These articles are naturally put in the directory by
whoever possesses the copyright
to them as a promotional system.

Every article has
the authors byline placed under it
so that those who eventually read the article will
know who drafted it (or at minimal who owns it) and
will be easily able to get in touch with or visit their
website for added information.

By employing
this system people that are
interested in your merchandise
or service will see what you have written, see you as
experienced in
the matter, and will visit your website.

By the way if you do not feel you can
draft an article or or do not feel you have
any knowledge
on the subject on which you are recommending
you can always
hire a ghost writer to do
the function for you. Getting quality
articles written can be expensive up front,
but, those articles will pay off for themselves in very little
time, either through affiliate transactions or
advertising your own services, and everything
from that point on is endless profit.

Maybe we should take a real
life illustration. Invision that you are an
real estate agent working from home. You draft an article on
an real estate subject and put it on
various article directories.

Potential clients who are searching
for the subject matter you wrote about will
read your article, observe that you have the
knowledge and expertise
that is required to do a job for them, and
visit your website
or contact you via e-mail. Your article just brought
you a extra
client who could possibly use your services
on an on going basis, but, will definitely
pay you a nice return at least
once.

And, in light of the fact you have
posted it on a free article directory,
others who have affiliate sites about real estate will
probalby use your article for their own website.
Because they must publish your byline to it, this will
bring about even more exposure for each
website that re-posts your article. That way
you should be benefiting off of the traffic
that they get to their website.