A lot of webmasters and website owners use article submission to drive traffic to their websites. Articles submitted to directories and popular article sites are great resource to get one way links to your website and to increase traffic. Take note however that even if there are many article directories in the web, there are simply too many articles submitted everyday for the different categories. Thus not all articles submitted to the directories and popular article sites can guarantee a huge amount of traffic to your website. The secret here is to choose a category that is most relevant to your website and to write unique articles that could catch the attention of the readers and provide value to them.

In writing your article, consider these tried and tested tips that could attract a lot of readers and drive a lot of traffic, in astronomical proportions, to your website.

• Your article should be unique, credible ad SEO-driven.


• Content! Content! Content! Valuable content. You yourself should believe in what you are writing, will read it if you were the outsider and be influenced and motivated in a certain way, making your readers click your link and direct traffic to your website.


• Make sure that your article titles are related directly to the main keywords in your website and content of the article. Keep the titles short.


• Use the best keywords and key phrases, and use them a lot, at least in the first, middle and final paragraphs.


• Keep your articles short, not very long. If you really have a lot of content, split your article and create two or more independent articles.


• Do not just write one article and submit them to different article directories. Duplicate contents are easily caught by search engines.


• Do not include hyperlinks or URLs in your article as article directories generally do not allow this. Your web address and company name will however be required in the ?about the author? section when you are submitting your article.

Article submissions provide a lot of advantage for your SEO work. You get one way links and invite interest on the content of your website, particularly from unique visitors. Your traffic is targeted because those who would click on the link to your articles could be possible clients. You also show the impression that you know a lot about the topic you are discussion if you have researched your articles very well.

Article submission is much easier than asking for link exchange and the tedious tasks involved with directory submission. Another remarkable advantage is that your website will appear not only in the website where you submit your article, but also in all of the websites that subscribe to the RSS feeds of the specific category?this is for PR websites that allow subscription for specific categories in RSS feeds. In this case, these PR websites are very particular, as they only allow articles that are very informative and provide unique content to subscribe in their RSS feeds.

By the way, there are two ways to submit your articles, (i) through the use of article submission software?less expensive and less time consuming, and (ii) through article marketing services?paid service. For the first one, you will need to buy a software, write your articles, upload them, and submit them. The software will submit the articles while you just sit back. relax and wait for the clicks to your website. For the second one, you pay an article marketing service which will do the posting for you to various partner article directories.