If you own a web site and want to increase the number of people visiting it (the amount of "traffic"), one of the best ways to do this is to write your own original articles, and submit these articles to article directories.
There are several benefits to writing and submitting articles.
These include: 1.
Once your article is listed in an article directory, it will generally result in more traffic to your web site - people read the article, and click the link in the resource box.
2.
Many article directories also provide articles that other web site owners and ezine publishers can reprint.
These people benefit by getting access to free content.
The article author benefits by getting more traffic, when people click on the link in the resource box.
3.
Search engines, especially Google, take the number of links to a site into account when ranking sites in their result.
The links to your site in the resource box of your article (whether the article is within an article directory, or reprinted elsewhere), can therefore help your site move up in search results.
4.
Have a good article that is widely published can help build your name and reputation.
Writing an article is fairly straightforward - just sit down and write it.
It's not too difficult if you stick to subjects that you know something about, and don't allow yourself to wonder off-topic.
Submitting articles needs a little more thought.
You can manually submit your articles to leading article directories such as EzineArticles.
com, but since there are now hundreds of other article directories as well, it probably would too time consuming to submit to them all manually - you can however get article submitter software to automate the process.