So how does the process of article writing work?

First, you must write articles relating to your website and submit them to ?free content? submission sites. This is easy to do, takes little time and can dramatically increase your website's traffic and sales.

So how can article writing boost traffic and income?

The article on the free content site contains a link to your own website. Readers, after reading your articles, may choose to click on the link and pay a visit to your site. Having these articles on the free content sites also allows webmasters to use your articles for content on their sites; of course, they always give your credit and put the link to your site on their web pages.

Thus, your article will include a link back to your site. Anyone who reads the article on that site can still click on the link to visit your site.

As the list of your published articles grow larger, and more and more of them are appearing on different websites, the total number of links to your site increases also. Major search engines are placing a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site.

The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your website's placement in the search results.

If one of the goals of your site is promoting a product or service, the links that your articles have achieved will mean more potential customers for you. Even if visitors only browse through your site, you never know if they might be in need of what you are offering in the future. By posting your articles on the internet, they will come to view you as an "expert" in the field.

As search engines become "smarter" they put more value on high quality content. This high quality content scores higher with the search engines, thus providing you with more traffic.

And to think, little effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

Another positive thing about writing articles is you can write about things that you know about. You can do this in a somewhat light mood, but still maintain a professional manner. There is no need for a sales pitch. In fact, this is the last thing you want to do! Build your articles, and build trust from your readers. Making money comes later.

Try writing some articles and you will be assured of the sudden surge in site traffic, link popularity and interest. Before you know it, you just might be well on your way to amassing your little web fortune.