There are tons of ways to drive traffic to a website, but today, for our purposes in this article, we are going to focus on "article writing." Writing content rich articles is exactly what the major search engines are looking for. If you are not sure how search engines work, here's what happens. When you write an informative article reviewing or explaining a particular service or product, then submit those articles to hundreds of article directories, it's going to do 3 things for your website, drive traffic, increase page rankings in the search engines and will establish you as an authority within your market.



Before you go out and submit a article to just any directory, it's important to understand which article directories the search engines seem to favor. Over the past 3 years I have been able to pick up on a few reputable article directories that seem to give more exposure. The following article directories are favored by the search engines, ezinearticles, squidoo, buzzle articles, and searchwarp. My articles are ranked higher in the search engines and have received more exposure with the article directories earlier. Submitting to these directories with higher page rankings will give your articles more credibility, and more exposure.

After you have a well written article, typically you are allowed to place a link back to your site in the signature section . If you want your article to be optimized for a particular keyword and have it rank higher in the search engines, instead of using a generic link, use a hyper link with the keyword you are trying to target. For example, if your business focuses on selling a home-based business opportunity, then you would hyper link your site in the resource box using that keyword, "home-based business" Google recognizes this as anchor text and tends to rank your website higher for that particular keyword.

Lastly, writing an article every few days or every few weeks begins to build your credibility with potential buyers within your market. Checking your articles for relevant content related to your business, submitting them to the right article directories and giving away value within your article could potentially generate large influxes of web traffic. In the end, you have created a relationship with the reader and possibly someone that's willing to do business with you.