• By Michael Hehn
• Published 03/12/2009
• Article Writing

New methods of getting traffic to your site are being devised constantly but article marketing is still the best way to drive visitors without having to pay anything out. You can place these articles blocs, directories; social networking sites etc. which will help visitors who read your article find your website by using back links. It is a simple matter to submit your article to these places which should, wherever possible, be popular websites, within a relatively short period you should start to experience more visitors at your site. Popular sites tend to be recognized as authority’ sites, so if your article is used it can improve your credibility also, Trust is probably more important on the Internet because most people are faceless. If you perform this article marketing and submission process on a regular basis, people will begin to search for your material and trust your work. If you do not get this trust from people about the quality of your work, they will not visit your site. Incoming links to your site from people that trust your work will boost your ranking with the various search engines, As your ranking grows, there will be even more visitors to your site. The simple fact is that the more websites that provide an internal link to your own, the better your ranking will become, All at no charge, so free advertising is possible.

Article marketing not only allows links in the body text of the article but in the resource box

at the foot of the page. The purpose of good articles is for people to use them on their site, with each having the links to your site contained in them which all helps the ranking. The speed at which websites get visited and registered by search engines can be hit and miss’. Normally however, constant submission of articles can speed the process up, especially with the back links from authority sites. Using article marketing to improve your website will also involve adding content regularly which will also help boost rankings. For the most part, people who are directed to your website are not expecting to buy or be sold anything. People searching for details about a product or service will not mind the sales side providing the information is interesting. This is the ideal time to highlight the benefits of the product or service to the visitor. 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 continue your article marketing this way you can expect a profitable future, this process must be repeated on a regular basis for it to work. The aim is to have other website owners link their site to yours in addition to using your content as well; each time your article is duplicated on other sites it increases the number of people who can use it. Never underestimate how easy it is to increase your site traffic at no cost, All you have to do is ensure your content is on topic’ and unique to have constant visitors.