Today the internet is very competitive and has been for many years. Lets face the facts if you do not advertise your business you will fail for sure, especially when others spend hours each day writting articles for submissions.
Getting top ten rankings in the search engines can be very very difficult. Fortunately, that's why writting articles is so much better than ranking your web site with the search engines.
There is alot of strategies you can learn, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing.
However, there are many ways to promote your web site with out spending a dime on anything. Writing articles is one of the best web site promotional tools you can use, and it can send thousands of people looking for information right to your site.
And all for FREE, you never have to take money out of your pocket to get the traffic a good article can produce.
How, you may ask? well here are a few of the ways that writting articles can benifit you.
1.Reach more people
When you write a good article it gets published by ezines and other authors accross the net for free. It must be original by you, and created by you and only you.
Now your main goal when writting an article is to help someone that has a problem, write your article as if you where giving them the advice as if they where sitting right in front of you.
Now if you do this a couple of things happen for you.
Other publishers will find your article worthy for them to publish and presto you have traffic going to your site all for free.
Here are a few publishers you can submit your articles to.
http://www.creativespotlite.com/cutenews/submit-articles.htm
http://www.creativity-portal.com/main/submit.article.html
http://www.crazycolour.com/os/sendarticle.shtml
http://www.connectionteam.com/2submit.html
http://www.theezine.net/contact.html
This guy has a huge resource you should look at very well worth your time and effort. http://www.theezine.net/cb/index.php
http://www.mpbnetwork.com/submit_article.asp
http://www.ibizresources.com/contact_article.html
http://sbinformation.about.com/library/blsubmission.htm
http://clearviewpublications.com/small-business-newsletter-entrepreneur/business-articles/submit-form.htm
http://www.addme.com/nlsubmit.htm
http://www.businessknowhow.com/newsletter/articleguidelines.htm
http://www.businesstoolchest.com/articles/submit.shtml
http://www.ezine-writer.com.au/base-list/submit-article.aspx
http://www.ideamarketers.com/writers.cfm
http://www.small-biz-advisor.com/Articles/Contribute/default.aspx
http://www.mentors.net/03submissions.html
http://www.yourfranchise.com/submitarticle.asp
http://www.contactpoint.ca/cjcd/pages/submitarticle.html
http://www.collegecentral.com/SubmitNews.cfm
2.Free Advertising
Submitting your articles to other news letter authors will encrease your exposure 100 fold, these guys and gals look for new content and when they find it they let every one on their list know about it.
What this does for you is this, Traffic Traffic Traffic to your site. All For Free.
3.Gain High Search Engine Ranking
When your article is published on a one way link back to your site the search engines look for this and rank you according to your amount of one way links back to your site that you have on that article.
Lets say you had 500 people that gave you a one way link back to your site, Well when this happens, you have just been ranked in the top ten under that article.
The more links you have the more traffic you are going to get from the search engines. Plain and simple One way linking works every time.
4. Articles establish a excellent sourse of Information and Trust.
By writing an article that has helpful information, it will set you apart from the scammers of this world, it will also help you with sales at your site.
Because once the reader reads what you have to say, most likely he or she will visit your site and look around for a while and just maybe he or she will purchase your product all because he or she felt they could trust you.
Now the trust came from you helping them solve a problem thru the article you wrote.
5.Enhances your credibility through references and testimonies
Now if your not doing this, I recommend you do and here's why I am saying this.
Ask the readers to drop you a short note and tell you how they liked your recent article. Take these testimonials and put them on your web site so others can read them.
This will help you so much, and will also convince others to trust you as well.
Your credibility will go throgh the roof and others will see the positive feed backs and then they will open their wallets and buy from you.
This is how it's done on the net, this is how the experts do it, with that in mine I have one more bit of info for you.
Never say you can't, because we both know you can if you want to take the time to learn how to write articles.
My best to you and your future online
