Article writing and posting is the most effective way to promote your website. Submitting articles to article directory websites not only get one-way link, but also helps in pulling traffic to your website from the targeted market. Article plays an important role in search engine optimization (SEO)-it is all about pulling traffic to your website and for this, crawlers need to be directed for fresh and original contents. That means if your article is fresh and rich with keywords, then you will get a good page rank in major search engines like Google, Yahoo, AltaVista etc. To get a good page rank in search engines, publish lots of articles to article directory websites and blogs for free to get a good number of URL links back to your website.

Benefits- 1. If your article is nicely written and is original, chances are high that other editors will republish it in their respected portals. The more people use your articles, the more links to your websites. Ranking with search engines is determined by the number of quality links to your website. 2.

Major search engines like Google, Yahoo rely on keyword rich articles. For that, you have to include well-linked keywords in the title of the article. 3. Submit your articles in article directory websites with high page rank. This way you can pull their traffic to your website. 4.

Add photos and pictures with articles for a greater visibility. Article posting is a good method to use, whether you provide a product or service. It allows you to share your knowledge and provide valuable tips about your product or service. The more readers you have in article directories, the more people will visit your site.

Ajay Prasad is the President of GMR Group of Companies. GMR Web Team is a website design company based in Orange County, California. The company purpose is to provide small and medium businesses website design and maintenance services at affordable rates. They have been in this business for the past 7 years.