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No matter what kind of website you have, it needs to be promoted effectively to bring qualified traffic to your front door. Once you have built a user-friendly website with quality content, the next step is to get as many one-way backlinks from established, relevant sites. Article directories can be a website promoter’s best friend. One of the best ways to get quality, relevant, one-way backlinks to your site is by writing and submitting articles relevant to your website content or theme. You then submit these articles to a quality free article directory. If your articles are approved, they will then be published on their own individual pages along with links back to your website.

While these backlinks will bring you some human visitors, they mainly serve to establish you as an expert in your field, and help optimize your website for the search engines. Submitting articles costs nothing (except your time) and immediately starts building up relevant backlinks to your site. These links are permanent, and good articles are often republished by other websites, spreading through the net like wildfire.

Article marketing can easily be combined with other forms of website promotion to maximize your marketing potential. Many article directories incorporate social bookmarking buttons on every page so that readers can easily bookmark your article and share it online. Most article directories have RSS feeds for each of their categories so that subscribers can receive their favorite articles as their categories are updated. You can also promote your own articles by linking to them in forums and blogs. There truly is no limit to what article marketing can accomplish. Isn’t it hard to believe it’s all free?