the search engines. The more websites that link to yours, the more traffic you will achieve; all of this comes with no charge so you are actually able to market yourself for free.

It is the links placed in the text and at the bottom of the page that makes article marketing so useful, successful and popular! Your article must have good content if you want it placed in many websites becaus

e this in turn will link back to your own website which of course will increase the website ranking. Unfortunately you cannot normally expect your site to be listed straight away with the search engines. Although you cannot rush the search engines directly, submitting more articles and using the authority sites will help enormously. Article marketing helps to improving the ranking of a site but in addition to this it also helps increase the amount of content at the same time which again improves rank. Remember that visitors do not know that your website is trying to get them to buy something. The more truthful you are about what you are doing, the more visitors will appreciate it providing the information you supply is relevant to their search. It is once they have entered your site where you have the chance to sell to them. This a little like taking them by the hand so they know what they are buying and most importantly, why. By doing this you are securing any order you make and will receive less refund requests.

If you want visitors to your websites then you must continue your article marketing this way; regularly submitting articles is necessary and should not be viewed as something you only have to do once. It is not just articles that you write that will be on other websites but if your site is good, you will receive links from other websites also; your content or article will have information that other people are seeking. You cannot dismiss just how effective article marketing is at getting people to your site for free; provided you keep adding unique, but relevant, content to your site, visitors will return.

Michael Hehn is the webmaster of http://easyresumepro.com, a site that offers a wide range of useful and helpful information about resume writing. Visit his site for more free tips to choose the right resume writing techniques for you and your business.

by Michael Hehn