Those of you who are setting out in internet marketing, and seeking ways of getting visitors to your web site don’t know how lucky you are. There are several types of traffic generation techniques available today that were not commonly available to us even four or five years ago. Remember all the fireworks at the change of the millennium? That was seven years ago, and a lot has changed in internet marketing in that time.
One of these is the upsurge in article marketing. This is probably the most productive traffic generation technique around today, and it is a lot easier than sending individual emails to webmasters requesting individual adverts that we had to do in the old days. The old days being about six years ago!
Article marketing offers you two different ways to generate traffic: through organic traffic via a keyword search on search engines, and through direct clicks to your web site from your article. The organic traffic comes from the fact the major search engines regard links from one website back to yours as being an important indication of the relevance of your site to the topic that the search engine customers are looking for. The way you create these one way back links is through submitting your articles to the article directories.
Every article that is accepted by a directory provides you with a link back from that directory site. If you submit your article to a large number of directories, and are accepted by them (that is up to your writing ability), then you receive a large number of one way links to your web site. This improves your listing in the search engine results for your keyword, and so generates traffic
