Writing Articles to Create Backlinks

The merits of writing articles to promote your website may not be obvious at first. How can an article create backlinks ? This is a good point to ponder on for a few moments. To work effectively an article must be informative and well written. The subject matter should be chosen carefully to fit in with the theme of the website you wish to promote. You wouldn't write an article on dog training to promote a gold panning site.

Once you have decided on your subject, try to keep the article length between 500 and 1000 words. You don't want a novel, but you do need to have some substance. Be as informative as you can, without too much fluff and filler. Be clear and concise and stay on topic. Many sites don't allow live hyperlinks in the article body, so make sure you check the submission guidelines before posting.

I'm sure you are still wondering how this is going to help your website. Each article has a resource box that the author may use for pertinent information. In this resource box, write a brief description of yourself and place a live hyperlink to your website. Some sites will allow more than one link. Use this to your advantage and link directly to a product page(or another important page) in your site.

This can have amazing results for your backlinks. Let's imagine you have written 10 good articles and submitted them to 10 different article directories. There are 100 links for a start. Webmasters can use your articles to create new content on their sites. Many use RSS feeds to automatically add the latest articles in a particular category. If just 10 webmasters pick up your articles for their content you have another hundred links. As you can see, with each new article, and submitting to even more directories, your website's exposure increases exponentially.

Even if one article from each site only produces one click per day, you will soon be getting regular traffic to your site. Another added benefit of submitting regular articles is becoming an expert author. Many article directories promote authors to the expert level after they have submitted a certain amount of articles. This has the effect of your articles being listed higher in the search results on some directories, thereby making your articles more likely to be reprinted elsewhere.

Here's to your success as a budding author.