One of the best ways to get targeted traffic to your web page or website is to write articles and submit them to article directories, this is called article marketing, writing articles and submitting them to websites or directories. The great thing about article marketing is that it’s completely free. It’s 100% free advertising for your web page and it can drive boat loads of traffic to your web page.

When I write my articles, I try to answer questions people in the niche are asking. I’ll write about a 400+ (250 minimum) word article answer a question or to my targeted niche is asking. I also helpful and useful information. The articles are not suppose to sell a product, but provide information and at the end, you” provide a strong “call to action’ and provide a link to either the product or your web page. Writing articles is a topic for another day.

This post is all about submitting your articles to directories for maximum exposure and back links. In short, backlinks are like a thumbs up in the search engines eyes toward your web page. So the more backlinks, the better. When I write an article, I like to get the most out of it since out of all the research and time it took me to write the article, I want to get the most of it.

I first submit my articles to EzineArticles first. This is because Ezine is like the Top Dog of article directories and they only accept unique content. Once Ezine has accepted the article, I’ll submit it to 2 places, Unique Article Wizard and Free Traffic System. When I submit the article to these, one of the links in the article will link back to the original. This will help build backlinks to the original article.

That’s what I do for just 1 single article. However, I do something a little different. Since each article you write should be optimized for a specific keyword or keyphrase, I write at least 5 articles per keyword. This is much easier than it sounds. When I write the first article, all I do to the next 4 is rewrite it, changing up words and making it unique enough for the search engines to like it. I use DupeFreePro to compare to articles. I always look for the smiley to let me know it’s all good!

Now that you have at least 5 articles for 1 keyword, I submit one to Ezine (as mentioned above), one to AssociatedContent, one to ArticleBase, one to Goarticles, and one to ArticleDashboard. Each article will be submitted to Unique Article Wizard and Free Traffic System, linking back to it’s original. This way, all 5 articles may rank high for my specific keyword. The goal is, of couse, to get the first 5 positions in the reach engines.

The 5 Article Directories to Submit Your Article To

1. EzineArticles
2. ArticleBase
3. AssociatedContent
4. GoArticles
5. ArticleDashboard

Each article submit to UAW and FTS, linking back to the original.

There are tons of other article directories you can submit to, such as Buzzle, ArticleCity, SearchWrap, etc. But these 5 are the ones I post to the most.

Note: You can submit the same exact article to directories, but understand that the search engines will not show the same article twice in the results. However, it’s a way to build more backlinks. Rewriting or tweaking each article will allow you to have each of the 5 articles rank in the search engines.

Also, be sure you change up the title when you rewrite your articles, but keep the keyword or key phrase the same.