What I didn't realize was that by submitting my article, it would get picked up by publishers of websites that were under construction and they needed some fresh content. It was also distributed through syndicated feeds and picked up there. My article was on other people’s websites, ezines, classified ads, and internet blogs in staggering numbers and all I did was submit to a handful of article directories.

I was very impressed with the results, so I purchased some article submission software so I could get even more increased exposure.

The end result was that particular website shot up in the page rankings like a bullet. After just a few weeks, it was on page 1 and 2 for dozens of my keywords. This method of advertising had been staring me in the face for 2 years, and I was just now getting around to it. Shame on me!

Not every one of my articles achieves these kinds of results as that particular article was extraordinary. However, all of my articles have done well and have done what they were supposed to do, that is, establish myself as an "expert" on the subject matter that I was writing about, produce valuable back links to my websites from the various places they got distributed to, thus increasing my link popularity. That is probably the most important factor other than content, that the search engine robots use to index and rank your website when they spider it.

This is a time tested, proven formula for internet success, and it works for me time after time, never failing me. In fact, I had one website that shot up to number 1 six days after I uploaded it to my server and wrote an article about it. In fact, the more you write about a subject, the more valuable your website becomes to the search engines.

When you write articles and start submitting them, never mention your website in the body of the article. The only place that the article directories allow you to promote yourself and your website is in the author's resource box. Be sure to write your URL using HTML tags so that it becomes a live, clickable link.

Another thing that is very important to mention, is to be sure that the website that you are promoting is yours, and is not an affiliate website. The reason for that is simple; affiliate websites are mirrored websites, in other words duplicates of the original, the only thing being different is the affiliate URL. The search engines will not index these websites, so why write an article about them. However, if affiliate marketing is what you are involved with, then the best way around this problem is to create your very own landing page with a re-direct to the affiliate product of your choice. One popular tactic is to make an affiliate product review site, comparing your product with several others, so as to be informative in nature and beneficial to the consumer. The search engines love this idea also.

Whatever you do in your marketing efforts, be sure that you include writing articles and submitting them for review to as many directories as you can. Make it your first priority. The more back-links that you can create to quality sites, the higher your website will rank, it's just that simple. For long term lasting success, you can't beat article writing. Ignore it at your own peril.

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