Adrian Lawrence asked:


If you are looking for a way to promote your website, then article directories could be just what you need. Article directories allow webmasters to post articles and such directories provide myriad benefits to webmasters.

Let’s take a look at the various benefits provided by article directories below:



Are you looking to promote your web site but you do not have an advertising budget? This is a common problem for webmasters and article directories provide a fast and easy solution. Once your articles have been accepted in an article directory, you will find that other members use your article in various newsletters, forums, ezines and websites and the use of your article will prompt more traffic to your website. Therefore, after submitting several articles to any one of many article directories, you will find that not only do you increase your web traffic, but you will also quickly build a returning web audience.



A great way to boost your sites’ popularity is by writing articles and publishing them on article directories. If you are looking to become an expert in your genre, then you can be rest assured that article directories is the fastest route to establish your expertise. After you have written and published several articles in article directories and the articles are reviewed and utilized by other webmasters all over the world, you will come to find that your name will become well known and revered as someone that really knows their business. Thus, you get the benefit of free advertising and the opportunity to build your reputation as an authority within your industry—all for free when using article directories.



A single article, once it has been distributed can literally appear on hundreds of websites. The free exposure gained by the utilization of article directories should not be underestimated—just as word of mouth is powerful advertising, so it is with what web visitors read on the Internet. Additionally, if your well-written articles appear repetitively on many websites, web visitors will come to recognize and appreciate your expertise and their recognition of your work will stir their desire to access more of what it is you offer.



Using article directories gives webmasters all of the benefits of the old pyramid selling approach without the cost. As webmasters promote your articles, you will find that the promotion continues to grow. For instance, if one webmaster promotes your article and four or five other webmasters see your article and also like it enough to use it on there site, then that one posting can lead to four or five more postings and so on and so forth.



So, how does your article promise you website traffic? It is fairly simple; make sure you add a biography and insist on a working hyperlink. By having webmasters add your biography and a working hyperlink along with your article, web visitors can learn a little about you and know exactly where to find more of your work when they are interested. If readers enjoy what they read, a simple click on the agreed hyperlink will instantly lead them to your site and increase your web traffic.



Thanks to article directories, webmasters can link up with more popular websites and gain more traffic based on the websites they have become associated with. There are many very popular sites that get literally 100,000’s of page views per month. Such views can immediately increase the traffic to your own site and later, create an increase in the direct traffic of your site.



Article directories provide easy solutions for webmasters looking for content. Let’s face it; webmasters don’t always feel creative nor do they always have the spare time they need to create web content. Alternatively, webmasters are always looking for content to match their sites theme and your articles can be chosen from article directories to help webmasters fulfill their need.



With the article directories, you will immediately improve link popularity, which also boosts the rankings of your site in search engines. Think about it; the more links on the Internet that point to your website, the higher your website ranking is. Therefore, as your articles get posted all over the World Wide Web, not only do you gain popularity in your field, but your search engine rating with parallel your popularity and subsequently increase.



Article directories allow you to post articles that are well written and knowledgeable. Further, the more knowledgeable the article comes across, the more interested a reader becomes in your work. Hence, with a stirred interest, web visitors will desire your expertise and will purposely seek out your latest writings.



Finally, after you have grabbed the attention of web viewers by using article directories, you will want to do everything you can to maintain their interests. The easiest and most efficient way to keep a viewer’s interest is to continue to write new and refreshing articles on a regular basis and submit them to article directories. This way, you can effectively derive the benefits obtained through the use of article directories on a regular and ongoing basis.



Bessie

Steve Evans asked:


You will have heard this before, and I’ll make no apologies for saying it again. Content is king when it comes to the Internet. Fresh and relevant content both on your site, and in article directories feeding backlinks and page rank into your site, is the key to success. It is the lifeblood by which websites gain new audiences, keep existing ones, and continually improve their page ranking in search engines.

It is a common misconception that submitting your website to search engines will lift your site up in the rankings. But the truth is that despite what the SEO companies say, this does not get your web page better ranking unless there is almost no competition. That is a misconception about Search Engine Optimization that has been going around for quite sometime.

Submitting your articles to article directories is the best way to promote your web site. If you think that you have no skills in writing just search for “Content Writers”, or “Article Writers” and you will see a long list of sites that offer these services. You will find that article writing rates are not high and the articles you receive will be unique and therefore much more effective than PLR article content.

Submit you articles to Ezinearticles dot com first because this is the best article site, and all articles are read by a human before they are accepted. Rewrite the article by at least one third, and then submit it to the other top article directories.

The top article directories (e.g. Ezinearticles) produce statistics that show up in your member area, with details of how many people read your articles. As you develop your portfolio strategy and it becomes effective you can then boost your results by writing within your area of expertise and increasing your submission frequency.

Many of the top article directories will allow you to use html in your resource box. This means that you can hyperlink your keywords and everywhere your article, and hence your resource box with the hyperlinked keywords, are posted there is a keyword that links directly to your site.

Internet browsers go from the search engines to your article and onto your niche store which you will have linked to in the author bio box at the bottom of your article. Secondly, other webmaster, bloggers and ezine publishers use the articles in these directories as content for their visitors. However, as they do so they are required to preserve the link back to your site, with obvious good effects on site management.

Internet marketing is so simple. Sometimes I think people over complicate it. Internet savvy people know about affiliate marketing and most of the time will strip your affiliate URL if they decide to buy the product.

Signing up for a free article account in each of the directories is simple. Go to the sign-up page. Click on the button next to the package you want. Then simply visit their articles homepage to learn more about the various packages on offer for article directory submission. Plus, we recommend that you only need to submit to article directories that of a Google PR of 2 or more.

Google and the rest of the search engines frequently visit the higher ranked article directories and will pick up on the link to your website in your ‘author’s resource’, or bio. When they find your site, you get listed, and that can happen in less than 24 hours. Google is most likely to notice and index the types of links which are to and from related sites though. For example, if your website is about cars and you trade links with a site about flowers, it probably won’t help your site very much at all. I have found that I is not necessary to submit your articles to a very large number of article directories, but you do need to send them to between 15 and 20 of the top Directories. There are a number of Article Directory Submission softwares available, but only three that I have found which do this with one click once the have been set-up. The others simply help you to post to each Article Directory, by pasting in the article as you arrive on the site. However, these applications don’t usually log you in beforehand, or select categories or pen name, and logging in manually to do this each time rapidly becomes a time consuming and tedious chore.

However, article directory submission provides free advertising and links, and it is a well established and dependable source of targeted traffic, which simply cannot be ignored. So, we recommend that all those serious in marketing their web sites do at least invest in article submission software, if nothing else.



Ella

Bewthavorn asked:


Article directory has become a very important source of Internet marketing and is widely used for the purposes of search engine optimization. General Articles containing back links of websites are a very popular tool of Internet marketing. There are many popular Article directories that are being used by SEO’s today. In fact, article directories are also extensively used by affiliate marketing programs that publish quality articles about their products containing affiliate links on these sites. Article directory are also used by consumers on a large basis regularly who read articles of these websites to find useful information like home-made remedies of certain diseases. They also make use of these directories to read articles about trivialities of life like martial problems, pet problems and sometimes, you can find a lot of useful business information in these articles about how to make fast money in any business.

Article directories are vast sources of quality and well-researched information where an internet visitor can find information about any topic by just simple browsing. Article directories are like online encyclopedias and can offer information about the factors influencing everyday lives. You can find articles in these websites about topics of health, fitness, arrangement of finance, spirituality, automobile, beauty, music, culture, public speaking and also humorous articles. Article directories encourage young writers and bloggers who get an opportunity through these sites to post their work on the internet so that it can be easily seen by all the internet users. Article directories are also very beneficial for the readers because they get a chance to see the works of so many writers at a single site on a common topic.

The best part about an article directory is that it only posts the authentic work of innovative writers and does not paste any fake or copied work. The importance of Internet as a place where one can find seamless information about any topic has only emerged because of the advent of article directories. Article directories are not very much interested in promoting the business of Internet marketing and do not allow the articles of writers to be posted on their websites that are spammed with keywords. Article directories were established with the purpose of providing informative content on the internet written in coherent English at one place and only publish those articles that are written in grammatically correct English and are readable. These article directories necessitate that their writers follow all the instructions while writing articles and confirm to a specified word limit. Article directories are very useful for blog writers who want people to visit their websites to make purchases of their products after reading about its effectiveness on an article directory.

Article directories are undoubtedly the most effective way to popularize a product provided that you are able to write a very reliable and comprehensive article about it which makes readers click the back link of your website that is provided in the article. It can be a very reliable method to capture the attention of target audience who need to look no further for their desired product after reading your article and are compelled to make a purchase of your product. It is very necessary for emerging writers that they are given name credits after an article included in the author’s bio.



Allan

Felton Thompkins asked:


© Copyright 2006 by Felton Thompkins

Would you believe that as I began my approach to writing this article I scratched my head and asked myself “Where do I start?” I guess this is a question that addresses a lot of things in this life. Although many of the things or issues that we face only give us one logical way to prosper, which we sometimes don’t accept I might add, it is

not the case with writing articles.

Writing articles can be a lot of fun, and it can also be very challenging. I don’t know about you, but I would rather have fun writing, and believe me once you get started, it will be fun to you also. You say “Yeah right!” Yeah, I know it’s the getting started part that gets you down and puts a damper on creativity. Well I’m going to make my best attempt to help you get the juices flowing,

because as you know by now content is what the search engines are looking for.

Do you remember being in school, and hearing the dreaded word “research” from Old Miss Johnson your English teacher? Well, this is what Miss Johnson was preparing you for, your Internet Marketing career. Only now “research” does not

have to be a dreaded word it can be one of your favorite words. I’ll bet you are asking “How can that be?” I’ll tell you. You see the Internet has made it so easy to obtain information on just about any topic you can imagine, and it’s right at your finger tips. Ask yourself “How did you

find this article?” Yeah, on the Internet. Most of us have a tendency to look over the obvious.

Now that you have your main avenue to resources

established, let me point you to some great places to start, and here they are - Google, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo just to name a few. This is a method some of your most prolific authors are using to churn out articles by the dozens.

Let’s say, for instance, your website or program has to do with vitamins. You would simply do a search on vitamins, and see what people are writing about in their articles and reviews on vitamins. And no, I am not talking about copying

someone else’s work, word for word. That’s against the law you know. What I am suggesting is this, that you approach it the way Old Miss Johnson taught you in your English class, and that is if you are writing an essay or a report.

Once you get back into the groove of doing research you too will be churning out articles and reports by the droves.

Okay, the next method I am going to discuss is for those of you who are just not ready to take on the task of writing articles. It could be for a number of reasons why you feel you can’t write, be it not enough time or you feel that you

are not creative. Nevertheless, you can still have great content for your website or program. This method is also widely used by many. Did you ever copy off someone else’s paper and move some things around and add a few words here and there to make it look like it was your own work? Well,

there you have it. For more information on this method and some great resources just click the link in my resource box.

Remember this, 85% of Internet users are using search engines to find the information they need. If you have the information that they need they must be able to find you. This is why writing articles is so important to your online business, it gives the search engines something to shout

about, so to speak. Now get to writing, you will be glad you did, because it will truly bring you results!



Eva

Felton Thompkins asked:


Before we get started I have a confession to make. If you are reading this you have probably found yourself pondering the same thoughts as me.

Is writing articles really that important and does it really get my website noticed by the major search engines. Will it really boost my website’s popularity and most of all will it help increase the income my programs are generating?

Well, the answer to all of the above is an absolute “YES”. Do you remember the title of this article ? Writing Articles: Why Is It Important? Good, I’m glad you remember, because this is what we will be addressing in this writing.

It is a known fact that search engine optimization is usually done on a continual basis. Websites that have high rankings today, can be ranked lower tomorrow. Your website

can be in the top 20 in your category or niche today, and tomorrow you could be number 387 in the rankings. Now, none of us, as Internet Marketers, can control the logic behind search engine rankings algorithms. Only those that are doing the programming know this. So much for

manipulating the search engines! What we do know is this - search engines love content. Yes,content is truly king! An article written properly is a great source of content for the search engines. Just be sure that your articles are relevant in their content.

It stands to reason that if your website is being picked up by all of the major search engines, then your website has a good chance of being noticed. Yes, it does - about a 1 in 1 billion chance of being noticed because you do not have

relevant content pointing back to your website or program. Statistics state that over 85% of prospective custumers search the Internet to find information. Therefore if you want your website or programs to show up were prospects can see it, your website must be search engine friendly.

Writing articles provides a major source of relevant content pointing back to your website or program which increases your link popularity. Link popularity is what will begin your rise to the forefront of the search engines. Without link popularity your website or program is just one of the many millions of websites in this vast society of cyberspace that is going unnoticed.

There are thousands of websites and blogs being introduced to the world wide web on a daily basis. Do not be fooled, building a website is nothing like building a baseball or a football field. You know the saying, you build it and they will come. Well this may be true with baseball or football, but it is not true when it comes to your website and the internet. In order for someone to play on your field, they must first

know you exist and second know where to find you.

Writing articles is by far one of the best ways, if not the best way, economically and productively, to increase your link popularity.

Link popularity, no doubt, increases exposure, and exposure increases your chances of click-thru’s and traffic to your website. Traffic will convert into cash because you have something that the consumer believes will make their lives just a little bit better. Remember, they will not know that you are there unless you point them to your website.

Now, I do realize that you may be new to Internet Marketing, and the thought of writing articles can be quite intimidating and challenging to say the least. Trust me, I have been there. I think

I wrestled with the idea of writing articles for months, and I am sure I had 100’s of what I thought were valid reasons for not writing articles, and I’m sure you can come up with quite a few yourself. But the fact remains that if you truly desire to be picked up by the search engines and increase your link popularity and traffic to your website or program, you must have content - and relevant content.

I do believe that by now if you’re reading this you are thoroughly convinced that you have a need to start your quest of writing articles. So here are a few suggestions on getting started. First, figure out what you want to write about. For example, you could write on the theme of your website, or you could even write about the

benefits of the program that you are promoting, as long as your article does not sound like a blatant ad. The possibilities are virtually endless, just start somewhere, you will be glad you did!



Beth

Bewthavorn asked:


With Internet being viewed as an extensive and prime source of information, people are constantly exploring content regarding different domains here. It is this aspect that online businesses take advantage of as they draw the attention of these Internet users to their website by providing them quality content and thereby in a way promoting the products and services that they offer. Furthermore, this content also help websites to get a higher ranking among the search engines as content is considered the key factors by web crawlers for SEO purposes. However, it is important that the information should not be plagiarized and this is where article directories lend a helping hand to these websites.

Also, the information or articles provided at these directories are free to be used for general purposes, but it must not be reproduced anywhere else without mentioning its source or the link that has been stated on each article page. So, online businesses get good content or articles for free. Article directories are basically a store house of articles that are categorized into anything and everything that ranges from technology, health, travel to self improvement, business, finance, property and many others. Websites can also submit their articles in these article directories and provide a link to their website in the resource box at the end of the article.

This would increase the traffic at the website if the content of your article prompts the reader to explore more about the topic and would thereby be diverted to your site when the click on the mentioned link. However, there are two types of article directories - the one where you can submit the articles without any charge, and the ones that charge you a small amount for the same, and it all depends on you, which one you prefer. It is advisable to check the guidelines for every article directory that might vary from one directory to another so as to avoid any rejection later due to trivial reasons. There is a lot of software available that help to make article submission to different websites in an instant automatically without wasting much of time and efforts on the part of the writer submitting them on their own.

Needless to say, the submitted articles must meet the standards of the quality analysis team of the article directory. Quality standards are mainly regarding the grammatical errors free and original content, which if qualified, the articles are soon approved and listed in the category of article directory to which it belongs. There are also search options and navigation menu made available in these article directories that help you find exact articles or information that you have been looking for without much digging into the website or directory. Another great feature that is found in most article directories is the RSS feeds that helps the interested Internet users stay updated on the topic that they want as they are informed every time a new article is added to that category or topic. There are many advantages that are made available by article directories for both general Internet users and websites.



Jeremy