Many writers use the services of article directories to ultimately get more visitors to their website.
Most of these directories are free and are an excellent resource for the webmaster to get their material and message to the web.
The articles have a byline or bio box for the self promotion of your product or service.
The intent of the article should be fully delivered and the content should be rich and valuable.
This will satisfy the reader and the article directory editors.
The system has endured the test of time and works very well.
In fact, I have dedicated my efforts to exclusive article marketing.
It works that well.
It provides the reader with valuable content and it is fulfilling to the writer to help others.
Let's say you have a business selling baby bottles and you want a presence on the web.
Then you would offer some good information about baby bottles to your readers and some insight to them which they may not have known.
In the bio box at the end of the article you would place a link to your website to offer more information.
It's that simple Another benefit is when others decide to publish your article on their site.
Aside from the subtle compliment of them using your material there is the added benefit of the link from your bio box being on another site which in the search engines eyes is a good thing.
In the long run it will help your website to be ranked higher.
A link from another site is like a positive vote for your site to the search engines.