Having your website rank at the top of the search engines will provide
you with a stream of traffic ready to read, buy or interact with your
site. Getting this high first page ranking in the main search engines
such as Google, Yahoo and MSN is extremely difficult and not to
mention, time consuming.
Search engines take considerable notice of how many and the quality of
incoming links to your site. Traditionally, webmasters have sent out
link requests, asking to exchange links, this however is becoming more
and more ineffective as people's email addresses are spammed by
automated robots.
Method savvy internet marketers are now using article submissions. Here
is how it works. The webmaster writes an article on the topic of their
site, including a back link to their site. They then submit this to
various article directories. In turn some of these article directories
list this article and its back link, and also distribute it to all
their members. Some even pass this onto other article sites.
This can manually take a long time however. A lot of copying and
pasting of articles has to happen, you have to log in and log out of
sites, and the whole thing can be very tedious. Over the past 6 months
new products have been released that take some of the tedium out of
article submissions. These semi-automatically go to the relevant sites
and submit your article, logging in for you and populating the forms
with your article. They can be a great time saver.
Finally there are new services that actually go off and submit your
articles for free to other large directories. They advertise on your
article page on their site. This is a win-win situation. The article
writer gets valuable backlinks to their site or their content read by
many people, the large article directory gets the extra content and
advertising revenue, so everyone is happy.
We highly recommend article writing for marketing your site, it may
take a little time but with the services outlined here it need not be
so painful as it once was.
