If you are looking to attract additional visitors to your website, which I imagine most webmasters are, part of your web promotion campaign should in my opinion be spent writing articles. Article marketing is not exactly a new concept but is a tried and tested successful way of promoting a site. Whats more it is here to stay, therefore you need to join the many people who are benefiting from it. Some people may say that it is a long, boring and time consuming process but if you are serious about gaining extra traffic to your site, the time will be worth it in the long run. It is important to remember that Rome was not built in a day and that one or two articles may not have too much positive impact, but that two hundred will.

I remember having a conversation around a year ago with a good friend of mine. We were talking about the best ways to promote a website, I have to say that he is what I call a web expert and certainly knows a lot more than I do, therefore I trust his opinion and like to learn from him. He gave me a lot of advice and was happy to share his knowledge, I was a very eager and willing to learn student.

He stated that one of the best forms of website promotion was to start a link building campaign where you try to gain and increase the amount of backward links your site has pointing to it. He continued that the best form of backward link would be a one-way link but that these were not that easy to obtain. He then spoke about article marketing and about how you are able to include a link to your site at the bottom of each article you write. This can introduce traffic to the site from the people who read the article and can gain an additional backward link from the article directories that publish your article and also from the webmasters who decide to include it as content on their websites.

This was very interesting and I asked him which article directories were the most popular etc. He named a few including ezinearticles, goarticles, searchwarp, articledashboard, amazines, articlealley and ideamarketers.

I then went about writing an article and submitting it to some of the article directories he had mentioned. I have to say that it is time consuming and took me about an hour and a half.

At this point my main website was a page rank three and my other site was a page rank two. In the last year I have written over three hundred and fifty articles, my main site is now a page rank six and my second site is a page rank five. I will continue to write articles and would like to thank my friend James for his quality advice.

Stephen Hill helps to promote a number of websites including:

cheaper mobile calls

stuttering advice

lower telephone bills