Article directories play an important part in driving traffic to your website. Article directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will help make you money. Article directories are websites that house free articles. Generally the author of the article submits it to article directories and if it meets their requirements they publish it. The vast majority of these articles are placed in article directories for one reason… to drive traffic to the author’s website. Each article has the owner’s byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it and will be able to get in contact with, or visit their website for further information.

By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting, you can always hire a writer to do the work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through affiliate sales or selling your own products or services.

Article directories can be used for every imaginable type of business. Let’s assume you are a mortgage originator working from home. You could write an article on any mortgage topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may use your services more than once, but will definitely give you a nice profit once.

Because you postured yourself as an expert in the mortgage field, other website owners with websites relating to mortgages can download your article and post it on their site. The important thing about that is they must leave your personal, contact and website information (your byline) intact if they opt to post your article on their site.

Don’t forget the importance of links coming to you from the article directory and from any sites that post your article. This is a very important issue from an SEO standpoint. It is very helpful in getting you rated higher in the search engines. As a result you receive additional traffic that is a result of your article, but not coming directly from your article.

There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your best bet is to put a copy of each of your articles on as many as you can for maximum exposure. I typically post articles I write to 4 or 5 directories, but there 100′s out there. I use ArticlesBase, EzineArticles, IdeaMarketers and uPublish. Should you decide you want to hit as many article directories as possible you may want to consider using a submission services. There are several available, but one that has a pretty good reputation is SubmitYOURArticle.

Which ever way you decide to go you can be sure that it will eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit.

Wayne C. Weeks —
Wayne is a published author, writer, blogger and Internet Marketer who spent more than 30 years in the mortgage industry. Wayne is also a Christian, Businessman, Award Winning Winemaker, Lay Minister, Private Pilot, Husband and stuff like that…

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