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Many webmasters write articles for an article directory as a way to advertise a webpage, this can be a good way to get keyword driven clients and backlinks leading straight to your webpage. Anyone that runs a web page knows the usefulness of submitting articles to an article directory to acquire a greater number of customers to their internet site, and an ability to gain links, which hopefully may be helpful when it comes to search engine position.
Here are a few good reasons you might want to use an article directory.
If you're in need of a cost effective way to advertise your site then submitting articles to an article directory can be a brilliant way to achieve this. You will have to sign up with the article directory, confirm the email they send and you can start to submit. As a couple of the search engines start to pick up the backliks back to your site you should start to rank better in the search results. This will be good for your website as you will start to get more and more traffic.
As stated above, the more backlinks your site has, the more important your website looks to google and the other search engines. It's a well known fact that a site on the first page in the search results will get much more traffic than a site on the second, third and fourth, therefore it is quite important to get links to your site for free, keyword targeted visitors.
There are so many it can be difficult to decide which article directory to submit your articles to. A general rule is that a directory with higher pagerank is better than one without. Don't forget though, that your article will not be going on the first page, therefor your article will not automatically gain that pagerank, however it will give the benefit of getting indexed faster than submitting to a lesser pagerank article directory.
A lot of people are also creating links to the articles they have submitted in order to make the links to your main site much better. Linkwheels are a good example of this, you write 8 articles, link them together and also include a link to the site you wish to rank well for. It is important to create these linkwheels correctly as badly made linkwheels will not help your site in any way, because google may treat them as spam. You will not loose ranking due to this, but the links just wonrt be counted by the search engines and be a waste of time.
If you want to rank high in the searches for a very competitive keyword, you may want to get a freelance writer to write your articles for you, in order to stay ahead of your competition. A lot of freelance writers forums exist, allowing you to save time and a lot of money. Writing several article each week is very time consuming and paying a company to write for you can get expensive. Freelancers on a writing forum will be able to supply you with articles at a fraction of the price.
